Bassisten i The Undertones har skrevet en bog om sin tid i bandet. Og nedenstående citat skærper appetitten på bogen med sin selvkritiske, -reflekterende overvejelser over et af bandets største sange og over det at komme frem som ungt band i musikbranchen:

I never really liked the title Teenage Kicks. It’s the “kicks” bit that still jars with me – not a word that we ever used and one I thought a bit too corny to put in a song. But then we never really expected much of it when John [O’Neill] played it for us in The Pit. The only bit of the creative process I remember was Billy [Doherty]’s drum intro, the “doot-n-doot-n” which I am sure he nicked from another song we were trying to learn. Come on, what do you expect when some songs leave their intros lying around, not even locked? They’re just asking to be taken and stuck at the front of punk songs.