“Everything Flows” by Teenage Fanclub

"Everything Flows" comes from A Catholic Education, the 1990 debut by Glasgow's Teenage Fanclub, and it was written, words and music, by Norman Blake. The band had grown out of the Boy Hairdressers in 1989, with Blake and Raymond McGinley on guitars and Francis Macdonald on drums, and they skipped the chase for a record deal and simply made a record, paying for time at Pet Sounds Studios in Glasgow. McGinley raised the cash by flogging a fridge and washer that a neighbour had left behind, and bassist Gerard Love, who met Blake at a gig that May, was in the studio with them by mid-July.

Produced by the band, it's a gorgeous, ramshackle rush of guitars and a melody that won't let go, and the Fanclub knew it: it turned up again on the compilations Deep Fried Fanclub in 1995 and A Short Cut to Teenage Fanclub in 2003.

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