THE UNDERTONES you fuXX0rs! C or D?

I remember a while ago, someone saying that Fergal Sharkey doesn't acknowledge the existence of the Undertones. Can anyone elaborate

(he does i.t. support, amongst other things, these days. think he does a day a week at various places, platipus records being one of them)

andy

As part of the “Rediscover Northern Ireland” film festival at the AFI Silver Theatre outside DC two old movie docs are showing Friday night - “Shellshock Rock” (1979), and "Teenage Kicks". Are they worth seeing? (I also posted this on a SLF thread). Here are the blurbs cut and pasted from the AFI Silver website:

SHELLSHOCK ROCK

Charting the creative explosion of punk music during the Troubles in 1970s Belfast, documentarian John T. Davis captures the bands behind the Good Vibrations record label, including the legendary Stiff Little Fingers (fans of HIGH FIDELITY will remember them as John Cusack's character's favorite band) and the meteoric rise and fall of The Undertones.

DIR/PROD John T. Davis. Ireland/UK, 1979, color, 46 min. NOT RATED

With
TEENAGE KICKS: THE UNDERTONES

The story of legendary proto-punk band The Undertones, as told by radio personality and #1 fan John Peel, from their formation in Derry to their rise to fame with seminal LP Teenage Kicks, through their rancorous split and tentative reunion.

DIR/SCR Tom Collins; SCR/PROD Vinny Cunningham. Ireland/UK, 2001, color, 72 min. NOT RATED

Friday, June 1, 9:30

those sure look worth seeing to me.

That's what I'm thinking.

Having a resurgence in this house.

The catalyst being the new Anthology release.

How fucking tight were this band? Them O' Neills were so locked in.

Timeless classics...

You've Got My Number
Male Model
Here comes The Summer
Jimmy Jimmy
It's Going to Happen
Wednesday Week
There Goes Norman

I Gotta Getta

The whole of the first LP is as timeless as Leave Home.

The 2nd album is great as well. I only recently got that one, was in the local charity shop.

i remember in the mid 80s i had a portuguese import of their first album and it was ace. and i had positive touch on vinyl, which i liked. these disappeared sometime in the late 80s, but i wouldn't mind having em back, which is more than i can say about a lot of stuff that i no longer have.

this is such a classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQtaqgW6MXg

Any band that penned a song like teenage kicks is a classic

Did I mention by the way 40 years ago today I walked into a recording studio, put a pair on headphones on, and sang this.https://t.co/0DSQXeFJ6e

— Feargal Sharkey (@Feargal_Sharkey) June 15, 2018

Awesome

Teenage Kicks all through the night

right through the night

Sin of Pride is so underrated.

My favourite album by them easily

And The Love Parade is my favourite single. I bought TSOP on LP at the same time I bought Extra Texture, another maligned and underselling soul album by a rock artist (Sin of Pride easily being better though).

just one of those classic things where for years I just listened to some conventional wisdom (punk band goes slick/sells out or whatever), then finally gave it a spin. Not just now, years ago, but still, revisited it today and it's really good.

It's gonna happen

do people rate positive touch? i've only ever owned/listened hypnotised and peel sessions and love both dearly. and am digging sin of pride so far (a few songs in)

*raises hand*

I really like Positive Touch. Probably my second favourite behind Hypnotised. My only complaint is that the single version of Julie Ocean is so much better than the album version. It might even be my favourite song of theirs.

Yeah it's an Outdoor Miner situation. They even sound vaguely similar.

Right! I almost used that very example. I could listen to that outro to Julie Ocean forever. It's so beautiful.

Oh Positive Touch is my favorite album by then. I just had given up after that due to "conventional wisdom" re: Pride of Sin. Positive Touch is a masterpiece.

Same. Not that I don’t like the prior albums though.

i just go back to Positive Touch over and over when i need some Undertones. i always learn something from it. i feel like i hear it again for the first time every time i listen to it even though i have played it dozens and dozens of times. its one of those.

don't get me wrong, its all good. all the singles. all the albums. but Positive Touch...so great.

Don't remember anything except "It's Going to Happen!", one of my favourite songs (and videos) ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQtaqgW6MXg

album is a MASTERPIECE.

They have really stood the test of time. Officially classic.

"My Perfect Cousin" plays in my head all the time. I always liked "Bye Bye Baby Blue" from The Sin of Pride.

Really funny post from one of the Mekons the other day of an old bill they found advertising them opening for the Undertones, which they found perplexing because they all loved the band but no one in the Mekons could remember the gig. I think it turned out that this was right around when "Teenage Kicks" was ascending, and the Undertones got pulled from the gig at the last minute to do Top of the Pops.