There are times when i think this may be the best song ever written.
@MonsieurSlick2 жыл бұрын
I feel the same about a lot of songs of that era and genre. Like I will be listening to the Buzzcocks, The Damned, Wire or Gang of Four and think to myself "It doesn't get any better than this".
@sunnyjim13552 жыл бұрын
There are pieces of music by Schütz, Bach, Rameau, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Schoenberg and Stravinsky that still bring tears to my eyes, even after listening to such for some 40 years. But none of them can scratch the itch that bands such as The Undertones do, still. Modern 'pop' music just makes my teeth itch.
@celticoverall2 жыл бұрын
They havent got any bad ones to be fair
@carrite Жыл бұрын
It's the best Undertones song. No debate permitted.
@Aaron-point3089 ай бұрын
Flawless. Everything about this song is perfect. John Peel said Teenage Kicks was the perfect song but I think this is better.
@melgrant74044 ай бұрын
Agree.
@garylufc6 ай бұрын
The best Undertones song ever, never get bored of hearing it.
@DenisNSmith Жыл бұрын
This song is simply relentless. The pounding drums, scratch-that-itch guitars and thundering bass, and Feargal's frenetic delivery make this one of the most perfect pieces of pop music ever played. The fact that they were so tight that the video synchronizes perfectly with the single is just icing on the cake. No wonder The Undertones were John Peel's favourite band ever until The White Stripes came along. The confidence to deliver it all in Feargal's native Derry accent, rather than imitating a faux US accent like so many other bands just pushes it over the top. It's matchless.
@dercoss8 ай бұрын
I don't think anybody would put the White Stripes at the same level as The Undertones. They were basically a couple who copied other bands sound.
@Spectrescup8 ай бұрын
@@dercossthe idea that they were "John Peel's favourite band" ffs
@rolandtrefzer50176 ай бұрын
agree with you..but this is not popmusic...this is punkrock at it's best
@sdh82864 ай бұрын
@@Spectrescup Teenage Kicks was Peel's favourite single ever - he had "Teenage Dreams so hard to beat" inscribed on his headstone
@herbieabroad4 ай бұрын
Is it the single synchronising with the video or is it actually the live peformance? The single fades out whereas this doesn't and the start is a bit more energised than the start of the single. Also you can hear the crowd cheering at the end. It is very good quality sound though for a 40 year old live performance. Whatever it is, you are totally correct about how amazing this song is. My favourite song of all time, it's perfect pop.
@undertonesfan19707 жыл бұрын
Ladies and gentlemen This is the greatest band of all time The undertones,
@richardmundy2145 жыл бұрын
yep x
@phillipnations54824 жыл бұрын
holy hand grenade.... powerful stuff!
@robrix93304 жыл бұрын
2nd gig I saw and everything after has struggled to match the experience of seeing the undertones live!
@AnonymousAnonymous-ji1xd4 жыл бұрын
You mean the Ramones
@robrix93304 жыл бұрын
@@AnonymousAnonymous-ji1xd Saw them too and I was high as a kite, going great until morons started fighting :-(
@bluebook26812 жыл бұрын
Billy's thunderous drumming in the chorus, love it!
@jbollocks18 жыл бұрын
I love how they always seem to wear the clothes they got for Christmas. Great song/performance!
@teerjerk Жыл бұрын
😂
@brothersvilleknife10 ай бұрын
Lol!
@dmitriygres77172 жыл бұрын
The best live performance I've ever seen! Back in my teenage days! Fantastic!!!
@pincepoussin Жыл бұрын
Man I feel you, I did not know they THAT good. Amazing !
@Grunfeld13 жыл бұрын
I love the way the bass player nudges the singer at the end of the guitar break (1:25) -- like, "get back and sing!" Great song :-)
@acoustically9201Күн бұрын
Well spotted. The shortest guitar break in history...
@willwhite1575 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic tune from an amazing band. Great sound. Good smoking as well.
