The Undertones - Teenage Kicks | Reaction!

[@timroberts5211]

Feargal Sharkey, as a keen angler, spends a lot of time nowadays campaigning for cleaner rivers in the UK. True story. The Undertones were such a great band.

[@InsignificantNick]

Love that for him!

[@jonathancole833]

Sharkey also went on to have a UK solo no.1 with A Good Heart in 1985.

[@edwardmulholland7912]

This is great, I’m from Northern Ireland and love them. They always had humor in their music. Check out their video for their song “My perfect cousin” - fantastic.

[@GenericD]

Agreed on the suggestion for "My Perfect Cousin" which has some incredible lyrics too.

[@grantpaterson1016]

R.I.P John Peel.. I have almost every 'Peel Session' ever done on disc.... Plus a lot of full shows and 'Festive 50' Shows.

[@jockeyladjockeylad8492]

Further to the John Peel connection - as if having the opening lines - "Teenage dreams so hard to beat" - on his Gravestone wasn't enough - legend has it he kept a box of what he considered 'important '45" singles close to the door of his home in case of fire so he could grab it as he got his family out. It contained two copies of 'Teenage Kicks'. Even after all these years the opening riff puts the hairs up all over my body - & if it comes on the juke box in a Pub towards the end of the night nearly everyone will sing along. Hard to think of a more perfect slice of Rock n Roll.

[@Westerdd]

2 of the members of the Undertones (The O Neil brothers) went on to form a band called That Petrol Emotion with an American singer in the 80s and they were brilliant. Worth checking out.

[@Dreyno]

Their version of “the Message” was epic.

[@ste.6026]

Great review and very happy you liked it, around 78-81 I was loving the Undertones, they do come across as poppy. but I reckon they are just very hooky, a great band and Feargal had some good solo stuff as well... Songs to consider for future reactions are :- You've Got My Number, Get Over You, Jimmy Jimmy, Here Comes The Summer, Girls Don't Like It, My Perfect Cousin, Wednesday Week, Julie Ocean, When Saturday Comes, Mars Bars

[@robsmith8024]

Hello Nick, hope this piques your interest, Liverpool band early 80s. The Mighty Wah - the Story of the blues. i think it got to No 1 in the singles chart

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Feargal is on U.K. media every day. He is a prominent water quality campaigner.

[@bryanforis1839]

Thanks for playing this i requested long time finally played it and now you have 12 songs to listen to you play gang four and buzzcocks

[@philiphull2913]

You are right they never looked like rock stars and never really projected that. The songs are often very teenage in their outlook at first. Their song. Other great songs are You’ve Got My Number, Jimmy Jimmy, Here Comes the Summer, Wednesday Week, When Saturday Comes, My Perfect Cousin, Family Entertainment, Mars Bars - the list goes on

[@malcolmpayne8211]

I heard John Peel said that when he first this he was on a coach (or maybe a bus) and he got off and cried! Jimmy Jimmy also worth checking out.

[@garethgriffiths1674]

It often used to be pointed out, including if I remember correctly by John Peel himself, than on the cover of their first album the members of the band are shown sat on a wall in their home town in Belfast, but that their trousers seem a bit short and their clothes a bit tight: they were still kids still outgrowing their clothes! In the documentary Teenage Kicks" the band members returned with Peel to visit that wall.

[@iandonnelly7423]

They are all from Derry city ireland

[@garethgriffiths1674]

@@iandonnelly7423 Good point!

[@iainweller452]

Great band they have some fab songs “My Perfect Cousin” , “Mars Bars” , “It’s Going to Happen” another Northern Irish band worth checking out are Stiff Little Fingers “Suspect Device” was an amazing debut single “Johnny Was” is my favourite such a powerful song

[@lastfirst5689]

I grew up listening to The Undertones. My elder sibling went to see them and didn't stop raving about them for a couple of weeks. Undertones have an album called 'All Wrapped Up' where the female cover girl was wearing a a tight dress made from meat. Lady Gaga stole the idea and the rest is history. Loved your enthusiasm for The Undertones. 👍🐶

[@InsignificantNick]

So that's where Lady Gaga got the idea! Glad my enthusiasm got across because I really loved this song, it's still in my head ffs

[@Scott_Forsell]

I [bleeping] love it when punk bands do straight up pop songs! Odd, weird pop songs, but a pop song. This could be a Split Enz song and no one would notice.

[@1011moz]

Loved the Undertones. So many good songs.

