Undertones, The: Hard To Beat (2xCD)

Derry’s finest debuted in 1978 with 'Teenage Kicks', 2 minutes 23 seconds of immaculate guitar noise that has been covered (but never bettered) by everyone from Supergrass to K T Tunstall, Green Day to Busted.

John Peel’s `favourite record of all time’ was followed by a dozen perfect pop singles including 'Jimmy Jimmy', 'Here Comes The Summer', 'My Perfect Cousin' and 'Wednesday Week'. Four cracking albums showed a band prepared to take risks as punk morphed into new wave and on into electro pop and new romanticism.

1. Teenage Kicks 
2. Jimmy Jimmy 
3. My Perfect Cousin 
4. Tearproof
5. It's Going to Happen 
6. Listening In 
7. Hypnotised 
8. Chain of Love 
9. Billy's Third 
10. Girls That Don't Talk
11. Wednesday Week 
12. Male Model 
13. True Confessions 
14. Bittersweet 
15. Here Comes the Summer (Single Version) 
16. Get Over You 
17. You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It!) 
18. (She's A) Runaround 
19. When Saturday Comes 
20. Luxury 
21. Family Entertainment 
22. You're Welcome 
23. Got to Have You Back 
24. Julie Ocean (7" Version)
25. Jump Boys 
26. Kiss in the Dark 
27. Mars Bars 
28. I Know A Girl