Teenage Fanclub - Alcoholiday (audio only)

[qazxsw9871]

i can't stop listening to this song. don't know why i was a fan of big star for so long without ever checking out this band.

[Rockvoxxx]

best song on an extraordinary album. good on ya man

[soyaracer]

brilliant rediscovery. it's nice when you realise that some music is absolutely timeless - & thank you for posting this. :)

[elmorobar]

It does kinda sound like big star but personally i prefer teenage fanclub as they are so different each song sounds amazing and different they are so talented great singer great guitar drummer without an ego who knew

[stelamaris]

amo!

[rleary1]

Hi, I've been in a band playing this song since it came out. Any idea on the lyrics at the last? All the website lyric links say, 'All I know is all I know, What I've done I leave behind and I don't know what sort to find me'??

I listen to this song again & again & it sounds like they say, 'What I've done, I leave behind me,.. I don't want MY SOUL to find me..' Someone please, a little help & thanks!  Does anyone have the liner notes to the LP/CD? - Guitarist in key of G

[Quattro1212]

@rleary1 ---> he doesn't want his soul to find him cause he's on an alcoholiday.

[sixtoes27]

@rleary1 you are correct! I've always thought that's what he says, and I just listened to the Peel Session and you can clearly hear him say it.

[rleary1]

@sixtoes27 Thank you! I played this song for years and always singed 'Soul' Thanks for your help and input!

[Graphicals]

One of the first songs I heard them play live some ten years ago now.. fcuking love this tune up there with the full version of The Concept.. thanks for uploading! :-)

[JmBhoy89]

One of the most uplifting songs of all times!!

[ratbasket]

I want a remastered double deluxe version of this incredible album. Some of the shite they put in deluxe editions and this album is just left to collect dust. Oy, there is no justice.

[suzysuite]

Do they still tour? In US? I would love to see them, been a fan since way back.

[jiguryo]

I'm REALLY glad they've included this song on the setlist for their first gig in Rio de Janeiro (May 12th 2011). Still awesome.

[LrodJr]

The pride of Bellshill, Scotland.

[TheRevolution1988]

Had this on reloop today. Fantastic.

[JohnnyMarr03]

just sheer brilliance!

[mickdimas]

Oh yeah, +0p$#!+

[amazonaaaa]

oh yeah.

oh yeahhhhhh.

[klinsmeier]

I love the drums and the soft sound

[laurapaint]

love it

[jigslippy]

can I hijack for a worthy link.. unsigned 90's indie band try it you might like it..

search

When Morning Comes by Kingsley Beat (2)

or

FEED THE SWAN by KINGSLEY BEAT

thanks



[MrOmNomNom99]

@jigslippy Thanks :) 

[ki19850715]

生まれて初めてジャケ買いしたのが、grand prixでした。

懐かしいな～、また内容もどのトラックをとっても隙が無い！！！



[raulbric]

"Listen ever get a feeling when you're taken by the hand

And led a course you can't command

Went to bed but I'm not ready

Baby I've been fucked already"

Yes, I know that feeling.

[misfitfailure]

amazing. Norman Blake is astounding.

[dropcity808]

this is so great - so great. People who don't like this are not my kind of people. Point finale.

[blue32ism]

so great, i've listened to this hundreds of times over the years

[lancepopem]

classic rock, i guess...great powerful song!really like the lyrics...

[atombirdy]

Thats not Alcoholiday !!!!

[klinsmeier]

I love the slow tempo and the drums!

[666slink]

The best kind of holiday.

[promisedeyes]

Great, great, GREAT TUNE!

[northerntao]

My life in 1992 summed up in a song. Too much alcohol and long bus rides from San Jose to Mt. View with this on my Walkman.

[talpajam]

this is Big Star reincarnated

what a great bass line

if this song doesn't move you, you are soulless.

timeless & epic.

[whatsthattune]

Fuck ... wow!!!

[bennett28]

class oh the memories lol

[lancepopem]

this song brings me back to my teenage years! really a teenage fanclub!

[MsDangermouse]

vale Alex......

[oldtownkid]

One of the best albums that came out in 1991/1992, this album along with Godfodder, Nevermind, Congregation, Dirty, among other albums, the 90's greatest !

[llanbo]

@oldtownkid

Godfodder?! Get a grip, man.

[johnnydepth76]

@llanbo Nah. I loved Godfodder too. lol

[rugshort]

@llanbo Yeah, the Neds weren't that great.

[dexilee]

classic band-love them..love to play to their songs

[ckyable]

im 30 this song still sounds relavent! they take me away 2 when i was 14 and crazy,i grow up with them im glad i did

[adg87]

Just a classic, classic song. TFC does not get enough props in the game. Without these cats, there would be no Dashboard, or half these "Drive-Thru" bands out now.

[jdankhead]

First heard teenage fanclub son. Great! none the less!

[visioncommission]

nice tune!! timeless!

[kevyrob13]

There are things I want to do, but I don't know if they will be with you!! The ultimate in put downs.. Love it.. Rock on Fannies, rock on!

[Mojambosucks]

mark turver you are my musical hero

[brilliantcolors7]

there's an earlier bbc version that is structured slightly differently and has some different lyrics - "listen ever get a feeling when you've had to much to drink / expressed your heartstrings to the brink / went to bed, but i'm not stupid / i don't want to play with cupid"

[deveat]

great song...

[nxc9]

Great song. I wish Rod Stewart had a chance to sing it back in 1971.

[houstonveer]

It'an alcoholiday, I'm buyin'. Get to Portland, Oregon. At he "Good Luck".

[scottmac277]

shut up

[twosteps]

my favorite song

[jerrywasarace]

what a good song. great band

[caraamica]

jako

[Shotgunnova]

Haven't heard this in awhile. Good schtuff.

[entoy17]

wow!this song is in their bandwagonesque album.i still have that cassette tape of this album which i bought in 1992.great album from a great band.

[thecloudchildren]

this is the sweetest song ever written - angst, love, release, feck me it rings of everything. sweet and beautiful! my life is a TFC song....

[norimnorib]

What is the main theme of this song?

does it mean `unfaithful love`? because he sang 'Went to bed but I'm not ready

Baby I've been fucked already'

I wanna know it, thx.

[swich68]

I think the clue is in the title. Pissed up and realising that it's all a bad idea with a girl. "we got nothing worth discussing" I've done that sort of thing once . . . in a tent.

[chaospike]

dont worry i'll comment on your vids teenage fanclub always brings inspirational to me all the way...

[OwwKayy]

So good to hear this again, i can't believe nobody has commented on that song so far, it's just soo damn good!!! 'There are things i want to say, but i dont know if it will be to you!' I was looking on YouTube for XTC, The Auteurs, The House Of Love, Pulp vids and i looked for TeenageFC as well.