jueves, septiembre 10, 2026
New Music: Be With You Tonight
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New Music: There Was You
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New Music: Day In The Sun
miércoles, junio 11, 2025
Rocktrospectiva: THe Dark Heavy "A Catholic Education" Turns 35
Teenage Fanclub had been formed in 1989 by ex-members of BMX Bandits. Their 1990 debut, A Catholic Education, is far less devoted to 60's jangle-driven songwriting, and instead features more Hard Rock-oriented power-chording and pentatonic leads akin to Deep Purple and Killing Joke. It's not that distorted nor that extreme, but is noticeably more youth-oriented than their following works, and the half-spoken vocal performance is more off-key as well. Still, the D tuning adds some melodic uniqueness on the songs, especially on tracks such as "Don't Need a Drum", and the intense "Heavy Metal II", other highlights are "Everything Flows", "Don't Need a Drum".
The album's dark, heavy sound has been described as differing in tone and style from the band's later power pop work. The main influences on that first Teenage Fanclub album would've been Sonic Youth's Evol and Daydream Nation, those records. And we liked Exile on Main St. a lot. We liked Arthur Lee." Buffalo Springfield, the Beatles, and Neil Young also proved influential.
After finishing his drum parts for the album, Macdonald left the band to be replaced by Brendan O'Hare. Macdonald: "I’d always said, "I’m happy to be on the record, but I’ll probably go back to university and finish my studies afterwards." Even though the band now had an album’s worth of material, they weren’t completely happy with it, so they decided to re-record four songs at Suite 16 in Rochdale with O'Hare on drums.
Norman Blake said of the album title in 2016: "A Catholic Education was an irreverent thing, we thought it would get a reaction living in the west of Scotland and we knew people would say ‘what do they mean, what’s that all about,’ kind of thing. I wasn’t Catholic but I think we wanted to provoke a response. ... Certainly no one was angry with us for calling it that. We also meant it in the other meaning of Catholic being eclectic and bringing a lot of influences to the band. We just thought it sounded good as well."
jueves, mayo 29, 2025
Rocktrospectiva: The Formidable "Grand Prix" Turns 30
The superb "Grand Prix" album is considered perhaps the truest group effort, their democratic approach truly bears fruit, and it's indicative of the disc's uniform excellence that the first Blake composition, the lovely "Mellow Doubt," doesn't even surface until track three, by which time McGinley's "About You" and Love's harmony-rich "Sparky's Dream" have already firmly established the set's ragged-but-right tenor.
Unfortunately the new drummer Paul Quinn fails to recreate the buoyantly reckless abandon of the sacked Brendan O'Hare, otherwise the album captures complete creative synergy -- in particular, "Don't Look Back" is Love's watershed moment, a gorgeously wistful love song highlighted by wittily lovelorn lyrics like "I'd steal a car to drive you home," as good a pick-up line as anything in the annals of rock & roll.
Althought there were certain fillers just like "Verisimilitude", this doesn't matter with Blake's
contributions are still the highlights "Neil Jung" and "I'll Make It
Clear" are simply perfect pop songs, but Grand Prix is ultimately the
product of a band at the peak of its collective powers, not as much a
landmark as Bandwagonesque but every bit as good on its own terms.
It remains their high watermark., especially because it was released at the height of Britpop, due for this, it was criminally overlooked for the likes of Echobelly and Menswear. Yet you’d struggle to find a more perfect pop album than this, 42 breathless minutes, it condenses the best bits of the Byrds, Big Star and early Beach Boys into thirteen, sun drenched tracks.
From the opening rush of About You and Sparky’s Dream through to the slower, reflective Verisimilitude and Going Places, Grand Prix is an album about being hopelessly, head-over-heels in love.
