The Undertones - My Perfect Cousin

[wegertje1]

I'm glad i'aint perfekt.I'm just an asshole tikkking on his computer.

[unga0072002]

most have a perfect cousin, Think this still good listening..fergal still about!!!

[sixpack9901]

Those where the days!

[cdchantler]

my mate met fergal sharkey a few years back, apparently he was suuuuch a cock

[VicSoxUK]

This is sooo cool. I was like 13 when this came out...

[aseddy12]

nigel song

[glaatraa]

Modern punks don't even know what punk is - imagine a modern 'punk' band looking like this

[snakelady666]

5 people have a cousin they dont like too much lol

[MrLumberking]

Sehr gut die waren ja klasse Feargel sharkey great voice nice band!

[krakenwave]

At 1.50 - "Ma bought him a synthesisor, got the Human League in to advise her" - no-one knew who the Human League were then - they were just an obscure, arrogant moody bunch of twiddly-doop keyboardists from Sheffield that had to get 2 teenage girl dancers in before they hit the charts a couple of years later.

This reference went strangely unmentioned during the League's top years...

[krakenwave]

@krakenwave

MPC was recorded Oct-Dec 1979 and released as a single in March 1980

A year later Catheral and Sulley joined the Human League in Oct 1980 after the Heaven 17 split.

"Originally just wanting a single female singer to replace the high backing vocals originally provided by Martyn Ware (Oakey) says that he thought having two female vocalists/dancers would also add potential glamour to the band. "

Dare was released in October 1981. It brought the band to the top of the charts

[bofursgun]

@krakenwave,

One wonders if Feargal and Oakey would glare at each other in a chance meeting during the 80's, the former with his two dimensional countenance, the latter from behind his moppy, curtain fringe. 

Unfortunately, Feargal is now an extremely dull music biz type representative, bemoaning all the youth for downloading music for free. Check out a recent interview with him on YouTube. He looks like an insurance salesman from Luton.

[krakenwave]

@bofursgun 'Course they met. Then, the 5-6 wk UK tour was a band's mainstay - long-gone provincial venues: places like St Austell and Peterhead on a circuit with student unions.

Human League's reinvention-lust truly began with the new decade but waited til Ware left. Add the frustration of being trumped by Numan, Foxx &them, and it would've been a laugh seeing Oakey turn his band into the 80s Tony Orlando and Dawn.

& yeah Feargal went corporate in 84 and stayed but Phil's grounded & happy

[bofursgun]

@krakenwave,

Oakey seems like a decent enough chap these days, but I got quite the shock when viewing a trite, mundane, humourless Feargal waxing lyrical on the evils of "stealing" music in a dodgy suit.

Granted, pop icons can't all act like as if they're perpetually 22-years old, but Feargal's 180 is nothing short of dreadful.

The Human League made nice, catchy simple pop music, no more no less.

Loved Numan taking the piss out of himself in The Mighty Boosh.

[krakenwave]

5 Kevins dropped by on their way to bionics classes.

[sadadbeckham]

Great single # 1

[00Manga0Lover00]

jumped about singing it XD then my room mate walked in, she was like WTF

[johlufc]

#1 single no question!

[marcus10]

Cool!

[Chelseafc11100]

Underated!

[macailz21]

@ lukessummerguitar, I have no idea where it was filmed. I watched a documentary on them a few years ago and they mentioned that they done filming in the bogside, bullpark and brandywell. You could be right though.

[lukessummerguitar]

@macailz21

I was in Derry last week and I went hunting!...the scene where they are walking up the stairs/fire-escape 0:52 is the old cinema on orchard street.

The staircase is gone, and the door they walk through, but you can still see the marks on the wall.

Stick -Orchard street, Derry- into google maps and then zoom in a bit on the -A-and drop the wee yellow man from street view on top of -E Wall - (East Wall street).

The fire-escape they are on is beside Debenhams store.

[amimillie]

Even Martians could identify with this song - I totally love the venom in Feargal's performance here - I laugh my arse off and also see the genius of it.

[eklektro68]

The git who thumbed this down is a cabbage ...

