All of B-Girls's tracks (co-produced with Geza X and Bill Rhea) have the sweet shell of 60’s studio plasticity, with Cotton smoothly moving from Nancy Sinatra bootsiness to Claudine Longet style breathiness. To my ears the primo tracks are the more rockin' ones: "Maneaters," with its "Pushing Too Hard" guitar licks; "Green Slime," "Pussycat" and the harmonica-sweetened "Girl in Gold Boots," which evokes the girl-in-a-cage go-go scene better than the Mikels cheese fest from whence it came. The only misfire is an end-track dance club remix of "Maneaters" – an obvious ploy, but it doesn't match the garage-y grandeur of Cotton's more punkishly performed original.
Cotton even has enough bad taste to respectfully include the leering shouted asides to "Pussycat" ("Faster, faster! Harder, harder!") as well as Beyond the Valley of the Dolls' bizarro summary narration. ("Theirs was not an evil relationship, but evil came because of it!") For those who prefer their B-treats a little more family friendly, she also tackles Mothra's theme (playing both of the pixie twins) and offers up a touching "Goodbye Godzilla."
Tuff gals and the King of the Monsters: like I say, Josie Cotton knows what I want.
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