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In this post Ezra mentions being thankful YouTube doesn’t have a play count feature. I am also thankful, because I really don’t want to know how many times I’ve watched the above clip for Teenage Fanclub’s “Everything Flows”.
This has long been my favorite Teenage Fanclub song (with a serious handful of runners-up, including “God Knows It’s True” and all of Bandwagonesque), and, as the start to 1990’s A Catholic Education, is easily one of the greatest opening tracks on any album ever.
I am a bit befuddled by the voice over at the beginning calling them “many people’s favourite new noise outfit” though, because noise and Teenage Fanclub are never words I use in the same sentence. I guess it makes a bit of sense though, because they ultimately destroy “Everything Flows” in the above clip. Like really destroy. And Jesus if that crowd isn’t eating up every bit of it.
Countdown until I embarrass myself. 5...4...3...2...1...
- I have 9 Teenage Fanclub bootlegs.
- I once boarded a plane to see them in California, for fear that I'd never see them in Oregon.
- I have purchased "Bandwaonesque" four times. Twice on cassette, twice on CD. I listened to the first cassette to death, then re-purchased it. Later I bought the CD on the same day I got my first CD player, and then lost it in a breakup, so naturally, I had to buy it again.
Probably my favorite band ever.