Teenage Fanclub Album Discography Pt I [4 CDs inc The King Deep Fried Fanclub]

Teenage Fanclub - Album Discography Pt.I



Anyone curious about Teenage Fanclub but not familiar with their music would be advised to

wait for Pt.II of this three-part set or test the waters with Bandwagonesque from this torrent.

Or perhaps even wait for part three's 'A Short Cut To Teenage Fanclub' best of collection.



Recent converts may be missing the 'limited edition' release, The King, or the compilation of

early singles, Deep Fried Fanclub. For anyone completely in the dark, they're a four-piece from

Scotland, and my personal favourite British band of the past twenty years.





A Catholic Education [1990] Paperhouse Records/Matador Records



1. Heavy Metal

2. Everything Flows

3. Catholic Education

4. Too Involved

5. Don't Need a Drum

6. Critical Mass

7. Heavy Metal II

8. Catholic Education II

9. Eternal Light

10. Every Picture I Paint

11. Everybody's Fool



Norman Blake - vocals, guitar

Gerard Love - vocals, bass

Raymond McGinley - vocals, guitar

Francis MacDonald - drums

Brendan O'Hare - drums



Derivative and frequently dull, the band's debut shows little sign of the glory days to come.

The presence of early 'anthem' Everything Flows just about warrants the admission price, but

truth be told there's little to distinguish the album from countless other indie-rock offerings

of the period.



EAC secure rip with log/cue from 1995 Japanese King Records issue. Artwork included.







Deep Fried Fanclub [released 1995, recorded 1989-1991] Fire Records



1. Everything Flows

2. Primary Education

3. Speeeder

4. Critical Mass (Original)

5. The Ballad of John and Yoko

6. God Knows It's True

7. Weedbreak

8. So Far Gone

9. Ghetto Blaster

10. Don't Cry No Tears

11. Free Again

12. Bad Seed



Very presentable collection of early singles and b-sides, released in the wake of their

successful 1995 album, Grand Prix. Covers of The Beatles, Neil Young, Alex Chilton and Beat

Happening neatly summarise some key influences. God Knows It's True and So Far Gone would have

greatly improved the debut album.



EAC secure rip with log/cue from 1995 Fire Records issue. Artwork included.







The King [1991] Creation Records/Matador Records



1. Heavy Metal 6

2. Mudhoney

3. Interstellar Overdrive

4. Robot Love

5. Like A Virgin

6. The King

7. Opal Inquest

8. The Ballad of Bow Evil (Slow and Fast)

9. Heavy Metal 9



Norman Blake - vocals, guitar

Gerard Love - vocals, bass

Raymond McGinley - vocals, guitar

Brendan O'Hare - drums



[Edited from Wikipedia]

Chronologically the band's second album, it was deleted on its day of release in 1991. The album

is often derided as a hastily assembled contractual obligation to US label Matador (allowing the

group to sign to Geffen without penalty). However the group have denied this, claiming that the

shambolic, spontaneous nature of the contents was a direct influence of producer Don Fleming,

whose music was often improvised. In a 2006 interview, Norman Blake and Brendan O'Hare confirmed

that the album had been recorded immediately after completing Bandwagonesque using pre-booked studio

time that became available when the aforementioned album was finished sooner than anticipated.

They also claimed that the album was intended to be a mid-price edition of 1,000 but their then UK

label Creation Records pressed 20,000 and sold them at full price. One of the band's most sought-

after releases, it's largely instrumental and seriously lacking in the catchy pop department, unlike

its immediate follow-up.



EAC secure rip with log/cue from 1991 Creation Records issue. Artwork included.







Bandwagonesque [1991] Creation Records/Geffen Records



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?



Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar

Gerard Love - Vocals, bass

Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar

Brendan O'Hare - Drums

Joseph McAlinden - Brass and strings

Don Fleming - Occasional guitar and vocals

Dave Buchanan - Handclaps



[Edited from Wikipedia]

The third album brought the first great Teenage Fanclub material and with it commercial success. The

album was more deliberately constructed, the hooks became stronger, the guitar riffs were brought under

control, and the harmony vocals took shape. Bandwagonesque won Spin magazine's 1991 end-of-year poll

for best album, beating Nirvana's Nevermind, their Creation stablemates My Bloody Valentine's album

Loveless, and R.E.M.'s hugely successful Out of Time. Contains singles and live staples The Concept,

Star Sign, What You Do To Me and Alcoholiday. For many this remains a favourite album, but the best was

yet to come.



EAC secure rip with log/cue from 1991 Geffen Records Japan issue. Artwork included.



NB: this last album was the only lossless Teenage Fanclub title on Demonoid currently seeded, but without

artwork or cue/log.