This
is an odd little record. Fifteen songs breeze by in less than forty minutes.
There’s one song over four minutes, a couple at the three minute mark, and then
all the rest chalk up between one and two minutes. How punk is that?I probably bought this album purely for Connection, and from the sticker inside the sleeve I seem to have bought it from the Vinyl Exchange on Oldham Street in Manchester for £12. Not bad considering that, as the Vinyl Exchange sticker proudly states, it’s in mint condition and comes with a free 12-page booklet and a flexi-disc.
The flexi-disc - a cover of Adam Ant’s Cleopatra is pretty good. Well, at least it doesn’t sound as bad as the flexi-discs you would get free in Look-In magazine in the 80s. There’s no surface noise and it plays just like a standard 7”.
This is a pretty good album - with plenty of catchy songs. At the end of the day though, you can never have enough albums with a photo of the band standing in front of a brick wall on the cover. It should be mandatory, for debut albums at least.
Hit: Connection
Hidden Gem: Waking Up
