Undertones - Positive Touch - third album on limited WHITE vinyl

Undertones

Positive Touch 

BMG - re-issue of their 3rd LP on limited edition WHITE vinyl 

 
Derry's finest: The Undertones, released their 3rd album in May of 1981 to much critical acclaim, but less commercial success. The band had moved on from all teen-angst all the time; lyrically as well as instrumentally the album finds instruments you'd never find on their 2 punk classics, such as piano, xylophone, organ, horn charts and recorders. The quirky arrangements were decidedly different, as well as the lyrical content. Positive Touch was the first and only album released by the Undertones to contain songs which drew lyrical inspiration from the Troubles relating to the political and social background in which the members of the band had been born and raised, although songs containing lyrical references to the Troubles were somewhat oblique. The single "It's Going to Happen!" was directly inspired by the 1981 hunger strikes  in Northern Ireland and was performed on Top of the Pops days after one of the participants in these hunger strikes, Bobby Sands, died of starvation. Three further songs upon the LP ("You're Welcome", "Crisis of Mine" and "Sigh and Explode") were also lyrically inspired by the Troubles, although none of the material the band were to subsequently release drew influence from these sources.

     Track Listing
Fascination 
Julie Ocean
Life's Too Easy
Crisis of Mine  
You're Welcome 
His Goodlooking Girlfriend 
The Positive Touch 
When Saturday Comes 
It's Going to Happen 
Sigh & Explode
I Don't Know 

Hannah Doot 
Boy Wonder 

Forever Paradise 

NEW SEALED re-issue LP on WHITE vinyl