Teenage Fanclub
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Teenage Fanclub are an alternative rock
band from Bellshill, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake
(vocals, guitar), Raymond McGinley (vocals, lead guitar), Gerard Love (vocals, bass) and Francis MacDonald
(drums), with songwriting duties shared equally among Blake, McGinley and Love. In concert, the band usually alternate among the three songwriters (who all sing lead vocals on their own songs) giving equal playing time to each one's songs.
The band's sound relies heavily on chiming, Byrds-esque guitars and harmony
vocals. As well as being compared to the Byrds, Teenage Fanclub have also been compared to Big Star, Neil Young
, and Dinosaur Jr. Although often pegged as alternative rock
, the group has incorporated a wide variety of elements from various music styles
in its songs.
Teenage Fanclub has had a succession of drummers, including Francis MacDonald
, Brendan O’Hare and Paul Quinn, who was later replaced by the returning Francis MacDonald. Keyboardist Finlay MacDonald
(no relation) has also been a member.
As of July 2010, the band have released nine studio albums and two compilation album
s.
scene. Their sound is reminiscent of West Coast
bands like the Beach Boys
and the Byrds
, and their seventies counterparts Big Star. Originally a noisy and chaotic band, their first album A Catholic Education
, released in 1990 on Paperhouse
, is largely atypical of their later sound, with the possible exception of "Everything Flows". The King
, their next album, received critical reviews; it consisted of a number of self-confessedly shambolic guitar thrashes and a cover of Madonna's
"Like a Virgin
".
Their next album, Bandwagonesque
, released on Creation Records
in the UK, and Geffen
in the US, brought Teenage Fanclub a measure of commercial success. Bandwagonesque was more deliberately constructed, the hooks became stronger, the guitar
riff
s were brought under control, and the harmony vocals took shape. Bandwagonesque won Spin magazine's 1991 end-of-year poll for best album, beating Nirvana
's Nevermind
, their Creation stablemates My Bloody Valentine's album Loveless
, and R.E.M.
's Out of Time
.
The subsequent, Thirteen
, suffered scathing reviews on release. Brendan O'Hare left Teenage Fanclub during this period due to "musical differences" to be replaced by Paul Quinn (formerly of the Soup Dragons).
Grand Prix
, Teenage Fanclub's fifth album, was both a critical and commercial success in the UK, becoming their first top ten album. Released at the height of Britpop
it almost certainly benefited from being released on the Creation records label. In the United States
however the band failed to regain the ground that Thirteen had lost them. Around this time Liam Gallagher
of labelmates Oasis
called the band "the second best band in the world" — second only to Oasis.
Songs from Northern Britain
followed Grand Prix and built on the former's success. It became their highest charting release in the UK and contained their biggest hit single to date, "Ain't That Enough".
The follow-up album, Howdy!
, released on Columbia Records
in the UK after the demise of Creation, continued the sound of Songs from Northern Britain. Francis Macdonald rejoined as the drummer for the tour supporting the album after Quinn left the band. Quinn went on to form The Primary 5
.
In 2002, they released Words of Wisdom and Hope
with cult icon Jad Fair
of Half Japanese
.
Their final release on a Sony
label, Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds - A Shortcut to Teenage Fanclub, collected the Fanclub's best songs along with three new songs (one from each member).
Their next album, Man-Made
, was released on 2 May 2005, on the band's own PeMa label. Man-Made was recorded in Chicago in 2004, and produced by John McEntire
of Tortoise
.
In 2006, the band held two special concerts (in London and Glasgow) playing their 1991 album Bandwagonesque
in its entirety.
The band began work on their ninth album in August 2008, booking an initial three weeks at Leeders Farm recording studio in Norfolk. The album is called Shadows and is released on the band's own PeMa label. It became available in Europe, Australasia and Japan on 31 May 2010, and will be available from Merge Records
in North America on 8 June 2010. Gerard Love is also working on a solo album for release on Geographic backed by musicians including Bob Kildea, Tom Crossley, Dave McGowan and Brendan O'Hare.
