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| ARTIST: | Undertones |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Castle Us |
| FEATURES: | Extra tracks, Original recording remastered |
| TYPE: | Pop, Rock |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Fascination, Julle Ocean, Life's Too Easy, Crisis of Mine, You're Welcome, His Good Looking Girlfriend, Positive Touch, When Saturday Comes, It's Going to Happen, Sigh and Explode, I Don't Know, Hannah Doot, Boy Wonder, Forever Paradise, Fairly in the Money Now [*], Julle Ocean [*], Kiss in the Dark [*], Beautiful Friend [*], Life's Too Easy [*] |
| UPC: | 060768131729 |
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Customer Reviews of Positive Touch
THE UNDERTONES GO SUPREMELY MELODIC & PSYCHEDELIC This is The Undertones 3rd album in as many years, and it shows a huge progression in production, arrangements, and songwriting.
It has some songs that are real GEMS on it: JULIE OCEAN, THIS CRISIS OF MINE, YOU'RE WELCOME, THE POSITIVE TOUCH, WHEN SATURDAY COMES, IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, HANNAH DOOT, etc.
It's the 'Tones most '66/'67 era Beatlesque album, but it sounds totally original somehow! And it's still POWER POP! Don't overlook this one if you AT ALL like the Undertones!!!
A Touch too Much
By the time The Undertones got around to their third album, "Positive Touch," their world had completely changed. No longer a gang of teenaged scruffs, they'd moved into their twenties and were somewhat affluent pop stars. The drive and desires that would have them forever have singing about cars and girls were supplanted by the fact that they all had cars, girls and even were property owners. Out was the hunger to impress the babes, in was the desire to express the artist within.
"Positive Touch" is the result of that desire given run of the studio. While it certainly doesn't lack for great catchy songs, the band couldn't keep their impulses in check. As a result, "Life's Too Easy," a song that would have sounded great stripped to its basics is buried in a mish-mosh of bad piano and overwrought production. (Even the band must have figured that out, the single remix/bonus track sounds infinitely better.)
There are also the O'Neill brothers' forays into psychedelia, as witnessed by "Julie Ocean" and "Sigh and Explode." While interesting, it also began to show Feargel Sharkey's limitations as a vocalist even as his ambitions were starting to exceed his grasp. Sharkey really didn't have the chops to sing soulfully, although "You're Welcome" reaches pretty hard and almost succeeds. (As would his eventual unlistenable solo albums.)
If you want the kind of brilliant fast pop tunes that The Undertones provided on their first two albums, they're still here. Songs like "His Good Looking Girlfriend," "Boy Wonder" and "It's Going to Happen" still show that the Tones' had a knack for an ace hook. "Positive Touch" still holds a spot in my library (the overly dense "Sin Of Pride" never stayed), but I really can't rate it any higher than average. In this case, getting older got the better of The Undertones.