Teenage Fanclub Survey

Another 2 or 3 months till I'll stop the voting for this!

The Results

Favourite Album

Grand Prix, unsurprisingly perhaps, is the winner. Songs From Northern Britain moves up above Howdy! into 2nd place.

The rating is based on the average value taken from a number of votes rated /10. The number of votes for each can be seen in brackets, followed by the voting range.

 A Catholic Education 6.7 (24) 2-10
 Bandwagonesque 8.6 (29) 6-10
 The King 5.0 (20) 1-7
 Thirteen 8.3 (28) 6-10
 Deep Fried Fanclub 7.0 (22) 5-9
 Grand Prix 9.4 (30) 8-10
 Songs From Northern Britain 9.0 (30) 7-10
 Howdy! 8.9 (30) 7-10

If people only voted for the albums they own, then all 30 voters own Grand Prix, SFNB and Howdy! and the rareness of The King is shown with the fewest votes.

Best Single

Here is the order based on 3 pts for 1st, 2 pts for 2nd, 1 pt for 3rd from the voting. In brackets is the number of individual votes for each single and the yellow text shows how many positions a song has moved up since the last set of results. They aren't all singles, but what the hell, you voted!

Recent votes for Sparky's Dream have moved it from 3rd position to a clear lead.

      Sparky's Dream - 30pts (13)
      Ain't That Enough - 21pts (8)
      Radio - 19pts (8)
      Star Sign - 15pts (7)
     The Concept - 15pts (7)
     Everything Flows - 15pts (7)
     Neil Jung - 11pts (5)
     Start Again - 11pts (6)
     I Need Direction - 8pts (4)
     What You Do To Me - 6pts (3)
     Mellow Doubt - 5pts (3)
     I Don't Want Control Of You - 4pts (2)
     Norman 3 - 3pts (3)
     Dumb Dumb Dumb - 3pts (2)
     God Knows Its True - 2pts (1)
     Near You - 2pts (1)
     Take The Long Way Round - 2pt (2)
     Mad Dog 20/20 - 1pt (1)

Favourite Cover

Like A Virgin has dropped from the top, overtaken by 3 other songs.

     He'd Be A Diamond - 19pts (9)
     I Heard You Looking - 17pts (7)
     Here Comes Your Man - 16pts (7)
     Like A Virgin - 14pts (5)
     Have You Ever Seen The Rain? - 10pts (6)
     Nothing To Be Done - 8pts (3)
     Life's A Gas - 7pts (4)
     Free Again - 7pts (4)
     Who Loves The Sun - 7pts (4)
     Goody Goody Gumdrops - 6pts (3)
     Mr Tambourine Man - 6pts (3)
     Burned - 6pts (3)
     Older Guys - 6pts (4)
     Four Strong Winds - 5pts (2)
     Ballad Of John And Yoko - 5pts (2)
     Between Us - 5pts (3)
     Patti Girl - 3pts (1)
     Femme Fatale - 3pts (2)
     Jesus Christ - 3pts (3)
     How Many More Years - 2pts (1)
     Tell Me What You See - 1pt (1)
     Feel A Whole Lot Better - 1pt (1)
     Kylie's Got A Crush On Us - 1pt (1)

Best Live Track

We have a clear winner for now, but Everything Flows is probably the only song everyone who has seen TFC play has heard live. The points total is calculated as usual with the number of individual votes for each song in brackets.

Everything Flows - 28pts (11)
Sparky's Dream - 17pts (8)
I Need Direction - 7pts (3)
Near You - 7pts (4)
Star Sign - 6pts (3)
The Cabbage - 6pts (3)
Neil Jung - 6pts (3)
Radio - 6pts (4)
Metal Baby - 5pts (2)
The Concept - 5pts (3)
Alcoholiday - 5pts (3)
Your Love Is The Place Where I Come From - 4pts (2)
Broken - 4pts (2)
Take The Long Way Round - 3pts (1)
Some People Try To F*** With You - 3pts (1)
Going Places - 3pts (1)
I Heard You Looking - 3pts (1)
Rain (The Beatles) - 3pts (1)
Start Again - 3pts (1)
The Concept/Satan - 3pts (1)
Don't Look Back - 3pts (2)
Verisimilitude - 3pts (2)
Ain't That Enough - 3pts (3)
Kylie's Got A Crush On Us - 2pts (1)
The Shadows - 2pts (1)
Hang On - 2pts (1)
Speed Of Light - 2pts (1)
Escher* - 2pts (2)
I'll Make It Clear - 1pt (1)
Hang On - 1pt (1)
Can't Feel My Soul - 1pt (1)
Satan - 1pt (1)
What You Do To Me - 1pt (1)

*1 vote for Norman singing Escher...

Its interesting how a favourite song doesn't necessarily make a favourite live track, which is how I voted too.

Disliked TFC Songs

There weren't many votes for this one, so I just decided to base the result on number of votes (1 vote unless otherwise stated in brackets):

Satan (4)
Get Funky (3)
Weird Horses (3)
Dumb Dumb Dumb (2)
Is This Music? (2)
What You Do To Me (2)
Verismilitude (2)
Between Clark And Hilldale
Chords Of Fame
Don's Gone Columbia
Hardcore/Ballad
Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal 9
Heavy Metal X
It's A Bad World
Mount Everest
Song To The Cynic
Sparky's Dream
Tears Are Cool
You're My Kind

Sparky's Dream is perhaps a surprise entry, but there you go. It's good everyone has differing opinions.

Favourite Album Sleeve

Well, as Mike Cottle said, "Not their strong point". True, but I think they all have a certain charm. And don't they look good as little icons!?

 Songs From Northern Britain (13)
 Bandwagonesque (5)
 Grand Prix (4)
 Thirteen (3)
 Howdy! (1)

The only person to vote for Howdy!? Me. I thought the cover was terrible at first, but now I think it's great, it just seems to sum Teenage Fanclub up for me, happy and charming.

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