UB40

UK first press 1987. Records play great.
The soundtrack to every taxi ride home in Belfast from about 1986 onwards. All the big ones are here: Red Red Wine, Food For Thought, Cherry Oh Baby, the stuff your da still knows every word to whether he admits it or not. It’s peak “pints in hand, two-stepping badly at a wedding” UB40. You might try to act above it, but give it five minutes and you’ll be singing along like the rest of us. Resistance is futile. FFO: Drunken uncles doing finger guns, the sticky floor of the Bot on a Thursday, Maxi Priest if he’d moved to Glengormley, and the sound of your neighbour blasting a BBQ playlist in mid-October.