@fintanoclery26987 жыл бұрын
Possibly the best 2 minutes of my day
@TheGrandmasterMan7 жыл бұрын
...of any day
@DenisNSmith Жыл бұрын
I want to like this twice.
@waaben18 жыл бұрын
Rock n' roll doesn't get much better than this. Absolutely timeless!
@garethjones65662 жыл бұрын
Great song, fantastic band and love the idea of Feargal smoking whilst performing, just brilliant.
@surreygoldprospector5765 ай бұрын
He's like - gotta finish this song before my cigarette goes out... :o)
@noddyholder792 жыл бұрын
remember seeing this on TV about 79. like a bomb going off in the living room
@pierrehammarstrom17702 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite bands!
@therightrabbitАй бұрын
I can't get over the Undertones... they are sooo good, I'm listening to them ever since they started! Never gets old
@theneedledrop14 жыл бұрын
wow. these guys need more recognition in the US. so much bigger than the song "teenage kicks."
@aicdbckmkemcm3 жыл бұрын
Look who it is
@quinn32313 жыл бұрын
Funny seeing you here
@stevepearn9303 жыл бұрын
I couldn't agree more!
@user-dx1jb4zq9e Жыл бұрын
Shut up, dork
@michaelmckinley19134 ай бұрын
The song was done in before he finished his tab, one of the worlds best new wave pop songs still sounds great today.
@carlamoss26257 ай бұрын
always my favourite song. under rated genius
@stevepearn9303 жыл бұрын
I saw them on this tour (Middlesbrough Rock Garden 22nd May 1979) Forget "Teenage Kicks",this song is their finest moment! great picture sleeve too!
@GALWAYSPANIARD8 жыл бұрын
This song with Sharkey in the orange plaid shirt and chain smoking was at Irving Plaza in NY City in 1980 or 81. There were few breaks between songs. These guys were dressed very plain- not pretentious at all.Great show - like a machine gun hitting you. I had ringing in ears which went away the following day.Best show I have ever seen and I saw Hendrix and many others. This was my all time favorite and a friend says the same thing and all he knows is Beatles and Stones stuff.
@mozdickson7 жыл бұрын
Brilliant comment, cheers. A fan from 80
@TheGrandmasterMan7 жыл бұрын
It's all in the energy !!!
@willieluncheonette6 жыл бұрын
saw them at Trax on West 72 St on their first US tour. Couldn't agree more. They KILLED IT!
@Charlietwice5 жыл бұрын
First time I saw them they did 10 encores. They didnt want to go home. F*****g brilliant.
@richardmundy2145 жыл бұрын
"chain smoking?" He had a cigarette in his hand, wtf? Could have been anywhere hun, NY not the only place in the world where people have fun xx
@Slammerworm115 жыл бұрын
Ridiculously cool. Today's 'youth music' is 'punk' in name only. Cheers for this, you've made an old punk very happy...
@jmvlock1929 Жыл бұрын
I love that smirk at the beginning. Feargal knows how much ass they're kicking.
@andreworr74178 жыл бұрын
one of the best live bands of their time-was lucky enough to be with them for part of the humming tour and they were a set o genuine nice guys as well,great music still fresh today
@Tom_Roberts6 жыл бұрын
They were great. You can't beat the energy of young guys.
@buckodonnghaile43092 жыл бұрын
I've watched this video about a thousand times but it just dawned on me (and admittedly hazy dawn though it is) that Baby Feargal here had the voice to replace Bon Scott. That would have saved us from agony that is A Good Heart.
@Mustyke14 жыл бұрын
Saw em in Sheffield back in 1980, still a stand out gig, brilliant live band.
@nicco69516 ай бұрын
This very tone and others much alike are the reasons why I ever even picked up a guitar and amp and learned how to play and eq
@pierrehammarstrom17702 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite band !
@Judith.13. Жыл бұрын
They really are giving it all👌🏻💪🏻👍🏻
@paulmills82458 жыл бұрын
Saw them at Bradford St Georges Hall. This is my favourite song. They wore 3 star jumpers flared jeans and Doc Martin boots. Ace.
