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Teenage Gurls (Import) (CD)

By: The Scruffs (Artist)

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Teenage Gurls (Import) (CD) Album By The Scruffs (Artist)
1   Teenage Gurls  
2   Go Faster  
3   You You You  
4   Nick Of Tyme  
5   At The Movies  
6   Edge Of Disaster  
7   Now  
8   Boys/Girls Get Their Own Way  
9   Alice Please Don't Go  
10   Breakdown  
11   Danger  
12   Treachery  
13   Rock 'n' Roll Heads  
14   How We Gonna Do It  
15   Shakin'  
 

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Review

Uncut (6/03, p.115) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...The Scruffs are one of several pre-Replacements acts who tapped into that antsy girls-on-my-mind mood and pursued the blend of melancholia with added rock'n'roll rush to a logical conclusion..."

Review

Uncut (6/03, p.115) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...The Scruffs are one of several pre-Replacements acts who tapped into that antsy girls-on-my-mind mood and pursued the blend of melancholia with added rock'n'roll rush to a logical conclusion..."

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The Scruffs: Stephen Burns (vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, keyboards); David Branyan, Steve O'Rourke (vocals, guitar); Rick Branyan, Steve Wood (bass, background vocals); Zeph Paulson (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Carl Marsh (synthesizer).
Engineers: John Fry, John Hampton, Joe Hardy.
Recorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee from August-September 1978 and October 1979. Includes liner notes by John M. Borack.

Title Note

The Scruffs: Stephen Burns (vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, keyboards); David Branyan, Steve O'Rourke (vocals, guitar); Rick Branyan, Steve Wood (bass, background vocals); Zeph Paulson (drums, percussion).

Additional personnel: Carl Marsh (synthesizer).

Engineers: John Fry, John Hampton, Joe Hardy.

Recorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee from August-September 1978 and October 1979. Includes liner notes by John M. Borack.

Failed negotiations with several major labels kept the Scruffs' second album, Teenage Gurls, in the vaults until Northern Heights finally gave it a belated release in 1998, nearly two decades after it was recorded. While the band's debut, Wanna Meet the Scruffs?, was an out-of-the-box classic, Teenage Gurls suffers by comparison; while most of the songs are solid, there are a few examples of obvious filler, most notably the title track on which singer and songwriter Stephen Burns doesn't seem to have a lot to say except he likes teenage gurls (and my, isn't that unusual). And while having guitarists David Branyan and Steve O'Rourke write and sing songs was probably good for band unity, their material doesn't mesh well with what Burns brought to the table; O'Rourke's "At the Movies" in particular is a good tune, but it sounds like an outtake from the Bongos' first album and sticks out like a sore thumb in this context. But the band is in great form throughout, sounding tighter and fuller than on the debut, and there are more than a few excellent songs here, especially "Alice, Please Don't Go," "Danger," and "Go Faster." Teenage Gurls is a good late-'70s power pop album; unfortunately, it was recorded by a band that had already made one of the great ones. ~ Mark Deming

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'Teenage Gurls' the second album from Memphis' The Scruffs has a reputation as a lost classic after being held in record company vaults for two decades. In the intervening years The Scruffs reputation has grown and grown, when the band's debut album 'Wanna Meet The Scruffs' was released on CD received glowing reviews, frequently mentioned in the same breath as Big Star and The Raspberries, the time had finally arrived for the follow up to see the light of day.

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