Dangerous! – Teenage Rampage (2011)
Another day, another band with an inappropriately punctuated name. This is Dangerous!. (That’s why the punctuation is inappropriate.) It’s not too hard to get past thesimilarities with The Hives and especially The Vines but there’s a bit more to them than being just another bunch of Aussie garage rockers.
Opening track ‘Not One Of You’ is totally indicative of their sound before the furious ‘Movers N Shakers’ comes in. On ‘Nightmare’, Tommy Loft often sounds like Daryl Palumbo on a bad day while the bouncing ‘Needles’ has one of those sing-along choruses that even Kaiser Chiefs might nod along to. Needless to say, ‘Needles’ is one for playing live and getting everyone singing along to. It’s simple enough.
The genre they’re playing in just doesn’t allow much deviation as the fact that 11 of the 12 songs are between two and three minutes indicates. They all run at around the same breakneck speed and they don’t exactly pause for a quick ballad. They’re having too much fun being dangerous. Or Dangerous!. Whatever.
Tracklist:
01. Not One Of You
02. Movers N Shakers
03. Slo Mo Video
04. Chasing The Girls
05. Big Muff
06. Poppies
07. Needle
08. Nightmare
09. Leper
10. Ocean
11. Huzzy
12. D! Or Die
Tommy – Vocals & Keys
Nicky J – Guitar
Nev – Bass
Jarrad Lee – Drums
Dangerous! – Teenage Rampage (2011)