Teenage Fanclub are influenced by The Box Tops
and Orange Juice
. They performed a cover of Orange Juice
's "Rip It Up" with Edwyn Collins
. In December 2010, at the ATP Bowlie 2 music festival, they performed as the backing band for Edwyn Collins. Teenage Fanclub were regularly name-checked by Kurt Cobain
in interviews and described by him as "the best band in the world".
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band from Bellshill, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake
Norman Blake (Scottish musician)
Norman Blake is a singer-songwriter in the Glasgow based band, Teenage Fanclub.Blake and Sean Dickson were in The Faith Healers together, which also contained various members at different times Stevie Gray, Hugh McLaughlin, Brian Carson and Colin Murray to name but a few.Blake and Carson were...
(vocals, guitar), Raymond McGinley (vocals, lead guitar), Gerard Love (vocals, bass) and Francis MacDonald
Francis MacDonald
Francis Macdonald is a drummer and sometime member of British alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub and used to play with BMX Bandits and Eugenius...
(drums), with songwriting duties shared equally among Blake, McGinley and Love. In concert, the band usually alternate among the three songwriters (who all sing lead vocals on their own songs) giving equal playing time to each one's songs.
The band's sound relies heavily on chiming, Byrds-esque guitars and harmony
Harmony
In music, harmony is the use of simultaneous pitches , or chords. The study of harmony involves chords and their construction and chord progressions and the principles of connection that govern them. Harmony is often said to refer to the "vertical" aspect of music, as distinguished from melodic...
vocals. As well as being compared to the Byrds, Teenage Fanclub have also been compared to Big Star, Neil Young
Neil Young
Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...
, and Dinosaur Jr. Although often pegged as alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
, the group has incorporated a wide variety of elements from various music styles
Music genre
A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music...
in its songs.
Teenage Fanclub has had a succession of drummers, including Francis MacDonald
Francis MacDonald
Francis Macdonald is a drummer and sometime member of British alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub and used to play with BMX Bandits and Eugenius...
, Brendan O’Hare and Paul Quinn, who was later replaced by the returning Francis MacDonald. Keyboardist Finlay MacDonald
Finlay MacDonald (musician)
Finlay MacDonald is a keyboardist, singer-songwriter, and former member of Scottish alternative rock bands Teenage Fanclub and BMX Bandits.He has been employed as a music industry lecturer at Reid Kerr College in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He is currently lead singer and guitarist for Lenzie...
(no relation) has also been a member.
As of July 2010, the band have released nine studio albums and two compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
s.
History
Teenage Fanclub emerged from the Glasgow C86C86 (music)
C86 is a cassette compilation released by the British music magazine NME in 1986, featuring new bands licensed from independent labels of the time. As a phrase, C86 quickly evolved into shorthand for a guitar-based musical genre characterised by "jangly" guitars and fey melodies, although other...
scene. Their sound is reminiscent of West Coast
West Coast of the United States
West Coast or Pacific Coast are terms for the westernmost coastal states of the United States. The term most often refers to the states of California, Oregon, and Washington. Although not part of the contiguous United States, Alaska and Hawaii do border the Pacific Ocean but can't be included in...
bands like the Beach Boys
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...
and the Byrds
The Byrds
The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964. The band underwent multiple line-up changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group disbanded in 1973...
, and their seventies counterparts Big Star. Originally a noisy and chaotic band, their first album A Catholic Education
A Catholic Education
- Personnel :* Norman Blake – Vocals, guitar* Gerard Love – Vocals, bass* Raymond McGinley – Vocals, guitar* Francis MacDonald – Drums* Brendan O'Hare – Drums...
