Back to the Wall (song)

"Back to the Wall" is a song by Australian rock group Divinyls.

By October 1986, Divinyls had been reduced to the duo of Christina Amphlett and Mark McEntee.

In 2018, the song was covered by Tropical Fuck Storm and appeared as the b-side to their single "You Let My Tyres Down".

The cover garnered praise and has been called "a spine-tingling take on an underrated Divinyls classic [...] [T]he vocal delivery of Fiona Kitschin and Erica Dunn, at once fierce and vulnerable, lends a prescient edge to Chrissy Amphlett’s lyrics: "We are living in desperate times / These are desperate times, my dear"."

Kitschin herself called it "a really timely song [...] written and sung by a woman, so it made sense to be performed by the women in the band.