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Teenage Fanclub Album Discography Pt II Thirteen bonus Grand Prix bonus Songs From Northern Britain

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Teenage Fanclub - Album Discography Pt.II (1993 - 1997)


Thirteen (1993) Creation Records/Geffen Records

1. Hang On
2. The Cabbage
3. Radio
4. Norman 3
5. Song to the Cynic
6. 120 Mins
7. Escher
8. Commercial Alternative
9. Fear of Flying
10. Tears Are Cool
11. Ret Liv Dead
12. Get Funky
13. Gene Clark

Japan bonus tracks
14. Genius Envy
15. Don's Gone Columbia
16. Chords of Fame (Phil Ochs)
17. Weird Horses
18. Golden Glades
19. Older Guys (Gram Parsons)

Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar
Gerard Love - Vocals, bass
Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar
Brendan O'Hare - Drums

The follow-up to the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Bandwagonesque,
Thirteen has suffered by comparison, with the band declaring it wasn't an easy album
to make. However, it's a more than worthy successor and trimmed to 10 tracks would have
been even better. The opening quartet (three of which were singles) are prime Fanclub,
with 120 mins and Escher not far behind. the 'second side' is less immediate, with
Raymond McGinley's Tears Are Cool a subtle highlight. The Japan edition added six more
tracks, all b-sides in the UK. Notably Brendan O'Hare has two tracks here, his last
contribution for the band. The album title supposedly derives from the Big Star song of
the same name, although the thirteen tracks and it being the Third Teenage Fanclub album
(if you disregard The King) may have all factored.

EAC secure rip with log/cue from original Japan Geffen CD. Artwork included.

UK bonus disc

1. Goody Goody Gumdrops
2. Radio (version)
3. It's So Hard To Fall In Love
4. Gene Clarke (version)

No info on this UK bonus disc but it appears to be an uncredited radio session, probably
for the BBC. Covers 1 and 3 are originally by The 1910 Fruitgum Company and Sebadoh
respectively.



Grand Prix (1995) Creation Records/Geffen Records

1. About You
2. Sparky's Dream
3. Mellow Doubt
4. Don't Look Back
5. Verisimilitude
6. Neil Jung
7. Tears
8. Discolite
9. Say No
10. Going Places
11. I'll Make It Clear
12. I Gotta Know
13. Hardcore/Ballad

Generally regarded as the band's finest hour, Grand Prix boasts all three songwriters
at the top of their game. If you're not convinced by Sparky's Dream, Don't Look Back,
Neil Jung, Discolite, I'll Make It Clear or Mellow Doubt, then Teenage Fanclub is not
the band for you. Every song here is a gem and most continue to make regular appearances
in the live set. Hilariously Q magazine rated Grand Prix #72 in its Top 100 Greatest
British Albums Ever poll. There are barely 71 British albums worth owning, let alone
better ones that this.

EAC secure rip with log/cue from original UK Creation CD. Artwork included.


UK bonus 7" EP.

1. Discolite (demo)
2. Voicemail from Rodney Bingenheimer
3. I Gotta Know (demo)
4. Coffee Morning (instrumental)
5. Norman's Answerphone Message
6. Untitled instrumental

One of the rarest items in the TFC catalogue, this 7" was only available with the intial
vinyl pressing of the album. Gerry Love's Discolite demo is amusingly shambolic, Raymond
McGinley's I Gotta Know demo far more polished.

My vinyl rip cleaned with click repair.


Australian Tour Edition Bonus CD

1. About You (acoustic)
2. Between Us (Innes)
3. For You
4. Try And Stop Me (Pickett/Phillips)
5. Who Loves The Sun (Reed)

Made up of tracks from UK b-sides of the period, this five-track disc was available with
the Australian tour edition of Grand Prix.

Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar
Gerard Love - Vocals, bass
Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar
Paul Quinn - Drums
David Bianco - Occasional guitar, piano, vocals (producer)

EAC secure rip with log/cue from original Australian CD. Disc art included.




Songs From Northern Britain (1997) Creation Records

1. Start Again
2. Ain't That Enough
3. Can't Feel My Soul
4. I Don't Want Control of You
5. Planets
6. It's a Bad World
7. Take the Long Way Round
8. Winter
9. I Don't Care
10. Mount Everest
11. Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From
12. Speed of Light

Probably the most underrated album in the entire TFC discography, Songs from Northern Britain
contains a handful of their absolutely finest songs. In Ain't That Enough, Gerard Love created
the quintessential Fanclub song and Norman Blake's Start Again and Planets run it close.
For those three alone, Rolling Stone's 2 star review is absurd, but there's plenty more here
to make this another classic.

Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar
Gerard Love - Vocals, bass
Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar
Paul Quinn - Drums
George Borowski - Backing vocals, guitar
David Bianco - Piano

EAC secure rip with log/cue from original UK Creation CD. Artwork included.


Part III tomorrow... Howdy! (2000), Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds - A Short
Cut To Teenage Fanclub (compilation, 2002), Man-Made (2005) and the 2002 collaboration with Jad
Fair, Words Of Wisdom And Hope.

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