Track Listing
1. Family Entertainment
2. Girls Don't Like It
3. Male Model
4. I Gotta Getta
5. Wrong Way
6. Jump Boys
7. Here Comes The Summer
8. Billy's Third
9. Jimmy Jimmy
10. True Confessions
11. She's A Runaround
12. I Know A Girl
13. Listening In
14. Casbah Rock
15. Teenage Kicks
16. Smarter Than You
17. True Confessions
18. Emergency Cases
19. Get Over You
20. Really Really
21. She Can Only Say No
22. Mars Bars
23. One Way Love
24. Top Twenty
25. You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It)
26. Let's Talk About Girls
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Roger Bechirian, The Undertones | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
The Undertones: Feargal Sharkey (vocals); Damian O'Neill, John O'Neill (guitar); Mickey Bradley (bass); Billy Doherty (drums).Recorded at Eden Studios, London and Mrs. Simms Shed, Derry, England. Includes liner notes by Paul Lester.Northern Ireland natives The Undertones were formed in 1976 and disbanded seven years later. Though they only made a small impression in their day, they've been appreciated more since their demise. The Undertones wedded sharp hooks to incessant driving music and were something like a more Beatle-ish Ramones. This self-titled album was their first full-length release, and it's chock full of spunky pop nuggets.Songs like "Here Comes the Summer," "Teenage Kicks," "Jimmy Jimmy," and "Family Entertainment" manage to braid angst and hope with anthemic verve. Feargal Sharkey's unique voice has a crisp and clear tenor, flush with vibrato. While he pushes his singing to its upper limits over the furiously rocking band, his voice retains a purity that harks back to the crooners of decades prior. Unable to make any significant inroads in North America, The Undertones were ultimately undone by commercial frustrations. However, their music has aged far better than that of many of their punk and new-wave era contemporaries.
Editorial Reviews
3.5 stars out of 5 - ...[Features] the pure yearning of Feargal Sharkey's voice and writer John O'Neill's catchy visions...Q (5/02 SE, p.143) - Included in Q's 100 Best Punk Albums.Q (6/00, p.61) - Ranked #90 in Q's 100 Greatest British AlbumsQ (5/00, p.132) - 4 stars out of 5 - ...A minor classic: brisk songs of young, working class life delivered with sulphate pep and a melodic sense that's more Sweet than Eater...Mojo (3/03, p.76) - Ranked #21 in Mojo's Top 50 Punk Albums - ...[The album] melds fabulous buzzsaw guitar with a lyrical predilection for adolescent angst...Alternative Press (10/94, p.114) - ...Spotty schoolboys with frogs in their satchels, they wore their exhuberance unchained...Magnet (p.112) - With a gloriously upbeat bee-swarm of sound rivaled only by the Buzzcocks...NME (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #50 among The Greatest Albums Of The '70s.
Rolling Stone (10/30/2003)
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