Hypnotised

Undertones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 14, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rykodisc
• ASIN: B0000009OY
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #327,208 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. More Songs About Chocolate And Girls

2. There Goes Norman

3. Hypnotised

4. See That Girl

5. Whizz Kids

6. Under The Boardwalk

7. The Way Girls Talk

8. Hard Luck

9. My Perfect Cousin

10. Boys Will Be Boys

11. Tearproof

12. Wednesday Week

13. Nine Times Out Of Ten

14. Girls That Don't Talk

15. What's With Terry?

16. You've Got My Number(Why Don't You Use It?)

17. Hard Luck(Again)

18. Let's Talk About Girls

19. Told You So

20. I Don't Wanna See You Again

Editorial Reviews

Reissue of the 1980 original release includes the 3 bonus tracks 'Hard Luck (Again)', 'I Don't Wanna See (You Again)' & 'I Told You So'. Sanctuary. 2005. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The undertone's great mystery, April 2, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Hypnotised (Audio CD)

I first got to the Undertones in the 80's because my 2 best friends were playing that record ad nauseam along with Siouxsie and Bauhaus. Clearly this was a mistake. The accelerating riffs the joyfulness of it all didn't fit with the age of NO FUTURE angst. Here you had those innocent and simple melodies with fuzz guitar all around. Titles you read and remember the beat right away "There goes Norman". "My perfect cousin" is the ultimate jealousy song where "everything I like he doesn't" . "Boys will be boys" and "Whats with Terry" will bring back the teenager solidarity everybody must have felt once in his life.
Who were these guys. On the cover they look young and Irish with a lobster apron on each one of them.
On the back cover the distribution data by Sire data is written in Portuguese, nothing to help me undestand where they come from.
Feagal Sharkey is supposed to be the lead singer with his falsetto voice but this is clearly a group effort where all guitars and all voices bring the drive non-stop throughout the album. A great album to drive on country roads.
Still a mistery to me why I never met someone who knows about this album.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Undertones, Does it means anything to you?, October 19, 2009

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Pedro Pablo Perez Garcia "Parrez" (Madrid, Spain) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hypnotised (Audio CD)

This product, as any of this kind (music), depends on your likes. I love The Undertones, so I love this old recording too; less fresh than Undertones' first LP, it's probably musically more interesting. The only thing about it is about the sound volume itself. This recording sounds really low, someways like those Electra's recording (The Stooges, MC5, etc.) or their traduction into CD, that sounds really low and when someone tries to turn the volume up, the estatic, that uncomfortable buzz, starts sounding as a solid audible background. What could I say? You've Got my Number, Whizz Kids, My Perfect Cousin, There Goes Norman... if you like it, that is... maybe when they remaster it...
Try it if you Know first what you are gonna get.
By the way, sorry for my 'hispanic' english and enjoy this "Hypnotised"... well, if you must.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff, February 10, 2008

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Scott Mcleod (Riverside, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hypnotised (Audio CD)

This is a good set of Undertones material. Not as raw as their first but not overproduced by any stretch either. A lot of good, short, fun, energetic songs in typical Undertones fashion. My favorites are "Nine times out of ten", "The way girls talk", and "Tearproof", but most all of the songs are good here and you can get a very good feel for their sound by a 30 second sampling.

Note to those not familiar with the Undertones: if at first the lead singer's voice is a bit hard to take, give it time, it may grow on you.