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Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds: A Short Cut to Teenage Fanclub

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Product details

  • Audio CD (27 Jan 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Poolside
  • ASIN: B00007B8QH
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 129,650 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Concept
2. Ain't that enough
3. World'll be OK
4. Everything flows
5. Star sign
6. Mellow doubt
7. I need direction
8. About you
9. What you do to me
10. Empty space
11. Sparky's dream
12. I don't want control of you
13. Hang on
14. Did I say
15. Don't look back
16. Your love is the place where I come from
17. Neil Jung
18. Radio
19. Dumb dumb dumb
20. Planets
See all 21 tracks on this disc

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
4,766 Secondscollects 21 of Teenage Fanclub's best tunes, drawn from those first bleary, clanging responses to American grunge (the still magnificent "Everything Flows"), through to three new songs. When Teenage Fanclub stumbled out of Glasgow and into public view at the start of the 1990s, it was hard to imagine such an apparently shambolic band surviving the length of a gig. More than a decade on, as 4,766 Secondsattests, they have become something of a touchstone: rousing, unfailingly melodious comforters through good and bad times, both musical and personal.

As is traditional with this sort of thing, there are plenty of weird omissions (notably "Alcoholiday") for fans to gripe about. No matter. Teenage Fanclub have spent their career proving that three fine songwriters, good nature, great harmonies and an inspiring sense of community can make for tremendous rock music. Here, then, are jangly drinking songs ("The Concept"), breathless power pop ("Starsign", "Radio") and uncommonly mature love songs ("I Don't Want Control of You", "Mellow Doubt"). And here are gentle anthems for those of us too sensitive for Oasis, and who always preferred the Byrds to the Beatles anyway. --John Mulvey

CD Description
'4766 Seconds...' is essentially a collection of the most popular tracks by the Byrds and Big Star-influenced Glaswegians, Teenage Fanclub. 'The World'll Be OK', 'Did I Say' and 'Empty Space' are all brand new tracks and exclusive to this release. The UK top 20 hit, 'Ain't That Enough', is also included.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 4766 seconds of JOY, 6 Feb 2003
By Mr. T. G. Ogrady "The Troll" (uk) - See all my reviews
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10 years ago Teenage Fanclub beat Nirvana's Nevermind and REM's Out of Time in a US poll for album of the year. In humble response, the band retreated to Glasgow and have been making fine records since, making this greatest hits a timely and welcome release.

The trademark jangly guitars and sweet harmonys are here in abundance - The Birds and The Beach Boys are major influences - but the songs would be quickly forgotten were it not for their depth and sophistication that their immediacy belies.

This is a band that is far more than the sum of its parts. Not only are Norman, Gerry, and Raymond three fine singers in their own right, each are equally adept songwriters too.

One way to judge the strength of a greatest hits is to consider the tracks that had to be omitted: even on this 80min-CD, the band found no room for the sublime Alcoholiday or one of the delightful tracks on their Lost It EP.

The three new tracks good too and could justify a separate review. Suffice to say
they do not sound out of place alongside the 16 strongest songs of the band's career.

With a non-chronological running order, this collection showcases a phenomenally consistent band. Anyone familiar with their music will want a copy; those who are not are urged to buy one too: it will engender a lasting love affair.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Pure bliss, 22 Mar 2003
A 'Greatest Hits' album from Teenage Fanclub doesn't really make much sense to me, for the simple reason that they've made such consistently great albums (with the possible exception of 'Thirteen') that I wouldn't know which songs to pick. If you've never heard of them before, this is your chance to get 21 songs/80 minutes of musical bliss. You won't regret it.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect songs for singing along to, 3 Mar 2003
I've always heard of teenage fanclub without ever paying much attention, and i've always heard good reviews for them without ever buying their records, so when this came out i thought it was my perfect oppurtunity. I'm becoming pretty disallusioned with the music scene at the moment and with no quality new bands coming to the fore it pays to look back at some bands who are cruelly overlooked - and teenage fanclub are one of those bands.

What we have here is a greatest hits, perfect fot those like me who want a sample of a band at their finest, and this a fantastic collection of songs perfect for singing along to. When i first heard them i thought they sounded like travis, only better - and seeing teenage fanclub came first i think thats only a good thing. Lovely melodies, beautiful harmonies and jangly guitars which sound timeless, always the sign of a great band.

Pick of the bunch for me would have to be the new song 'Did I Say', as well as 'Love Is The Place Where I Come From', an acoustic ballad Oasis would die to have written!

Based on this, Teenage Fanclub are better than most bands around - i urge you to buy this record, you won't regret it!!

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