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The Undertones (album)

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Released
  
13 May 1979

Length
  
29:29

Producer
  
Roger Bechirian

Genre
  
Punk rock

Label
  
Sire Rykodisc

Recorded
  
Eden Studios and Mrs. Simms Shed, Derry 1979

The Undertones is the 1979 debut album by The Undertones. The album was recorded at Eden Studios in London in early 1979 and released on 13 May that year. The original release included just one single release: "Jimmy Jimmy" and an album version of "Here Comes The Summer", which was never released as a single.

Contents

A re-released version of the album (housed in an alternate sleeve), was issued in October 1979. The re-released album also included the Undertones' first two singles: "Teenage Kicks" and "Get Over You" alongside both "Jimmy Jimmy" and a single version of "Here Comes The Summer", which had been released in July. In addition, the song "Casbah Rock" was included as the final track of the album.

Numerous polls conducted since 1979 have placed The Undertones as one of the greatest albums to be released in the 1970s and one of the Top 40 Punk/New Wave albums of all time, with the single "Teenage Kicks" being listed by the BBC Radio 2 as the 51st best song ever released.

Track listing

  • "Let's Talk About Girls" is a cover of a 1967 song by The Chocolate Watch Band.

    • Accolades

  • A 1979 end of year critics' list published by Melody Maker placed The Undertones as the sixth best album to be released that year.
  • The album was ranked at No. 17 among the top "Albums of the Year" for 1979 by NME, with "Get Over You" ranked at No. 32 among the year's top tracks. A 1993 poll by NME placed it as the 50th greatest album to be released in the 1970s.
  • In a 2000 poll by Q magazine, to find the '100 Greatest British Albums Ever' as voted by the British public, The Undertones' eponymous debut LP was voted the 90th greatest album ever written by British artists.
  • A 2006 poll by UK-based rock music magazine Kerrang! lists The Undertones as the 19th greatest punk album ever to be released.
  • The Undertones' debut LP was also listed in "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die:" a poll selected and written by 90 leading international music critics.

    • Personnel

  • Feargal Sharkey – lead vocals
  • John O'Neill – rhythm guitar and backing vocals
  • Damian O'Neill – lead guitar, keyboard and backing vocals
  • Michael Bradley – bass guitar, lead vocals (on original album version of "True Confessions") and backing vocals
  • Billy Doherty – drums

    • References

    The Undertones (album) Wikipedia
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