The King (album)

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The King
The King cover
Studio album by Teenage Fanclub
Released August 1991
Recorded ??
Genre Alternative rock
Length 32:37
Label Creation
Producer Don Fleming, Paul Chrisholm, and Teenage Fanclub
Professional reviews
Teenage Fanclub chronology
A Catholic Education
(1990)		 The King
(1991)		 Bandwagonesque
(1991)

The King is the second album by British alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, deleted on its day of release in 1991. The album is often derided as a hastily assembled contractual obligation to US label Matador (allowing the group to sign to Geffen without penalty). However the group have denied this, claiming that the shambolic, spontaneous nature of the contents was a direct influence of producer Don Fleming, whose music was often improvised. In a 2006 interview, Norman Blake and Brendan O'Hare confirmed that the album had been recorded immediately after completing Bandwagonesque using pre-booked studio time that became available when the aforementioned album was finished sooner than anticipated. They also claimed that the album was intended to be a mid-price edition of 1,000 but their then UK label Creation Records pressed 20,000 and sold them at full price [1].

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Teenage Fanclub unless otherwise stated.

  1. "Heavy Metal 6"
  2. "Mudhoney"
  3. "Interstellar Overdrive" (Barrett/Waters)
  4. "Robot Love"
  5. "Like a Virgin" (Kelly/Steinberg)
  6. "The King"
  7. "Opal Inquest" (Chisholm/Teenage Fanclub)
  8. "The Ballad of Bow Evil (Slow And Fast)"
  9. "Heavy Metal 9" –

[edit] Personnel