Killing Time (Girl album)

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Killing Time
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Compilation album by
Released16 April 1997
Genre Glam rock, hard rock
Length67:26
Label Crown Records (Japan)
Girl chronology
Wasted Youth
(1982)
Killing Time
(1997)
Live at the Marquee
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Killing Time is a British glam rock band Girl compilation album that was released after the band broke up. It was made with leftover tracks from the recording sessions of their two studio albums and unpublished tracks for a third studio album never released.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Juliet" (Russ Ballard) – 4:16
  2. "Nut Bush City Limits" – 2:34 (Tina Turner) (Ike & Tina Turner cover)
  3. "Mad for It" (Gerry Laffy) – 3:47
  4. "White Prophet" (Phil Collen, Phil Lewis) – 2:47
  5. "Green Light" (Laffy) – 2:58
  6. "This Town" (Laffy, Lewis) – 3:11
  7. "Aeroplane Food" (Gary Holton) – 2:48
  8. "Make It Medical" (Collen, Laffy, Lewis) – 2:57
  9. "Nothing but the Night" (Lewis) – 3:55
  10. "Big Night Out" (Collen, Lewis) – 4:10
  11. "I Got Love" (Laffy, Lewis) – 2:55
  12. "Lucky" (???) – 3:30
  13. "Killing Time" (Collen, Lewis) – 3:23
  14. "Naughty Boy" (Collen, Lewis) – 3:25
  15. "King Rat" (Lewis) – 3:19
  16. "Mogal" (Lewis) – 3:49
  17. "Love Is a Game" (Ballard) – 3:17
  18. "Black Max" (Laffy, Lewis) - 3:19
  19. "The Sound of Cars" (Laffy, Lewis) – 4:39
  20. "You Really Got Me" (Ray Davies) - 2:27 (The Kinks Cover)

Personnel

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References

  1. Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Girl Killing Time review". Allmusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 29 March 2012.