Positive Touch

Undertones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 14, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rykodisc
• ASIN: B0000009OZ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #289,738 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fascination

2. Julie Ocean

3. Life's Too Easy

4. Crisis of Mine

5. You're Welcome

6. His Good Looking Girlfriend

7. The Positive Touch

8. When Saturday Comes

9. It's Going to Happen

10. Sigh & Explode

11. I Don't Know

12. Hannah Doot

13. Boy Wonder

14. Forever Paradise

15. Kiss in the Dark [*]

16. Beautiful Friend [*]

17. Life's Too Easy [Alternate Version][*]

18. Fairly in the Money Now [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A hidden classic, March 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Positive Touch (Audio CD)

This album, their third, shows the band using a more sophisticated approach to songwriting than their earlier efforts. Still, the songs are short, intense little drops of wonder, with a sweet innocence to the lyrics that make you wish life were this simple. Feargall's voice is as wonderfully wacked-out as ever(what a funky gene pool to produce his trill), and the O'Neill brothers' songwriting is top notch power pop with a Northern Irish soul.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Their best album, August 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Positive Touch (Audio CD)

Before the soul-heavy, dense "Sin of Pride," after the pop tunes of "Hypnotised" and the Ramones-like buzz of their debut album, this one fits perfectly as a pivot around which their other efforts align. The psychedelic swirl of "Julie Ocean," "Beautiful Friend," "It Happens All the Time" all gain clarity and punch on CD. The odd production only makes Fergal Sharkey's voice sound even more warbly, and the experimentation crammed into many of these three-minute gems makes this album stand the test of time, when much early-80s material from their contemporaries sounds very dated. This is the ideal album to start with.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars their best album, a great one!, March 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Positive Touch (Audio CD)

Their earlier efforts, though more highly praised by critics, seem pretty juvenile nowadays, while this neglected album shines more brightly than ever. Lots of good pop songs and melodies, though the version of Julie Ocean is too short, as the Undertones themselves realized - they did it again (and better) for the single.