This thread was the last straw. Pay your overdue respects, or convince me they were dud (good luck!)
― Jeff W, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I remember a while ago, someone saying that Fergal Sharkey doesn't acknowledge the existence of the Undertones. Can anyone elaborate
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― felicity, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
(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
― koogydelbbog, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― geeta, Friday, 9 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
those sure look worth seeing to me.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
That's what I'm thinking.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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 NumberMale ModelHere comes The SummerJimmy JimmyIt's Going to HappenWednesday WeekThere Goes Norman
I Gotta Getta
― Fer Ark, Saturday, 11 October 2008 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
The whole of the first LP is as timeless as Leave Home.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 11 October 2008 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
The 2nd album is great as well. I only recently got that one, was in the local charity shop.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 11 October 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― low ranking monkeys don't look at high ranking monkeys (Hunt3r), Saturday, 11 October 2008 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
this is such a classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQtaqgW6MXg
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 4 March 2016 06:21 (eight years ago) link
Any band that penned a song like teenage kicks is a classic
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 4 March 2016 08:59 (eight years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 June 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
Awesome
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 June 2018 12:11 (five years ago) link
Teenage Kicks all through the night
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 03:50 (five years ago) link
right through the night
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 03:52 (five years ago) link
Sin of Pride is so underrated.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
My favourite album by them easily
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
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).
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
It's gonna happen
― When Harpo Played His ARP (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link
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)
― Half Japanese Breakfast (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 00:12 (one year ago) link
*raises hand*
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link
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.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link
Yeah it's an Outdoor Miner situation. They even sound vaguely similar.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 01:41 (one year ago) link
Right! I almost used that very example. I could listen to that outro to Julie Ocean forever. It's so beautiful.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 01:56 (one year ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link
Same. Not that I don’t like the prior albums though.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link