, released in 1990 on Paperhouse
Paperhouse (record label)
Paperhouse Records was a British independent record label which operated from 1990 to 1993.The label was a short-lived joint venture by Glass Records owner David E. Barker and Fire Records owner Clive Solomon...
, is largely atypical of their later sound, with the possible exception of "Everything Flows". The King
The King (album)
-Personnel:*Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar*Gerard Love - Vocals, bass*Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar*Brendan O'Hare - Drums...
, their next album, received critical reviews; it consisted of a number of self-confessedly shambolic guitar thrashes and a cover of Madonna's
Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
"Like a Virgin
Like a Virgin
Like a Virgin is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna, released on November 12, 1984 by Sire Records. It was re-released worldwide in 1985, with the inclusion of the bonus track "Into the Groove". In 2001, Warner Bros. Records released a remastered version with two bonus...
".
Their next album, Bandwagonesque
Bandwagonesque
Bandwagonesque is the third album by Scottish alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, released in November 1991 on Creation Records. Bandwagonesque became famous by beating Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind to be voted 'album of the year' for 1991 by American music magazine Spin...
, released on Creation Records
Creation Records
Creation Records was a British independent record label headed by Alan McGee. Along with Dick Green and Joe Foster, McGee founded Creation in 1983. The label lasted until its demise in 1999. The name came from the 1960s band The Creation , whom McGee greatly admired. McGee, Green and Foster were...
in the UK, and Geffen
Geffen Records
Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-Beginnings:...
in the US, brought Teenage Fanclub a measure of commercial success. Bandwagonesque was more deliberately constructed, the hooks became stronger, the guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
riff
RIFF
The Resource Interchange File Format is a generic file container format for storing data in tagged chunks. It is primarily used to store multimedia such as sound and video, though it may also be used to store any arbitrary data....
s were brought under control, and the harmony vocals took shape. Bandwagonesque won Spin magazine's 1991 end-of-year poll for best album, beating Nirvana
Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
's Nevermind
Nevermind
Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991. Produced by Butch Vig, Nevermind was the group's first release on DGC Records...
, their Creation stablemates My Bloody Valentine's album Loveless
Loveless (album)
Loveless is the second studio album by alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine. Released on 4 November 1991, Loveless was recorded over a two-year period between 1989 and 1991 in nineteen recording studios...
, and R.E.M.
R.E.M.
R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
's Out of Time
Out of Time (album)
Out of Time is the seventh album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on Warner Bros. Records in 1991. With Out of Time R.E.M.'s status grew from that of a cult band to a massive international act. The record topped the album sales charts in both the U.S...
.
The subsequent, Thirteen
Thirteen (Teenage Fanclub album)
-Personnel:*Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar*Gerard Love - Vocals, bass*Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar*Brendan O'Hare - Drums...
, suffered scathing reviews on release. Brendan O'Hare left Teenage Fanclub during this period due to "musical differences" to be replaced by Paul Quinn (formerly of the Soup Dragons).
Grand Prix
Grand Prix (album)
-Personnel:...
, Teenage Fanclub's fifth album, was both a critical and commercial success in the UK, becoming their first top ten album. Released at the height of Britpop
Britpop
Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...
it almost certainly benefited from being released on the Creation records label. In the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
however the band failed to regain the ground that Thirteen had lost them. Around this time Liam Gallagher
Liam Gallagher
William John Paul "Liam" Gallagher is an English musician and singer-songwriter, the former frontman of the English rock band Oasis and currently of the band Beady Eye. Gallagher's erratic behaviour, distinctive singing style, and abrasive attitude have been the subject of commentary in the press...
of labelmates Oasis
Oasis (band)
Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...
called the band "the second best band in the world" — second only to Oasis.
Songs from Northern Britain
Songs from Northern Britain
-Personnel:*Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar*Gerard Love - Vocals, bass*Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar*Paul Quinn - Drums*George Borowski - Backing vocals, guitar*David Bianco - Piano*Sonia Slany - Strings*Jocelyn Pook - Strings*Ann Morfee - Strings...
followed Grand Prix and built on the former's success. It became their highest charting release in the UK and contained their biggest hit single to date, "Ain't That Enough".
