Wall of Mouths

I like it when they let the music speak:-), sounded quite experimental to me, nice wake up call!

Is it srange to say halfway 2008 : BRING ON 2009! Great news!

I am very pleased with this news:-)! And for the people who worry about Therapy? becoming “too”heavy metal: In the “post-Infernal Love era” Therapy? have always chosen a record label which did not limit them in their artistic freedom. I guess that’s one of the reasons they are still around. Everybody has his or her favourites of course, mine changes every time, but I think it’s great that they are heading sraight towards a Twenty Year Plan…so I am gonna wait patiently this year for the Therapy? train to rock and roll are arses!

Deluded Son is briliant indeed, OCFA has got some great killer tunes to run on: Fear of God and Our White Noise, damn love it!

No wonder why Michael is called the Evil Priest…

Don’t expect Moses HAHAHAHA!

Angela, I bought it at ” Velvet”. I didn’t even need to order because it was already there, so maybe you should check out one that is close to you!

Rock in peace Keith, you played in a great band and helped out Therapy? It was nice meeting you back in Denmark etc. Damn…

Hopefully the school are not gonna use Therapy? against this kid by a rewritten version of Nowhere—-> No hair( corus “Growing No Hair, growing no hair). I think it’s rubbish though, leave the kid alone!

Well, Cuchulain is right there, that was one hell of a crazy trip haha! Besides that Denmark was insane too. The craziest thing I’ve done is drawing huge Gemils in sand and snow I guess.

Happy birthday Andy, since it’s Saturday night this has to be celebrated properly with sonme pints!

After finally having received my creditcard( I still play cassettes too, so a modern thing like a credit card was a big step for me) I immediately downloaded the whole lot and have been enjoying every second of it. While watching I sometimes wanted to jump into my screen to be there!

Until my sleeve is there I will just stick to my Therapy? Shortsleeves…

I think a download release is just as good a reason to go on tour ;)

Another try

First a tiny litle one to practice.

Do you want more? I drew one in the snow as well, I like that one even better, I am gonna look it up :p

big enough?

(Before changing the message boards’ software in August 2007 this post had a file attachment, which may return in the future)

Ok, its not a picture, but I think it’s cool!

(Before changing the message boards’ software in August 2007 this post had a file attachment, which may return in the future)

Haven’t been much on the boards lately but: I will always support Therapy?, always have done and always will do: If you compare them to tits I will always be the bra supporting them—> when they were big( double d) in 1994/1995 I supported them, and I stilll do now they are C-sized…I recieved those posters from Spitfire and stuck them up at the Werchter festival, hopefully it has done them good…

Cheers!

I got mine today and am thinking of places to put them posters on..

When people downoad old Therapy? stuff from me I always tell them about OCFA and to buy the new album if it is in stock. most of them say they will so that is an other way to help out I guess…

I think there is nothing wrong in that since Therapy? only get the profit of the person who buys the new album. Whatever happens to it next is not harming them financially I think. I think they would even encourage the idea above: The word is spread, fans are helping each other out, and if in this way the albums reaches all shores it helps them to gain popularity etc…so very good idea.

I am gonna do this first thing in the morning, I am gonna stick that poster at a real strange place, one I am gonna think off while sleeping, good night!

Shade, I bought it at Plato in Rotterdam.

True, but 2x3=6, or am I really losing it now;)

I have bought myself 2 copies today of the album:D, I like it so far, especially Dopamine is great. Strange how the prices differ: At the first shop the album was 19, 95 euro. I peddled on to another store an there it was 16, 95, so I saved myself 6 euros:P which has been spent on beer while listening!

No, THIRSTY!:D

One Cure Fits All
Therapy?
Eagle

In Brief - Irish rockers keep on deliverin’ the goods
The thing I really like about Therapy is how they never sound like any band other than Therapy! They’ve never really been a massive commercial band, selling millions with every release, but they’ve been around a long time and it seems like they won’t be stopping anytime soon. They seem to change by not changing at all. They always sound quite fresh, yet familiar. This album is no exception to the rule, after the intro noise, ‘Outro’, a Therapy-style riff kicks the album off beautifully. It’s like you know what’s coming, but you don’t mind because what you get is just what you want. By track 3, ‘Deluded Son’, it’s clear that this one is going to be one of the singles. It’s got a good intro, good verse and catchy chorus way before the minute’s up. Great.

Another sing-along comes in the form of, ‘Dopamine, Seratonin, Adrenaline’, with a chorus just begging to be screamed out by everyone at whichever venue they play, with absolute drunken passion and feeling. But the velocity doesn’t stop there, the next couple of songs offer almost equal amounts of passion and melody. It makes you want to start the album again and listen to everything again to make sure you didn’t miss anything, and time is what this album deserves. Once you put the time into it, it gives you the equivalent and more back.

Therapy always seem to have bitter/sarcastic feel to their records, they have loads of character and confidence and lets face it, never conform to anything that’s going on around them. You have to respect that, whether you like them or not. They are an honest band, making honest music and have a loyal fan-base. The fact they played a 5 date string of gigs at the humble Camden Underworld a few years ago, boasting how the fans would rather see them in a small venue instead of lifeless and cold ones like the Astoria (for example), says a lot about the band.

Overall, this album gives you one thing and one thing only, it gives you Therapy. That doesn’t sound like a lot if you know anything about the band then you’ll know that it is, and that’s its all you’ll ask of them. It honest, well crafted, full of hooks, full of balls and intelligence.

