Monday, February 26, 2024

Ring me up (Divinyls) (LP 2396)

Divinyls  Desperate (Vinyl, Chrysalis Records, 1982) ***  

Genre: Australian pop

Places I remember: Electric City Music

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: I'll Make U Happy

Gear costume: Siren (Never Let You Go)

Active compensatory factors: Better known for the big hit I Touch Myself, this is the debut studio album from this bunch of Aussie rockers. 

They have a tough guitar-based sound with an excellent tough sounding lead singer (Chrissy Amphlett), not unlike Concrete Blonde.

There are some cracking songs on this album, without having that killer single (that would obviously come when they lost the harder punk edges), hence the three stars.

Where do they all belong? Next up in the pop catalogue - Dixie Dregs.

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