#169
May 20 1985
Divinyls
What a Life!
Genre: New Wave
3.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Don’t You Go Walking
Good Die Young
Guillotine Day
The opening track, “Pleasure and Plain”, written by Holly Knight and Mike Chapman(!!!) sounds like something they had rolling around in a drawer and tossed off one evening to a band desperately seeking out a follow-up hit. (And one that requires it involve a sexual component)
It’s dull.
Which is a shame cuz what follows is a band stepping into the void left by Pat Benatar’s decision to “grow up” and, instead of embracing that, they stick to what they *think* will sell records.
This is the sound of a band being trying to desperately live up to one song that never suggested they would achieve anything more.
They didn’t hear, either.