It comes down to this, if you like Therapy, you’ll like this album. If you’ve never heard Therapy before, here is a good place to start. [Rating 8]

Reviewer James Arter

Therapy? - One Cure Fits All (Spitfire Records)
By: Ken McGrath

Once the beguiling ‘Outro’ has subsided things get off to their proper beginning with Sprung. Fans of this Northern Irish trio will already know that Therapy? like to open their albums up with a little blinder and this albums no different. Choppy, hi-hat heavy drumming that wouldn’t have been out of place on their Babyteeth debut slices the verses wide open, while during the chorus ringing guitars are the order of the day. “Don’t take it laying down” warns Andy Cairns during the bridge, before the rebounding riff bounds forth once again, the cymbal-led drums rounding the troops up for another chant of “they didn’t believe me then / they won’t believe me now”. Deluded Son keeps the adrenaline flowing, it’s huge, memorable chorus crying to be let loose as a single to wreck havoc over rock radio. The sparse verses are almost entirely composed of rolling drums, everything else cascading in then for the simple, yet compelling chorus. This one’s got ‘live favourite’ written all over it. ‘Into The Light’ continues the run, Andy’s wide-eyed vocals laced with a weird sense of charm, revealing this to be the next obvious step after the two albums that have gone before it. Like both High Anxiety and Never Apologise Never Explain, One Cure Fits All is classic Therapy? but without repeating themselves. As it stands they’re at the stage where they don’t have to worry about selling bin loads of singles, ruling myspace.com or competing with Fall Out Boy for the cover of your favourite rock magazine. They have reached a level that few bands get to, seventeen years together and once again with a steady line-up (Niall Cooper (drums) is thankfully showing no signs of giving up his place behind the kit), Therapy? have an immense back catalogue to call upon. But with material this strong there is no need to rely entirely on it. Sure, ‘Lose It All’, isn’t the best song they’ve ever written but Rain Hits Concrete shows development and maturity. As does the hyperventilating Fear Of God, the droning Unconsoled and Walk Through Darkness, which boasts a glorious bass-line courtesy of Michael McKeegan, that you could bounce around to all night long. Even Dopamine.Seratonin.Adrenaline. which at first comes across like a throwaway song reveals itself to be an infectious little number. Not relying on any formula and sounding like no-one apart from themselves Therapy? are still as relevant today as they were in 92 when Teethgrinder hit or in 94 when ‘Troublegum’ sent them into the upper atmosphere. If you have yet to be seduced then don’t worry, the preacher man with the crazy eyes and the goatee is standing behind the pulpit and he’s got a dose of the cure for you. Lie back and take it in through the ears.

Title: Official reviews of “OCFA” topic.

Maybe it’s an idea to post all reviews of OCFA in one topic. I just googled ” One cure fits all” and found some in Dutch.

Therapy? | One Cure Fits All Als vanouds: strak, hard en furieus.
CD, Spitfire/PIAS
tekst: Sven Schlijper
De straf rockende Ieren van Therapy? hebben een live-reputatie om te zoenen. De drie spelen altijd strak en hun shows lopen steevast uit op fan-fucking-tastic feesten der herkenning. Alsof het iemand wat kan schelen dat de band al die jaren sinds doorbraaksucces Troublegum vrolijk platen is blijven uitbrengen. Waarom zou je ook wanneer ‘Screamager’ en ‘Die Laughing’ jaarlijks je tienerjaren komen doen herleven?

Therapy? heeft hun twee succesplaten (Troublegum en Infernal Love) niet op het kopieerapparaat gelegd, maar is blijven zoeken naar nieuwe wegen. Soms geslaagd (High Anxiety), soms minder fraai uit de verf gekomen (Shameless). De laatste plaat, Never Apologise, Never Explain, was een rauw klinkend nieuw hoogtepunt voor Therapy? De band vlamde weer als een puur powerrocktrio.

Dat het heilige vuur na zeventien jaar nog niet gedoofd is, bewijst One Cure Fits All. The Darkness-producer Pedro Ferriera brengt het bandgeluid terug naar het ingesnoerde Troublegum-korset; strak, hard en furieus. ‘Sprung’ duikt meteen de geschiedenisboeken in en haalt oudje ‘Opal Mantra’ in herinnering. ‘Deluded Son’ had makkelijk op de doorbraakplaat kunnen prijken en ‘Into the Light’ zou niet misstaan hebben naast ‘Jude the Obscene’. Old-school Therapy? dus.

One Cure Fits All grijpt niet alleen terug op oude glorie. Het fragmentarische ‘Lose It All’ is één van de spannendste tracks die Therapy? in jaren heeft geproduceerd. Het nummer barst van de dynamiek en voor de verandering is het niet alleen maar recht-toe-recht-aan knallen met de adrenalinemeter voluit in het rood. Hoewel One Cure Fits All bovendien een paar stadionrockers in spe herbergt, zakt de plaat na de spetterende start wat in. Gelukkig komen ‘Rain Hits Concrete’ en ‘Fear of God’ precies op tijd om hard rockend orde op zaken stellen.

Alsof Therapy? al jaren in een cocon leeft, staat de band – wars van trends of hypes – pal voor een uniek, uit duizenden herkenbaar geluid. Daarin brengt One Cure Fits All geen verandering. Het album voegt wel weer een paar splinternieuwe krakers toe aan het Therapy?-repertoire. Die horen we op de komende concerten dus vast voorbij komen tussen ‘Teethgrinder’ en ‘Knives’. Bij een vaste waarde als Therapy? veranderen sommige dingen gelukkig nooit.

Andy: 22nd of September
Michael: 25th of March
Neil: 1st of August

Mine: 3rd of January if you want to buy me a present for this information:D