Like no other band, their music captures the feeling of living with the music you love, in all its permutations of euphoria and complacency and companionship. As trends have come and gone, the members of Teenage Fanclub have maintained a preternatural knack for blocking out the world.
To listen to their deeply consistent catalog is to hear a band that never grew tired of its pet sounds: the melodic precision of Big Star ; the tight-knit harmonies of the Byrds ; the plainspoken hum of Neil Young ; the lite psychedelia of the British Invasion. Occasionally, one influence rises above the others. But as Teenage Fanclub grew up, they let more light in.
A new series of vinyl reissues, each paired with two hand-selected bonus tracks, expertly showcases this beautiful evolution. The early word around Glasgow was that they were nothing special: fun guys to hang out with and talk music, but lacking the ambition to really go anywhere. They seemed satisfied with being underdogs. But they also harbored a singular commitment that made them uncommonly self-aware and sustainable. Unlike the bands they drew inspiration from, the leaders of TFC never seemed to be at war with one another.
They never made their White Album or Tusk , to prove their records came from tortured, conflicting perspectives. Instead, their music seems to blossom out of unity, with each songwriter doing his best to further explore the feelings described by his bandmates. If the music you love is your means of identification—how you introduce yourself at a party, how you get through the day—then this band was speaking directly to you.
Real devotion came later in their music—for now, just the idea was enthralling enough. When the coda arrives in the music video, the protagonist, without lyrics to guide her actions, starts wreaking havoc in the record store, tearing down posters and knocking over shelves. A better visualization might be starting her own shop. Bandwagonesque is the sound of discovery—of finding your voice and naming your mission. Critical Mass 7. Heavy Metal II 8. Catholic Education II 9.
Eternal Light Every Picture I Paint Everybody's Fool. Album, Agosto , Creation Records. Heavy Metal 6 2. Mudhoney 3. Interstellar Overdrive 4. Robot Love 5. Like a Virgin 6. The King 7.
Opal Inquest 8. Heavy Metal 9. Album, Novembro , Creation Records. The Concept 2. Satan 3. December 4. What You Do to Me 5. I Don't Know 6. Star Sign 7.
Metal Baby 8. Pet Rock 9. Sidewinder Alcoholiday Guiding Star Is This Music? Album, Outubro , Creation Records. Hang On 2. The Cabbage 3. Radio 4. Norman 3 5. Song to the Cynic 6. Escher 8. Commercial Alternative 9. Fear of Flying Tears Are Cool Ret Liv Dead Get Funky Gene Clark Genius Envy Don's Gone Columbia Chords of Fame Weird Horses Golden Glades Older Guys. Album, Maio , Creation Records.
About You 2. Sparky's Dream 3. Mellow Doubt 4. Don't Look Back 5. Verisimilitude 6. Neil Jung 7. Tears 8. Discolite 9. Say No Going Places I'll Make It Clear I Gotta Know Album, Julho , Creation Records.
Start Again 2. Ain't That Enough 3. Can't Feel my Soul 4. I Don't Want Control of You 5. Planets 6. It's a Bad World 7. Take the Long Way Round 8. Winter 9. I Don't Care Mount Everest Speed of Light. Album, Outubro , Columbia Records. I Need Direction 2. I Can't Find my Way Home 3. Accidental Life 4. Happiness 5.
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