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A Catholic Education by Teenage Fanclub
A Catholic Education is an album by Teenage Fanclub, released in 1990. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 4 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Everything Flows”, on 4 lists with a best position of #11.
A Catholic Education, the debut from Glasgow's Teenage Fanclub, came out on Paperhouse on 11 June 1990, barely a year after Norman Blake, Raymond McGinley and Gerard Love got the band going. All three sang and wrote, trading lead vocals, with Brendan O'Hare pounding away behind them, and the record is a gloriously scuzzy thing: fuzz-caked guitars sludging along under melodies any power pop fan would recognize a mile off.
The UK music press warmed to it straight away. The standout is "Everything Flows", a slow-building, feedback-drenched sigh of a song that the band kept coming back to, putting it on both Deep Fried Fanclub in 1995 and the 2003 compilation Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds – A Short Cut to Teenage Fanclub.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from A Catholic Education on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everything Flows | 4 | #11 | – | 1990–2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.