From: bliabo (bjoern.liaboe@SNF.NO)
Subject: SFNB: Sunday Times review

TEENAGE FANCLUB 
   Songs from Northern Britain 
   Creation, £11.99 
   LIKE THE length of one's sideburns, whether to regard the
   Scots outfit Teenage Fanclub's reverence for their sources as
   evidence of touching fandom or a near-unique lack of
   ambition has always been a matter for each individual. Isn't
   this the group who, by their own subsequent admission,
   cribbed the better part of an album from the then little-
   remembered American cult band Big Star? Yes it is, but
   previous Fanclub sceptics such as myself are going to have a
   hard time arguing with Songs from Northern Britain. The
   same classic American guitar pop and country- rock
   influences are there in spades, from Big Star and Gram
   Parsons to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, but the blend is
   so seamless, the chiming guitars and harmonies so sweet and
   the songs of such unexpected quality, that the whole
   enterprise comes to sound fresh and vibrant. I Don't Want
   Control of You is the most remarkable of many tunes whose
   melodic twists and turns send shivers down the spine. What
   a nice surprise. AS 

Bjorn