The follow-up album, Howdy!
Howdy!
-Personnel:*Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar*Gerard Love - Vocals, bass*Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar*Finlay MacDonald - Vocals, keyboard, guitar*Paul Quinn - Drums*Megan Childs - Violin*Mick Cooke - Trumpet, Tuba*Sharon Fitzgerald - French Horn...
, released on Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
in the UK after the demise of Creation, continued the sound of Songs from Northern Britain. Francis Macdonald rejoined as the drummer for the tour supporting the album after Quinn left the band. Quinn went on to form The Primary 5
The Primary 5
The Primary 5 was a pop band from Glasgow, Scotland formed in 2003 by former Teenage Fanclub and Soup Dragons drummer Paul Quinn. The name referred to the band being the fifth that Quinn has played in. The band's first album North Pole was self-released on Quinn's Bellbeat Music label. They signed...
.
In 2002, they released Words of Wisdom and Hope
Words of Wisdom and Hope
-Personnel:*Jad Fair: Vocals*Norman Blake: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Keyboards, Additional Bass*Raymond MacGinley: Lead Guitar, Mandola*Finlay McDonald: Keyboards, Additional Bass*Gerard Love: Bass, Additional Drums*Katrina Mitchell: Drums*Paul Quinn: Drums...
with cult icon Jad Fair
Jad Fair
Jad Fair is an American singer, guitarist and graphic artist, most famous for being a founding member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese.-Biography:In 1974, with his brother David, Jad Fair founded the lo-fi group Half Japanese...
of Half Japanese
Half Japanese
Half Japanese is a punk rock band formed by brothers Jad and David Fair in their Coldwater, Michigan bedroom around 1975. Their original instrumentation included a small drum set, which they took turns playing; vocals; and an out of tune guitar...
.
Their final release on a Sony
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
label, Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds - A Shortcut to Teenage Fanclub, collected the Fanclub's best songs along with three new songs (one from each member).
Their next album, Man-Made
Man-Made
-Personnel:*Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar*Gerard Love - Vocals, bass*Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar*Francis MacDonald - Drums*John McCusker - Violin, viola*John McEntire - Piano...
, was released on 2 May 2005, on the band's own PeMa label. Man-Made was recorded in Chicago in 2004, and produced by John McEntire
John McEntire
John McEntire is an American recording engineer, drummer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best-known for being in Tortoise and The Sea and Cake, as well as being a highly in-demand producer and engineer....
of Tortoise
Tortoise (band)
Tortoise is an American post-rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1990.-Music:Tortoise's almost entirely instrumental music defies easy categorization, and the group gained significant attention from their early career. The members have roots in Chicago's fertile music scene, playing in...
.
In 2006, the band held two special concerts (in London and Glasgow) playing their 1991 album Bandwagonesque
Bandwagonesque
Bandwagonesque is the third album by Scottish alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, released in November 1991 on Creation Records. Bandwagonesque became famous by beating Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind to be voted 'album of the year' for 1991 by American music magazine Spin...
in its entirety.
The band began work on their ninth album in August 2008, booking an initial three weeks at Leeders Farm recording studio in Norfolk. The album is called Shadows and is released on the band's own PeMa label. It became available in Europe, Australasia and Japan on 31 May 2010, and will be available from Merge Records
Merge Records
Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as a way to release music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expanded to include artists from around the world and records...
in North America on 8 June 2010. Gerard Love is also working on a solo album for release on Geographic backed by musicians including Bob Kildea, Tom Crossley, Dave McGowan and Brendan O'Hare.
