That Petrol Emotion

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That Petrol Emotion
Country	Ireland
Years active	1985-1994
Genres	Rock Music Alternative rock
Labels	Polydor/Virgin/Koogat

That Petrol Emotion was an Irish based band with an American vocalist (Steve Mack), that had evolved from the Derry Hitmakers and The Undertones (brothers John O'Neill and Damian O'Neill). From 1985, the band would release a number of singles. Even though they managed to chart seven singles in the UK Singles Chart, they never managed to better the peak of their first chart hit "Big Decision" in 1987. They did, however, manage to reach the Top 40 of the UK Albums Chart with that single's parent album - Babble.

Seán Ó'Néill (a.k.a. John O'Neill) would go on to form the band Rare, whilst The Undertones would reform in the 2000s for an album, without Feargal Sharkey, on Sanctuary Records.

[edit] Singles

"Keen" (Pink Records - 1985)
"V2" (Noise a Noise Records - 1985)
"It's A Good Thing" (Demon Records - April 1986)
"Natural Kind Of Joy" (Demon Records - August 1986)
"Big Decision" (Polydor Records - April 1987) UK # 43
"Swamp" (Polydor Records - July 1987)
"Dance" (Polydor Records - July 1987) UK #64
"Genius Move" (Virgin Records - October 1987) UK # 65
"Cellophane" (Virgin Records - September 1988)
"Abandon" (Virgin Records - March 1990) UK # 73
"Hey Venus" (Virgin Records - September 1990) UK # 49
"Tingle" (Virgin Records - February 1991) UK # 49
"Sensitize" (Virgin Records - April 1991} UK # 55
"Detonate My Dreams" (Koogat Records - 1993)
"Catch A Fire" (Koogat Records - 1993)

[edit] Albums

Manic Pop Thrill (Demon Records - May 1986) UK # 84
Babble (Polydor Records - May 1987) UK # 30
End Of Millennium Psychosis Blues (Virgin Records - September 1988) UK # 53
Chemicrazy (Virgin Records - April 1990) UK # 62
Fireproof (Koogat Records - 1993)
Final Flame - Live at the Grand and the Tivoli Ballroom 1994 (Essential Records - 2000)