Britny Fox - Boys In Heat (1989)

Predictable as hell but good time boogie down party rock full of cliche's but what the hell, sit back and take a swig. Think Cinderella, right down to the vocal rasp, cowboy boots, spandex, big hair, lyrics about roads...yep, it's the late '80s and Britny Fox are on the march and are doing a better job than most if you ask me. 'Dizzy Dean may have the pipes from hell at times, but he's backed up by more than an adequate band and as a bunch they have the ability to write quite beefy and memorable tunes - 'Standin' In The Shadows Of Love', 'Livin' On A Dream', only 'Stevie' makes me cringe, but the rest are admirable during a time when bands of this ilk were two a penny. It was never about being original are who had the biggest hair - they all did - but if you had songs that didn't irritate I guess you were on to a winner. Britny Fox succeeded simply because they concentrated on the music as well as the bars and women.The hip-shaking, whiskey-swigging, hairspraying genre may not have lasted that long but it was a golden time, so hats off to Michael Kelly Smith, Billy Childs, Johnny Dee and the chief rasper for being part of it.

7/10