1 March 2020
Band: The Undertones
Single: Get Over You
B-sides: Really Really and She Can Only Say No
Released: 1979
Album: Self-titled debut LP
Studio recording here…
And here a steamy live version (London 1979)…
THE UNDERTONES: Website – Facebook – All Albums
Knockouts from the past…
24 November 2019
On 24 November 1983, 36 years ago today it was announced that legendary North Irish power pop punks THE UNDERTONES split up as frontman Feargal Sharkey decided to leave the band that produced thirteen singles and four studio albums between 1978 and 1983. To remember this one of a kind group here’s one of their big sing-along knockouts called JIMMY JIMMY from 1979…
In 1999 the band took a new start with a new singer and are still active today.
THE UNDERTONES: Biography
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
The best of the past…
Every week Turn Up The Volume! jumps into the past! Relive 25 Crackers and
3 Top Albums per year/per week. Here’s another firework year to remember: 1979.
The 25 KILLER TRACKS…
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The 3 TOP ALBUMS…
– Unknown Pleasures by JOY DIVISION –
Stream here…
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– Metal Box by PUBLIC IMAGE LTD –
Stream here…
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– ‘London Calling’ by THE CLASH
Stream here…
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See/hear you next week for the year of 1980…
When timeless in sound and vision it’s a…
21 June 2018
Irish pop punks not only wrote timeless killer stroke Teenage Kicks. Oh no,
folks, THE UNDERTONES scored a big bag of catchy rippers between 1978 and
1983, releasing thirteen singles and four studio albums over that period with
original frontman Feargal Sharkey in the middle. One of their many upbeat
crackerjacks was HERE COMES THE SUMMER. An irresistible knockout, a
perfect earworm to start the summer of 2018…
THE UNDERTONES: Website – Facebook – All Albums
Smashing live performances of smashing knockouts…
‘Teenage Kicks’
THE UNDERTONES
The Lyceum, London
20 May 1979
The Undertones became immortal with timeless Teenage Kicks‘ anthem. But these Irish pop punks had much more than just one killer tune. Like this sickly catchy ‘GET OVER YOU’.
THE UNDERTONES: Website – Facebook – All Albums
GET OVER YOU was on the band’s self-titled 1979 debut LP