Teenage Warning - Angelic Upstarts

Yet another punk band of the late seventies, Angelic Upstarts were pretty much the same as all the other local angry bands, but this debut album demonstrates an impressive knack for punk rock, from the mindless angry tirades against the police and other forces of corruption, to more pleasant melodic stuff too. If they'd hired the recording studio a few years earlier before the punk outlet, their music could have gone in all sorts of directions. With twelve mostly fast, guitar-based songs over half an hour, there's nothing particularly groundbreaking about this album, but there's also impressive energy and guitar talent on display to immediately place it above ...  Read the complete review