The Undertones - The Undertones (1979) 192kbps

The Undertones are a Northern Irish punk/power pop band from 70's and 80's. They drew inspiration from Buzzcocks, The Sex Pistols, and the Ramones. They began practising and playing cover versions of punk rock songs at schools and scout huts under the name "The Hot Rods", some of the band members were unhappy with the name because there was already a music act with the same name. The Undertones as a name was chosen by one of the band members who discovered the word in a history book. By 1977 the band were performing their own three-chord pop punk material, and in 1978 they released their debut four-song EP Teenage Kicks on Belfast's Good Vibrations record label. The EP became a hit with support from BBC DJ John Peel, who considered the title song his all-time favourite. The song "Teenage Kicks" has been covered by many acts.

Later in their career the Undertones began to change musical direction, with their later songs being of the Power Pop genre, which was very different to their earlier punk rock offerings. Falling sales and tensions within the band led to their split in 1983. In 1985 brothers John O' Neill and Damian O' Neil formed That Petrol Emotion with Raymond Gorman.



Label: Nova
Released: 1979
Genre: Rock
Style: Punk

01 Family Entertainment
02 Girls Don't Like Me
03 Male Model
04 I Gotta Getta
05 Teenage Kicks
06 Wrong Way
07 Jump Boys
08 Here Comes The Summer
09 Get Over You
10 Billy's Third
11 Jimmy Jimmy
12 True Confessions
13 (She's A Runaround)
14 I Know A Girl
15 Listening In
16 Casbah Rock
17 Smarter Than U
18 Emergency Cases
19 Top Twenty
20 Really Really
21 Mars Bars
22 She Can Only Say No
23 One Way Love

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