so i was listening to teenage fanclub

[no, you are]

i completely forgot about these guys. if you get a chance go pick up bandwagonesque

[MarkW]

You're right, no, you are.  Grand Prix is not too shoddy, either.

[dragonboy]

Lot's of love for the fannies here  :)

[MarkW]

Lot's of love for the fannies here  :)

Yes, db.  We're real fanny men*, aren't we?

[size=8]*Puerile British humour alert.[/size]

[mjkoehler]

Puerile humor is ok. More Please.

If one wanted to check out these guys because sadly one has never listened to them, where would one start. Hypothetically speaking of course.

[tenn]

Puerile humor is ok. More Please.

If one wanted to check out these guys because sadly one has never listened to them, where would one start. Hypothetically speaking of course.

Well if one hadn't replaced their CD's from the tape days one would start with Songs from Northern Britain.

[dragonboy]

You can't go wrong with any of their first 5 albums; Catholic Education, Bandwagonesque, 13, Grand Prix & Northern Britain.

Catholic Education my not be the best place to start but Everything Flows is one of my fav songs of all time:
http://www.myspace.com/theteenagefanclub

I guess they never made in the US? Amazon.com marketplace sellers have their early albums for silly money...

Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds: A Short Cut to Teenage Fanclub is a good best of.

[mjkoehler]

Thanks

I don't think they were big over here, at least not that I remember. But other then Verve/Oasis/Blur, not many from that era where...Sadly.

[dragonboy]

I don't think they were big over here, at least not that I remember. But other then Verve/Oasis/Blur, not many from that era where...Sadly.

& that's what makes you & Pennylane so special Mike  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

I swear the stork was knackered that day & dropped you 2 off on the wrong side of the pond  ;)

[mjkoehler]

I don't think they were big over here, at least not that I remember. But other then Verve/Oasis/Blur, not many from that era where...Sadly.

& that's what makes you & Pennylane so special Mike  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

I swear the stork was knackered that day & dropped you 2 off on the wrong side of the pond  ;)

Tell me about it! My head (and heart) are in England some days. I blame my mum's side of the family for that.  ::)

[MarkW]

If one wanted to check out these guys because sadly one has never listened to them, where would one start. Hypothetically speaking of course.

Can't go wrong with Bandwagonesque.  Or Grand Prix.  You should look for them in the same rack as Glasvegas...

[dragonboy]

If one wanted to check out these guys because sadly one has never listened to them, where would one start. Hypothetically speaking of course.

Can't go wrong with Bandwagonesque.  Or Grand Prix.

From The Guardian's 1000 Albums To Hear Before You Die:

Teenage Fanclub
Grand Prix (1995)
Grand Prix was the most satisfying refinement of that curious musical strand: Scottish indie kids playing their take on the Byrds and Neil Young. Sad, then, that it was released in the summer of English musical nationalism, when its many glories were obscured by the heat-haze ofBritpop.

[mjkoehler]

OK, the closer on Bandwagonesque, Is This Music? is gorgeous slice of instrumental guitar pop heaven.