Thank You for the Music

In the December 9 issue of Rolling Stone, The Edge picks his post-punk playlist. I like the implied modesty of this one:

11. "Teenage Kicks" The Undertones, 1978

We did a kids' daytime TV show with the Undertones. It would have been for this, their first single, and for ours. And they were the same as us — snot-nosed, pimply teenagers. But they were writing great songs.

Yeah. Whereas . . .