The King (Teenage Fanclub album)

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The King
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Studio album by
Teenage Fanclub
Released27 August 1991 [1]
Genre Alternative rock
Length32:38
Label Creation
Producer Don Fleming, Paul Chisholm, Teenage Fanclub
Teenage Fanclub chronology
A Catholic Education
(1990)		The King
(1991)		 Bandwagonesque
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Great Rock Discography 4/10 [3]

The King is the second album by Scottish alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, deleted on its day of release in 1991.

Contents

The album is often derided as a hastily assembled contractual obligation to US label Matador (allowing the group to sign to Geffen without penalty). In 2020, Matador co-owner Gerard Cosloy confirms that The King was pitched to the label as the second release, but passed, saying it felt more like a contractual obligation fulfillment than a real album. [4] 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. [5] 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 [ permanent dead link ].

The album was rereleased on vinyl for Record Store Day 2019. [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Teenage Fanclub unless otherwise noted

No.TitleWriter(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 Fanclub5:36
8."The Ballad of Bow Evil (Slow And Fast)" 5:26
9."Heavy Metal 9" 1:27

Personnel

Teenage Fanclub
Additional musicians
Technical

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References

  1. ↑ Teenage Fanclub Discography
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2011). Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Concise (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN   9780857125958 . Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  3. ↑ Strong, Martin C. "Teenage Fanclub Biography". The Great Rock Bible. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  4. ↑ Davidson, Eric (3 June 2020). "Critical Mass: A Catholic Education at 30". Rock & Roll Globe. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  5. ↑ Lindsay, Cam (6 September 2016). "Rank Your Records: Norman Blake Merrily Rates the Ten Teenage Fanclub Albums". Noisey.vice.com. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  6. ↑ "Here's the full list of Record Store Day 2019 releases". NME . 12 April 2019.
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