Teenage Fanclub Album Discography Pt II [Thirteen bonus Grand Prix bonus Songs From Northern Britain

Teenage Fanclub - Album Discography Pt.II (1993 - 1997)





Thirteen (1993) Creation Records/Geffen Records



1. Hang On

2. The Cabbage

3. Radio

4. Norman 3

5. Song to the Cynic

6. 120 Mins

7. Escher

8. Commercial Alternative

9. Fear of Flying

10. Tears Are Cool

11. Ret Liv Dead

12. Get Funky

13. Gene Clark



Japan bonus tracks

14. Genius Envy

15. Don's Gone Columbia

16. Chords of Fame (Phil Ochs)

17. Weird Horses

18. Golden Glades

19. Older Guys (Gram Parsons)



Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar

Gerard Love - Vocals, bass

Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar

Brendan O'Hare - Drums



The follow-up to the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Bandwagonesque,

Thirteen has suffered by comparison, with the band declaring it wasn't an easy album

to make. However, it's a more than worthy successor and trimmed to 10 tracks would have

been even better. The opening quartet (three of which were singles) are prime Fanclub,

with 120 mins and Escher not far behind. the 'second side' is less immediate, with

Raymond McGinley's Tears Are Cool a subtle highlight. The Japan edition added six more

tracks, all b-sides in the UK. Notably Brendan O'Hare has two tracks here, his last

contribution for the band. The album title supposedly derives from the Big Star song of

the same name, although the thirteen tracks and it being the Third Teenage Fanclub album

(if you disregard The King) may have all factored.



EAC secure rip with log/cue from original Japan Geffen CD. Artwork included.



UK bonus disc



1. Goody Goody Gumdrops

2. Radio (version)

3. It's So Hard To Fall In Love

4. Gene Clarke (version)



No info on this UK bonus disc but it appears to be an uncredited radio session, probably

for the BBC. Covers 1 and 3 are originally by The 1910 Fruitgum Company and Sebadoh

respectively.







Grand Prix (1995) Creation Records/Geffen Records



1. About You

2. Sparky's Dream

3. Mellow Doubt

4. Don't Look Back

5. Verisimilitude

6. Neil Jung

7. Tears

8. Discolite

9. Say No

10. Going Places

11. I'll Make It Clear

12. I Gotta Know

13. Hardcore/Ballad



Generally regarded as the band's finest hour, Grand Prix boasts all three songwriters

at the top of their game. If you're not convinced by Sparky's Dream, Don't Look Back,

Neil Jung, Discolite, I'll Make It Clear or Mellow Doubt, then Teenage Fanclub is not

the band for you. Every song here is a gem and most continue to make regular appearances

in the live set. Hilariously Q magazine rated Grand Prix #72 in its Top 100 Greatest

British Albums Ever poll. There are barely 71 British albums worth owning, let alone

better ones that this.



EAC secure rip with log/cue from original UK Creation CD. Artwork included.





UK bonus 7" EP.



1. Discolite (demo)

2. Voicemail from Rodney Bingenheimer

3. I Gotta Know (demo)

4. Coffee Morning (instrumental)

5. Norman's Answerphone Message

6. Untitled instrumental



One of the rarest items in the TFC catalogue, this 7" was only available with the intial

vinyl pressing of the album. Gerry Love's Discolite demo is amusingly shambolic, Raymond

McGinley's I Gotta Know demo far more polished.



My vinyl rip cleaned with click repair.





Australian Tour Edition Bonus CD



1. About You (acoustic)

2. Between Us (Innes)

3. For You

4. Try And Stop Me (Pickett/Phillips)

5. Who Loves The Sun (Reed)



Made up of tracks from UK b-sides of the period, this five-track disc was available with

the Australian tour edition of Grand Prix.



Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar

Gerard Love - Vocals, bass

Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar

Paul Quinn - Drums

David Bianco - Occasional guitar, piano, vocals (producer)



EAC secure rip with log/cue from original Australian CD. Disc art included.









Songs From Northern Britain (1997) Creation Records



1. Start Again

2. Ain't That Enough

3. Can't Feel My Soul

4. I Don't Want Control of You

5. Planets

6. It's a Bad World

7. Take the Long Way Round

8. Winter

9. I Don't Care

10. Mount Everest

11. Your Love Is the Place Where I Come From

12. Speed of Light



Probably the most underrated album in the entire TFC discography, Songs from Northern Britain

contains a handful of their absolutely finest songs. In Ain't That Enough, Gerard Love created

the quintessential Fanclub song and Norman Blake's Start Again and Planets run it close.

For those three alone, Rolling Stone's 2 star review is absurd, but there's plenty more here

to make this another classic.



Norman Blake - Vocals, guitar

Gerard Love - Vocals, bass

Raymond McGinley - Vocals, guitar

Paul Quinn - Drums

George Borowski - Backing vocals, guitar

David Bianco - Piano



EAC secure rip with log/cue from original UK Creation CD. Artwork included.





Part III tomorrow... Howdy! (2000), Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds - A Short

Cut To Teenage Fanclub (compilation, 2002), Man-Made (2005) and the 2002 collaboration with Jad

Fair, Words Of Wisdom And Hope.