Teenage Fancovers

35 original songs recorded as cover versions by Teenage Fanclub.
The original Sister Isabelle by Del Shannon is not on Spotify.



Don't Cry No Tears – Neil Young, Crazy Horse
The Ballad Of John And Yoko - Remastered 2009 – The Beatles
Interstellar Overdrive - 2011 Remastered Version – Pink Floyd
Like A Virgin – Madonna
Life's A Gas – T. Rex
Free Again - Original Mono Mix – Alex Chilton
Goody Goody Gumdrops - Remastered – 1910 Fruitgum Company
It's So Hard To Fall In Love – Sebadoh
Bad Seeds – Beat Happening
Chords Of Fame – Phil Ochs
Older Guys – The Flying Burrito Brothers
Four Strong Winds – Ian & Sylvia
Mine Exclusively – The Olympics
Have You Ever Seen The Rain? – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Between Us - 2006 Remastered Version – The Rutles
Burned – Buffalo Springfield
Try And Stop Me – The Creation
Who Loves The Sun - 2015 Remastered – The Velvet Underground
I Heard You Looking – Yo La Tengo
Handyman – Jimmy Jones
Man Who Was Too Loud – Frank Black & The Catholics
Sister Isabelle – Frank Black
Femme Fatale – The Velvet Underground, Nico
Jesus Christ – Big Star
He'd Be A Diamond – The Bevis Frond
How Many More Years - Charmed Life – Half Japanese
Nothing To Be Done – The Pastels
Personality Crisis – New York Dolls
Here Comes Your Man – Pixies
I Saw The Light – Todd Rundgren
Like A Monkey In A Zoo – Daniel Johnston
Happy Soul – Daniel Johnston
My Life Is Starting Over Again – Daniel Johnston
Association – International Airport
Easy Come, Easy Go – Grant McLennan

The Fab Eight

George Paul Ringo John George Paul Ringo John. Abbey Road double album. #twoofus

Paul Metallicartney

Macca a la Metallica.

7" Single

A Certain Ratio

Incomplete Madness

Teenage Fanclub t-shirt

Teenage Fanclub band member t-shirts images.

Current Gerard Francis Norman Raymond.
Original Gerard Norman Brendan Raymond.

The Beatles And You

The word that appears most in original Beatles song titles is "you", so here's a flow chart showing all 22 songs.

Here's the list of songs, roughly as they appear in the flowchart from left right and top to bottom.

01. Got To Get You Into My Life.
02. I'll Get You.
03. You Know My Name (Lookup The Number).
04. Do You Want To Know A Secret.
05. PS I Love You.
06. Love You To.
07. I Need You.
08. I Want You (She's So Heavy).
09. I Want To Tell You.
10. She Loves You.
11. Within You Without You.
12. You Can't Do That.
13. I'm Looking Through You.
14. You Never Give Me Your Money.
15. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You.
16. You Like Me Too Much.
17. Tell Me What You See.
18. From Me To You.
19. You Won't See Me.
20. For You Blue.
21. Thank You Girl.
22. All You Need Is Love.

Yoko Linda Patti Maureen

Late-period Beatle wives, Yoko& Linda& Patti& Maureen.

The Bell Factory

Why is this blog called The Bell Factory?

Somewhere in North America, sometime in 1964, Paul McCartney said something about a bell factory. The contradictory extracts below show that no-one is really sure where, when and exactly what he said.

And it shows the group, enclosed within the walls of what Paul McCartney had recently likened to a bell factory.

(Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America. Jonathan Gould.)

Sunday, 30 August.
Atlantic City, LaFayette Hotel, Eighth Floor.
Interview with Peter Woods, television reporter for the BBC.
Woods: How on earth do you put up with all this noise? It's gone on all night!
Paul: You don't notice it very much.
Ringo: You forget about it.
...
George: We get immune to it. It's a distant thing. It's just one of those everyday sounds, man.
Paul: It's like if you work in a bell factory, you don't notice bells.
John (sarcastically): I didn't know that.

(The Beatles: Off The Record. Keith Badman.)

TV interview
Date: 30 August 1964
Time: afternoon
Location: Lafayette Motor Inn, Atlantic City
Interviewer: Peter Woods
... Then [Woods] is ushered into the Beatles' suite to chat with all four at once about the noisy fans; Paul says they are used to it, just like someone who worked in a bell factory all day would be immune to ringing.

(Way Beyond Compare: The Beatles' Recorded Legacy, Volume One, 1957-1965. John C Winn.)

That summer the Beatles would change a few rules of the game themselves when they performed at Shea Stadium on Sunday, August 15, kicking off their second American tour by whipping 56,000 US fans into a frenzy....How were they supposed to connect with their audience, who seemed like they were sitting half a mile away, and were clearly out of their minds?"The commotion", Paul explained, "doesn't bother us anymore. It's like working in a bell factory. You don't hear the bells anymore.

(This Bird Has Flown: The Enduring Beauty of Rubber Soul, Fifty Years On. John Kruth)

PAUL 1964 (on Beatle fans)
Q: "Paul, why do teenagers scream when The Beatles appear?"PAUL: "None of us know. We kind of like the screaming teenagers. If they want to sit out there and shout, that's their business. We aren't going to be like little dictators and say, 'You gotta shut up'. The commotion doesn't bother us anymore. It's like working in a bell factory. After a while you get used to the bells."
Why do teenagers stand up and scream piercingly and painfully when you appear?Paul: None of us know. But we've heard that teenagers go to our shows just to scream. A lot of them don't even want to listen because they have our records. We kind of like the screaming teenagers. If they want to pay their money and sit out there and shout, that's their business. We aren't going to be like little dictators and say, "You've got to shut up". The commotion doesn't bother us anymore. It's come to be like working in a bell factory. You don't hear the bells after a while.

(http://imagine109.tripod.com/allyouneedisbeatles/id66.html)

"The commotion doesn't bother us anymore. It's like working in a bell factory. After a while you get used to the bells." Thus Paul McCartney on what it felt like to be at the epicentre of Beatlemania.

(The Telegraph. Neil Collins. 12 Nov 2004.)

Some people have taken it be a comment on the constant attention of Beatlemania in general, others think it is a direct response to questions about the screaming of fans during live concerts.

Maybe Paul said it more than once. Maybe Paul heard it from someone else. Maybe Paul kept repeating it at that time, John sounds a bit grumpy in the transcript, ("sarcastically: I didn't know that").

Whatever the origin, and I guess we'll never know exactly, I liked the story and remembered it, so bellfact became the name of this music blog and twitter account.

Jon Paul Swill Cush Shanne

The Men They Couldn't Hang original line-up in a "John& Paul& Ringo& George." t-shirt style logo.

Cyn Jane Mo Patti

The Beatles plus ones around 1964-1967 time.

In the style of the John Paul Ringo George t-shirt logo. 

The Beatles Purple Album 62-66-67-70

The Beatles 62-66-67-70 Purple Album

The Red Album + The Blue Album = The Purple Album.
The Beatles 62-66 + 67-70 = 62-66-67-70.

In Remainbows

In Remainbows - Radioheud

In Remainbows - Radioheud
#inrainbows #radiohead

Every 1980 Top 10 Single

All 135 songs that reached the Top 10 charts in 1980.

Left to right is from the start to the end of the year, top to bottom is from numbers 1 to 10.

Songs in red reached No. 1, in orange No. 2, in yellow No. 3, in light green No. 4-5, and in dark green No. 6-10.

Excluding any songs that reached a higher chart position the previous or following year.