Temperamental (Divinyls album)

Temperamental
Studio album by Divinyls
Released	1988
Recorded	1987–88
Studio	Sunset Sound Recorders, Los Angeles
Genre	Rock
Length	47:32
Label	Chrysalis
Producer	Mike Chapman
Divinyls chronology
What a Life! (1985) Temperamental (1988) Divinyls (1991)
Singles from Temperamental
"Back to the Wall" Released: 8 February 1988[1] "Hey Little Boy" Released: 10 July 1988 "Punxsie" Released: 1988

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Temperamental is the third album by Australian band Divinyls, released in 1988 (see 1988 in music) by Chrysalis Records. Three singles were lifted from the album – "Back to the Wall", their cover of Syndicate of Sound's "Hey Little Boy" and "Punxsie".^[3]

The album reached No. 11 in Australia,^[3] but despite heavy promotion, was the last to be released through Chrysalis. Amphlett explained: "We still owed them more than a million dollars – unpaid reimbursement of their advances for recording, distributing and promoting three albums, and supporting all those tours, yet they let us off the hook. Chrysalis knew, as did we, that we'd never be able to repay such a sum. They figured that because Temperamental hadn't broken us in the States, we were never going to make it there and they'd be smarter to write off our debt as a tax deduction. 'It's time to split', they said. 'We can't do anything more with Divinyls'."^[4]

Amphlett believed the album contained some of the band's best songs, written "throughout the emotional maelstrom of the exits of (manager) Vince (Lovegrove), Bjarne, Rick and JJ", including "Back to the Wall", "Punxsie" and "Better Days", as well as "Hey Little Boy".^[4]