Positive Touch

by The Undertones

Positive Touch cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 May 1981
  • Label: Ardeck
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 37:39
  • Community rating: 3.64/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Feargal Sharkey, John O'Neill, Billy Doherty, Michael Bradley, Neill King, Dick Blewett, Paul Carrack, Roger Bechirian, Damian O'Neill

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Undertones moved beyond the direct punk-pop of their earliest records on 'Positive Touch'. The album broadens the Derry band's melodic vocabulary with horns, more varied arrangements, and a slightly more mature lyrical perspective while retaining their concise pop instincts.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, jangly, DIY, guitar-driven, earnest, guitars, accessible, harmonies

Tracklist

  1. Fascination (2:23)
  2. Julie Ocean (1:47)
  3. Life's Too Easy (2:31)
  4. Crisis Of Mine (2:27)
  5. You're Welcome (2:48)
  6. His Goodlooking Girlfriend (3:08)
  7. The Positive Touch (2:21)
  8. When Saturday Comes (2:56)
  9. It's Going To Happen! (3:39)
  10. Sigh & Explode (2:46)
  11. I Don't Know (2:44)
  12. Hannah Doot (2:50)
  13. Boy Wonder (2:08)
  14. Forever Paradise (3:11)

Credits

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