Teenage Warning

About Teenage Warning

Teenage Warning is Angelic Upstarts' first album, released in August 1979. It peaked at No.29 in the UK Album Charts and featured three singles, "The Murder of Liddle Towers", "I'm An Upstart" and "Teenage Warning". If you also take into account that the B-sides "The Young Ones" and "Leave Me Alone" are also included, it means almost half the album was also available on 7" singles. The band were initially signed to Sham 69's Jimmy Pursey's JP Productions. The plan was to record a demo and use Pursey's leverage to secure a deal with Polydor - this floundered following an incident involving Pursey, a security guard and a snowball fight. Warner Brothers stepped in and signed them. The album sleeve depicts a tattooed orange with a clockwork key, symbolising the Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange and taken from the opening lyric of the title track, "Wind me up like a clockwork orange". Paul Morley at the NME reviewed the album suggesting it would be Angelic Upstarts' "one burst" before they disintegrated, and remarked it was not his greatest listening experience but he had great fun reviewing it. Dropkick Murphys performed a cover version of "Never Again" for an oi tribute album. It was later included on their 2005 release Singles Collection, Volume 2 more »