Track Listing
1. Teenage Kicks
2. Smarter Than You
3. True Confessions
4. Emergency Cases
5. Get Over You
6. Really Really
7. She Can Only Say No
8. Jimmy Jimmy
9. Mars Bars
10. Here Comes The Summer
11. One Way Love
12. Top Twenty
13. You Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It)
14. Let's Talk About Girls
15. My Perfect Cousin
16. Hard Luck
17. I Don't Wanna See You Again
18. Wednesday Week
19. I Told You So
20. It's Going To Happen
21. Fairly In The Money Now
22. Julie Ocean
23. Kiss In The Dark
24. Beautiful Friend
25. Life's Too Easy
26. Love Parade
27. Like That
28. You're Welcome
29. Crisis Of Mine
30. Family Entertainment
31. Got To Have You Back
32. Turning Blue
33. Bye Bye Baby Blue
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 12 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
In 1983, Ardeck-EMI compiled the final epitaph on The Undertones' career with the release of the aptly titled ALL WRAPPED UP double album. The set indeed bundled up all the band's singles, with the first disc dedicated to the A-sides, with the flipsides consigned to the second disc. Needless to say, used copies that turn up today invariably contain one very scratchy disc and one barely played. The band deserved better, and finally got it with this set. The SINGLES BOX SET present Belfast's favorite sons' 45s in chonological order, the A-side immediately followed by the b-side(s), beginning with 1978's "Teenage Kicks," to this day the best dissection of teen life ever placed on wax. Over the next five years The Undertones released a stream of equally memorable singles, the biggest of the batch being the vicious and vivacious "My Perfect Cousin," a 1980 U.K. Top 10 hit. But the group never quite connected with the pop kids, and the following year's lovely "Julie Ocean" stalled just outside the Top 40, the band's final single to reach the charts. Straying towards psychedelia and falling further into the `60s, The Undertones's music was becoming more complex, taking them ever farther from their punk roots, at least on their A-sides, even if their b-sides remained another story entirely, as the band took the opportunity to explore their love of R&B, early rock'n'roll, and rockabilly. Regardless of style, THE UNDERTONES never lost their pop sensibilities nor their enthusiasm, as a trio of live numbers inserted near the end of this set well illustrate.
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