"Teenage Kicks"The Undertones
A teenage dream's so hard to beat! I guess this was John Peel's all-time favorite record, and I can see why. The Undertones were a Northern Irish band that made pop-punk before the term was polluted and took on all of those bothersome mall culture connotations. Released in 1979 (a mere two years after Never Mind the Bollocks!), "Teenage Kicks" takes punk's DIY attitude but reclaims the adolescent yearning and sheer innocuous stupidity that makes pop music so much fun. Clocking in at just under two and a half minutes, this song is never quite long enough, in the very best way.
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