Songs from Northern Britain followed Grand Prix and built on the former's success. It became their highest-charting release in the UK and contained their biggest hit single to date, "Ain't That Enough". [1] We had quite a bit of success with it. It gave us the opportunity to tour the world: we went to Australia, North America, Japan for the first time. And it took us to a much bigger audience.

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a b Cosby, James A. (8 May 2018). "The 25 Best Songs of Teenage Fanclub". PopMatters . Retrieved 3 February 2020. The liner notes to the 2009 Big Star box set Keep an Eye on the Sky said that Bandwagonesque was "...an album so in thrall to Chilton, Bell, and company that some critics had taken to calling it 'Big Star's 4th.'" [19] Legacy [ edit ] You won’t find a better example of the enthralling conversation between the two than six-minute opener and lead single The Concept. Blake holds down the G/Em/A7/D rhythm, allowing McGinley to embark on a masterclass in melodic lead playing, topped off by a pair of scintillating solos on his Jaguar in its middle position, plugged into a cranked Mesa-Boogie copy called the Messiah. “He’ll always come from left field and do something you don’t expect,” says Blake of his partner’s “idiosyncratic” lead playing. Before its release, there were no real hints that TFC were capable of putting-out something as mighty. Their earlier albums; the debut A Catholic Education and their follow-up, The King were only intermittently exciting. The effortless melodies that have since become the hallmark of all TFC records might still have been evident, but they were too often lost amidst a grungier sound.

Creation’s big three were joined by Nirvana’s Nevermind and Out Of Time by R.E.M. in what proved a golden year for alternative guitar music, but Bandwagonesque got the praise it deserved. Spin magazine, in an era when such print media plaudits still meant something, named it their album of the year. Kurt Cobain called Teenage Fanclub “the best band in the world”, Liam Gallagher later less modestly ranked them second only to Oasis.

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Writer James Cosby of PopMatters finds the lyric "a bit tongue-in-cheek," and calls the song "a quite clear character study of maybe anyone in a " scene". Blake goes on to sing rather thoughtfully in describing a woman who really is pretty cool and hip—though maybe a bit too much for her own good." [4] Blake, in a 2015 interview, revealed the song's lyrics came together only twenty minutes prior to recording the song. He remembered that much of Bandwagonesque contained lyrics written in an impromptu manner, and that his only goal with "The Concept" was to "write something with a narrative." [1] Reception [ edit ] The song lyrically centres on the object of the narrator's affection, a woman described in the song's opening lines: