Thirteen by Teenage Fanclub

Thirteen, Teenage Fanclub's fourth studio album, came out in 1993 on Creation in Britain and Geffen in America, the Glasgow band's follow-up to Bandwagonesque. They produced it themselves, and the title was widely read as a tip of the hat to Big Star's "Thirteen", which made sense for a group that had soaked up so much of Big Star's sound.

Norman Blake, Raymond McGinley and Gerard Love split the singing and the songwriting, and the record rides on chiming guitars, sweet stacked harmonies and a sunny, unhurried melancholy, with "Hang On" as the song that has lasted. The critics weren't having it at the time, and it peaked at number 14 on the UK albums chart. Next stop was Deep Fried Fanclub.

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