Maybe musically the template is familiar, but lyrically it’s their most mature work to date with Gerard Love’s line in Don’t Look Back and it was a reminder that the Fannies were maybe too smart for the mainstream.
lunes, julio 10, 2023
Primicia: Tired Of Being Alone
La banda Escocesa Teenage Fanclub estrena el clip oficial de su nuevo single "Tired Of Being Alone" una suave balada que se extrae de su producción "Nothing Lasts Forever" el clip ha ha sido filmado en el faro de Vibberodden cerca de Egersund en Noruega y contó con la participación de varias personas locales que contribuyeron para la producción del mismo.
miércoles, mayo 31, 2023
Primicia: Foreign Land
jueves, noviembre 04, 2021
Rocktrospectiva: El Precioso "Bandwagonesque" Cumple 30 Años
martes, abril 20, 2021
Primicia: In Our Dreams
domingo, enero 31, 2021
Primicia: I'm More Inclined
lunes, febrero 25, 2019
Primicia: Everything Is Falling Apart
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Rocktrospectiva: Bandwagonesque La Obra Cumbre De Teenage Fanclub Cumple 25 Años
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Primicia: I'm In Love
viernes, noviembre 04, 2011
Rocktrospectiva: El Encanto De Bandwangonesque 20 Años Después

La banda escocesa apeló a un concepto hundido dentro de las raices del rock en vez de apuntar sus cañones hacía un sonido mucho más alternativo sin embargo la apuesta después de todo fue la mejor para los Teenage Fanclub ya que Bandwangonesque sigue siendo su punto más alto trayendoles el éxito comercial a la banda debido a que tanto sus riffs guitarreros como las armonías tuvieron mucho más control y forma.
Desgracidamente la critica los tacho de poco creativos en una epoca en que imperaban el shoegazing, el dance y los últimos coletazos del madchester en Gran Bretaña mientras que en Estados Unidos la situación sería más dificil debido al imponente reinado del grunge, sin embargo la banda logro hacerse de un hueco en gran parte por sus excelentes y enganchables singles entre los que destacan "The Concept", "Starsing" y "What You Do To Me" clásicos absolutos dentro del indie, los cuales se mezclaban perfectamente con otros temas más sentimentales como "Guiding Star", logrando el coctél perfecto entre los Beach Boys y los fabulosos Sonic Youth.
Sin duda alguna es uno de los álbumes más esenciales dentro de la historia del indie destacando no solo por su concepto sonoro sino por la curiosa portada de la bolsa de dinero, desgraciadamente la banda no volvio a alcanzar tales dimensiones creativas a pesar que tampoco han entregado malos álbumes lo que sigue haciendo de Bandwangonesque su legado más importante.
Bandwangonesque Tracklisting:
1. The Concept
2. Satan
3. December
4. What You Do To Me
5. I Don´t Know
6. Star Sign
7. Metal Baby
8. Pet Rock
9. Sidewinder
10. Alcoholiday
11. Guiding Star
12. Is This Music?
domingo, marzo 28, 2010
La Noticia: Teenage Fanclub Anuncia Nuevo Álbum

Para el 31 de mayo se publicará “Shadows”, primer álbum de la celebre banda escocesa Teenage Fanclub en cinco años, de hecho ya se puede escuchar como adelante "Baby Lee" en su sitio oficial: www.teenagefanclub.com
A pesar de que llevan cinco años sin publicar nada nuevo, la banda se ha mantenido constante dando conciertos y giras por todos lados (menos Guatemala) en donde siempre tocan el mejor de sus álbumes, “Bandwagonesque”, de 1991, y otra promocionando sus grandes éxitos.
Finalmente editan nuevo material el cual ya hacía falta desde aquel medio-medio “Man-Made” en 2005, el álbum estara disponible a partir del 31 de mayo en Europa, Australia, y Japón y una semana después llegará a Estados Unidos bajo el sello Merge.
Según la web de la discográfica, “’Shadows’ está desbordado con la cantidad de clásicos encantadores y encaminados a la armonía que se podría esperar de un álbum de la banda. también han confirmado los primeros conciertos de su gira hasta comienzos de junio, de momento todos ellos en el Reino Unido.
Éstos son los temas que incluirá “Shadows”:
1 Sometimes I Don’t Need To Believe In Anything
2 Baby Lee
3 The Fall
4 Into The City
5 Dark Clouds
6 The Past
7 Shock And Awe
8 When I Still Have Thee
9 Live With The Seasons
10 Sweet Days Waiting
11 The Back Of My Mind
12 Today Never Ends
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