Teenage Fanclub

Back in '91 when Spin Magazine rated Bandwagonesque the album-of-the-year, ahead of Nirvana's Nevermind and Pearl Jam's Ten, I thought Teenage Fanclub's straightforward power pop was a bit too straight.

I was wrong.

Here's a recent version of "Star Sign" from Bandwagonesque, but with 100% more banjo:



And this is one of my favorites off of their 2005 record, Man Made:



Here's Juliana Hatfield covering "Cells", also off of Man Made: