简介

英文介绍

专辑

推荐单曲

简介

Teenage Fanclub 是一支来自于苏格兰格拉斯哥的另类摇滚乐队。乐队由 Norman Blake(主唱，吉他手），Raymond McGinley （主唱，主吉他手）， Gerard Love （主唱，吉他手）和鼓手 Francis MacDonald组成。 Blake, McGinley 和 Love平时一起分担不同的歌曲创作。在音乐会上，乐队一般都由三位主唱分别唱自己创作的歌曲，平均分配演唱时间。

乐队的声音主要依靠于架子鼓合奏， Byrds-esque 吉他以及谐音合唱。Teenage Fanclub 常让人们把他们和Byrds, Big Star 和 Neil Young比较。虽然被称作另类摇滚乐队，但从他们的音乐里还是能听出不同种类的音乐元素的融合。

乐队拥有一系列的鼓手，这使他们在低音方面极具特色。 Francis MacDonald, Justin Cobley, Brendan O’Hare 组成了鼓手的阵容。其中Francis曾退出过一段时间，此期间由 Paul Quinn顶替他的位置。键盘手 Finlay MacDonald也是乐队的一员。

2010年五月末，乐队推出了他们的第九张专辑《Shadows》，其中单曲《Baby Lee》获得广泛好评。

英文介绍

Teenage Fanclub emerged from the Glasgow C86 scene. Their sound is reminiscent of West Coast bands like the the Beach Boys and the Byrds, and their seventies counterparts Big Star. Originally a noisy and chaotic band, their first album A Catholic Education is largely atypical of their later sound, with the possible exception of "Everything Flows". The King, their next album, received critical reviews; it consisted of a number of self-confessedly shambolic guitar thrashes and an ironic cover of Madonna's "Like a Virgin".

Their next album, Bandwagonesque, released on Geffen in the US and Creation Records in the UK, brought Teenage Fanclub a measure of commercial success. Bandwagonesque 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.

The subsequent, Thirteen, was more grungy than Bandwagonesque in style. It suffered scathing reviews on release, possibly motivated by a backlash against the critical praise heaped on Bandwagonesque and also instigated in part by the group who, with typical honesty (and probably fatigued by the protracted recording process), did not hide their disappointment with the album from interviewers. Brendan O'Hare left Teenage Fanclub during this period due to "musical differences" to be replaced by Paul Quinn (formerly of the Soup Dragons).

Grand Prix, Teenage Fanclub's fifth album, was both a critical and commercial success in Britain, becoming their first top ten album. Released at the height of Britpop it almost certainly benefited from being released on the Creation records label. In America however the band failed to regain the ground that Thirteen had lost them. Around this time Liam Gallagher of Britpop giants (and labelmates) Oasis called the band "the second best band in the world" — second only to Oasis.

Songs from Northern Britain followed Grand Prix and built on the former's success. The album's folky, acoustic sound resonated with listeners, and was their highest charting release in the UK and contains their biggest hit single to date, "Ain't That Enough."

The follow-up album, Howdy!, released on Columbia Records in the UK after the demise of Creation, continued the sound of Songs from Northern Britain. The album, however, was poorly marketed and ultimately a commercial failure. Francis Macdonald rejoined as the drummer for the tour supporting the album after Paul Quinn left the band. Quinn went on to form The Primary 5.

In 2002, they released Words of Wisdom and Hope with cult icon Jad Fair of Half Japanese.

Their final release on a Sony label, Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds - A Shortcut to Teenage Fanclub, collected the Fanclub's best songs along with three new songs (one from each member).

Their next album, Man-Made, was released on 2 May 2005, on the band's own PeMa label. Man-Made was recorded in Chicago in 2004, and produced by John McEntire of Tortoise.

The band began work on their ninth album in August 2008, booking an initial three weeks at Leeders Farm recording studio in Norfolk.The album is called Shadows and is released on the band's own PeMa label. It became available in Europe, Australasia and Japan on 31 May 2010, and will be available from Merge Records in North America on 8 June 2010. Gerard Love is also working on a solo album for release on Geographic backed by musicians including Bob Kildea, Tom Crossley, Dave McGowan and Brendan O'Hare.

专辑

A Catholic Education (1990)

The King (1991) #53 UK

Bandwagonesque (1991) #22 UK, #137 US

Thirteen (1993) #14 UK

Grand Prix (1995) #7 UK, #68 Japan

Songs from Northern Britain (1997) #3 UK

Howdy! (2000) #33 UK

Words of Wisdom and Hope (2002) [with Jad Fair]

Man-Made (2005) #34 UK

Shadows (2010) #30 UK

推荐单曲

Title　Release date　Chart Positions

U.K. Singles　U.S. Modern Rock

"Everything Flows"　1990/1991 (U.S.)　-　-

"Everybody's Fool"　1990　-　-

"The Ballad of John & Yoko"　1990　-　-

"God Knows It's True"　1990　99　-

"Star Sign"　18 Aug, 1991　44　4

"The Concept"　27 Oct 1991　51　12

"The Peel Sessions"　1991　-　-

"Free Again" / "Bad Seeds"　1992　-　-

"Radio"　17 Jun 1993　31　-

"Norman 3"　12 Aug 1993　50　-

"Hang On"　14 Feb 1994　-　19

"Fallin'" (with De La Soul)　28 Mar 1994　59　-

"Mellow Doubt"　7 Apr 1995　34　-

"Sparky's Dream"　15 May 1995　40　-

"Neil Jung"　21 Aug 1995　62　-

"Ain't That Enough"　30 June 1997　17　-

"I Don't Want Control of You"　11 Aug 1997　43　-

"Start Again"　17 Nov 1997　54　-

"Long Shot"　1998　-　-

"I Need Direction"　9 Oct 2000　48　-

"Dumb Dumb Dumb"　18 June 2001　-　-

"Near to You" (with Jad Fair)　2002　68　-

"Did I Say"　2002　-　-

"Association" (International Airport / Teenage Fanclub)　29 Aug 2004　75　-

"Fallen Leaves" (Limited to 2,000 copies)　30 May 2005　-　-

"It's All In My Mind"　22 Nov 2005　-　-

"Baby Lee"　27 Apr 2010　-　-