I'm taking the phrase "one hit wonder" away from the americans until they learn that an international band who had multiple best selling albums in their home country cannot be considered for this category

Chrissy Amphlett of Divinyls

Thank you sweet pea! @risingwiththeheatabove rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people

Ya’ll HAVE to listen to got my mind set on you, i touch myself, and all i want is you if you havent yet those songs are pretty much played weekly year round and they mean sm to me💕❤️💕❤️💕❤️💕

@laurenlovesgretavanfleet @obetrolncocktails @gvfvanfleet @alwaysonthemend @puzzle-gvf @takenbythemadness @myownparadise96 @peaceoftheland @gvfgal @gvfjess (sorry that i dont know some of you and have never spoken before, i just wanted to tag all gresties bc i know yall have to have some bomb music on repeat and i am always on a search for new music!!!💕)

Christina Amphlett of the Divinyls

Headcanon:

Every time Yaz touches her shoulder the lyrics to "I Touch Myself" by the Divinyls start running through her head

THIS IS BETTER THAN I TOUCH MYSELF THIS IS BETTER THAN I TOUCH MYSELF THIS IS BETTER THAN I TOUCH MYSELF.

Remembering Dino Danelli 1944-2022

Drummer Dino Danelli has died at 78. He was the co-founder of 60s rock band The Young Rascals, who later evolved into The Rascals. They had several hits (including three #1 hits): “Good Lovin’” and “Groovin’”. But my favorite song of theirs was 1965′s “I ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore”, later covered by The Divinyls for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie soundtrack. 

Steven Van Zandt was a big fan of The Rascals and he recruited Danelli to be the drummer in his Disciples of Soul band from 1982-1984. That’s him playing on “I am a Patriot” (I later saw Pearl Jam cover it live). Years later, it was Van Zandt who inducted The Rascals into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Too bad Danelli was no longer with the Disciples of Soul when I saw them in 2017.

The link above is the obit from Rolling Stone.

“I love myself, I want you to love me”

The insane urge to make an ao3 fic title lyrics vid to Pleasure and Pain

🎵 When I think about You I touch myself 🎵

Michael Hutchence and Chrissy Amphlett reading Smash hits magazine sometime in the late 80s.

I Touch Myself - Divinyls - 1991

There are a ton of Divinyls songs that I love (and you might end up hearing about them); I don't know if people here in the U.S. nowadays know that they weren't just a one-hit wonder. That one hit, of course, was "I Touch Myself," and I will honestly go to the mat defending it as an INCREDIBLE pop song, but I also really wish people knew the band was more than that.

I'm posting "Back to the Wall" for Spooky Season because it appeared in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master; I haven't seen the movie purely because I don't enjoy the slasher genre much, but I'm tempted to look it up just to see how the song is used. It's a slow burner, as Chrissy Amphlett's vocals shift from sad but almost soothing ("These are desperate times, my dear"), to stoic ("I've been holding back all my tears / Just so the pressure don't show"), and then, gradually, to something more assertive. The chorus of "I might do anything at all" turns from a heroine musing to herself to an immediate threat of self defense: "You better run for your life." A defiant sort of na-na na-na-na na-na hook, like a rebellious child’s taunt, kicks in around 3:30, and that's what really makes the song for me. It's a Final Girl's entire emotional arc in less than five minutes.

Music discussion

I don't want anybody else, when i think about you I Boop Myself