Various - What A Concept : Tribute To Teenage Fan Club
by Tommy Gunnarsson
published: 11 / 5 / 2004
Label:
Not Lame
Format: CD
intro
Disappointing 24 song tribute compilation album to the Teenage Fanclub, whose bands remain a little too close to their original source
Most of the time, I find tribute compilations quite annoying and meaningless. In most cases, the original versions of the songs are far superior to the cover recorded by an admiring band, and even though a cover version might be fun to listen to one or two times, it's not something that keeps spinning in your CD-player. Well, not in mine, at least !!! And this power-pop tribute to the great Scots band Teenage Fanclub is exactly one of those records. It's quite clear that most of these bands have TFC as their main heroes, as most of these bands sounds like them even when they write their own songs. This means that the cover versions presented here sounds exactly like Teenage Fanclub's recordings. What is the point of all this then? Well, I don't know, really. It's not that it's a bad record... most of the songs are pretty good and the recordings are well done, but when they don't bring anything original to their interpretations, you might as well get the TFC compilation that was released last year. The best thing about this album was that I was once again reminded of how good the TFC is/was when they're at their most beautiful, such as on the ' Grand Prix' album, for instance. Maybe other people listening to this will have the same feeling ...
Track Listing:-
1 The Shazam– The Concept2 Redd Kross– Everything Flows
3 Ike – Sparky's Dream
4 Michael Carpenter– Neil Jung
5 Receiver – What You Do To Me
6 Superdrag– Radio
7 Cloud Eleven– Ain't That Enough
8 Gigolo Aunts– Alcoholiday
9 Splitsville– Tears Are Cool
10 The Andersons– Fear Of Flying
11 Bronco Bullfrog– I'll Make It Clear
12 Chewy Marble– Metal Baby
13 The Mockers – Hang On
14 Cliff Hillis– Can't Feel My Soul
15 Jet Lag – The Cabagge
16 sparkle*jets u.k.– I Don't Want Control Of You
17 Barely Pink– Don't Look Back
18 Marykate O'Neil– Traffic Jam
19 Michael Shelley– Mellow Doubt
20 Crash Into June– Winter
21 Walter Clevenger & The Dairy Kings– About You
22 Captain Soul– Your Love Is The Place I Come From
23 The General Store– 120 Minutes
24 Campo De Almas– Some People Try And Fuck With You
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