As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

#135 Ain’t That Enough – Teenage Fanclub (1997)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r1jbUquVFo
For some reason, I completely missed out on this band originally; I’m not sure whether WHFS didn’t play their stuff, or whether it just went right past me. Regardless, I didn’t become aware of them until I bought Nick Hornby’s excellent essay collection Songbook, which devotes one chapter to this song and another to the also-worthwhile “Your Love Is The Place Where I Come From,” both of which are from their classic album Songs From Northern Britain. (Full disclosure: I couldn’t pass up the book after seeing that Chapter 2 featured “Thunder Road”.)
I couldn’t possibly improve on Hornby’s description: “a three-minute blast of Byrdsian pop, packed with sunshine and hooks and harmonies and goodwill.” In other words, although the book came out over 13 years ago and the album is from 1997, it’s a perfect ray of hope for the times we currently live in. (For more, pick up the band’s fantastic album Here from last year.)
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