The Undertones
The Undertones
Label:  Castle 
Date:  2000
Length:  0:00
Format:  CD
Genre:  Rock; Punk
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Family Entertainment    
      2.  
      		 Girls Don't Like It    
      3.  
      		 Male Model    
      4.  
      		 I Gotta Getta    
      5.  
      		 Teenage Kicks    
      6.  
      		 Wrong Way    
      7.  
      		 Jump Boys    
      8.  
      		 Here Comes The Summer    
      9.  
      		 Get Over You    
      10.  
      		 Billy's Third    
      11.  
      		 Jimmy Jimmy    
      12.  
      		 True Confessions    
      13.  
      		 She's A Run Around    
      14.  
      		 I Know A Girl    
      15.  
      		 Listening In    
      16.  
      		 Casbah Rock    
      17.  
      		 Smarter Than You    
      18.  
      		 True Confessions    
      19.  
      		 Emergency Cases    
      20.  
      		 Really Really    
      21.  
      		 She Can Only Say No    
      22.  
      		 Mars Bars    
      23.  
      		 One Way Love    
      24.  
      		 Top Twenty    
      25.  
      		 You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It!)    
      26.  
      		 Let's Talk About Girls    
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      No band ever captured the innocent side of punk rock--the first generation, that is--as well as this Irish combo. Fueled by adolescent desire more than political angst, frontman Feargal Sharkey quavered and quailed about "Teenage Kicks" (to name but one of the album's multiple classics) while his bandmates pounded out incessantly pogo-friendly riffs that valued fun over fearsomeness. Each three-minute blast--from the starry "Here Comes the Summer" to the "yeah, whatever" self-deprecation of "Girls Don't Like It"--carries a depth charge of power beneath its frothy surface, a formula that would later be revived by Green Day. Sharkey went on to record more subdued solo material, while several of his bandmates formed the angular post-punk band That Petrol Emotion. --David Sprague