It's been CD city round here lately as I lazily pick up releases by Go Genre Everything, Hot Palms and as promised/threatened/muttered a few days ago, Maybe Dolls.
It's funny how this album sounds so much more dated than The Numbers' records - I don't know if that's an objective reality or just a feeling, perhaps a suspicion that with Maybe Dolls the Morrows are trying harder to be a part of some current trend. Apparently at the time they were compared to Baby Animals. I don't remember BAs well enough to have an opinion on this but I do think the first track on Propaganda sounds like a very good approximation of a lost track from the first Pretenders album. I am utterly not against that.
Whereas almost all the Numbers' songs were by Chris Morrow completely (the story goes that he was the singer and Annalisse was 'just' the bass player almost up until they recorded their first album) these songs are co-writes between the two of them, and she is putting a lot more into her performance, but you know, I kind of liked the restraint on the Numbers records.
This is by Brett Thomas from the Sydney Sun-Herald 15 March 1992 p. 125.
SMH 19 March 1992 p. 31
And below is I suppose where they got their name from.
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