[@glenngastonjonsson7954]

I really enjoy your reactions, sir. That voice of Feargal Sharkey... Thanks!

[@marcharley6465]

In the late 70s in the UK, labels like Hardcore, pop-punk, street punk and anarcho-punk hadn't yet been invented. Everything from the Sex Pistols to The Stranglers to Buzzcocks to X Ray Spex was simply considered as punk. It was a very broad term and the movement had a lot of musical variety, which it lost as it splintered into sub-genres with codified looks and sounds.

[@johncarr2806]

Feargal left in 1983, but the other four members still tour today with a different lead singer.

[@kevinshaw1387]

Seen them a few times recently and they are still great .

[@neilthompson5740]

Great song

[@gerardmccavana4905]

Great song...Great band!

[@cestusfr]

i love that tune! Simple and deadly efficient.

[@Zubareffstream111]

The songs chorus was really about masturbation and it used to be, "I Wanna hold it wanna hold it tight" but they had to change it to 'her' in order to get radio play. And Feargal really does talk like he sings. 😊

[@InsignificantNick]

Yes, I watched an interview with him after this, and his voice is so unique!

[@philiphull2913]

I think you might also enjoy Magazine - a big influence on Radiohead. There are great videos of The Light Pours Out of Me and A Song From Under the Floorboards on youtube now

[@davidmaholchic6146]

So many good singles by this band love you

[@Sandy-dd4le]

Congratulations, your channel has come to an end. Music never got any better than this, so it would be pointless to continue. 😉 There's a video on KZbin called, John Peel's Record Box, that has a lot of backstory to the song, and others. It's worth a watch.

[@mhayes3663]

Glad you liked it another early punk reccmendation for you The Rezillos - Top Of The Pops, still waiting for that Dr Feelgood (ft. WIlco Johnson) tho...

[@flea1683]

Fantastic band

[@runningsuperska]

Check out a film called Good Vibrations (2013): a movie about the Belfast punk scene.

[@Packard63]

Still one of the best damn songs i have ever heard.

[@soulska75]

not only was this one of john peel's favorite bands, it was the only time he played a single twice in a row on his show.

[@soulska75]

just realized you mentioned this in the review.

[@Zubareffstream111]

Feargal appears in this great series with British comic legend Paul Whitehouse. I only saw this for the first time last week. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHSkq2d9j6tpZ6M

[@flea1683]

My picks There goes Norman My Perfect Cousin Get over you Hypnotised Jimmy Jimmy Wednesday week

[@bryanforis1839]

Play Gang of Four and the buzzcocks and front 242 and Dennis Coffey great music you finally play what I like 👍

[@johnhawk1089]

I'd like to see you do some Psychic Tv. It was an offshoot of the seminal Throbbing Grizzle. Maybe the some I. C. water a tribute to Ian Curtis or Puzzle or anything off of The Infinite Best album.

[@garydalziel9312]

To me the Undertones could do no wrong. If you want check out Never, Never by the Assembly, the blend of Fergals voice and Vince Clarke's keyboard is pure honey on the ears

[@Dreyno]

John Peel talking about the Kennedy assassination is fascinating. Seek it out. Just a few minutes but really interesting.

[@arrow5599]

DO "MY PERFECT COUSIN " by these dudes

[@markwilliams5180]

great band of there time. try the mars song

[@paulhadfield7909]

there is a film about this band, thinkit was calle,d teenage kicks, but coudl be worng

[@krushcore]

Hi Nick Just about to watch this. Just wondered if there was anyway of communicating privately? Thanks, Jonathan

[@InsignificantNick]

You can send me an email or DM me on Instagram. The links are in my linktree in the description.

[@terrysutton8452]

How do you feel about a band who were so much younger than you making such a great !song.? In fact they were younger than most of us playing punk music, apart from maybe Eater,!

[@InsignificantNick]

It always amazes me how talented some musicians are at such a young age. I think about how some artists die in their 20s and leave behind huge legacies. I'm 25 and I haven't done shit!

[@twoBeers101]

I have have only one question... Why there is a wallpyper on your ceiling?^^

[@InsignificantNick]

I think it's just a popcorn ceiling.

[@Fatima-sk2ft]

Can you react to King's Crossing by Elliott Smith next? This is literally one of my comfort channels!!!

[@InsignificantNick]

I'm honored to be one of your comfort channels, dang. I do have to do more Elliott!