Bandwagonesque

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Although TFC have continued to release good albums since, they’ve never really been able to recapture the attention that this gave them, which says more about the record buying public than it does about the band themselves. I loved love songs: the Cure, Depeche Mode, Treepeople, Hazel ... music that had something emotive about it. I was an incredibly romantic kid. My dad’s job meant we moved every two to three years; I had a hard time adjusting, meeting new people and getting comfortable with them. There is a line of xenophobia that runs through me, from moving every couple of years and having to assess new relationships – was it worth giving myself to this person in a friendship or a relationship? I remember a teenage memory of listening to the Cure’s Pictures of You on repeat after I had moved from one high school to another, just after I had got my first girlfriend, just started a band. I felt like I was fitting in, then we had to move again. If there’s one line I’d love to keep from my initial review it would be, ”I’m sitting here listening in my heavy terry cloth bathrobe and I feel cool as Kim Deal, feeling that I want to do something dangerous.” Geffen hated it’ … the band in 1992 with the offending artwork. Photograph: Brian Rasic/Getty Images Raymond McGinley, vocals, lead guitar

Pitchfork said, "By the fist-pumping coda—a marvel of searing guitars, bombastic drums, and wistful three-part harmonies—it's clear that frontman Norman Blake isn't in love with the girl so much as he relishes the idea of being in the band onstage, basking in the glow of raised lighters." [8] Charts [ edit ] Chart (1991/1992)

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a b c Unterberger, Andrew (7 April 2015). "SPIN 30: Teenage Fanclub Talk Unlikely Breakout Album, 'Bandwagonesque' ". Spin . Retrieved 3 February 2020. Before its release, there were no real hints that TFC were capable of putting-out something as mighty. Their earlier albums; the debut A Catholic Education and their follow-up, The King were only intermittently exciting. The effortless melodies that have since become the hallmark of all TFC records might still have been evident, but they were too often lost amidst a grungier sound. We didn’t have a manager at the time and I was so tied up doing that kind of thing that I only wrote one song on the record, but I still felt I contributed in lots of other ways. It was a good collective experience. Me and Norman had spent a few years in the wilderness waiting to get to a place where we had time in a studio with a band, so we enjoyed focusing on ourselves. Walker, Gary (28 April 2021). "The Genius Of… Bandwagonesque by Teenage Fanclub". Guitar.com . Retrieved 20 September 2022.

Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p.2000. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8. Larkin, Colin, ed. (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rded.). Virgin Books. p.147. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6. Two years later, in 1997, they returned with Songs From Northern Britain, a wise and ornate record about domestic life. By now, Blake had gotten married and become a father, and he could write brilliantly unguarded love songs like “I Don’t Want Control of You” and “Start Again,” with lyrics as poignant as his melodies. McGinley’s ballad “Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From” paints a similar portrait, as still and persistent as the fireplace in your living room. In both its thematic concerns and its gentle, pastoral tone, Songs From Northern Britain is an embrace of native terrain. Their contentment sounds radiant. a b Cosby, James A. (8 May 2018). "The 25 Best Songs of Teenage Fanclub". PopMatters . Retrieved 3 February 2020.

After Love's departure, Euros Childs joined the band on keyboards and vocals, with Dave McGowan switching over to bass and vocals. [3] A new album with this line-up, titled Endless Arcade, was recorded in early and late 2019. It was originally planned for release in October 2020 to coincide with a UK and Europe tour the following November and December. [18] However, the tour was rescheduled for April and May 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, [19] and the album's release date would eventually be set for 5 March 2021. [20] The album release date and tour would end up being rescheduled once again, with Endless Arcade coming out on 30 April 2021 and the tour dates postponed to September 2021 and April and May 2022. [21] Bandwagoneesque is arguably a stunning if not beautiful body of work, one that’s nearly perfect, a body of work that has stood the test of time with ease and grace, where Teenage Fanclub have moved from new kids on the music scene to a band who continue to deliver quality material in much the same manner as did Luna and the Sand Pebbles. I say this because while hints of their past still show up on this album, for the most part it is a re-emergence for the band, infused with a loftier sound, more polished, perhaps more mainstream, yet still with an undeniable power and grace, delivering a sonic musical landscape that blurs boundaries and settles in nicely as the record spins on.

Richards, Sam (3 March 2020). "Teenage Fanclub announce new album, Endless Arcade". Uncut . Retrieved 26 January 2020. Browne, David (10 January 1992). "Bandwagonesque". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 16 November 2015. The story of Teenage Fanclub's early days features in the 2017 documentary Teenage Superstars. [13] a b Monroe, Jazz (20 August 2018). "Teenage Fanclub Part Ways With Gerard Love". Pitchfork . Retrieved 20 August 2018. Horsfield, Martin (9 March 2016). "Teenage Fanclub – 10 of the best". The Guardian . Retrieved 3 February 2020.Beaumont, Mark (6 January 2017). "Shoegaze albums - 10 of the best". NME . Retrieved 14 November 2022. Salmon, Ben (10 August 2018). "The 20 Best Teenage Fanclub Songs". Paste . Retrieved 3 February 2020. They gave us money and let us do what we wanted. Nobody gave us a hard time about anything. they bet their lives on the madness and whims of musicians” Their final release on a Sony label, Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds – A Short Cut to Teenage Fanclub, collected the Fanclub's best songs along with three new songs (one from each member).

Jonze, Tim (12 August 2019). "Teenage Fanclub: how we made Bandwagonesque". The Guardian . Retrieved 20 September 2022.For lots of bands this presented a bounty of bandwagons upon which to jump. Turgid acts like U2 could strap on a few dance beats and become relevant again, and an up and coming band like Blur could hedge their bets and place a foot in more than one camp. People ask me what my hobbies are outside of the band and I say, ‘I like guitars, I like studios, I like buying records’. I’m in my dream job” An unpolished, imperfect treasure, Bandwagonesque was launched into a music world that had awoken from the bloated double denim excesses of the 80s and embraced the nascent grunge, shoegaze and baggy scenes, yet here were Teenage Fanclub plotting their own course regardless. Emerging from Scotland’s C86 scene, the Fannies had concocted a brand of timeless guitar pop with its roots in the 60s, diving off the breaking wave of American grunge. Brilliantly, they presented their new sound to Nirvana’s adoring fans all over Europe and Scandinavia, invited by Kurt Cobain as support on the Nevermind tour.