I guess I don't have to explain why I got this. Or maybe I do, at least to myself? In particular, why I had to get both the 'original version' and the 'alternative' version. Did I get the first, and, when I found that it contained absolutely no reference to Neil Young beyond the joke title, imagine that a deeper, more profound connection might be found on the other version? Or did I buy both at once, convinced that they would become collectors' items with the passage of time?
They remain the only Teenage Fanclub CDs I've ever had. I was initially thrown by the way their first album was greeted as something like Scotland's answer to Dinosaur Jr, only for them to crop up again a year or two later as something softer and more melodic, a Byrds/Big Star pastiche. And I don't like The Byrds or Big Star enough for that to appeal.
I like the final track on the alternative CD, I Hear You Looking, the 12-minute instrumental wig-out. I was about to write that it sounds almost like a Yo La Tengo track, when, as I checked the title on the cover, I noticed it was credited to Hubley/Kaplan/McNew: it is a Yo La Tengo track.
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