Audio CD review:
Teenage Fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain

Teenage Fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain

Band: Teenage Fanclub Title: Songs from Northern Britain Rating: Release Date: 29 July, 1997 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 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

Editoral Review That album is still the band's best--a sly, effortless approximation of Big Star, capturing most of that band's charm with only a fraction of the emotional turmoil. Teenage Fanclub were touted as the next big thing for three minutes after its 1991 major-label debut, Bandwagonesque. Six years and a few music trends later, Teenage Fanclub were still writing and singing sunny, optimistic tunes that sound great blasting from a car stereo. Songs from Northern Britain doesn't match the band at its peak, but "Ain't That Enough" is the best Byrds knockoff released in years, and "Start Again" sounds chipper enough to make you believe no romance is too doomed to be saved. The band's three equal songwriters--Norman Blake, Raymond McGinley, and Gerry Love--are all incurable romantics. When written on paper, a lyric like "can't feel my soul without you" is easy to make fun of, but when their voices melt together with obvious feel-good sincerity, only a cynic could complain. --Keith Moerer .. You can see a complete list of all Teenage Fanclub discography, or go back to the Teenage Fanclub tabs