Bandwagonesque (studio album)
by Teenage Fanclub
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Bandwagonesque is ranked as the best album by Teenage Fanclub.
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Bandwagonesque track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 12/14/2025 19:48 | Exist-en-ciel | 4,505 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/05/2025 20:08 | Tuur | 947 | 67/100 |
| ! | 11/30/2025 05:55 |  Kingturtle | 7,441 | 73/100 |
| ! | 11/15/2025 23:45 | Andras | 231 | 77/100 |
| ! | 11/03/2025 23:24 |  Larcx13 | 2,850 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.5/100, a mean average of 77.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.
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This is what guitar distortion should be used for, to add an edgy feel to great melody - not just noisy for its own sake. Much of this is derivative, e.g. "What You Do to Me" sounds like a Big Star tune and so on. For me the results are worth it: alt rock doesn't get much better than "The Concept" or "I Don't Know" if melody is important to you. There's some really sublime moments on this album, and we know those don't come around so often.
imacgill 09/18/2022 22:49 | #289787
Spin magazine named Bandwagonesque top album in 1991 over Nevermind and Loveless. It's a great album but not as significant as those two records.
Brad1770 06/05/2021 08:14 | #270396
Before ‘Bandwagonesque’ came out I was already massively into Teenage Fanclub so naturally the album rocked my world right ? Wrong !. You see 1991 was simply one of those sublime years whereby iconic album followed by iconic album came out (‘Nevermind’ , ‘ Loveless’, ‘Out of Time’ , Screamadelica’, ‘Spiderland’ ) ultimately leaving this superb release under their considerable shadow. It literally took years and I mean years before I circled back and dusted off that CD I purchased back in 91 and really got to know ‘Bandwagonesque’ and of course I loved it with so many sections reminding me of Big Star the power pop pioneers
drstuey 03/27/2021 05:55 | #267806
This is almost certainly the album I have listened to the most ever because there was a period after the release of Thirteen when I listened to little else on my walkman than a cassette with Bandwagonesqe on one side and Thirteen on the other.
One of the great melodic rock records of the nineties. Sure it sounds like Big Star, but who doesn't like Big Star? Packed with amazing melodies, catchy hooks and genuine heartfelt emotions.
Favorite Tracks:December, Metal Baby
Sandrof1969 02/18/2018 21:53 | #208762
I Teenage Fanclub, unendo canzoni pop a suoni lo-fi, realizzarono un gioiellino di pop grezzo ( questo "Bandwagonesque" ) che si fa apprezzare ancora oggi, anche se a distanza di qualche anno da quando l'ho conosciuto non lo trovo molto più che discreto, a parte l'iniziale "The concept".
Jimmy Dread 01/26/2018 16:10 | #206549
@Pretender - never heard Catholic Education then?
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Enjoyable guitar based indi rock. Songs a little samey though.
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