I listened a bit to some songs from Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque when it came out in 1991. Liked it some but stopped listening to them and their subsequent release of Thirteen in 1993 was horrible. Finally started listening to them again a few years ago and they are probably my most heavily listened to band now.
On That Note: Late to the Party
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The ultimate late to the party story. I showed up at work at Hilton back in the day to learn that Stevie Ray Vaughan had died in a helicopter crash. I didn't really know anything about him but many of the crew were raving about him so I started to pay attention. Too bad he was already dead. Stevie Ray started me on my road to interest in the Blues.
Thirteen was a left-turn/curveball after Bandwagoneque -- it has 2 or 2.5 songs I still think are killer, 1 or 2 others I like, the rest is kind of a bummer. The follow-up, "Grand Prix," is more fully-realized, but by then TFC had fallen off the map among "with-it" critics.
By the time "Songs From Northern Britain" was released, the band had shed most of its early-90s skin and settled into a groove, trends-be-damned.
SFNB did have a couple of tracks with remnants of the earlier period --- one of my favorites in that vein:
