The Vinyl Countdown # 1742

The Johnnys, Highlights Of A Dangerous Life (1986)

My good friend Matthew Couper gave me a dubbed cassette of The Johnnys when we were at high school. Man, I thrashed that album. It was this weird hybrid of tongue-in-cheek country and tongue-in-pint pub-rock and I loved it. Instantly. All it once it was like nothing I’d heard – and it was like Midnight O…