iTunes

Opening the iTunes Store…If iTunes doesn’t open, click the iTunes application icon in your Dock or on your Windows desktop.
iTunes

iTunes is the world's easiest way to organize and add to your digital media collection.

We are unable to find iTunes on your computer. To preview and buy music from Teenage Head by Teenage Head, download iTunes now.

Already have iTunes? Click I have iTunes to open it now.

I Have iTunes Free Download
iTunes for Mac + PC

Teenage Head

Teenage Head

View More By This Artist

Open iTunes to preview, buy, and download music.

Album Review

Canada's early answer to new wave sounded suspiciously like classic '50s and '60s rock & roll with the amps turned up and the lips curled back in a sneer. In a lot of ways, Teenage Head skirts the edge between new wave and punk, often sounding like a slightly more versatile version of the Ramones. Lyrically speaking, it skips from one degeneracy to another and is often a bit on the stupid side (like many other punk classics, come to think of it), but the music is solid enough throughout to make that irrelevant.

Customer Reviews

Finally on CD, but my Vinyl is better!

Well I have been waiting for years for this record (my favourite Head album) to come out in a clean digital format. Disappointing!! They have put the original mix on this release, when the re-mixed version of the album although not as raw had more dynamics and captured the true Toronto punk sound. My re-mixed vinyl copy (with scratches) blows this CD out of the water. Maybe they can find this mix and put out another CD (Teenage Head B?). If you never saw a Teenage Head show in their prime you missed one of the most energetic audience/band connections I have ever witnessed. Seeing the Head at the Kee to Bala in the summer was like a pilgrimmage for a lot of people.

How not to mix a punk record

I bought this album, the first from Hamilton, Ontario's Teenage Head, when it came out in 1979. It was a huge disappointment. Not because the songs weren't the kind of speedy, Ramones-influenced pop-punk I was expecting, though. I was disappointed because of the album's muffled, murky production, which saps the songs of energy and drive. You see, I bought "Teenage Head" because I loved the band's first single, "Top Down"/"Kissin' The Carpet," which, as I learned later, the band had remixed with a different producer. What a difference between the single and the album! The single had all the energy and excitement the album was missing. I remember reading an interview with a member of the band (probably Frankie Venom, the lead singer), where he admitted that the album's mix was a mistake. I still have that single--a relic of my days as a 16-year-old punk rocker in Brantford--but gave the LP away immediately. I previewed these songs, and unfortunately, the album hasn't been remixed. Too bad. I was hoping.

One of the Best Albums Ever Made! Period!

Yeah, the recording is kinda primitive, so's that mix, but the songs are incredible and the energy on this record is relentless. Never mind the Sex Pistols... Here's Head!

Biography

Formed: 1976 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s

Often billed as Canada's answer to the Ramones, Teenage Head were in truth just as much a new wave band as they were a punk rock outfit. They had a similar affection for pre-Beatles rock & roll, especially rockabilly, as well as a sense of trashy fun that made them a terrific party band when they were on. Their songs were unpretentious celebrations of all the classic rock & roll staples: cars, booze, girls, partying, and teenage rebellion. Notorious for inadvertently touching off one of the...
Full bio

Top Albums and Songs By Teenage Head

Listeners Also Bought

Teenage Head, Teenage Head
 View In iTunes

Customer Ratings

Essentials

Influencers

Contemporaries

Become a fan of the iTunes and App Store pages on Facebook for exclusive offers, the inside scoop on new apps and more.