[bigbadbrainz]

Any time I hear this I can't help but think of the guy in h3 singing it haha he's fucking terrible

[shuchr]

fergal i love your jumper

[xmissorlax]

i do hava cousin called kevin!!!

[leighwhite]

A cracking old tune.

[ABILL1959]

this songs reminds me of my cousin Paul . UNDERTONES still the pride of DERRY.

[SuperSport62]

fucking good hit !!!!

[macailz21]

What a tune, the opening scene of the video was filmed in beechwood avenue in Derry, I used to live in that house a couple of years ago. It was a tip back then and it's a tip now, lol. Great band tho

[lukessummerguitar]

@macailz21

Any idea where they are at 0:52 to 1:03 ?... Looks like the old Derry market ( where foyleside is now) behind them when fergal reaches the top of the staircase.

The Casbah (Casbah Rock) used to stand on the corner where you go into the top entrance of the foyleside now!

[charliechicpea]

I had that jumper,kept getting detention cos it wasn't school uniform.........

[jc1daddy2]

this is a pretty good band

[MrSirpower]

ah the those were the days check out SLF nice one lads

[Robert1064]

Legends !

[chinn11]

Punk rock and wooly jumpers go well.

Only in Ireland.

[b00mhauer]

@chinn11 Well, N.I and especially Derry were pretty poverty-stricken back then, not to mention the state of anarchy and civil war that existed there. The thing I've always liked about the Undertones is how they never posed... most punks were middle class brats from well-to-do families wearing expensive "punk" clothing and trying to act tough. These guys never had to pretend.

[susannah66]

He thinks that I'm a cabbage, cos I hate University Challenge!

[joshakatitch]

I'm only 13 and this is sa best song I've EVA hurd

[ikegee]

I love this time!

[01322521959]

Ace takes me back

[ophc087]

i love da undertones nd im only 13

[rexmaster5]

That's real original punk. Love the simplicity and melody. The original wave of punk introduced THE BEAT back into white music

[Davinia1963]

Wow! That took me right back to 1980! Watta band!

[mrmattstrat]

my cousin is perfect since the age of 10!

[Hollandia777]

...Envy 'bout his bro!...

[oiyabastard]

aping  rik neilson CHEAP TRICK

[cunningrapaho]

I have brother called Kevin.. Didn't do bionics though.

[WilfulDays]

His mother bought him a synthesizer, got the Human League in to advise her... LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dodemitchell]

He thinks I'm a cabbage,

cause I hate university challange.

[aiiiiee]

LOVE IT!! GREAT TUNE/VID!!!

[niely69]

Ive got a coousin called kevin,ee lives in Newcastle!!!

[yellowpearl]

its a comical song , just a1

[locorojo25]

so he did actually have a cousin called kevin? i thought it was just a daft made up random song. loved this, loved the undertones, still do.

[technoturnip]

love it brilliant

[skonnie]

His cousin Kevin was my solicitor for ten years...It would be unfair to say he's a %^5t! But he is a Derry man....

[osomahoney]

No, he is a gobshite that Kevin. He still has that fur-lined sheepskin jacket, and with all his work as a solicitor, he totally ignores Sibh, the only girl who would put up with the prat. Last I heard he was living along the Malone Road in Belfast with a bunch of miniature poodles.

[cocolukey]

such an underated song .Kevin sounds like a %^5t

[browneyegal1]

great song !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

[Kieronoldham]

....... and then some. ;)

[BLINDMASTER121]

love this song wish it got more airplay tho

[lust4pb]

Jeez I'd forgotten how much I love the Undertones. Thanks for putting this on here.

[YunaBonbeurre]

@lust4pb

it means you did not like them so much, you idiot

[lust4pb]

@YunaBonbeurre Far from being an idiot, Yunabonbeurre, I have a large music collection, and I mean very large. Since this was released back in 1980 and I've listened to a lot of other great bands in that time, it's understandable that I would forget. One of the great things about Youtube is rediscovering tracks from your youth that you not only enjoyed, but that evoke memories of where you were and what you were doing at the time.

[YunaBonbeurre]

@lust4pb

fair enough...

[sinner48]

i love this song one of my all time favs rockon the undertones

[firecrotchuk]

Best sog evr.........no lie!!!!!