Little mummy's boy / He wasn't very POLL'd: THE UNDERTONES (1979)

I suspect "Teenage Kicks" is most people's go-to pick for this band, but "Get Over You" was one of my mix-tape/CD staples for years, so I have to go with that. Could just as easily have thrown my vote at "Male Model" or "Jimmy Jimmy."

Love the Undertones. "I Know a Girl" is my vote, but my favourite was "Smarter Than U," a B-side (to "Teenage Kicks") that didn't make the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5afiqamGUo

Hadn't heard that before; thanks! A better Undertones B-side than "Casbah Rock," which actually isn't a B-side but a) sounds like one, and b) is the only song on the record that even comes close to shutting down the whole perfect album/Greatest Hits collection claim.

Get Over You is my favourite and what a performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Axli2C5ew

Said it before, but that was the track which made you know that The Undertones were gonna be around for a while, not just one song.

“Get over you”

I like the Mars candy bar song that’s a bonus track on the Ryko CD.

HI DERE

That "Get Over You" live clip is ferocious.

Just finally clicked on that live "Get Over You." And now I will have to click again.

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Hray

“Jump Boys” wuz robbed.

I believe “Teenage Kicks” was on the Derry Girls soundtrack, but maybe it’s another one.

the expanded edition is ridiculous - a dozen or so extra tracks and it just never really get bad or lazy or not fun.
(I think I voted Here Comes the Summer)

I would have voted "Jimmy Jimmy" (ohhhhhhhhhh) if I'd remembered to vote.

Haven't listened to this for over 35 years, but just from reading the song titles I can hear each track in my head, esp. the bassline of Jump Boys.

Question for Undertones fans:

There were two studio versions released of "Here Comes the Summer":

- side 1, track 7 of the original LP
- a re-recorded single version that replaced the above as side 1, track 8 of the re-released LP on Sire

I don't have either LP, so which version comes to a stop with a final chord, and which one fades out?

Original LP version: ends with a chord.
Version on "All Wrapped Up" (which I assume is the re-recorded version you mention rather than some rogue third version): fades.

Thanks. All Wrapped Up seems to be the 45 versions of all the songs. I would have guessed that version was the re-recording because it sounds slightly slicker than all the tracks from the LP session.

Yep "All Wrapped Up" was the singles As&Bs that came out shortly after the band split, so that's the single version (as I say, I couldn't be 100% sure it's that version that ended up on the reissued LP because I don't have a copy of the reissue, but it seems a reasonable assumption).

The cover of "All Wrapped Up" is truly terrible.

Interesting, I never knew that. I have one of the expanded CDs and it's got the single version but the original LP version is on the compilation "1979: Revolt Into Style".

Expanded CD of the debut album, that is.

re: "and one caller suggested the self-titled debut by The Undertones. Tom commented that it was one of those albums that plays like a Greatest Hits set,"
for a long time I'd only ever listened to "Very Best of the Undertones" and indeed almost all the songs are on there, but they did leave out "(She's a) Runaround" and they should not have!

I wonder if there was some money reason why they didn't just include the entire album, because it's practically already on there:

1	Teenage Kicks
2	Family Entertainment
3	Get Over You
4	Girls Don't Like It
5	Male Model
6	Here Comes The Summer
7	Jimmy Jimmy
8	You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?)
9	Mars Bars
10	Let's Talk About Girls
11	My Perfect Cousin
12	The Way Girls Talk
13	Tearproof
14	More Songs About Chocolate And Girls
15	Hypnotised
16	Wednesday Week
17	The Positive Touch
18	You're Welcome
19	It's Going To Happen
20	Julie Ocean
21	When Saturday Comes
22	Forever Paradise
23	The Love Parade
24	Soul Seven
25	Casbah Rock

I have a similar complaint/query about Singles Going Steady