Undertones Catalog Going Digitial
. The Undertones emerged from Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1977, as part of the U.K. punk and new wave scene. Inspired by radio, records and the Ramones, five Derry teens (Feargal Sharkey, brothers John and Damian O'Neill, Billy Doherty and Mickey Bradley) had never been in bands before. Straight out of a local pub, The Casbah, the band recorded Teenage Kicks, their debut EP, which caught fire on John Peel's BBC Radio One show and got them signed to Sire Records in the U.S. "Less interested in fashion, anarchy, or politics than in the heady joys of a great pop song, they fused irresistible, hooky tunes with the fierce passion of teenage rock & roll believers, and came up with a handful of instant classics," observed All Movie Guide's Mark Deming. � The Undertones: Appearing in both the Q magazine list of the "100 Greatest British Albums Ever" and the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, The Undertones' debut LP is a bone fide pop-punk classic. The lead track "Teenage Kicks" has long been regarded as one of the purest expressions of teenage punk pop and has been covered by everyone from KT Tunstall to Green Day. It was also famously U.K. DJ John Peel's favorite record ever. Signed to Seymour Stein's Sire records in 1978, the band had not originally planned to make an album but after seeing many of their contemporaries �The Sex Pistols, The Clash etc. � make successful albums, they decamped to Eden Studios in West London to record the songs they had been playing in their legendary Friday night gigs at the Casbah. As the bassist Michael Bradley says, there was "No plot, no theme, no parodies of any genre." The Undertones' 1979 debut is an off-the-cuff collection from five Londonderry kids with nothing to lose. � Best of the Undertones: This never-before-released compilation contains the songs for which the Undertones are best noted: "Teenage Kicks," "Get Over You," "Here Comes the Summer," ""You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It)," "My Perfect Cousin," "Wednesday Week," "It's Going to Happen," "Julie Ocean," "Beautiful Friend" and "The Love Parade." � Teenage Kicks EP: In a move to bring back the EP, quintessential to the development of punk and new wave, Union Square will offer the original Teenage Kicks EP from 1978 featuring the hit "Teenage Kicks" along with "Smarter Than U," "True Confessions" and "Emergency Cases." Preview and Purchase Undertones CDs |
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