The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin | Reaction!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- The Undertones are one of the best bands I've come across through this channel. Sharkey's angry, passionate vocals here fit perfectly for such a scathing song toward cousin Kevin. A relatable underrated group, their energy was unmatched.
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Brilliant band. Pure pop.
The O'Neil brothers went on to form a band after The Undertones split. They were called That Petrol Emotion and they had an American singer from Seattle. They were a brilliant band and worth checking out.
My first gig!
Feargal Sharkey is now a prominent campaigner on water quality in the UK.
My favorite song from them, great tune, awesome lyrics, absolutely hilarious performance, perfection, I even prefer it over Teenage Kicks
AN ALL TIME GREAT TUNE. This rivals anything done by The Who, and the only reason I mention this is because The Who and all those Boomer Bands just hold these places of acclaimation that later bands never achieved. I am 64, tail end Boomer, and was so sick of The Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zep etc. by the time I was 18 it was like an answer to a prayer that Punk and Post Punk came along. These guys will never be in the bullsh#& so called R&R hall of shame, they're too damn good!
Love The Undertones. Listened to them a lot at university. Feargal Sharkey now campaigns for clean rivers and seas.
Grew up with the undertones, because my uncle is a member 😂. Great to see you react to them! They're still going strong.
I'm seeing them live next week - which one is your Uncle??
@@MrJambot my aunt is married to John O'Neill
@@turfsniffer brilliant! I know Fergal hasn't been in them for years but I can't wait to see them play!
@@MrJambot i knew Fergal...less said the better lol, but Paul is brilliant. You'll have a good night. My 1st ever concert was in Derry and i was 9. Ive been told i was in this video but I don't remember it and I can't see it, but John told me I was there. Have a humdinger 👍
Well, my goodness! That's neat!
Total classic!!!! The only other song I know that mentions Subbuteo is " All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit" by Half Man Half Biscuit. Lol!
I was just about to make the same point!
First two well three albums, love them. When Saturday Comes became a football fanzine title
Fergal is still a passionate man… all for a good cause is our man! He is now the Erin Brokavich in the UK trying to bring Water companys to account…
Loved this song when it came out. I had that actual single.he showed at the end. Can't remember this video but it's superb.
A few points to help you:
University Challenge was a TV quiz show but it was between teams from different universities. Considered quite a high brow show.
I think the comment about the human league was that she didn't just buy him a synth, but she also got the top synth experts in at the time for advice on buying.
Subbuteo is the game they are playing in the video. Using little figures to flick a ball. The line is suggesting that Kevin cheated.
University Challenge is a super brainy TV quiz show in the UK with very difficult questions asked of top students. The Undertones were probably joking about the then new trend of synth pop with the Human League reference when they were very much a guitar band. Kevin is jumping on the bandwagon with his arty friends. Subbuteo is the table football game you see in the video - a desirable game for a kid to have when few people had access to video games. The slogan was ‘flick to kick’ - and Kevin knew how
The first album - the Undertones - is just perfection. You could pick any track from it. Two guitarists.
Fergal Sharkey is now an ambassador for saving the chalk bed water source rivers of the U.K….amongst other things, 👍😉🇮🇲
Great band, Worth checking out their songs "Jimmy Jimmy", "You've Got My Number", "True Confessions" and "Wednesday Week".
I always heard the lyric as ".. as smooth as Yul Brynner." and still do.
Love this. My favourite of theirs.
I’m off to see The Undertones this Friday 👍
That'd be an awesome show!
@@InsignificantNick they were brilliant 👍
Nice to see you pick up on the Undertones again... Some other Undertone songs that would make good reactions:- Get Over You, When Saturday Comes, Here Comes The Summer, You've Got My Number, Girls Don't Like It... They really were underrated...
Love it, I've got that 7" single too (probably still under my stairs) and was so excited when I bought it BITD
If you want to do another Undertones reaction, I recommend "You've got my number".
Songs under 3 mins are just perfection.
Wednesday week trumps this.Great song.
I would say that the Undertones and Van Morrison’s band “Them” are the best bands to come out of Northern Ireland.
This song is probably my favorite by them. The humor, the attitude and the song is just perfect. Feargal Sharkey’s voice is unique.
Love them.
Enjoyed this.
