Wall of Mouths

Yeah, TG has been done… No need to do another. Personally, i think the best thing about T?, is the fact that each and every album sounds completely different. Ok, there is the whole thing of IL alienating the fans that loved TG, (and it seemed to take forever to recover from that) but pushing into new areas and exploring new sounds is probably more exciting for the guys than just being an AC/DC, where every album has the same kinda sound. (I’m NOT having a go at AC/DC BTW) If they did do that, I think it would have bored the life out of them and they’d have chucked it a long time ago. Plus (from a selfish point of view) i like seeing T? play in smaller venues. The last thing i’d want would be to have to go to a T? gig in a massive arena or a stadium with a mad scramble for tickets!!

Further thoughts on ABCOL…

I loved the album on first listen and having listened more my love for it has increased. I now curl up with it at night and stroke its hair.

Previously, my top 5 T? albums were:
Troublegum
Shameless
Sucicide Pact - You First
High Anxiety
Crooked Timber

The order isn’t strict, although Troublegum was definitely my favourite and CT probably not quite as good as the rest. Now ABCOL has knocked CT out of the top 5. So far, I’d still say it’s not as good as Troublegum, but it’s still early days… and I’d say it’s probably my 2nd favourite, or at least on par with Shameless, SP - YF and HA.

Good times :-)

Thefanthattriedtostrangleitslf wrote:

I’m not so much the one confused, I did see people use the term dubstep in relation to T? (so maybe they’re the ones confused?), which is why I specifically asked him about any dubstep influences he heard (I’m pretty sure he knew about the difference as well and would’ve told me if I screwed up using those terms). It’s true I assumed dub and dubstep were related but the dubstep remarks were the ones that really bothered me ‘cos I was sure what it was, and I think it is shit =)

I don’t like much dubstep, certainly not from the last 5 years or so, but I love dub, that’s why I wanted to point out the difference is all.

The problem I’ve always had with korn is that they do far too many collaberations. Their new album is basically a re-mix album. “the future of metal” is what Jonathan Davis is quoted as saying about the path of totallity. Arse. If you want dubstep to be an influence, at least do it yourself, rather than someone else doing it on a laptop. At least Therapy?’s dubstep influences are played by the musicians in the band, and are subtle. It has to be said, I thought crooked Timber was Therapy?s best album, I did’t expect them to top it. But I think they may have.

Good evening all, thought I’d pop my head in and say I bought the new album a couple days ago and really enjoying it. Been out of the loop so only found out there was a new album coming out a few weeks ago, meaning less time to wait!

Joel wrote:

Yeah what a stupid idea to record an album with great rock tunes that everyone loved/loves which was critically acclaimed and sold by the bucket load leading to high up festival billings and all round general greatness. Absurd notion.

Except, if the band didn’t feel inspired to do so (which they didn’t) it wouldn’t have been so great. I think another album like Nurse, Crooked Timber, Troublegum, Infernal Love would be cool too but I just don’t think they could’ve done it, and I see them as greater musicians because they’re constantly broadening their horizons. You may not see Therapy? sell out huge stadiums right now (who cares anyway?), but who knows, people might pick up on this much later (as it often happens with things of great quality), so T?’s experimental albums could last longer than Motorhead and AC/DC part MMXIII (both great bands, btw). Therefore, I don’t think of it as a possibility. I think Andy said in an interview (it’s on Youtube and it has 5 parts, shouldn’t be too hard to find) that the band might’ve fallen apart if they had done that. The result of being commercially successful or trying to be it was Semi-Detached, which doesn’t bother me as much as the fact it seemed to have been made under a lot of pressure from the record company (which is why they made the radical SPYF later). The one time T? tried to stick to what they were familiar with was One Cure Fits All I believe, which had some great tracks but also a couple less-inspired ones which I don’t think they were very happy about. Also, the changing of the drummers had a lot of effect on them, as did Martin becoming a part of the band and then leaving again. You could say the change of sound happened naturally, for a bit.

chr1s wrote:

Yeah, TG has been done… No need to do another. Personally, i think the best thing about T?, is the fact that each and every album sounds completely different.

Amen! Amongst my other absolute favourite bands are Annihilator, Alice Cooper and Paradise Lost. You can figure out I like change. As long as it’s done well, I think variety in material proves a band has more musical talent (a bad example of this would be linkin park, lol). Sadly most people just want more of the same.

MisterHoppy wrote:

I don’t like much dubstep, certainly not from the last 5 years or so, but I love dub, that’s why I wanted to point out the difference is all.

I can imagine you would! x’) It’s ok, I just wanted to clarify I was reacting to people who actually said Therapy? had dubstep influences rather than just dub, I probably should’ve made that more clear.

garymartian wrote:

At least Therapy?’s dubstep influences are played by the musicians in the band, and are subtle.

There they go again, we just went over this! ;)

I’ve said it before but I’m going to say it again: Andy’s vocals on this album are the best they’ve ever been.

btw: the mentioned review from plattentests.de says 5 out of 10, but the user voting is 8 out of 10… there’s hope!

Maybe the Germans have raised their music expectations after their last year Eurovision song contest “triumph”? hahahahaha

LoserCop wrote:

Just a little point here from “good old germany”:
I have no f$%&ing idea why the reviews here are so bad.

I’m positive Andy once said on the whole (so I’m obviously not pointing the finger at you) Germany is the country where the people at gigs are most pro-Troublegum and least pro-anything else by Therapy?. He said it in a half joking manner though, so I’m not sure what to make of it.

Sweet! ‘Tis selling nicely then. It deserves to. :)

it’s funny everyone else decked out and Dave Grohl sitting there in a Slayer tee-shirt

I love the new album! However, am I alone in thinking that T?’s sound is slightly becomming over-reliant on the piccollo snare?

Parts of the album (Get You’re Dead Hand..) sounds a bit like overkill on the 2nd snare. Don’t get me wrong, I love it, but just feel it could be used… less frequently.. if that makes sense!

Maybe I’m just talking shite

How come it will be released here in Finland on the 22nd of this month? So that´s why I didnt find any copies in shops here last week and yesterday when I was downtown…

kossu wrote:

How come it will be released here in Finland on the 22nd of this month? So that´s why I didnt find any copies in shops here last week and yesterday when I was downtown…

I asked Global about this when my pre-order didn’t arrive and I started to look for it in local recordstores. They all said it would arrive Februari 17th :(
Global then told me that the 6th was the UK releasedate and it 17th the European releasedate… I guess the Scandinavian releasedate will be the 22nd.

On a sidenote: I got a note in my mailbox yesterday that our postman had a package for me but there was no-one to accept it… I can pick up my copy of A Brief Crack Of Light tonight!!!! :D