@tonynesbit96732 жыл бұрын
Brilliant.
@Eamonnceannt14 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite Undertone songs.
@andrewadcock84492 жыл бұрын
See them last year at stone valley south 2021 they were on 🔥 that night
@Deena77712 жыл бұрын
and I'm not even irish/northern irish. I was at an Afghan wedding in Chicago and the bride and groom played 'teenage kicks' as their wedding intro song. The elders were in shock but we were all on the dance floor. It was a great do !
@kevintoombs2652 ай бұрын
Pure class at its best
@Chrisamusic18 жыл бұрын
The ULTIMATE punk pop band. Even better than my hometown heroes - Buzzcocks,. Saw the tones many times in the late 70s and early 80s and those gigs still resonate with me to this day. Really hoping for a biog on the band one day.
@bobgure7 жыл бұрын
I agree wholeheartedly. Brilliant songs and arrangements. Great guitar-ing. Very underappreciated indeed.
@Chrisamusic17 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the twin attack of John and Damien was a thing of wonder.
@bobgure7 жыл бұрын
Love that - "Twin attack'. Great description.
@philippegodron95537 жыл бұрын
you are so right, one of the best band ever, songs are amazing!!!!!! How old were they???? 18 and 19???? incredible!!! love them from 40 years now and when i listened them i remember that fabulous périod of my 20 in England, no money but them always on the radio!!!!
@carrite Жыл бұрын
You know, the Buzzcocks were the best Britpunk band of 1976-79. But I sneakily somehow sort of agree with you. So underrated!
@feargal759 жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing - have always loved Feargal Sharkey's so special voice !!!
@user-ho1xo8ub6c Жыл бұрын
I saw them at Guildford civic hall in 1979 at their peak, so good
@shonuffido14 жыл бұрын
Happy memories.... the boys live in full flight were awesome live.... great song and great band!
@Pacquaio14 жыл бұрын
like the way that Michael gives Fergal a nudge at the 1.26 mark to remind him it's time to sing again.... excellent song and excellent performance
@horrorbusiness788 жыл бұрын
Outstanding performance
@katzenthommy7 жыл бұрын
Damals wie heute hammergeil... One of my alltime favorites. ...fantastic gig @ so36 last year
@underock47 жыл бұрын
Saw them 7/8 times, from tiny venues (which were simply majestic), to stadium festivals. Wish I was back in that 'Tones mosh pit, right now. Hey Mickey, what's incoherently mean ? Pure genius.
@uncleruckus31493 жыл бұрын
Perfect mix of 50s and punk
@finnmcginn9931 Жыл бұрын
Spot on
@ianmcgregorhart93547 жыл бұрын
The Undertones like Travis decades later a great group in their heyday. New wave at it's best.
@senatarr10 жыл бұрын
These guys should have been HUGE in the US. This one rocks!!
@GALWAYSPANIARD8 жыл бұрын
+MF Schade It took too long for punk to catch on. It was our Hollywood/NY controlled system that did not give punk the airwaves.It is worse now and has been terrible for 20 years in the USA. They make "stars" out of certain people. Most popular music in the USA is junk to me. I do believe there was a lot of prejudice shown against these young men from Ireland who actually were happy, wrote simple words, smiled, and came out of the Catholic school system in Derry, Ireland.Suffice it to say that those who watch The Undertones on You Tube are very different from the masses. Great music still does not make it in the USA.It was Seymour Stein who got the Undertones recognition. Stein was another one of us who loved this kind of music.
@carrite Жыл бұрын
The US was late on the ball with punk in the 1970s. We did our share in the 1990s, thank god.
@scorpiowatertiger32239 жыл бұрын
I used to think Feargal was singing "Dressed like Thatcher, must be living in a different world..." But it still works.
@willturner80398 жыл бұрын
Same… though that would have been a politically clever point tbh
@stevejohnson66677 жыл бұрын
But that's what the lyric is?
