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Outstanding
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Advantages:
Great songs
Disadvantages:
A few songs are over - long
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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Teenage Fanclub were the founders of to my mind one of the most implausible music scenes ever. That so many Scottish bands would aim to recreate the sound of late sixties San Francisco is quite amazing. As well as being influenced by Love and The Byrds to name but two the Fannies brought their own flavour to this album. The album started in what was soon to become a much-loved style. "The Concept" epitomises their sound, growling feedback-soaked guitars overlayed by celestial vocal melodies. The other stand-out song on the album "Is this music?" an instrumental will be well known to Match of the Day viewers. Often overshadowed by the giant mediocrity that is Oasis The Fannies were with Primal Scream one of the finest bands on the Creation label, and this is still theibest album to date.
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and a whole load of generic, indie dishwater. In the middle of 1991, they went into a Liverpool studio, with Don Fleming producing, and emerged with a masterpiece....
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Before this astonishing album, Teenage Fanclub had released a couple of pleasant singles
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and a whole load of generic, indie dishwater. In the middle of 1991, they went into a Liverpool studio, with Don Fleming producing, and emerged with a masterpiece....
and a whole load of generic, indie dishwater. In the middle of 1991, they went into a Liverpool studio, with Don Fleming producing, and emerged with a masterpiece....
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