Top Twenty Songs : Gene Clark
And last up, we have :
Despite being critically slated at the time, 'Thirteen' is still my favourite Teenage Fanclub album. So here's the thirteenth track from it. Although with such sumptuous harmonies, I could have picked any of a number of Fannies' tracks.
When I was younger, I was a serial track skipper. I would very rarely have the patience to see a song through before ploughing on to the next. As such, I never heard this track properly until quite a while after I'd got the album. I just assumed that it was an instrumental and guitar solo all the way through. Then one day, whilst shaving (my hands were too wet to press 'forward'), I finally got to hear this - and it was like I'd finally been rewarded with an all-new song for being patient for once.
Incidentally, I introduced a friend of mine to this album. He then gave a girl that he was trying to hit on a recording of '120 Mins', and claimed that he and I had written it - with him singing, and me playing guitar. We were all of sixteen years old. Miraculously, this tactic worked. She clearly never thought to ask who played bass and drums on that track, and how we'd managed to get the production just so.
