Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Ready, aim, Attack of the Giant Revillos

I just watched rainwater seeping through the stone walls of our unfinished basement while I walked on the treadmill.
DUBUQUE has received more than 1.97 INCHES OF RAIN today and water continues to fall, so the treadmill seemed like a better idea than walking outside.
I listened to "ATTACK OF THE GIANT REVILLOS" to help alleviate the gloom.
When Edinburgh's brilliant pop-punk pioneers The Rezillos dissolved, vocalists Eugene Reynolds (Alan Forbes) and Fay Fife (Sheilagh Hynde) created a new band with a similar name, THE REVILLOS.
Combining 60s-flavored pop with monster-movie sensibilities, the Revillos toured and recorded throughout the early 1980s.
"Attack of the Giant Revillos" is an anthology of radio sessions, singles and studio outtakes and includes "should-have-been classics" such as "Mind-Bending Cutie Doll," "Hip City, You Were Meant For Me" and "(She’s Fallen in Love with a) Monster Man."
It was a perfect album to make me forget the increasing dampness of the basement.