Reviewed by Allen Lulu
Released: 1980 The Pinups The Pinups Genre: Electro New Wave Rating: 1.5 out of 5 Highlights: Girl of Wood Requisite 80s cover: A droning, sexless version of “Wild Thing”, which attempts to appropriate Donna Summerisms and ends up being that annoying girl who drunkenly throws herself at you at the club. Everything about The Pinups seem like a Kim Fowley project. A bunch of women (the novelty to stand out…something Kim seemed to love and believed he could control), a handful of trad rock songs jazzed up for the genre (with The Runaways it was punk, with these women it’s disco/New Wave). Now, I have no idea if Kim was involved with this because there’s just zero info about them. They do repeat their songs on different records. For instance, “Girl of Wood”, which is a highlight here, shows up on their other self-titled record, not to be confused with this self titled record. When we looked at them in 1982 we mentioned that they were a collaborative effort with Tony Carey, a musician of as equal talent as he had obscurity. And Ingeborg Hauke’s electro clash nonsense “Money and Love” is a perfect example of the callous belief that, “well, put pretty girls on the package…people will buy it!” No. No they won’t. This should be a lot more fun than it is, instead it’s proof of crass toss it against the wall, loss leader capitalism that the record industry is known for.
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