Word: amphlett
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What a Life! is the second album from the Australian band Divinyls. Their music is claimed to form a synthesis of punk and pop. Singer Christina Amphlett manages to prove marginally successful in this endeavor, though the sound is generally much closer to pop than to punk...
...disk itself is a typical example of pseudo-punk synth-pop. "Motion" moves nicely, and the apocalyptyic "Guillotine Day," among other tracks, finds Amphlett attempting to mimic ex-Sex Pistol John Lydon. The result, however, is far closer to a Pat Benatar rehash than something new. Lyrics again center on love and relationships, and are generally rather mundane...
...common attempt to launch a video career, presumably in search of the publicity offered by MTV and other video-music sources. Their attitudes about video, however, seem to differ widely: Pat Gribben of the Adventures claims that he feels music is far more important than video, but Divinyl Christina Amphlett and Simon F both project a definite image to accompany their music. The music, as Gribben predicts, may well suffer because of these efforts to do two things at once...
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