See, we made good with our promise about moving on from 1982. Admittedly we’ve only managed 1981, but it’s a start. Formed in 1980, the Edinburgh four-piece burned so brightly that they were all shagged out by the end of 1981, leaving behind them just three singles, and the fabulous ‘Lubricate Your Living Room’ long one.

‘Candy Skin’, pictured here in full-colour MP3, was their second single and was filed in the very top drawer, the one mark ‘joyous, exuberant racket’. It remains, in our very humble opinion, a pop classic, sounding as fresh now as it did nearly 30 years (gulp) ago.

What it also did all those years was light a musical torch for mainman Davy Henderson. We didn’t stumble across him again until 1988-ish when a visiting lecturer gave a talk about documentary making and showed a pop video she’d made earlier. The band were called Win (check out this super impressive history) and they sounded strangely familiar. Yup, turns out they were one half of the Fire Engines, the Davy Henderson half.

Turns out that they were the same half who somewhere in the late nineties we went on to love again as The Nectarine No.9. But that, as you will probably learn as we continue to stroll down our vinyl path, is a story for another time.

Download lowdown…
- Look, we know we said the point of this ‘ere site is amazing music you can’t get on download, but sometimes you might just have to indulge us. By crikey eMusic, here’s the lot on download. Amazing stuff.
- There’s also some stuff to listen to on the jolly nice last.fm.
- And then there’s the stuff that you can hold in real life – 2005′s ‘Codex Teenage Premonition’ compile that collects together demos and the like and 2007′s ‘Hungry Beat’, which is essentially Rev-Ola’s long-deleted ‘Fond’ CD by another name.