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Infobox musical artist| name = Teenage Fanclub| image = TeenageFanclub001.jpg| caption = Teenage Fanclub live in 2010 ( Summer Sundae festival, Leicester)| landscape = yes| background = group_or_band| years_active = 1989& ndash;present| origin = Bellshill , Scotland | genre = Alternative rock , indie pop , shoegaze | label = Paperhouse (record label)|Paperhouse Creation Records|Creation Columbia Records|Columbia PeMa Matador Records|Matador DGC Records|DGC | current_members = Norman Blake (Scottish musician)|Norman Blake Raymond McGinley Gerard Love Francis MacDonald | past_members = Brendan O'Hare Paul Quinn Finlay MacDonald (musician)|Finlay MacDonald Teenage Fanclub are an alternative rock band from Bellshill, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake (Scottish musician)|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 . http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/teenagefanclub/biography Teenage Fanclub: Biography : Rolling Stonedead link|date=November 2011 As well as being compared to the Byrds, Teenage Fanclub have also been compared to Big Star (band)|Big Star , Neil Young , and Dinosaur Jr. cite web|url= http://www.nme.com/artists/teenage-fanclub |title=Teenage Fanclub - news, lyrics, pictures, reviews, biography, videos, best songs, discography, concerts, gossip, pictures and tour dates |publisher=Nme.com |date= |accessdate=2010-09-03 Although often pegged as alternative rock , the group has incorporated a wide variety of elements from various Music genre|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 (musician)|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.
History
Teenage Fanclub emerged from the Glasgow C86 (music)|C86 scene. Their sound is reminiscent of West Coast of the United States|West Coast musical band|band s like the Beach Boys and the Byrds , and their seventies counterparts Big Star (band)|Big Star . Originally a noisy and chaotic band, their first album A Catholic Education , released in 1990 on Paperhouse (record label)|Paperhouse , is largely atypical of their later sound, with the possible exception of "Everything Flows". The King (album)|The King , their next album, received critical reviews; it consisted of a number of self-confessedly shambolic guitar thrashes and a cover song|cover of Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna's " Like a Virgin ".
Their next album, Bandwagonesque , released on Creation Records in the UK, and Geffen Records|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| Spin magazine's 1991 end-of-year poll for best album, beating Nirvana (band)|Nirvana 's Nevermind , their Creation stablemates My Bloody Valentine (band)|My Bloody Valentine 's album Loveless (album)|Loveless , and R.E.M. 's Out of Time (album)|Out of Time .
The subsequent, Thirteen (Teenage Fanclub album)|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 (album)|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 (band)|Oasis called the band "the second best band in the world" — second only to Oasis.Citation needed|date=July 2010 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 .
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 (band)|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.cite web|url= http://www.teenagefanclub.com |title=Teenage Fanclub official website. "Work Starts on a New Album!" |publisher=Teenagefanclub.com |date= |accessdate=2011-11-01 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.cite web|url= http://www.teenagefanclub.com//? p=393 |title=Posting on Teenage Fanclub website |publisher=Teenagefanclub.com |date= |accessdate=2011-11-01 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 (Orange Juice song)|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".cite web|url= http://www.clashmusic.com/live-review/teenage-fanclub:-tennents-mutual |title=Clashmusic.com |publisher=Clashmusic.com |date=2008-10-29 |accessdate=2011-11-01
Discography
Studio albums
A Catholic Education (1990)
The King (album)|The King (1991) #53 UK Albums Chart|UK
Bandwagonesque (1991) #22 UK, #137 Billboard 200|US
Thirteen (Teenage Fanclub album)|Thirteen (1993) #14 UK
Grand Prix (album)|Grand Prix (1995) #7 UK, #68 Japan
"Association" (International Airport / Teenage Fanclub)
August 2004
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"Fallen Leaves" (Limited to 2,000 copies)
May 2005
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"It's All In My Mind"
November 2005
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"Baby Lee"
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| first= Martin C. | last= Strong | year= 2000 | title= The Great Rock Discography | edition= 5th | publisher= Mojo Books | location= Edinburgh | pages= 969–970 | isbn= 1-84195-017-3
References
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External links
http://www.teenagefanclub.com/ Official website
Teenage Fanclub Category:Scottish alternative rock groups Category:Creation Records artists Category:British power pop groups Category:Scottish rock music groups Category:Musical groups established in 1989 Category:Scottish indie rock groups Category:Matador Records artists Category:Jangle pop groups