Teenage Fanclub are influenced by The Box Tops
The Box Tops
The Box Tops were a Memphis rock group of the second half of the 1960s. They are best known for the hits "The Letter," "Neon Rainbow," "Soul Deep," "I Met Her in Church," and "Cry Like A Baby," and are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period...
and Orange Juice
Orange Juice
Orange Juice was a Scottish post-punk band founded in the middle class Glasgow suburb of Bearsden as the Nu-Sonics in 1976. Edwyn Collins formed the Nu-Sonics with his school-mate Alan Duncan and was subsequently joined by James Kirk and Steven Daly, who left a band called The Machetes. The band...
. They performed a cover of Orange Juice
Orange Juice
Orange Juice was a Scottish post-punk band founded in the middle class Glasgow suburb of Bearsden as the Nu-Sonics in 1976. Edwyn Collins formed the Nu-Sonics with his school-mate Alan Duncan and was subsequently joined by James Kirk and Steven Daly, who left a band called The Machetes. The band...
's "Rip It Up" with Edwyn Collins
Edwyn Collins
Edwyn Stephen Collins is an Ivor Novello Award winning Scottish musician, playing mostly electric guitar-driven pop. Collins formed the musical group Nu-Sonics in 1976, which later became Orange Juice...
. In December 2010, at the ATP Bowlie 2 music festival, they performed as the backing band for Edwyn Collins. Teenage Fanclub were regularly name-checked by Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana...
in interviews and described by him as "the best band in the world".
Studio albums
- A Catholic EducationA Catholic Education- Personnel :* Norman Blake – Vocals, guitar* Gerard Love – Vocals, bass* Raymond McGinley – Vocals, guitar* Francis MacDonald – Drums* Brendan O'Hare – Drums...
(1990) - The KingThe King (album)-Personnel:*Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar*Gerard Love - Vocals, bass*Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar*Brendan O'Hare - Drums...
(1991) #53 UKUK Albums ChartThe UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... - BandwagonesqueBandwagonesqueBandwagonesque is the third album by Scottish alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, released in November 1991 on Creation Records. Bandwagonesque became famous by beating Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind to be voted 'album of the year' for 1991 by American music magazine Spin...
(1991) #22 UK, #137 USBillboard 200The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... - ThirteenThirteen (Teenage Fanclub album)-Personnel:*Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar*Gerard Love - Vocals, bass*Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar*Brendan O'Hare - Drums...
(1993) #14 UK - Grand PrixGrand Prix (album)-Personnel:...
(1995) #7 UK, #68 Japan - Songs from Northern BritainSongs from Northern Britain-Personnel:*Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar*Gerard Love - Vocals, bass*Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar*Paul Quinn - Drums*George Borowski - Backing vocals, guitar*David Bianco - Piano*Sonia Slany - Strings*Jocelyn Pook - Strings*Ann Morfee - Strings...
(1997) #3 UK - Howdy!Howdy!-Personnel:*Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar*Gerard Love - Vocals, bass*Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar*Finlay MacDonald - Vocals, keyboard, guitar*Paul Quinn - Drums*Megan Childs - Violin*Mick Cooke - Trumpet, Tuba*Sharon Fitzgerald - French Horn...
(2000) #33 UK - Words of Wisdom and HopeWords of Wisdom and Hope-Personnel:*Jad Fair: Vocals*Norman Blake: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Keyboards, Additional Bass*Raymond MacGinley: Lead Guitar, Mandola*Finlay McDonald: Keyboards, Additional Bass*Gerard Love: Bass, Additional Drums*Katrina Mitchell: Drums*Paul Quinn: Drums...
(2002) [with Jad FairJad FairJad Fair is an American singer, guitarist and graphic artist, most famous for being a founding member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese.-Biography:In 1974, with his brother David, Jad Fair founded the lo-fi group Half Japanese...
] - Man-MadeMan-Made-Personnel:*Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar*Gerard Love - Vocals, bass*Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar*Francis MacDonald - Drums*John McCusker - Violin, viola*John McEntire - Piano...
