..was just watching some clips from the 90s, notably the TEENAGE FANCLUB..now don't get me wrong, I think their first album was probably one of the best of the 90s, but this video just shows how AMERICAN English bands were trying to be back then.
The whole long hair, shaggy jeans and windcheater shtick, just looks so fucken forced, the irony is that it looks so 'un natural' like a strange inversion of glam...
I mean they were perfectly fine as a pack of Scottish nerds, but in retrospect the whole stance of 'grunge' looks so forced and phony, which is bitterly ironic since, 'grunge' prided itself on this sort of working-class-lumberjack type 'authenticity' - these days all these bloke think they are in 'the band' or something...grunge/indie fashion is a fucked-up animal at the best/worst of times!
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Still the FANCLUB were way more influential than most, I mean the whole live 'ROCK' shtick and crowd pogo reaction would be ably synthesized and BRITISH-ised back into Oasis...If anything the Fanclub still has a better RHYTHM SECTION.
The whole long hair, shaggy jeans and windcheater shtick, just looks so fucken forced, the irony is that it looks so 'un natural' like a strange inversion of glam...
I mean they were perfectly fine as a pack of Scottish nerds, but in retrospect the whole stance of 'grunge' looks so forced and phony, which is bitterly ironic since, 'grunge' prided itself on this sort of working-class-lumberjack type 'authenticity' - these days all these bloke think they are in 'the band' or something...grunge/indie fashion is a fucked-up animal at the best/worst of times!
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Still the FANCLUB were way more influential than most, I mean the whole live 'ROCK' shtick and crowd pogo reaction would be ably synthesized and BRITISH-ised back into Oasis...If anything the Fanclub still has a better RHYTHM SECTION.
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