The Revillos - Rev Up

Emerging more than a year after Fay Fife and Eugene Reynolds broke a nation's heart by dismantling the Rezillos, the Revillos' Rev Up debut set the stage, immediately, for a mission that was going to take the last band's sound into an entirely new universe; one that had, sad to say, already been visited by the B-52's' and the Cramps' recent doings, but which was nevertheless ripe for serious exploration. A dramatic hybrid of day-glow rockabilly, B-movie glitter, and post-punk trash, Rev Up is a howling good time, a blur of wacked intentions and wired energies that settle for a moment on one, two, a dozen classic boogies, but never hang around for long, because there's always another planet to build a drive-in on. And so, "Secret of the Shadow" blurs into the title track; "The Rock-A-Boom" leaks into "Voodoo"; and the semi-classic single "Motorbike Beat" incinerates everything in sight.

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The Revillos; Rev-Up

1.      Secret Of The Shadow

2.      Rev-Up

3.      The Rock-A-Boom

4.      Voodoo

5.      Booby Come Back To Me

6.      Scuba Boy Bop

7.      Yeah Yeah

8.      Hungry For Love

9.      Juke Box Sound

10.   On The Beach

11.   Cool Jerk

12.   Hippy Hippy Shake

13.   Motorbike Beat

14.   Where’s The Boy For Me?

15.   Scuba Scuba

16.   Voodoo

17.   The Fiend

18.   No Such Luck