Teenage Fanclub Have Lost It

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Released11 December 1995
RecordedOctober 1995 [1]
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Length16:41
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Teenage Fanclub chronology
Grand Prix
(1995)
Teenage Fanclub Have Lost It
(1995)
Songs from Northern Britain
(1997)
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Teenage Fanclub Have Lost It is an EP by Scottish alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, released in December 1995 on Creation Records. [3] It reached #53 in the UK singles chart. [4]

Contents

The EP consists of acoustic versions of four previously recorded songs, one from each of their previous four major studio albums. [5] [6] The EP's title is an allusion to the fact that these songs are acoustic versions, stripped of their usual instrumentation and amplification.

Background

It was Teenage Fanclub's label, Creation Records, that suggested releasing an acoustic EP. "I think they had an idea of maybe us with a string section, a classy kind of thing," guitarist Raymond McGinley recalled in 2017. "And we thought, "Oh no, that sounds terrible." But we thought, "Maybe we could do something like that, but our way." The title was meant as a joke, "because we thought bands go away and they make an acoustic version of the records, and it's like bands have lost it when they do this kind of thing," McGinley said. He described the EP as "trying to take a kind of shit concept but do something that musically works." [7]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Don't Look Back" (original version on Grand Prix , 1995)Gerard Love3:22
2."Everything Flows" (original version on A Catholic Education , 1990) Norman Blake 5:31
3."Starsign" (original version on Bandwagonesque , 1991)Love4:57
4."120 Minutes" (original version on Thirteen , 1993)Raymond McGinley2:51

Personnel

Adapted from the EP's liner notes. [8]

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References

  1. Cavanagh, David (1995). "Would you do that at home?". Q . p. 51. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  2. Sullivan, Denise. Teenage Fanclub Have Lost It at AllMusic. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  3. Teenage Fanclub at Discogs
  4. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  5. Cavanagh, David (1995). "Would you do that at home?". Q . p. 50. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  6. Cavanagh, David (1995). "Would you do that at home?". Q . p. 52. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  7. Ardiasyah, Hasief (11 November 2018). "Interview: Raymond McGinley of Teenage Fanclub (04-03-2017)". hasiefardiasyah.wordpress.com. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  8. Teenage Fanclub Have Lost It (Media notes). Teenage Fanclub. Creation. 1995.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)