13 May 2019

This very day 40 years ago, on 13 May 1979 North Irish Derry mates THE UNDERTONES released their eponymous album filled with sped-up ebullitions you could scream along their choruses to at the top of your lungs, with electrical flare-ups you could pogo to and with teenage kicks that made your bloodstream go way faster (for the record: the group’s classic crackerjack Teenage Kicks‘ wasn’t on the first original pressing of this debut.) These young Irish punks became masters of two-minute three-chord pop songs about girlfriends, male models & jump boys and tons of sweet sixteen love songs instead of about white riots and feeling pretty vacant. ALL MUSIC called it a perfect album. review HERE. .

Three of Turn Up The Volume!‘s favorite punches…

– JIMMY JIMMY –

– HERE COMES THE SUMMER –

– FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT –

Album in full…
(Original tracklist: #1 – #14)

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THE UNDERTONES: Facebook – All Albums