Teenage Warning

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Teenage Warning
Angelic Upstarts studio album

Publication
(s)

1979

Label (s) Warner Bros. Records

Format (s)

CD, LP; MC

Genre (s)

punk

Title (number)

12

running time

33:45

occupation
  • Singing: Thomas "Mensi" Mensforth
  • Guitar: Ray "Moon" Cowie
  • Bass: Steve Forsten
  • Drums: Decca Wade

production

Jimmy Pursey

chronology
- Teenage Warning We Gotta Get Out of this Place
(1980)
Single releases
1978 The Murder of Liddle Towers
1979 I'm an Upstart
1979 Teenage Warning

Teenage Warning is the debut album by punk band Angelic Upstarts . It was released in 1979 on Warner Bros. Records .

History of origin

The Angelic Upstarts were founded in 1977. After several attempts to market their music in do-it-yourself style and a performance with John Peel , the group was signed by Jimmy Pursey , who negotiated a contract with Polydor for the band . Due to several incidents, however, both Pursey's band Sham 69 and Angelic Upstarts were released from the contract. However, Pursey was able to negotiate a new contract with Warner Bros., who released the single I'm an Upstart in 1979 . Two months later, the debut album Teenage Warning was finally released . A month later, the title song was released as a single. The album was produced by Jimmy Pursey himself. Only The Murder of Liddle Towers (declared on the album as Liddle Towers ) had already been released as an in-house production in May 1978 and was recorded by the band themselves in Impulse Studios in Wallsend .

more publishments

In 2003 a CD version of Captain Oi was released! Records , the liner notes from Mark Brennan, the lyrics and two bonus tracks. In 2007 the album was also released as a picture LP .

Track list

All songs except for The Young Ones were written by Thomas "Mensi" Mensforth and Ray "Mond" Cowie.

A side

  1. Teenage Warning - 3:02
  2. Student Power - 2:20
  3. The Young Ones - 1:49
  4. Never Again - 3:57
  5. We Are the People - 3:06
  6. Liddle Towers - 4:41

B side

  1. I'm an Upstart - 2:20
  2. Small Town Small Mind - 2:26
  3. Youth Leader - 3:05
  4. Do Anything - 2:16
  5. Let's Speed - 2:34
  6. Leave Me Alone - 2:15

Bonus tracks

  1. The Murder of Liddle Towers (Single Version) - 4:40
  2. Police Oppression (Single Version) - 3:31

Background information

The Young Ones is a cover version of Cliff Richard together with The Shadows , which was written in 1961 for the film of the same name (in German: Hello, Mr. Twen ) by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett .

The Murder of Liddle Towers was released in 1978 together with the B-side Police Oppression on the band's own label Dead Records. The 500 edition was panned by the British music press, but was reissued shortly afterwards by the independent labels Rough Trade and Small Wonder . The song is based on the death of the electrician Liddle Towers , who passed away after being released from police custody. The case caused a stir in the UK and was also discussed in the House of Commons .

Music genre

Although the band comes from the punk scene and thanks to The Clash , the Sex Pistols , among others in the credits for the album , Teenage Warning was mainly perceived as one of the albums that paved the way to Oi! and street punk paved. The lyrics of the band, very socially critical and directed against Thatcher , hit the nerve of the English working class. According to Allmusic's Matt Kantor , the album is considered a punk classic that strikes the perfect balance between serious and fun lyrics.

Chart placements

The album placed 29th on the UK music charts and stayed in the charts for a total of seven weeks. The singles I'm an Upstart (place 31/8 weeks) and Teenage Warning (place 29/6 weeks) were able to place in the UK Top 40 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mark Brennan: Liner Notes . In: Teenage Warning CD . Captain Oi! Records , 2003, p. 2-3 .
  2. ↑ Picture LP. Discogs , accessed October 10, 2012 .
  3. ^ Commons Sitting of 12th December 1977. Hansard 1803-2005, accessed October 10, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Jennifer Bradbury: Still Crazy after All These Years . In: Evening Chronicle . Newcastle March 23, 2006 ( questia.com (limited preview)).
  5. ↑ Biography at Allmusic (English). Retrieved October 10, 2012.
  6. ^ Matt Kantor: Review at Allmusic (English). Retrieved October 10, 2012.
  7. ↑ search query on Officialcharts.com; accessed on February 24, 2015