(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)
Artist: Teenage Fanclub
Album Title: Howdy!
Year released: 2000
Year reissued: 2018
Details: Black vinyl, gatefold, 180 gram, reissue, remastered at Abbey Road Studios, included bonus 7″ single “Thaw me” b/w “One thousand lights”
The skinny: So here’s the final of the five reissues the Fannies released late this past summer. “Howdy!”, their sixth (or seventh, depending on how you count them) album, was their first since the debut not to be released on Creation and the first since the debut that I didn’t immediately rush out and purchase on CD. In fact, this repress is the first physical copy of the album I’ve ever listened to and for some reason, it sounds quite different than the digital version I have. Perhaps it’s the remastering? Nonetheless, another great and underrated offering by the band that followed very much in the same vein as “Songs from Northern Britain” and was the last proper album the band would release for five years.
Standout track: “I need direction”
Love them- but only have them on CD- will have to look for the vinyl! Songs From Northern Britain- my favorite album of theirs!
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These vinyl reissues are quite sweet. The remastering is so crisp and well, having some of your favourite albums on new vinyl is just pure happiness.
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Great to hear- that they sound so good on the vinyl. Will have to track them down for sure!!
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Picked up the vinyl re-issue recently myself. Quite nostalgic. It was a winter in England when I first got the CD (and single!); a tiny freezing cottage made of stone. Howdy! helped warm me up.
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Ah the power of music. I could see this album warming me up too.
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Did you rush out and get The King?
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Haha. Did anyone?
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Unsurprisingly, sounds like 5 for 5 on the reissues!
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Definitely was. Now that I’ve spun them all, I’ve gotta back and do it again.
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I’m looking at this thinking that I’m not sure I’ve heard this one. Anyhoo, I’m really liking the album art.
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Of the five reissues I purchased, this one is my least favourite but there’s some great tracks there nonetheless. And I have been enjoying it quite a bit more since I purchased it.
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I meant to listen to it yesterday, but got sidetracked. Got it on the list for today or tomorrow.
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