@TheRealCaptainFreedom6 жыл бұрын
steve johnson Dressed like a statue...
@chrish49766 жыл бұрын
"Dressed like that you must be living in a different world"
@mungofinalfi44805 жыл бұрын
Yup, same for me.
@ashie25914 жыл бұрын
Oh boy. Fantastic.
@donaljoseph12 ай бұрын
Simply awesome !!!
@spythedog8 жыл бұрын
as always one of the best bands of the early days
@jamesDsibley17 жыл бұрын
What a performance...
@GALWAYSPANIARD8 жыл бұрын
Irving Plaza was a stand up place. You could buy beer and walk around-you could get right near the stage or stand back .It didn't seem that big.I have not been there for a long time. It called itself for awhile the Fillmore east at Irving Plaza but some years back went back to Irving Plaza. I have great memories of the show and the place.
@desoi13 жыл бұрын
one of the best bands ever
@barnowl0129215 жыл бұрын
Just fantastic...I love this song
@ant25918 жыл бұрын
One of the best from one of the best.
@Scotchfisherman10 жыл бұрын
next to 999 my favorite band saw them three times in Toronto in early days
@joshmotta87023 жыл бұрын
i’m 19 years old from toronto and they’ve become my favourite band over the few past years, have never met anyone who saw them in toronto until i see this haha, o keefe centre if i stand correct
@Thathoodwink15 жыл бұрын
This song is like two minutes long but Feargal had to smoke his cigarette right before he starts singing. Tobacco fiend! Love this song.
@scftillyoudie190814 жыл бұрын
Seen them back in 1980 in Rotterdam. Thnx for posting.
@Jhcam1117 ай бұрын
Still great in 2024
@aicdbckmkemcm4 жыл бұрын
This is what rock n roll is
@johndillon6859 Жыл бұрын
Fucking amazing! Greatest pop/rock song ever penned!
@mmr59485 жыл бұрын
The GREATEST band from Ireland in history.
@riggaboots10 жыл бұрын
big shout to ludeboy77 for putting this on...if your about to turn 50 like me... the undertones were the band to follow back in the late 70's
@lucyrandallkelly47999 жыл бұрын
This is fucking amazing.
@DanAgger514 жыл бұрын
was there too. UNREAL. just pure class
@markbsac12 жыл бұрын
saw em at plymouth poly about 1980...will live with me forever
@Carlos111111able12 жыл бұрын
haaaaaaaaaaa yeah!!Saw them at Benicassim, I left Brandom Flowers on main stage to sing and jump to this legend of band. They said "Enjoy the Strokes and didn´t praise any British band" it was kinda funny watching em on satge jumping on their fifties
@hawranhrafnain60667 жыл бұрын
Derry good vibrations and very old remembers, when i hear that from my good friend Caine, here, dude, in Pilsen, behind the Iron Wall ! :)
@user-hv5uy7ct6g Жыл бұрын
bloody great
@ianwhitehead6912 жыл бұрын
Wonderful ✌️🎸
@GwenRENAULT12 жыл бұрын
the undertones forever
@parksidecricketclub13 жыл бұрын
Saw them in Manchester in 1981, 30 years later going to see them in Birmingham, just a pity Sharkey wont be there
@johnnykennedy46692 жыл бұрын
Fu*king amazing. That is all.
@Crawlwolf14 жыл бұрын
a mitad de tiempo que los Ramones y con el doble de guitarras e INCREIBLEMENTE BUENOS
@sonicsnout9 жыл бұрын
Man I wanna see these guys live with the new singer. While he's not as distinct as Feargal, he sounds pretty fucking good on the recordings I've heard so far. Plus I've seen a couple of interviews and you can tell they are actual friends, while the relationship with Feargal seems rather strained... pity that Feargal left to do what he considered more grown up stuff... I mean, I like eighties pop and I actually kind of like Feargal's solo stuff, but in the videos and performances he seems so, so, desperate to be accepted as some kind of mega-pop star, he looks and sounds so much better when he dressed scrappy and had a freaking attitude with the Undertones. He didn't know how good he had it... Undertones will go down in history and instead of being remembered as the pop star he aspired to be, Feargal will be remembered as the guy who ditched one of the most timeless bands to ever exist. But what the hell do I know, I just got into Undertones like two weeks ago... I've been sick in bed doing extensive youtube/wikipedia research and listening to these songs over and over again. Makes me want to start a band again, these tunes are so damn inspiring. Especially this one. And to be fair, the track Feargal did with Vince Clarke as the Assembly is pretty damn good.
