Bandwagonesque

Teenage Fanclub | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 12, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Geffen Gold Line Sp.
• ASIN: B000000P09
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,206 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #28 in Music > Rock > Power Pop
  • #28 in Music > Alternative Rock > British Alternative > General
  • #54 in Music > Alternative Rock > British Alternative > Britpop

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Album For the Ages, January 23, 2005

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Jasper Mcworthy (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bandwagonesque (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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every music lover should own this, November 17, 2000

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Andrew Aldridge (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bandwagonesque (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.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chilton Schmilton, this CD rocks candy baby!, March 3, 2000

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JP Wheeler - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bandwagonesque (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!