Wall of Mouths

If you like the uber-commercial, slurping-on-the-cheesy-corporate-penis style of, say, semi detatched for instance, then the only thing recently that you will like is One Cure Fits All - it is universally opined to be one of Therapy?’s most commercially oriented albums.

It is very very good. and I recommend that you buy a copy.

High Anxiety might be worth a look too.

Never Apoologise, Never Explain is a bit noisy in places, but is a cracking album, and Shameless is the follow up to Suicide Pact, which is more of a bog standard hard rock record.

Personaly, I think SPYF is a great album, really dark and totally different to anything thy produced before or since, and I also love OCFA and NANE, althogh I am less of a fan of Shameless and High Anxiety.

Download Our White Noise, Walk Through Darkness and Sprung, then buy One Cure Fits All.

And Welcome the the WoM by the way

My humble opinion:

There are as many different opinions on Therapy?’s albums as there are members on this forum.

Never Apologize was celebrated by many as maybe their best album ever; On the other hand, e.g. a guy called Marko Jii even closed his Therapy? fan-website because T?’s new stuff doesn’t appeal to him at all.

I’m a big Troublegum - fan, too. Love that record. Best thing they’ve ever done imho. But they’ve never done anything like troublegum after that. Would I want them to do another troublegum? Hell No! It wouldn’t be Therapy? if they did the same thing twice. (I needn’t tell you - you know the follow-ups to Troublegum).

Suicide Pact is a weird, experimental album.

Shameless is full of straight riffs and rhythms. Sort of Punk Rock with not so much melody.

High Anxiety has some sort of Pop/Punk-ish songs. Very melodic, maybe too pop.

NANE then, is raw and unpolished. Not exactly heavy, just wild. Totally different from HA.

Then, OCFA has a lot of riffs an melodies. But not like the stuff on Troublegum or HA, it’s just OCFA.

I don’t think therapy? have lost themselves. They’ve changed every time they put out a record. It depends on one’s personal taste if you like their stuff or not.

There’s always a reason to give the latest T? record a try. Even if you didn’t like the last one - you can be shure the new one’ is different … again. :D

I’d say buy em all, and give em a few listens as I find with T? albums you get more rewarded once they’ve grown on you, so to speak.

Ivan, it took me a few listens to get into Therapy?, but by the time their Short Sharp Shock ep came out I was getting anything with their name on it. Most of it I fell in love with whilst the rest took me a little longer to get into.

Suicide Pact is not an easy album on first listen, whilst Shameless shows the band something that they’re not. On NANE it shows the band pulling themselves back together again. I’d start on NANE before going on to the others, but that’s just my opinion.

McBain wrote:

Never Apologize was celebrated by many as maybe their best album ever; On the other hand, e.g. a guy called Marko Jii even closed his Therapy? fan-website because T?’s new stuff doesn’t appeal to him at all.

That was later on, and that wasn’t really the reason… :rolleyes:

Graeme55? wrote:

i think u went a bit hasty with the throw away in the bin bit, suicidepact may be the worst album but it is still very good. not every cd gets u by the 1st listen, u gotta let it grow on you then u might like it afterwards.

shameless is more polished and more straight forward than its predecessor, heavy rock n roll with a bit of punk. high anxiety ull like, cuz like headtransplanter said if u like troublegum ull love HA, its pop/metal/punk

nane is my second fav, its heavy, more complex, raw, and just brilliant.

OCFA is also a very good album, but the production aint up to much, its catchy and heavy, some at the same time, deluded son and walk thru darkness are essential pop/metal tunes.

SPYF is in my top 3 :)

Here is the unbiased truth:

SP:YF is intentionally fucked up. If you don’t like it don’t get Shameless - its more of the same, only worse. (tHo SPYF grew on me in the end!)

High Anxiety is perfect punk/pop and recommended.

NANE is raw metal but this time in a good way :) (sounds kinda demo-ish though…)

And OCFA - well if you don’t think Rain Hits Concrete is all that good, don’t bother with the rest of the album, you aren’t missing alot.

Thanks guys for the recommendations and welcome. :)

I’ll try High anxiety, though I’d like to check One cure fits all too… that’s their latest release after all…

And yeah, I miss therapy.
From Nurse to Semi-Detached I loved it all! I saw a progression, yet after hearing Suicide pact, I totally lost interest.

I miss the songs like Tightrope Walker - great tension, great riffs and a killer chorus.
Andy’s voice on Unbeliever is simply unbelievable. I don’t care if they filtered his voice or something, but he sounds in that song amazing.
Comparing Unbeliever and… I don’t know, Long Distance… is blaaaaah… two worlds, quality wise.
Turn is another alternative masterpiece, as is Bad Mother… etc, etc, etc.

So Therapy? for me were the masters of catchy alternative hard rock songs with great, provocative lyrics, simple but powerful riffs and choruses & melody you could sing all day long.

From Nurse to Semi-detached, every album was different, but the songs retained the same Therapy? mark that I loved so much.
So no, I don’t want them to repeat themselves, but I think they’ve gone way back to their roots for my liking.

But I WILL dl high anxiety & one cure fits all and hopefully buy both of these albums. Yeah, I miss those guys…

soul doubt wrote:

@ Mcbain
No offence, everyone’s memory is playing tricks on them from time to time ;) Just wanted to react as when I read you comment, I thought Marko came out as a wanker. I think though that’s not the way you wanted to sound. As far as I know Marko he’s a nice guy, he’s one of those WoMbles I’ve always wanted to meet. It’s just that the fire is gone for him…

I did by no means intend to offend Marko or say anything bad about him. I shouldn’t have used his closing his site in my post in the first place … sorry again … let’s just move on ;)

i think IVAN J has right about the albums therapy relased after suicide pact.i didnt like suicide pact too.i was disappointed,they only song i liked from that was little tongues first.the changed their sound alot when that album came out.and i didnt like his vocals at all at that album.and the shamelless album was disappointing as well.

i think that one cure fits all its their come back album.songs like sprung and white noise are very good,and they remind you of their 90s area.i think for me their best period was from 94-98!they were cool back then,they had cool songs and cool appearance!i still love them though,i always go and seem them,because they rock live.and andy is a very cool guy.

waiting for the studio dvd…it will rock!!!

Wow! I’ve heard “If it kills me” and was totally blown away!! This song reminded me why I love(d) Therapy? so much!

Then, My voodoo doll is great too and other High Anxiety stuff… but sadly, the album is unavailable in the stores in my city. :(

I was also blown away with Gimme back my brain. Great song. It’s from Shameless. What’s your opinion about that album? If all songs are like the first song, then wow!

And on sunday I’ll receive One cure fits all from Italy. How ironic, my first Therapy? albums were bought in Italy. :)

So, I guess I’m back with Therapy! (this time with ! instead of ? ).

I’ve never really got why Shameless is seen as one of Therapy?’s weaker albums. Great tunes and lots of energy = FAWN-TASH-TIC album!!

On another note, am i the only one who seems to be getting a bit bored of Coopers drumming style? Every song seems to have the same kind of beat to it, and whilst thats not always bad and his drumming is technically superb, it does wear thin after a while. Hmm, probably just me.

Come on, Shameless is just not up to scratch. Gimme Back My Brain is pretty good, but the rest is lacklustre, and at least 3 of Therapy?’s worst tracks are on that album. No passion.

NANE and Suicide Pact are where the best stuff is at!

IVAN it was produced by JAck endino who produced bleach lmao, ive never been able to see a similarity between em, but i guess to some people the production style of Endino is noticable.

yea cause i mean man, there are worst bands out there with worst songs then T?’s weakest ever tracks.