@2wheels6strings9 жыл бұрын
The new guy is better than Feargal, and I saw them with both multiple times.
@pinkmazohyst8 жыл бұрын
+Sonicsnout I know exactly how you're feeling
@underock47 жыл бұрын
You're not wrong, albeit imo the Undertones got stale. Like many bands, great for 3/4 albums, then they lost their mojo. Still 5/6 of the best live gigs, I ever saw, were with Feargal in the line up. Simply electric.
@TheGrandmasterMan7 жыл бұрын
It's capturing lightening in the bottle stuff - great when it happened but you secretly know it can't last.
@namalur16 жыл бұрын
Best song of the Undertones, I love the voice of Feargal Sharkey.
@johnnyjjjjjj6514 жыл бұрын
bliss reminds me of of youth growing up no money no future fucking great tunes
@zestyut1344 Жыл бұрын
I think this was shown on tv on a show called “so it goes” or was it “OGWT” as a clip, but whatever. We all saw if school when I was 14 and everybody was going on about the next day. Totally amazing.
@Thetaters15 жыл бұрын
Sounds great 30 years on!
@gregc1331 Жыл бұрын
Where is this? This is pure rock, pure punk. RIP Pete Shelley.
@johnjohnnyjohnson9987 Жыл бұрын
Cracking track and better than Teenage Kicks imo.
@alanparker3130 Жыл бұрын
Came for "Jump Boys" (another gem) and stayed for this. The ultimate pop group.
@cob196514 жыл бұрын
fing brilliant the best pop song ever!!!!
@mozdickson7 жыл бұрын
Feargal, such a star. 1 in a million, fronting the funniest non-punk punk band this side of the Gormwood creek
@Charlietwice5 жыл бұрын
This must be 78/79 cos I remember being blown away a year before I saw them live in 80
@ianmcgregorhart93547 жыл бұрын
I like the Undertones and 80's alternative band That Petrol Emotion. Misheard lyric 'Dressed like Thatcher you must be living in different world' goodness help us.
@NewPaltzIndie15 жыл бұрын
love those drums! gives a big lump in the chest everytime!
@stevejenkins47718 жыл бұрын
Bloody brilliant!
@richardheade77787 жыл бұрын
The first proper band ever to come out of Northern Ireland, absolutely epic.
@belesky7 жыл бұрын
Yes I totaly agree one of my favourite bands of all time but the tearjerkers and especially Rudi come very very close and don't even mention SLF!! as a so called brit they opened my mind to to what was going on in Northern Ireland at the time!! My point is so many Northern Ireland bands went un noticed except the undertones and SLF but they gkt the breaks and fair play
@anthonymclean97436 жыл бұрын
Richard Heade Go back to 60s and you'll find a little rhythm and blues band called Them with vocals by Van Morrison. .
@finnmcginn9931 Жыл бұрын
Feargal Sharkey giving Bon Scott a run for his money,
@davidfarrant40239 ай бұрын
Best song ever 👌
@failte0214 жыл бұрын
Seen The Undertones in Derry last night. Still magic!
@Besseloff2 ай бұрын
Three chords never sounded so good. (I mean this as a compliment - catchiest song ever).
@terryaxelsen49324 жыл бұрын
great drumming as well
@waaben14 жыл бұрын
Absolute and utter brilliance :) U2 is nothing compared to this band.
@broadband011812 жыл бұрын
The best band to come out of Ireland? No, the best band to come out of the world!