The Albums

Australasian Music...A British perspective....

It seems hard to credit, now, but at the end of the 80s, the most dominant nation in British popular music was.....AUSTRALIA. This does not just refer to Kylie, Jason and Co. INXS had a succession of hit singles....Icehouse’s Man of Colours album was a considerable success...Midnight Oil had their only UK hit with Beds Are Burning.... Crowded House first came to these shores....Divinyls were popular, and “Touched Themselves” a lot.

In the wake of this, other bands were tried out with lesser success....TheModels.....Noiseworks....Jimmy Barnes. This was music with a grittiness...a “crunch”....not otherwise found in British music, whose Icons at the time were the barely talented Bros. It is no surprise, therefore, that Jenny was seen as a marketable international commodity for a while, as her support slot on the 1989 Tears for Fears tour suggests.

Her first three albums were all released in the UK. By the time Salvation Jane came out, I suppose there seemed little point. Body and Soul was extensively available, and You I Know was an unsuccessful single. I bought Shiver and Honeychild in the UK, and I remember Break in the Weather receiving some limited airplay. Apart from that, she made little impression on the UK scene. Sorry! Click on the links opposite, to read my assessment of her albums so far...if you dare!