SHE’S SO TUFF
The only album by Tina and the Total Babes, She’s So Tuff came out in 2001 on the Sympathy for the Record Industry label. This album is basically an homage to – or even a send-up of – the kind of female punk and power-pop that was rampant in Los Angeles 20 years earlier. There are mostly original songs here, but there are a few covers as well, such as Holly and the Italians’ “Tell that Girl to Shut Up”.
Writing for Allmusic, Stewart Mason gives their album four stars (out of five) and states: “The songs themselves are absolutely terrific; the melodramatic ‘Tragedy’, which sounds like the Go-Go’s covering the Shangri-Las, is alone worth the price of admission; but the presentation and attitude are so equally perfect that She’s So Tuff is every bit the equal of the records that inspired it. In fact, it may be better!” The campy front cover – with Tina Lucchesi wearing a button showing the album name and stretching a long string of bubble gum from her mouth – is perfect to illustrate the fun that is found on the music within.
(May 2012)
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This is their album, She’s So Tuff:
(May 2015)
