Goddess in Progress

Infobox Album |
Name = "Goddess in Progress"
Type = EP
Artist = Julie Brown


Released = 1984
Recorded = 1984
Genre = Pop and Comedy
Length = 16:34
Label = Rhino Records
Producer = Steve Thoma and Dan Lawson
Reviews =
Last album = "I Like 'em Big and Stupid" (1984)
This album = "Goddess in Progress" (1984)
Next album = "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. It was released on a small independent label in both 12" vinyl and cassette tape formats. It was comprised of tracks that eventually appeared elsewhere; the three tracks on side two appeared on the single "I Like 'em Big and Stupid;" and the two tracks on side one 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.

Track listing:

Side One
# I Like 'Em Big And Stupid (Brown-Coffey-McNally-Colcord) Stymie Music 2:39
# The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun (Brown-Coffey-McNally-Colcord) Stymie Music 4:37Side Two
# Will I Make It Through The Eighties? (Brown-Coffey) Stymie Music 2:20
# 'Cause I'm A Blond (Brown-Coffey-Poore) Stymie Music 2:14
# Earth Girls Are Easy (Brown-Coffey-McNally-Smith) Stymie Music/Hedgeapple Music 4:44

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

*EXTRA* Evening StarPAGE 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").

2007 Re-release

In late 2007 Brown purchased the rights to the E.P. 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:

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