Temperamental by The Divinyls

Temperamental, the third album from Sydney's Divinyls, came out on Chrysalis in 1988, with Mike Chapman producing and the sessions cut at Sunset Sound. At its heart were Chrissy Amphlett's snarl and Mark McEntee's guitar, and the songs were written while people were heading for the exits, manager Vince Lovegrove among them. Amphlett reckoned all that upheaval gave her some of the band's best material: "Back to the Wall", "Punxsie" and "Better Days", plus a punchy cover of the Syndicate of Sound's "Hey Little Boy".

It reached number 11 at home, but America still didn't bite, and despite a hard push Chrysalis let them go afterwards, writing off more than a million dollars in unrecouped advances rather than chasing a debt it knew would never be repaid.

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