Goddess in Progress

Goddess in Progress
EP by Julie Brown
Released	1984
Recorded	1984
Genre	Pop and Comedy
Length	16:34
Label	Rhino Records
Producer	Steve Thoma and Dan Lawson
Julie Brown chronology
I Like 'em Big and Stupid (1984) Goddess in Progress (1984) Trapped in the Body of a White Girl (1987)

Goddess in Progress is a 1984 EP (labeled as a "Specially Priced Mini LP") by Julie Brown.^[1][2] It was released on a small independent label in both 12" vinyl and cassette tape formats. It was composed of tracks that eventually appeared elsewhere; the two tracks on side one appeared on the single "I Like 'em Big and Stupid;" and two of the three tracks on side two appeared on the soundtrack to the film Earth Girls Are Easy, the plot of which was based on the song of the same name that appears on the other side.

Tracks

Side One

Side Two

2007 re-release

In late 2007 Brown purchased the rights to the EP and re-released it on CD format. She included six previously unreleased tracks recorded between 1984 and 1987. The cover art was a slightly altered version of the original.

Track listing:

1. Will I Make It Through The Eighties 2:47
2. ‘Cause I’m A Blond 2:19
3. I Like 'em Big and Stupid 2:44
4. The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun 4:46
5. Earth Girls Are Easy 4:52
6. Too Much Girl 3:28
7. Call Me For A Good Time 3:44
8. Back In The Back Seat 3:20
9. Surf’s Up, So What 1:46
10. Fallin’ (At The Speed Of Love) 3:02
11. Kiss & Tell 2:35

Back cover

The back of the album is designed to look like a newspaper cover. It is titled:

                       *EXTRA*
                     Evening Star
PAGE 1     "NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU"     SECTION 1

with captions to the left and right of the words "Evening Star" as follows:

Weather Forecast                             Nancy Reagan's
   continued                              corndog & banana diet
  hot & nasty                               see Health Section

The primary headline is "Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun!!" The two articles are entitled "Alien Love Child Born To Manicurist" and "Sugar and Spice and Everyone's Dead." No date is given.

Julie Brown is named as the manicurist (and mother) discussed in the first article. From the second article we learn that 17-year-old honor student Debby Dickey was the Homecoming Queen, and that she attended John Wayne High in Van Nuys. The Home-Ec major used a .38 caliber automatic to commit her crime and, among other things, Julie Brown was her best friend ("and Brooke Shields lookalike").

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