The Collection is a double CD compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 of the all-female British heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Girlschool

Girlschool

Girlschool are a British heavy metal band originating out of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene in 1978 and frequently associated with contemporaries Motörhead. They are the longest running all-female rock band, still active after more than 30 years...

. The album was released in 1998 by Renaissance Records, under licence from Castle Communications

Castle Communications

Castle Communications was a British independent record label founded in 1983 by Terry Shand, Cliff Dane and Jon Beecher. The company was acquired by the American music distributor Alliance Entertainment in 1994 and in 2000 it was absorbed into Sanctuary Records Group...

, and reissued in 2000 by Sanctuary Records

Sanctuary Records

Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...

, of which Castle had become a subsudiary. Castle was the owner of Girlschool back catalogue, acquired from Bronze

Bronze Records

Bronze Records is an independent English record label set up in 1971 by record producer Gerry Bron, and based in Chalk Farm, London.Bron had been producing Uriah Heep for Vertigo Records, and he set up this new label for future Uriah Heep releases, along with Juicy Lucy, Richard Barnes and Colosseum...

 and GWR

GWR Records

GWR Records was a record label active in the UK from 1986 through to 1991.By 1984, Gerry Bron's Bronze Records were in financial difficulty leading to a hiatus in recording activity for Motörhead...

.

The compilation contains five previously unreleased live tracks. All the tracks of the album were re-mastered by Robert M. Corich

Robert Corich

Robert M. Corich is a remastering engineer and record producer, who started his career as a remastering engineer, producing new re-releases for bands such as Uriah Heep, Nazareth, Budgie, Status Quo, and many others....

 and Mike Brown in August 1998. The first CD contains all the singles released by Girlschool since 1983 with their b-sides, including the duet with Motörhead on the song "Please Don't Touch

Please Don't Touch (song)

Please Don't Touch is the debut single by English rock and roll group Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, released in 1959 reaching number 25 on the UK singles charts.-Personnel:*Johnny Kidd – vocals*Mike West, Tom Brown – backing vocals*Alan Caddy – lead guitar...

", originally relesaed on the EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The second CD contains more singles and b-sides, some album songs, the unreleased tracks and the covers of Mud

Mud (band)

Mud were an English glam rock band, formed in February 1968, best remembered for their single "Tiger Feet", which was the UK's best-selling single of 1974...

's "Tiger Feet

Tiger Feet

"Tiger Feet" is a popular song by Mud. Written and produced by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, Tiger Feet was the first of Mud's three number one singles in the UK, spending four weeks at the top of the chart from 22 January 1974...

" and of The Sweet's "Fox on the Run".

CD 1

1. "Take It All Away" (Single Version) - 3:13
2. "It Could Be Better" - 2:55
3. "Emergency" - 2:50
4. "Furniture Fire" - 3:01
5. "Nothing to Lose" - 3:14
6. "Baby Doll" - 4:14
7. "Race with the Devil" - 2:52
8. "Take It All Away" - 3:45
9. "Yeah Right" - 3:21
10. "The Hunter" - 3:16
11. "Please Don't Touch
    Please Don't Touch (song)
    Please Don't Touch is the debut single by English rock and roll group Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, released in 1959 reaching number 25 on the UK singles charts.-Personnel:*Johnny Kidd – vocals*Mike West, Tom Brown – backing vocals*Alan Caddy – lead guitar...
    
    " (Headgirl
    Headgirl
    Headgirl was a collaboration between Motörhead and Girlschool in 1980, the result being the St. Valentine's Day Massacre EP, though the groups were credited as MotörheadGirlschool on the EP....
    
    ) - 2:48
12. "Emergency" (Motörhead feat. Denise Dufort) - 2:59
13. "Bomber" - 3:36
14. "Hit and Run" - 3:04
15. "Tonight" - 2:34
16. "C'mon Let's Go" - 3:35
17. "Tonight" (live) - 2:33
18. "Demolition Boys" (live) - 3:38
19. "Don't Call It Love" - 3:23
20. "Wildlife" - 1:15
21. "Don't Stop" - 1:22
22. "1-2-3-4 Rock 'n' Roll" - 4:32
23. "Tush
    Tush (song)
    "Tush" was the only single from ZZ Top's fourth album Fandango!. It reached number 20 on the pop chart.The song is a twelve-bar blues in the key of G. The recording was produced by Bill Ham, and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning...
    
    " - 2:13
24. "20th Century Boy
    20th Century Boy
    "20th Century Boy" is a song by T. Rex, written by Marc Bolan. It was released as a single in 1973 and reached #3 in the UK Singles Chart. The song did not feature on an original studio album but was included as a bonus track on a reissue of 1973 album Tanx.It later returned to the UK Top 20 in...
    
    " - 3:29
25. "Breaking the Rules" - 3:02

CD 2

1. "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)" (feat. Gary Glitter
   Gary Glitter
   Gary Glitter is an English former glam rock singer-songwriter and musician.Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s...
   
   ) - 3:53
2. "Burning in the Heat" - 3:20
3. "Surrender" - 3:24
4. "Never Too Late" - 3:22
5. "Demolition Boys" - 3:41
6. "Kick It Down" - 3:04
7. "Screaming Blue Murder" - 3:22
8. "Flesh and Blood" - 2:17
9. "Play Dirty" - 5:05
10. "I Like It Like That" - 3:27
11. "Play with Fire" - 2:41
12. "Tiger Feet
    Tiger Feet
    "Tiger Feet" is a popular song by Mud. Written and produced by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, Tiger Feet was the first of Mud's three number one singles in the UK, spending four weeks at the top of the chart from 22 January 1974...
    
    " - 4:33
13. "Fox on the Run" - 3:53
14. "Head over Heels" - 3:33
15. "This Time" - 3:22
16. "Too Hot to Handle" - 3:50
17. "All Day All Night" - 3:08
18. "Up All Night" (live) - 3:11
19. "Action" (live) - 3:22
20. "Future Flash" (live) - 3:40
21. "Back for More" (live) - 3:08
22. "Yeah Right!" (live) - 3:33