Thirteen is the fourth studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, released in 1993 on Creation Records in the UK and Geffen in the US.

It was commonly believed at the time that it was named after the song "Thirteen" by Big Star,[2] a band that has heavily influenced Teenage Fanclub.

"[6] The band spent the next three to four months recording at Ca Va Sound Workshops in Glasgow, ending up with just fragmentary pieces that weren't quite finished songs.

Blake: "Jeff Koons did an art piece with a basketball suspended in water, which I liked the look of, so I thought I’d just rip that off because he does that with other people’s ideas.

Music critic Robert Christgau gave it a "neither" rating, indicating that an album "may impress once or twice with consistent craft or an arresting track or two.

"[17] Spin denounced Teenage Fanclub for making "a fetish of smothering emotion under a blanket of stoic formalism.

"[18] Rolling Stone, however, called the album "even sweeter than its predecessor" and praised the band as "among the best recyclers [of power pop and bubblegum rock] around.

AllMusic called it "an eminently worthy follow-up to the classic Bandwagonesque"[4] and Pitchfork wrote: "To this day, its reputation is far worse than the actual music.