My Top 1000 Songs #726: I Need Direction

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.] 

Teenage Fanclub are another one like Guided By Voices (or, hey, the freakin' Beatles) where it's kinda impossible to lock in on particular favorites; it's more like, hey, I think I need a Teenage Fanclub song in this spot and here's one I happen to love, but it coulda been a different one as well, I suppose...

Anyway, "I Need Direction," off 2000's Howdy, is a spectacularly perfect pop song, some cheery, retro-sounding, Association-like sunshine pop touches with those "ba-ba-bah" harmonies, tethered to a shimmering, chiming jangle. Just a drop-dead melody to ooze around your brain all day.

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