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Hopping Back on ‘Bandwagonesque’: Was Teenage Fanclub’s Misunderstood Masterpiece 1991’s Best Album After All?

The anniversary issue bizarrely dismissed Bandwagonesque as “forgettable,” and pointed out that Nevermind had actually topped Spin’s Best Albums of the ‘90s countdown, while Bandwagonesque hadn’t even placed on that list. Then-Spin editor Mark Blackwell was completely correct in ’91, when he wrote that Bandwagonesque “would be hard to equal in any year.” Perhaps the album didn’t shift the zeitgeist needle the way Kurt Cobain and company did, but just like Nevermind, Bandwagonesque still sounds