Early Teenage Fanclub - Peel Sessions

Vintage65

I never knew this existed, it must have been recorded about 14 or 15  months before the release of Bandwagonesque.

euan

Those Maida Vale engineers in the early 90d really knew how to record a band didn’t they?

For whatever reason it never struck me how much early TFC sounded like a less audibly cryptic Dinosaur Jr

GoFish

That's a good description.

horse

Interesting to hear an earlier version of Alcoholiday, which has always been a fave of mine

CaseOfAce

I've always loved their cover of Alex Chilton's Free Again..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_G7Bt1ijog

Vintage65

horse said:

Interesting to hear an earlier version of Alcoholiday, which has always been a fave of mine

Different lyrics too.

Revolutions

This is cool, thanks for sharing!

ewal

This is the version of the Fannies I was acquainted with. Tbh I was less enamoured with Bandwagonesque because it lack the energy of the early gigs and first album. I was wrong - they were right.

ICBM

They’re a band I’ve really tried to like - I’ve always felt I really should - but just can’t. I find them incredibly frustrating… a band in an endless search for one great song and never quite getting there, although maddeningly close with so many - to the point I now actually find them irritating. I’ve seen them live twice and felt the same there too.

Vintage65

ICBM said:

They’re a band I’ve really tried to like - I’ve always felt I really should - but just can’t. I find them incredibly frustrating… a band in an endless search for one great song and never quite getting there, although maddeningly close with so many - to the point I now actually find them irritating. I’ve seen them live twice and felt the same there too.

I've always thought of them as a band with ideas that were worth borrowing. Creation Records was a great label for guitar based music during that era.

horse

ICBM said:

They’re a band I’ve really tried to like - I’ve always felt I really should - but just can’t. I find them incredibly frustrating… a band in an endless search for one great song and never quite getting there, although maddeningly close with so many - to the point I now actually find them irritating. I’ve seen them live twice and felt the same there too.

 At first I was surprised to read that - I think they've lot loads of great songs.

But thinking about it more I think I generally just really love the sound they make, and that makes a lot of their songs great to me. Plus songs that are firmly placed in nostalgic times in my life.

I've always felt a lot of soul in their music. Like a yearning quality.

Revolutions

I find bandwagonesque a bit difficult at times, but the raw energy is amazing.

The album run of Thirteen/Grand Prix/Northern Britain is almost perfect. If only thirteen had better production, and I’ve found Grand Prix actually a little difficult to listen to these days unless I’m in the right mood.

something fun: when the Byrds literally gave teenage fanclub their chorus template (from 0:30 onwards)  https://youtu.be/nu0Hd3gPbLQ?si=N-hTIQCTK5IVDhlT