The Undertones Essentials

John Peel loved The Undertones so much that the famed DJ had their anthem, “Teenage Kicks”, played at his funeral. The Derry band came of age in the mid-‘70s, coalescing during punk's snotty ascent, at the height of the Troubles. The joyous pop-punk they produced was proof that even bloody civil warfare couldn't silence adolescent passion, and it propelled Feargal Sharkey and his working-class cohort to lasting, meteoric fame. Bop along to their early, eternally youthful classics, and dig deeper into their genre-spanning discography to discover New Wave-y jams and cuts from 1983's Motown-inspired The Sin of Pride.