The King (Teenage Fanclub album)
The King is the second album by Scottish alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, deleted on its day of release in 1991.
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| Released | 27 August 1991[1] | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 32:38 | |||
| Label | Creation | |||
| Producer | Don Fleming, Paul Chisholm, Teenage Fanclub | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music |   [2] |
| The Great Rock Discography | 4/10[3] |
The album is often derided as a hastily assembled contractual obligation to US label Matador (allowing the group to sign to Geffen without penalty). However the group have denied this, claiming that the shambolic, spontaneous nature of the contents was a direct influence of producer Don Fleming, whose music was often improvised. "One night we all got completely wasted. ... and we said, "Let’s make a LP overnight. We’ll just improvise some songs and do some covers and cobble it all together", Norman Blake said in 2016.[4] In a 2006 interview, Blake and Brendan O'Hare confirmed that the album had been recorded immediately after completing Bandwagonesque using pre-booked studio time that became available when the aforementioned album was finished sooner than anticipated. They also claimed that the album was intended to be a mid-price edition of 1,000 but their then UK label Creation Records pressed 20,000 and sold them at full price .
Track listing
All tracks are written by Teenage Fanclub unless otherwise noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Heavy Metal 6" | 1:31 | |
| 2. | "Mudhoney" | 6:04 | |
| 3. | "Interstellar Overdrive" | Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason | 3:24 |
| 4. | "Robot Love" | 2:16 | |
| 5. | "Like a Virgin" | Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg | 4:31 |
| 6. | "The King" | 2:23 | |
| 7. | "Opal Inquest" | Paul Chisholm, Teenage Fanclub | 5:36 |
| 8. | "The Ballad of Bow Evil (Slow And Fast)" | 5:26 | |
| 9. | "Heavy Metal 9" | 1:27 |
Personnel
- Teenage Fanclub
- Norman Blake – guitar, vocals
- Gerard Love – bass, vocals
- Raymond McGinley – guitar, vocals
- Brendan O'Hare – drums
- Additional musicians
- Joe McAlinden – saxophone
- Paul Chisholm – additional drums
- Technical
- Don Fleming – producer
- Teenage Fanclub – producer
- Paul Chisholm – producer, engineer
- Keith Hartley – engineer
- Dave Buchanan – assistant engineer
References
- Teenage Fanclub Discography
- Larkin, Colin (2011). Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Concise (5th Edition). Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- Strong, Martin C. "Teenage Fanclub Biography". The Great Rock Bible. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- Lindsay, Cam (6 September 2016). "Rank Your Records: Norman Blake Merrily Rates the Ten Teenage Fanclub Albums". Noisey.vice.com. Retrieved 23 December 2018.