Artist	Song
The Undertones	Teenage Kicks
The Undertones	True Confessions
The Undertones	Get Over You
The Undertones	Really Really
The Undertones	Jimmy Jimmy
The Undertones	Family Entertainment
The Undertones	Girls Don't Like It
The Undertones	I Gotta Getta
The Undertones	Wrong Way
The Undertones	Jump Boys
The Undertones	Here Comes The Summer
The Undertones	(She's A) Runaround
The Undertones	I Know A Girl
The Undertones	One Way Love
The Undertones	Top Twenty
The Undertones	Let's Talk About Girls
The Undertones	My Perfect Cousin
The Undertones	More Songs About Chocolate And Girls
The Undertones	There Goes Norman
The Undertones	Hypnotised
The Undertones	Whizz Kids
The Undertones	Under The Boardwalk
The Undertones	Boys Will Be Boys
The Undertones	Wednesday Week
The Undertones	Nine Times Out Of Ten
The Undertones	What's With Terry?
The Undertones	It's Going To Happen
The Undertones	Julie Ocean
The Undertones	Crisis Of Mine
The Undertones	His Good Looking Girlfriend

Comment:

[cont.: 31. The Positive Touch. 32. When Saturday Comes. 33. I Don't Know.]

One of the greatest and perhaps least recognized (at least in the US) bands of the original punk era, the Undertones merged the girls-and-cars lyrical simplicity of early Beach Boys with the energy and brevity of early Ramones & Clash. Their first two albums were near-perfect, dual-guitar riffs and hormonal teenage sentiments and Feargal Sharkey's unique vibrato vocals (and the two are well encapsulated on an earlier Rob Conroy mix). Most fans checked out after that; personally, I think their third album, 1981's Positive Touch, has a few great songs, though they made a significant shift, replacing the hyper riffs with a more sophisticated new wave-influenced pop sound (bringing them more in line with Elvis Costello and Squeeze, though still set apart by Feargal's vox). I'm not a fan, however, of their fourth and final album, which found them embracing a more soul-tinged sound, so none of that is included here (nor is their post-reunion work).

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