Artist:Teenage Fanclub
Song:What You Do To Me
Album:Bandwagonesque
The Scottish band Teenage Fanclub will remind you of other 60s influenced bands like Radiohead. They just never had the same success. Teenage Fanclub is from the Bellshill district of Glasgow, Scotland. Lead singer, songwriter and guitarist Norman Blake was in several 80s bands including BMX Bandits and The Boy Hairdressers. He formed Teenage Fanclub in 1989 with The Boy Hairdressers guitarist Raymond McGinley and drummer Francis Macdonald along with BMX Bandits bassist and singer songwriter Gerard Love. They released the album A Catholic Education in 1990. They were mostly songs intended for The Boy Hairdressers. Macdonald left to return to school after the album was finished. The band was unhappy with him anyway and new drummer Brendan O'Hare re-recorded the drum parts. After recording an EP, Teenage Fanclub signed with Creation Records and released the album The King. This was recorded in one day and intended as a limited release. But it got positive reviews and that was enough to get Teenage Fanclub a US record deal with Geffen Records. They remained on Creation in England. They had modest international success with the 1991 album Bandwagonesque. Most of their success was in England and the Alternative Rock chart. The album is heavily influenced by The Beatles and especially Alex Chilton's Big Star. Bandwagonesque was named Spin Magazine's Album of the year over a lot of better known albums. And in the video for What You Do To Me, Teenage Fanclub is supposed to look like The Beatles. The song is a repeated refrain of the title. I think there are only two lines in the song. Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie released a Bandwagonesque tribute album in 2017. He said it was his favorite album of all time. This album is available on CD. Teenage Fanclub released three albums on Geffen and switched to Columbia for the 1997 album Songs from Northern Britain. After Creation closed, they released one more album on Columbia. Then Teenage Fanclub released several albums on their own label before signing with Merge Records for the 2021 album Endless Arcade. They toured to support the album. Gerard Love left Teenage Fanclub in 2018. Blake and McGinley still lead the band. Here's the video for What You Do To Me by Teenage Fanclub.
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