Two purchase-based facts to point out up front: when I originally bought the cassette at the dollar store, it was wrapped together with the album POUND FOR POUND by Anvil. So I effectively paid 50 cents for it. Then when I bought it on CD a couple years later in a fit of nostalgia, it was primarily because I saw it on the clearance shelf for $3.99. So my total expenditures on this album in my life still don't quite equal five dollars.Anyway, as a young lad just getting into heavy metal, I used to see Bitch show up in house ads for Enigma Records in the pages of Rip Magazine, and I assumed they must be one outrageous band to have such a provocative name. Well, that's certainly what they were going for, but when I finally dropped the two quarters to pick up this 1989 compilation, it was abundantly clear to me that Bitch's sound and style were fairly played out, even by the time this album was released. It's a bit short to be anyone's career retrospective: I think the band just wanted to have one in-print album in the stores somewhere (presumably not the store where I bought it, of course), so they cherry-picked the best songs off their other albums for a sort of "Bitch Sampler".If this is their best, I'm glad I've never owned a proper album. The CD is divided between belligerent-sounding power metal, with a husky-voiced singer vaguely going on about the pleasures of pain, domination, etc., and somewhat amateurish their-heart's-not-really-in-it L.A.-style glam metal. The poppier songs must have come as a huge disappointment to whatever fanbase they'd accumulated thus far (who were probably also pretty pissed that the group was pandering to the mainstream by temporarily changing their name to "Betsy") but in fact this half of the album contains its best track, "Sunset Strut", a swaggering glam metal ode to Los Angeles with an awesome and awesomely prominent bass line directing the song. The rest of the songs, despite their obvious attempt to sound wild and extreme, are pretty faceless metal from both sides of the fence, and even the kickass-titled instrumental "Crashthepartysmashthecake" isn't all that thrilling. If you can find this record for the same price I paid for it (ideally $0.50 rather than $3.99), you'll just about sort of get your money's worth for "Sunset Strut" and a few cheesecake photos of vampy lead singer Betsy Bitch within. Sort of.