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Fire Engines - Lubricate Your Living Room [ACC 001 UK 1981 24-Bit FLAC] Oh look, we are suddenly back in Scotland! A flimsy old scratchy record gets lovingly cleaned and the delights within are carefully coaxed from its grooves. You know the Fire Engines, you know you love this.... A1 Plastic Gift A2 Get Up And Use Me A3 Sympathetic Anaesthetic A4 Discord B1 New Thing In Cartons B2 Hungry Beat B3 Lubricate Your Living Room Pt.1 B4 Lubricate Your Living Room Pt.2 B5 Plastic Gift (Reprise)

Fire Engines - Big Gold Dream [POP 013 UK 1981 24-Bit FLAC] I could go on for ages about all the bands who followed The Fire Engines and were clearly influenced by their jerky funk-punk sound, but I won't. Fire Engines rejected the approaches of key Scottish label, Postcard Records and went with Pop Aural instead, a move which likely reduced their exposure, but even with minimal national exposure when compared to the Postcard acts, their influence remains huge. Lead fireman Davey Henderson was to later find and polish his pop chops with the superb Win (and still managed to evade fame and fortune). A1 Big Gold Dream B1 New Thing In Cartons B2 Sympathetic Anaesthetic

Fire Engines - Candyskin [POP 010 UK 1981 24-Bit FLAC] A new rip of an old favourite. With just three singles and one album, Fire Engines were not in it for the long run. In actual fact, their career as a band only lasted 18 months although their mark on Scottish (& British) guitar pop music remains indelible to this day. Back in 1981/2, no 7" vinyl collection was deemed credible without this little gem in it's unique fold-out poster sleeve. A thousand jingly jangly pop bands would have never formed if it was not for Candyskin . Like many others, I actually preferred the flipside, Meat Whiplash . A1 Candyskin B1 Meat Whiplash