Danger Danger

Screw It!

ROCK CANDY ‘Difficult second album’ in more ways than one.

Among the myriad hair bands of the 80s, Danger Danger are among those that should have achieved much more. Timing is everything, though, and just as

Screw It! – originally titled

Monkey Business – was being lined up for release in late 1991, with the title track as lead single, the band found themselves in a head-on lack-of-imagination collision with Skid Row, who got their Monkey Business, from

Slave To The Grind, out first. Hence a hasty album title change for Danger Danger.

The album was a confident follow-up to their 1989 debut, if a tad uneven; the big dumb sex of Horny S.O.B. and Slipped Her The Big One (Steel Panther would be so proud) and daft rap spoof Yeah, You Want It! rubbing up against classy poprockers like Beat The Bullet, Don’t Blame It On Love and Comin’ Home. Altogether, Screw It! was irrepressibly fun and upbeat – and totally at odds with the era’s grungy zeitgeist, not to mention the attitude of their label.

While Screw It! was the difficult second album, that was nothing compared to the debacle of album number three,

Cockroach, which was shelved amid much band in-fighting. But that’s another story.