The Sin of Pride
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| Studio album by The Undertones | ||||
| Released | 13 March 1983 | |||
| Studio | Playground Studios, Camden Town, London | |||
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Soul Motown |
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| Length | 38:53 | |||
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Ardeck-EMI (UK) Harvest (US) Rykodisc (US CD reissue) |
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| Producer | Mike Hedges, The Undertones | |||
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The Sin of Pride is the fourth and final album to be released by the original line-up of The Undertones. The album, which was produced by Mike Hedges, was recorded between the autumn of 1982 and the spring of 1983. Unlike the three previous albums released by The Undertones, which primarily consisted of guitar-oriented music, The Sin of Pride drew much inspiration from both Soul music and Motown and has been described by Allmusic as "one of the great unsung albums of the early '80s." Lead singer Feargal Sharkey is also known to have opined The Sin of Pride as "the finest Undertones album."
Released on 13 March 1983,The Sin of Pride reached number 43 in the UK charts. Largely due to the commercial failure of The Sin of Pride, The Undertones disbanded just four months after the album's release. On the subject of the poor sales of this album, Feargal Sharkey would recollect in 1986: "People still wanted us to rewrite the first album, and we weren't prepared to do that."
Three singles were taken from The Sin of Pride: "Got To Have You Back", "Chain of Love" and "The Love Parade". (Two single versions of "The Love Parade" were released; one version commercially available upon the LP and an extended 12-inch single version.) However, none of the singles released reached the UK top 40.
"It would be untrue to say The Sin of Pride is the sound of The Undertones breaking up, but my memories of the recording sessions are not the happiest. The tensions between Feargal and the rest of the band—John especially—were beginning to become more noticeable. Of course, if Positive Touch had been a huge success, we could have worked around those tensions. But it didn't, and suddenly, when we looked below us, the wheels were starting to come off."
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