Teenage Fanclub - Is This Music?
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Album: Bandwagonesque (3rd album)
Recorded: Liverpool, England
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, Power Pop
Album Release: November 4th 1991
Single Release: October 21st 1991 (2nd single)
Length: 3:16
Producer: Teenage Fanclub, Paul Chisolm & Don Fleming
Vocalist:
Label: Creation Records, Geffen Records
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- Instrumental track comprised of a high, buzzing electric guitar mixed with a distorted bass and other guitars playing in the background. Teenage Fanclub usually craft intricate vocal harmonies but on 'Is This Music?' they use overlapping guitars, swirling around each other like an intricate clockwork, to achieve the same effect. The song really shines when you pay close attention to the different parts in the background.
- As the last track on Bandwagonesque, 'Is This Music?' serves as a fitting, triumphant end to a solid album. It feels reluctant, as if Teenage Fanclub are saying we've got plenty more to come. It gives the impression of a band dragged out of the studio, while other albums trudge towards the end.
- What does it mean for the vocalist when one of your bands best songs is an instrumental? In the case of Teenage Fanclub it means that the singer is also a damn good instrumentalist. The singer Norman Blake also plays guitar.
- Fans of the band call themselves "fannies".
- Kurt Cobain described Teenage Fanclub as "the best band in the world".
- Liam Gallagher described Teenage Fanclub as "the second best band in the world". He meant Oasis were first.
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