🎵 AotW Wendy and the Rocketts - DAZED FOR DAYS (SP-4974)

[LPJim]

Wendy & The Rocketts
DAZED FOR DAYS
A&M SP-4974

No Control 3:31
Security 3:38
Play The Game 3:48
Have You Been Telling Me Lies 3:43
Over Yonder 6:06
I Can't Tell You 3:43
How Come You're Still Hanging 'Round 3:22
Magic Bullet 5:22
Nightflier 4:23



Wendy Stapleton - vocals
Noel Beare - bass
Adrian Dessert and Joey Amenta - guitars
Steve Buck - drums

Category: Australian Rock
Released 1983
Reissued on CD in 1997 by Mushroom Records (32455-2)

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[AM Matt]

Reminds me of Canadian group The Headpins (who hat a minor hit in late 1983 with the song "Just One More Time") played on both MTV & NBC's "Friday Night Videos". Matt Clark Sanford, MI

 

[AM Matt]

The Headpins Matt Clark sanford, MI

 

[Another Son]

'Play the Game' and 'Have You Been Telling Me Lies' were moderate hits in Australia. 'Magic Bullet' also got quite a bit of airplay. The group's film clips appeared often on weekly national music show, Countdown. Wendy and the Rockets had slight echoes of good old Aussie pub rock, but with a very 'produced', commercial and softened-down flavour. Wendy Stapleton was a good singer and performer, but somehow, her look didn't tie in with that of the band members. As you saw them on the videos, they weren't believable as a unit. They were a bit hard to embrace image-wise, I thought. You always got the sense of a young band supporting a solo singer. But they did have some good songs and sounds.