(2005) #34 UK - Shadows (2010) #30 UK
Compilation albums
- Deep Fried FanclubDeep Fried Fanclub-Personnel:*Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar*Gerard Love - Vocals, bass*Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar*Brendan O'Hare - Drums...
(1995) (B-SidesA-side and B-sideA-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
compilation) - Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds - A Short Cut to Teenage Fanclub (2003) [Compilation] #47 UKUK Albums ChartThe UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
EPs
- Teenage Fanclub Have Lost ItTeenage Fanclub Have Lost ItTeenage Fanclub Have Lost It is an EP by the band Teenage Fanclub, released in 1995 on Creation Records. The EP consists of acoustic versions of four previously-recorded songs, one from each of their previous four major studio albums...
(1995) - Scotland On Sunday (2005)
Singles
| Title | Release date | Chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
US Modern Rock Modern Rock Tracks Alternative Songs is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. It lists the 40 most-played songs on modern rock radio stations, most of which are alternative rock songs... |
||
| "Everything Flows" | 1990 (UK United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... )/1991 (US United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... ) |
- | - |
| "Everybody's Fool" | November 1990 | - | - |
| "The Ballad of John & Yoko" | October 1990 | - | - |
| "God Knows It's True God Knows It's True God Knows It's True is an EP by the band Teenage Fanclub, released in 1990 in the UK by Paperhouse and in 1991 in the USA by Matador Records.-Track listing:#"God Knows It's True" - 4:58#"Weedbreak" - 2:39#"So Far Gone" - 3:20#"Ghetto Blaster" - 1:53... " |
November 1990 | - | - |
| "Star Sign" | August 1991 | 44 | 4 |
| "The Concept" | October 1991 | 51 | 12 |
| "The Peel Sessions" | November 1992 | - | - |
| "What You Do To Me" | May 1992 | 31 | - |
| "Radio" | June 1993 | 31 | - |
| "Norman 3" | September 1993 | 50 | - |
| "Hang On" | February 1994 | - | 19 |
| "Fallin' Fallin' (1994 song) "Fallin" is a collaboration between hip hop trio De La Soul, and Scottish alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, released in early 1994.The song was recorded for the soundtrack to the action film Judgment Night, which featured other collaborations between well-known rock, metal and hip hop... " (with De La Soul De La Soul De La Soul is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987 on Long Island, New York. The band is best known for their eclectic sampling, quirky lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres... ) |
March 1994 | 59 | - |
| "Mellow Doubt" | March 1995 | 34 | - |
| "Sparky's Dream" | May 1995 | 40 | - |
| "Neil Jung" | August 1995 | 62 | - |
| "Teenage Fanclub Have Lost It Teenage Fanclub Have Lost It Teenage Fanclub Have Lost It is an EP by the band Teenage Fanclub, released in 1995 on Creation Records. The EP consists of acoustic versions of four previously-recorded songs, one from each of their previous four major studio albums... " (EP) |
December 1995 | 53 | - |
| "Ain't That Enough" | June 1997 | 17 | - |
| "I Don't Want Control of You" | August 1997 | 43 | - |
| "Start Again" | November 1997 | 54 | - |
| "Long Shot" | June 1998 | - | - |
| "I Need Direction" | October 2000 | 48 | - |
| "Dumb Dumb Dumb" | June 2001 | - | - |
| "Near to You" (with Jad Fair Jad Fair Jad Fair is an American singer, guitarist and graphic artist, most famous for being a founding member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese.-Biography:In 1974, with his brother David, Jad Fair founded the lo-fi group Half Japanese... ) |
2002 | 68 | - |
| "Did I Say" | 2002 | - | - |
| "Association" (International Airport / Teenage Fanclub) | August 2004 | 75 | - |
| "Fallen Leaves" (Limited to 2,000 copies) | May 2005 | - | - |
| "It's All In My Mind" | November 2005 | - | - |
| "Baby Lee" | April 2010 | - | - |