I don’t know why but I thought it Sparks while listening to this song and wondered if you’d reacted to them? I think you did once? Been listening to them after watching their awesome Edgar Wright directed documentary. Angst in my Pants is my fave track but they have tons. This town isn’t big enough for the both of us. The number one song in heaven. Tips for teens. Come on man…these titles are awesome…lol.
I've heard of Sparks, but I haven't reacted to them...yet.
Video was filmed at John and Damian family home .
Another song from the soundtrack of my early teens and another one I still have the 7" single of. If I remember correctly that video was shot in and around the O'Neill brothers family home and in the local community centre where the band played their first gigs.
I'm glad you like this band though I'd be astounded, having watched your videos for a few years at this point, if you didn't. They went in a bit of a different direction musically after the first couple of albums and I have to admit to not being too keen of the change at the time. In later years I came to love what had seemed boring at the time. I was only a bairn at the time after all, and all bairns are a bit thick.
I won't do my usual list of songs I think you should have a listen to but just recommend the one. The guitars on "You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?)" are just incredible and you will love it.
One of my favourites of theirs. One subtle great thing about this song (aside from the song itself) is that the Undertones main subject is so often about girls, the title of "My Perfect Cousin" immediately makes you assume it's about a girl (as opposed to this jerk Kevin. lol)
His mother bought him a synthesiser brought the Human League into adviser. Time to listen to Being Boiled again by The Human League!
Such a Great song such wonderful Lyrics even having a little dig at the Human League 🤩
My favourite by The Undertones is probably “You’ve Got My Number” , “Jimmy Jimmy” is another great one
Great tune and great reaction! There’s loads of ‘fun punk’ songs - all from this era . Yeah, you’ve picked up on the teenage angst oozing from this one. I love ‘at the edge’ by stiff little fingers which is another great teenage rebellion tune… clearly, Green Day heavily influenced by SLF
One of the best of groups I like you have a lot to listen to lots songs listen to other group likes Gang of Four and buzzcocks and spizz oil where Chaplin chark
Yeah they were a lively band and their anger probably came from been raised in Northern Ireland , they had a lot of troubles their and a lot of violence , Jimmy Jimmy is a great lively hit song .
I wasn’t going to watch this, but it’s Nick in pink, so one must.
It's actually a Freddy Krueger shirt 😂
What about another Crass reaction? You haven’t done one for a while, or my suggestion Nagasaki Nightmare.
A few Northern Ireland / British cultural references in the song you may not know. " HE THINKS THAT I'M A SAVAGE , COS I DON'T LIKE UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE. University Challenge an inter college high brow quiz on UK television. "HE ALWAYS BEAT ME AT SUBBUTEO COS HE FLICKED A KICK AND I DIDN'T KNOW ". Subbuteo a table soccer game as featured on the video. Using your thumb to help flick your index finger when shooting at the goal is foulplay.
64 old lady here again, going down Rabbit hole of your reactions saw this & thought has he seen The Buzzcocks yet ?? looked more& saw ...Yes,you have....I met/didn't meet Pete Shelly at CBGBS, he just brushed by,, a Band who were /are Besties were playing, Sharks.. was just after they'd won the MTV Basement Tapes ( a Battle of Bands type thing, 4 bands every week, 4 weeks, people call on phone & vote Fav winner at end of month gets record contract, friends got screwed, was publicity stunt, got signed, & Locked into 3 year contract, got put on shelf & couldn't take their music elsewhere....Song is called On My Own can pull up on TH-cam....Sharks On My Own .. CarleeCat( FKA honkeycat 2...BIG Laugh I'm in the video But you don't see me Restaurant/party scene my short ass sat down.....Me & their Drummer Dougie were teased about being Hobbit Size ( WAY before the movies!!) about the only influence you'll see from Me ( Dougie wore pants I'd ripped & stitched in a part, but hell short like me, lucky to see his head above snare drum !) Bass Player Shea was wearing a skinny black tie, told him it looked too much like Doug Fieger from The Knack, gave him my Grand Dad's Bolo tie to wear......Bigger LOL,2 yrs later They opened for The Knack, met Fieger, he was total dick !! LOL Hope you don't mind ANOTHER Overshare....Rock on Nick !!❣
Put on your four-laned sheepskin jacket! 😂