Bandwagonesque

Quite unremarkable

This kinda feels like it lands somewhere between Beach Boys and Foo Fighters and my ears were confused, but it's also good early 90s rock.

Pretty neat.

Perfectly alright. Nothing too crazy but it was enjoyable. Unlikely to revisit.

Very solid album all around, but outside of the guitar player who's kind of sick with it, they're not doing anything super memorable or unique. Can't bash it, can't adore it!

Standouts: The Concept • Sidewinder • Is This Music?

Enjoyed this one. 3.5/5

Some good some less good. Why would anyone make Satan. Not bad overall.

Not interested.

Tyypillistä brittiläistä ysärirockia.

Important in its day and an unexpected breakthrough, this merger of grunge and power pop was misunderstood as a heavy rock record. The Fannies continued to evolve and peaked a few albums later with Grand Prix and Howdy.

Kinda basic, unclear why it's here. Not bad, just not outstanding.

Tuneful, slightly weird and a bit lo-fi. The Concept is a brilliant opener.

Never heard of this band/album before, but I enjoyed this! I really enjoy a lot of albums with this post-punk ish sound from this era. I would give this another listen for sure.

Shaggy slacker rock surprisingly brimming with hooks. Loping melodic bass, fuzzy guitars, sweetly earnest vocal harmonies, a bit of noise around the edges. Jangly power pop with the gain up high that tumbles occasionally into grittier terrain.

A lot of it was just glorified background music, sometimes got very dreary, especially with those vocals. The Britpop/Beatlesesque stuff was just utter shite. Generous 2.

It's been so long since I've had a 5 man, release me.

Teenage Fanclub har tatt med seg arvesølvet fra Big Star og laget herlig støyete powerpop.

Soundet er så utrolig kult, og vokalharmoniene funker veldig bra. Alt i alt en plate jeg liker godt å høre på, men jeg kan omtrent ikke huske en eneste enkeltstående låt i det plata er ferdig. Får litt følelsen av at de har tenkt mest vibe og sound og vært litt meh når det gjelder å skrive låtene. Men plata funker jo bra likevel

I had the perfect review lined up for this:

Blandwagonesque

Unfortunately, this is actually pretty decent stuff.

3.5/5.0: Very Good

this was fine, not something id want to listen to again. the fact that ben gibbard is a big fan of this makes a lot of sense in retrospect.

Dunno what I was expecting with this one (Both an amazing and absolutely dogshit album cover, haha). But getting some early 90's alt-rock that kinda predicted stuff like Death Cab for Cutie or even Foo Fighters. So much of this album feels like early Foos that I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Dave Grohl was heavily influenced by this, definitely with some of the vocal melodies at least. Songs like Alcoholiday feel super Grohl/Foos to me along with some songs earlier in the track list.

Basically, if Foo Fighters were a more indie-oriented band, they'd be making stuff like this.

But yeah, very pleasantly surprised by this record. Not that I wasn't expecting a bad album, but didn't really have any expectations going into it. Great record.

So in my wheelhouse (Scottish, jingly jangly, a bit weedy and dumb), but just never got into this album or this band. I think mainly because of the vocals. All a bit of a whine. No surprise the best track is an instrumental.