Monday, December 20, 2021

The 1980 Listening Post - Skyhooks - Hot for the Orient

 Skyhooks - Hot for the Orient



1980 Housekeeping

Skyhooks

Hot For the Orient

Genre: Glam Rock from Australia

4 out of 5




Highlights:

This Town is Boring

My Heart Gets Blown to Bits




Another in a long line of “What could this band had been had anyone across the pond heard them?” Probably not much, but they are a blast. It doesn’t help to have a song called, “Keep The Junk in America” and sing about how much we are trash.


Every song carries with it the sense that, if you were a fan and you heard them come on, you would sing along. 

They aren’t going to get many more fans after this, though. This is the end for them. But, I think they have fans and those fans like them.

Songs like “Red Fingernails” and “My Heart Gets Blown to Bits” had to have been crowd pleasers. No? I liked them. I bet Nick Lowe would have as well. They sound like he wrote them.



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