For My Sunday Song #382, we are looking at a rare track from Night Ranger called “Girls All Like It”. Tim’s pick this week, like all his picks, are rare tracks not found on any album. This one is a B-Side to the song “Color Of Your Smile” off the band’s 1987 album ‘Big Life’. The song was written by Jack Blades and Brad Gillis, but the song didn’t make the cut for the album. Luckily, it did see the light of day being a B-Side.

As I said above, the song never made it on to a Night Ranger album, however, part of this song ended up on a studio album for Jack’s band Damn Yankees. Some of the opening verse ended up as lyrics for their 1990 song “Rock City”. The song mention some guy in L.A. wearing his guitar low like Jimmy Page and the line in Rock City is below…you see the Jimmy Page line.

The sidewalk’s moving
The palm trees sway
The switchblade girls line ’em up in L.A.
Everybody came here from somewhere to play
They wear their guitars low just like Jimmy Page

A good line is a good line so why not re-use it. The song seems to be about a cocky rock star who rises to fame and comes crashing down. He is boisterous about how the girls all like it with him. He’s not boastful at all.

The song itself comes out swinging with some crunchy guitar riff that has all the attitude of the rock star the song is about. The keyboards are used sparingly for effect and not overpowering. Jack is on vocals and really is giving it his all almost giving too much. The guitar solo is worth a listen as Brad really hammers it home on this one. The song is rough around the edges, but I can see why it was left off the album as it doesn’t really fit the overall sound of that album. Too aggressive probably. A little more work and they could’ve transformed it in to a song fo that album as it needed a little more punch.

Give the song a listen and let me know what you think? Have you ever heard this one before? I hadn’t. I hope the band does some reissues one day and we finally get these rare tracks on an album. Thanks to Tim Durling from Tim’s Vinyl Confessions  for picking this track. Go check out his YouTube channel for some great content, you won’t be disappointed. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a Happy Sunday.

And that is all…couldn’t find any lyrics so nothing to post this time.