Teenage Fanclub - Radio

The lukewarm critical reception afforded Teenage Fanclub's Thirteen upon its original release may have had something to do with the selection of a lead single -- "Radio" is one of the album's few weak spots, an awkwardly amped-up rocker sorely out of place on a record packed with crunchy, laissez-faire power pop gems. The B-sides to this single fare better, in particular "Weird Horses," a Neil Young-inspired throwaway boasting the immortal lyric "So what if you see other peopleNULL/I only get jealous when I listen to The Beatles." The pretty if slight instrumental "Don's Gone Columbia" is little more than a goof on producer Don Fleming, whose own Gumball signed to Columbia for a brief major-label stay, but it complements The Fannies' gorgeous cover of Phil Ochs' "Chords of Fame," as potent a poison-pen letter to celebrity as ever written. Read More