Consumer Guide Album

Divinyls: Desperate [Chrysalis, 1983]
The voracious readymade chords of this Australian quintet aspire more to rock than to rock and roll, but when you think about it, so do Joan Jett's. Christina Amphlett plays a town slut who's moving up in the world of sexual--and emotional--obsession, like Iggy Pop with a heart as big--and needful--as his dick. And on the Easybeats' "Make You Happy" she gets to the infantile root. A−