Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
I wanna hold her, wanna hold her tight Get teenage kicks right through the night
âThereâs nothing you could add to it or subtract from it that would improve it⌠a record that even now reduces me to tears every time I hear it. The first time I cried was when, stuck in traffic on the M6 near Stoke-on-Trent on my way to the football, I heard Peter Powell play my copy of the EP on Radio 1. I had written âPeter. This is the oneâ on the inner sleeve. To my alarm, I found myself weeping uncontrollablyâŚâÂ
John Peel said this was THE perfect song, and his favourite of all time. He famously played it twice in a row on his radio show and had âTeenage dreams, so hard to beatâ engraved on his epitaph when he died.
itâs that good
