You wait ages for one fanny and 2 come along at once

I’m striking while the iron’s hot here. Thanks to all my new visitors from the Teenage Fanclub website for boosting my numbers on these pages. As a one-off, never to be repeated treat, please find attached a link to Teenage Fanclub’s version of Nirvana’s ‘About A Girl’.

I taped it from BBC Radio Scotland’s Beat Patrol show years ago, and a few months ago I got around to transferring it from tape to mp3. For what it’s worth, I think this version’s better than the original. It features some laid back vocals and some pretty rudimentary slide guitar that sounds as if (Raymond? Norman?) just learned how to play slide guitar about 10 minutes beforehand. Of course, half of the appeal of TFC is that at any minute it sounds like it could all fall apart. At least it was in the early days, maybe not so much nowadays. But this track holds well together, right up until the final demented slide guitar riff wheezes off into the ether. Here you go.