A winning debut, yes, but A Catholic Education scarcely hints at the `Club's glorious songwriting and harmonizing skills (the vocals sound more like J. Mascis than David...
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One of absolute best pop albums of the last 10 years, or hell, EVER, Bandwagonesque contains far too many positively sublime harmony-laden tunes to list here. Try the epic...
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The gold standard of the early-'90s power pop revival, in its own way Bandwagoneque was as much a benchmark as contemporary records like Nevermind and Loveless; though not...
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The four-song stopgap EP God Knows It's True bridges the divide between the molten proto-grunge of Teenage Fanclub's debut album A Catholic Education and the raggedly...
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A minor disappointment after the much-hyped Bandwagonesque, but still a grossly underrated LP, replete with Bread-like harmonies and unexpected tinges of psychedelic...
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Unjustly savaged by fans and critics alike upon its initial release, with the benefit of hindsight Thirteen has revealed itself an eminently worthy follow-up to the classic...
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What You Do to Me, the second single from Teenage Fanclub's breakthrough Bandwagonesque, is without a doubt the most sublime 16-word love song ever written. A wonderfully...
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What You Do to Me, the second single from Teenage Fanclub's breakthrough Bandwagonesque, is without a doubt the most sublime 16-word love song ever written -- a wonderfully...
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Just as everyone was foolishly writing them off as has-beens, the Fannies triumphantly returned with this splendid, fully realized album of lush, pastoral Americana-pop....
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For all of the brilliance of records like Bandwagonesque and the underrated Thirteen, at times Teenage Fanclub seemed little more than a showcase for the laconic melodic...
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The Fannies come full-circle from the distortion and feedback of A Catholic Education to build on the idyllic Byrdsian pop established with Grand Prix. It's almost...
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No longer the brash, slightly grungy flavor of the month they were in 1992, Songs From Northern Britain finds Teenage Fanclub's trio of singer/songwriters -- Gerard Love,...
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And then there were three. Bands these days don't keep their drummers around very long. R.E.M. don't have an official one. Tom Petty woke up one morning and found a new guy...
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Noel Gallagher hit the proverbial nail on the head in 1997 when he sat his labelmates Teenage Fanclub down at Air Studios in London and proclaimed them to be the second-best...
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The UK's Teenage Fanclub not only learn from their retro influences, they improve on them. Howdy! is a tour-de-force of 60's production and melodicism, overseen by the sharp...
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Once hailed as the second coming of Big Star, the trio of singer/songwriters who make up Teenage Fanclub -- Norman Blake, Gerard Love, and Raymond McGinley -- have attained...
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