GIRL—Sheer Greed (Jet):: Per their publicity, Girl are real hot numbers in the heavy-metal revival sweeping through British rock, but other U.K. sources have indicated that H/M hardly dominates their fair land; it’s simply one more minority style within a richly fragmented contemporary scene. Either way, you probably already heard a lot of the metallic stuff on here from a variety of Limeys, Yanks, Canucks, Krauts, you name it, back in the mid-70’s. But I congratulate these guys anyway, for actually carrying out one of my personal 1975 fantasies: covering a Kiss song (“Do You Love Me,” not a particularly worthy choice, I’d have gone with “Strutter,” but the thought counts.) What an insult that coulda been to the taste of the times, a smirk more offensive to hip piety than a whole gross of Dictators!

R.R.