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Crotchety critics complained that this Glaswegian quartet sounded too close to cult Memphis band Big Star for their own or anyone else's good, but Bandwagonesque proved that unapologetic homage can sometimes work. The Fanclub's mesh of yearning, ethereal melody and cranked, feed-backing guitars came together superbly on "The Concept," "Metal Baby," and the thrashing "Star Sign"--mini-blizzards of mellifluousness that yoked Alex Chilton to Crazy Horse and the Ramones. Dismiss "Alcholiday" as "record collection rock" if you must: it doesn't make the track any less sublime. --Barney Hoskyns
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
All the reviews are true, (except only giving it 4 stars) This album is the highlight of a very confusing time in music. When the world was hypnotized by Nirvana and labeling every rock band into the grunge category, you have a band that truly stood on their own terms and wasn't trying to make you feel sad. Rather they were creating moods of their own.
How can you describe the feeling on "The Concept" it's just musical stone still bliss. I think of this song as being locked into a timeless moment, and the music is able to swirl around your soul so very snuggly.
"Alcoholiday" is the song that makes strong men weep. Something about the singing really bends the mood and you feel at peace with their sound, caught in a twister of oohs and aahs. Out of all of Teenage Fanclub's works this has to be their moment in time. I find myself always going back to this one when I want to listen to them.
How can you describe the feeling on "The Concept" it's just musical stone still bliss. I think of this song as being locked into a timeless moment, and the music is able to swirl around your soul so very snuggly.
"Alcoholiday" is the song that makes strong men weep. Something about the singing really bends the mood and you feel at peace with their sound, caught in a twister of oohs and aahs. Out of all of Teenage Fanclub's works this has to be their moment in time. I find myself always going back to this one when I want to listen to them.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Teenage Fanclub have made a better album than this in the form of Grand Prix but Bandwagonesque is an equally essential purchase. Part self-conscious evocation of sixties' pop, part grunge-inspired guitar fest, Norman Blake, Raymond McGuinley and Gerard Love pointed the way for a host of cross-Atlantic guitar bands with a Lennon/Wilson fixation and a modicum of talent. Alcoholiday, a blaze of criss-cross guitars and heart-breaking lyrics, is one of the finest singles never released, while The Concept, Star Sign and Guiding Star are not far behind. Utterly wonderful.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By JP Wheeler
Format:Audio CD
The inevitable (and well deserved) comparisons to Big Star aside, this is "it" when it comes to jangly guitar rock in the 90's. Along with "The Auteurs" and "The Apples in Stereo", "Teenage Fanclub" dusts off Chilton-Bell's sound and turns it into their own powerful machine gun of angst. If you love power pop of the classic variety this CD belongs on your changer 100% of the time. The challenge for anyone who teen'd in the 70's is to listen to "December", "The Concept" or "Guiding Star" and NOT be transported back to High School. Buy this CD yesterday (at this price buy copies for anyone you know in their 40's who hasn't smiled alot lately)! It's only one of the top 10 CD's of the 90's!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nineties power-pop at its best
Bandwagonesque is Teenage Fanclub at its very best; moving away from the proto-grunge sound of their debut, Catholic Education, this 1991 release is prime time power-pop revival,... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Luis Mejia
3.0 out of 5 stars
Spun it three times -- no more
I bought this cd sometime in 2011 from the reject bin of my local second spin for cheap because I thought "this is supposed to be good I guess I'll give it a shot". Read more
Published 18 months ago by barnard gumble
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not great...
I don't understand why many people say this is Teenage Fanclub's best album. It's actually quite boring - but then many people would say that TF ARE boring! Read more
Published on March 3, 2011 by puma
5.0 out of 5 stars
Big Big Star influence;
Teenage Fanclub apes Big Star big time on this album, but who's complaining? There are enough good tracks here to satisfy this Big Star fan. Read more
Published on August 29, 2010 by Fredric A. Cooper
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Album of 1991. Seriously
I drove cross country alone at 18 with this album. Somewhere around Ogden Utah I realized I loved this album. 16 years later I still listen to it. Read more
Published on November 14, 2008 by Stephen J. Walker
4.0 out of 5 stars
crisp and fresh
15 years after its release, this album still sounds really crisp and fresh. I can picture this being on the radio today even moreso than in the early 90's. Read more
Published on May 24, 2007 by Angela Copeland
4.0 out of 5 stars
Perfect Introduction to the POP ROCKIN' Brit group: Teenage Fan Club
BANDWAGONESQUE was my introduction to Teenage Fanclub. This is "The Fannies" 3rd release and their first successful achievement. Read more
Published on April 17, 2007 by Chris G.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Memories of all kinds
This album reminds me of a great alternative rock radio station in Minnesota circa 1991. Just at the time I thought "rock" was dead, along came that radio station and albums like... Read more
Published on April 2, 2007 by Misanthrope
5.0 out of 5 stars
deserves its classic status.
from the stunning opener "the concept," with its wonderfully lyrical guitar solos, on through the closing intrumental "is this music?" this is a power pop classic. Read more
Published on February 13, 2007 by fluffy, the human being.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pure Classic melodic pop!
If you love perfect early 1970's style pop, this is for you! One of my all time favorite cds, rich with lush harmonies and rock and roll guitars. Read more
Published on December 3, 2006 by Davie Holifield
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