The Revillos "Rev Up" 1980

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-glo 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. - Review by Dave Thompson
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1 Secret Of The Shadow 2 Rev Up 3 Rock-A-Boom 4 Voodoo 5 Bobby 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 Sheik 13 Motorbike Beat
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