Teenage Fanclub

Teenage Fanclub is an indie / alternative rock band from the Scottish town of Bellshill, which celebrated its greatest success in the 1990s.

Band History

Teenage Fanclub in 1989 there was clear from the Scottish C86 scene that spawned bands like Primal Scream, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Vaselines and The Pastels. The hard core of the band form Norman Blake (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Raymond McGinley ( lead guitar, vocals) and Gerard Love ( bass, vocals ); these three are also responsible for the songwriting. Drummer was in the original cast and is currently mostly again Francis MacDonald, who often sat with the BMX Bandits on drums. In addition, both played on studio albums as with many live performances changing musician with the band, mostly "old friends " from other Scottish indie bands, such as the Telstar Ponies.

Their first album A Catholic Education was determined by hard, dissonant guitar sounds and earned little attention in the British music press. This changed with the second studio album Bandwagonesque, which appeared in 1991 and was enthusiastically received in the UK as in the U.S. by the music press. While it peaked in the American album charts only place 137, but it was named the best album of the year before Nirvana's Nevermind and REM's Out of Time by music magazine Spin; in 2006 it listed the NME nevertheless still number 79 its list of the 100 best British albums of all time. The sound of the album clearly showed the influence of American power pop bands of the 70s such as the Byrds and especially Big Star, Teenage Fanclub which has since been frequently compared. As a result, played the Fannies ( as her nickname ) some concerts as the opening act for Nirvana; In 1993 she took on the track Fallin ' with the hip-hop greats De La Soul for the soundtrack of Judgment Night. Scale, melodic guitars also influenced the next two albums, with Songs From Northern Britain (1997) and Howdy (2000) turned to the band after 1997, more folky acoustic sounds to.

Since Bandwagonesque the band gathers a small but loyal fan base especially in the UK and Scandinavia around to which also the Manic Street Preachers and Liam Gallagher of Oasis are about; the latter designated 1997 Teenage Fanclub as "second best band in the world " ( according to Oasis ). Large commercial success was still out, the highest chart position the band was merely a 17th place in the British singles chart with Is not That Enough in 1997. 2000, Sony even refused the album Howdy! to be published in the American market. It appeared a year later when indie label Thirsty Ear. To date, Teenage Fanclub is seen frequently live mainly in the UK. The most recent studio album Shadows was published in 2010.

Reception in popular culture

The band Angelika Express sings in her song Teenage Fanclub Girl on a flirtation that responds to the protagonist question of the " best group of all time" that he liked Teenage Fanclub quite well.

Discography

Albums

• A Catholic Education ( 1990)
• Bandwagonesque (1991 )
• The King (1991 )
• Thirteen (1993 )
• Deep Fried Fanclub (1995 )
• Grand Prix (1995 )
• Songs From Northern Britain (1997)
• Howdy! (2000)
• Words of Wisdom and Hope! (2002) [ with Jad Fair ]
• Four Thousand, Seven Hundred and Seventy seconds; A Shortcut to Teenage Fanclub (2003)
• Man-Made (2005)
• Shadows ( 2010)

Singles

• Everything Flows (1990 )
• Everybody 's Fool (1990 )
• The Ballad of John & Yoko (1990 )
• God Knows It's True (1990 )
• Star Sign ( 1991)
• The Concept (1991 )
• The Peel Sessions (1991 )
• What You Do To Me (1992 )
• Free Again / Bad Seeds (1992 )
• Radio ( 1993)
• Norman 3 (1993)
• Hang On (1993 )
• Mellow Doubt (1995 )
• Sparky's Dream ( 1995)
• Neil Young (1995 )
• Is not That Enough ( 1997)
• I Do not Want Control Of You (1997)
• Start Again (1997)
• Longshot (1998)
• I Need Direction (2000)
• Dumb Dumb Dumb (2001)
• Did I Say (2002)
• It's All In My Mind (2005)
• Baby Lee ( 2010)