Undertones - An Anthology (2 CD) Release 29 September 2008

This Anthology showcases the very best of the Undertones and includes 27 previously unreleased demos, alternate takes, session and live tracks.Selected by the band CD one contains a comprehensive best of whilst CD two contains 27 previously unreleased demos, alternate takes, session and live tracks.
Disc 1
1 Jimmy Jimmy
2 She's A Runaround
3 You've Got My Number
4 Girls That Don't Talk
5 Listening In
6 It's Going To Happen
7 Wednesday Week
8 Billy's Third
9 Girls Don't Like It
10 Crisis Of Mine
11 Teenage Kicks
12 There Goes Norman
13 Love Parade
14 When Saturday Comes
15 Mars Bars
16 Family Entertainment
17 Tearproof
18 Let's Talk About Girls
19 Jump Boys
20 Julie Ocean
21 Male Model
22 Top Twenty
23 True Confessions
24 My Perfect Cousin
25 Beautiful Friend
26 More Songs About Chocolate And Girls
27 Soul Seven
28 Here Comes The Summer
29 I Know A Girl

Disc 2
1 My Perfect Cousin 1979 demo
2 You've Got My Number 1979 demo
3 Girls That Don't Talk 1979 demo
4 Nine Times Out Of Ten 1979 demo
5 Get Over You live at the Lyceum 1978
6 Wrong Way live at the Lyceum 1978
7 Mars Bars live at the Lyceum 1978
8 Listening In live at the Lyceum 1978
9 I Don't Wanna See You Again 1978 demo
10 Do The Fast 1978 demo
11 Girls Don't Like It 1978 demo
12 I Gotta Getta 1978 demo
13 Teenage Kicks 1978 demo
14 Emergency Cases 1978 demo
15 Get Over You 1978 demo
16 It's Going To Happen live 8-track recording 1981
17 Positive Touch live 8-track recording 1981
18 Luxury 1982 demo
19 Party Party 1982 demo
20 Beautiful Friend 1982 recording
21 Love Parade 1982 demo
22 You Stand So Close 1982 recording
23 Bittersweet 1982 demo
24 Soul Seven 1982 demo
25 Turning Blue 1982 demo
26 Window Shopping For New Clothes 1982 demo
27 Cher O'Bowlies 1983 rehearsal
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The Undertones, Fathers of Pop-Punk Release New Album

In 1975, the Undertones, inspired by the Buzzcocks, the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, formed in Northern Ireland. Blend this with the Kinks and other British Invasion Bands, add some glam and Feargal Sharkey's trademark quavery vocal and you had the first punk pop band (without all the fake yank stuff 25 years later). 'Teenage kicks', 'Jimmy Jimmy' and 'Here comes the Summer' are quintissentially British. Brilliant short grabs at suburban teenage life aka Sham 69 and Mike Skinner and the Streets.

They have (incredibly) just released a new album: 14 songs in 33 minutes, everything garage rock should be. The only dissapointment is that Paul McLoone has replaced Feargal Sharkey, a voice that was part of the soundtrack of your life if you were under twnety in the 80's in the UK. He has now risen up the ranks of the music industry in the UK and so was unavailable. If you havent heard of the Undertones it's probably best to get their first album 'The Undertones' or second, 'Hypnotised', if you have this is an album worth getting to complete your collection.

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