It’s a loud, brash, feminine, tease of triumphantly taunting lyrics and mesmerizing melodies that will lead you away to its source: a lot of powerful emotions.

Some of the songs are very upbeat. Others are ballads; strong songs, yet ballads nonetheless.

I find there is something on here for me whether I want to “kick it up a notch” with some really intensive studying or something creative I am working on – or calm down and listen to something sad while I “get my brood thing on”.

Pleasure and Pain is a great song. I am not sure if it falls into the ballad or upbeat song. Oddly, it feels like it fits into both. Which I can’t really explain – you just have to hear it. It is one of the first songs by The DiVinyls that I ever heard. It was on a cut-out cassette tape album that I bought at an outrageously low price at the beach one year – back in the late 1980s or early 1990s, I believe.

I paid too little for that cassette but it was the beginning of a long affection for the band and their fabulous singer. So for the label, maybe there was a little method to their pricing madness, in this case.

A few years later I saw the I Touch Myself video on MTV and listened to it quite a few times on the radio. My love for this band’s music was validated. They had achieved true pop status. Sorry, if that sounds shallow. I really don’t mind if a band I really like a lot hits it big, becomes successful, and flourishes. If they are good, I don’t expect to be the only fan. I don’t have to be part of a crowd, but I don’t mind it.

“I Touch Myself” is on here too. A song in sort of clever play on words and sort of in the same vernacular, if not the same vein, is Make Out All Right. Good song.

The totally warm and toasty ballad on this album, in my opinion is, If Love Was a Gun (…couldn’t hurt more than it’s done). It’s bluesy but its sweet and you can’t help but empathize with her when she sings it.

All the tracks on this album are marked 4 and 5 in my system. I like this album a lot.