Nikki Corvette And The Stingrays / Back To Detroit
Album: Back To Detroit   Collection:General
Artist:Nikki Corvette And The Stingrays   Added:Feb 2007
Label:Dollar Record Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2007-02-25 Pull Date: 2007-04-29
Week Ending: Apr 22 Apr 15 Mar 25 Mar 11 Mar 4
Airplays: 5 1 3 1 3

Recent Airplay
1. Jan 19, 2023: Down in the Basement
Tokyo Boy
4. Apr 14, 2022: Down in the Basement
So Kiss Me
2. Nov 03, 2022: down in the basement
Lipstick Letters
5. Apr 13, 2022: Femme Fatale (rebroadcast from Mar 5, 2014)
He Rocks Me, He Rocks Me Not
3. Apr 18, 2022: Down in the Basement (rebroadcast from Apr 14, 2022)
So Kiss Me
6. Mar 17, 2022: Femme Fatale (rebroadcast from Mar 12, 2014)
Lipstick Letters

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2007-02-21
Gleeful sassy girl garage pop rock and roll. 20 years before the Donnas there was Nikki Corvette. Who? After being dredged up through a severe underground fan-base (especially in Japan), Nikki resurrects herself with this new release, drinking from the same bottle she did back when Jimmy Carter was in office. At a time when the Runaways were trying to be tough and The Go Go’s sold out to the color pink, Nikki and the Corvettes were just being themselves, plundering the fun of 60’s girl group rock, teenage love with a dose of Motor City punk, foreshadowing all things to come in the form of The Muffs, 5,6,7,8s, Donnas, Bobbyteens, Spastics, and just about every girl garage band to ever use a Hello Kitty sticker as a coaster for their PBR.

FCC clean. My picks: 2, 5, 7, 11 (every song has a killer hook)

1) epic lyric hook, title track, Johnny B. Goode 12 bar rock
2) classic Corvette beat and feel
3) synth included but subtle, epic choru, upbeat
4) boogey surf blues feel “boney maroney”
5) sexy lyrics, rock and roll fun girl style yowzie
6) poppy, 60’s feel
7) anthemic rock and roll, hand claps, Chuck Berry riffs
8) more of a “girlie” pop feel
9) Cars’y synth, cowbell(?), different
10) big hipped rock swagger, tough girl lyrics
11) great chorus hook, driving rock
12) mid paced rock
13) fun upbeat classic Nikki

Track Listing
1. Back To Detroit   7. Well Alright
2. Tokyo Boy   8. Who Wants To Be My Boyfriend
3. I've Got A Heartbreak   9. Thinkin' Bout You
4. Just Cant Say   10. So Kiss Me
5. Lipstick Letters   11. He Rocks Me, He Rocks Me Not
6. Please Don't Stay Away   12. Trapped In The City
  13. Special Life