If This Is Rock and Roll, I Want My Old Job Back
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If This Is Rock and Roll, I Want My Old Job Back is a 1991
album
by Irish
rock
group The Saw Doctors
. It was their debut album, and propelled them to national stardom. It included two of their most famous hits, I Useta Lover
and N17, the former was a nine-week number 1 in the Irish charts. The photograph on the album's front cover showed the fathers of the band members dressed in leather jackets, with the band themselves in exactly the same pose on the back cover.
1991 in music
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Studio album
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by Irish
Ireland
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rock
Rock music
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group The Saw Doctors
The Saw Doctors
The Saw Doctors are an Irish rock band. Formed in 1986 in Tuam, County Galway, they have achieved eighteen Top 30 singles in Ireland, including three number ones. Their first number one, "I Useta Lover," topped the Irish charts for nine consecutive weeks in 1990, and still holds the record for the...
. It was their debut album, and propelled them to national stardom. It included two of their most famous hits, I Useta Lover
I Useta Lover
"I Useta Lover" is a 1990 song by Irish rock group The Saw Doctors. It is the second single off the If This Is Rock and Roll, I Want My Old Job Back album. It stayed at the #1 position in the Irish chart for nine weeks and became one of the best-selling singles of all time in the country...
and N17, the former was a nine-week number 1 in the Irish charts. The photograph on the album's front cover showed the fathers of the band members dressed in leather jackets, with the band themselves in exactly the same pose on the back cover.
Track listing
- I Useta LoverI Useta Lover"I Useta Lover" is a 1990 song by Irish rock group The Saw Doctors. It is the second single off the If This Is Rock and Roll, I Want My Old Job Back album. It stayed at the #1 position in the Irish chart for nine weeks and became one of the best-selling singles of all time in the country...
- Only One Girl
- Why Do I Always Want You
- It Won't Be Tonight
- Irish Post
- Sing A Powerful Song
- Freedom Fighters (Not on the vinyl release)
- That's What She Said Last Night
- Red Cortina
- Presentation Boarder
- Don't Let Me Down (Not on the vinyl release)
- 25 Quid
- What A Day
- N17
- I Hope You Meet Again