Barracuda - Heart

The hard-rocking 1977 release from the Canadian sisters who had been touring since the early Seventies but only worried the British charts in the mid Eighties, during their power ballad, soft metal second hot flush of fame.

You gonna ambush me You'd have me down on my knees Wouldn't you, Barracuda?

Barracuda would appear to be about a male predator, but women generally know how to handle the opposite sex. The real 'Barracuda' to a woman is 'the workplace nemesis'.

Every woman has a female nemesis at work; a wicked, exaggerated, identikit Dynasty-style Superbitch who is plotting their professional downfall.

Whether it's the boardroom or the make-up counter at Boots: "Do you know what she said to me today?"

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Under One Roof - The Rubettes

All the basic rules of the bathetic story-in-song are adhered to here by stodgy proletariat glamsters, the Rubettes.... 1) A passive lead character called Billy 2) Billy moves to the city 3) Billy works in a factory 4) Billy dies young.

They raise the lyrical bar for the story-in-song by having Billy live with a transvestite called Johnny and Billy's fugitive father stab both Johnny and Billy in a frenzy of hate.

Under One Roof was a huge hit in Germany.

I've posted a picture of the woman from the cover of the Italian release of Sugar Baby Love because the Rubettes, along with most of their glam contemporaries, were pig ugly. The lamè, satin and glitter was just so much cosmetic cover-up... like hanging baskets on provincial train station platforms.

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If it's ever been on K-Tel or Ronco, it's in. If it features hand claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews, sha-la-las, toothy teen idols, candy-based metaphors for carnal acts or lyrics about hugging, squeezing and rocking all night long, it's in.

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