Wall of Mouths

Troublegum is my all time favourite album by any band, ever. Every single track is just brilliant.

Don’t get me wrong, I love HA, but its not a patch on Troublegum.

The T? CDs in my car CD changer right now are NANE, Infernal Love and Troublegum.

I was down the pub on friday, and on the TVs was Scuzz. The DJ set had finished so the sound was back to the TVs, and up came “Die Laughing”… I turned the TV up :-)

Hmm… Well, it doesn’t sound anything like Machine Head to me.

Its a good album, though, but I think Troublegum, Infernal Love and High Anxiety are all better. Maybe with more listens it’ll grow on me further…

As they hadn’t despatched it yet, I cancelled the order, and went to HMV in my lunch break… I was quite pleased, on the “new releases” rack at the end of an isle, they had NANE displayed very prominently!

I saw it and went “AHA! Great!” and grabbed a copy. The guy who was just browsing immediately picked it up and started looking at the song titles. I hope he bought it… ;-)

Anyway… lets listen to this thing!

Title: ARRGH! Bloody Amazon!

They haven’t even dispatched NANE yet! What is the point of pre-ordering if I could have gone to the sodding shops 3 DAYS AGO and just bought the bloody thing.

ARRRGHH!!!

Awesome. I love Machine Head and I love Therapy? ;-)

btw, those tweaks are harmonics.

Oh pissbags! I preordered from Amazon, and its not even shipped yet! Its due on the 30th, apparently. *sigh*

I can’t order from play, because their ordering system decided that my bank refused a transaction that my bank said they never even tried to put through… and now i’m blacklisted on their site through no fault of my own. Bastards.

Well, I was going to say Diane, but apart from that, got to be God Kicks…

It doesn’t have anything to do with there being two versions, but I really hope its not copy protected. CD copy protection is evil…

http://ukcdr.org/issues/cd/

Come on.. Therapy? are a rock band… thats what its all about!

(Unlike the hokey cokey, which is all about putting your left leg in, and out, and in again, and shaking it all about.)

Maybe its the bonus track? ;-)

donVutz wrote:

that’s easy, it’s hellybelly

Yep, you were right. :-)

OK then… lets play “Guess the Therapy? song from the text based impression”. I’ll go first:

Dun.. dundundun dun dun… dundundun dun dun… dundundun dun dun doo doo dee widdly-woo.

Heysatan wrote:

The only comments I’ve ever had passed on a shirt was a few old men in a pub saw my “Fuck All Boybands” Pitchshifter shirt, thought it was brilliant and asked where they could get them from :)

My friend has the “Fuck All Boybands” shirt. The only problem is, when he wears it someone asks him if he’s managed to actually do it yet.

“Never Apologise, Never explain” is a great title if you ask me. Looking forward to this one.

Speedball wrote:

Another very bizarre place is any rock club, and what would be even wierder is if the song isnt screamager.

Last friday, Bierkeller, Bristol. They played Knives. There was a bunch of people on the dancefloor, but there was a group of about 6 people in the middle of the crowd going absolutely crazy. I saw three T? shirts there that evening (including my own ;-).

The DJ, Haggis, is a big T? fan and so is quite happy to play their songs… but seemingly only from Troublegum, even though i’m sure he has High Anxiety. Never mind, he does play Knives and Trigger Inside instead of JUST screamager and going nowhere ;-)

Its also the only rock club where i’ve heard “21st Century Digital Boy” by Bad Religion, which is one of my all time fave songs.

Beefgrinder wrote:

Not to sound like an English teacher, but that’s an acronym.

Oh you pedant, you :) How else are you supposed to sensibly interpret:

Quote (author unknown):

or an anagram of all the first letters of every album?

Actually take the phrase “all the first letters of every album” and rearrange the letters? ;)

joseph? wrote:

or an anagram of all the first letters of every album? i couldn’t be bothered to think of one.

Hmmm…

High Anxiety (2003)
Shameless (2001)
So Much For The Ten Year Plan (2000)
Suicide Pact-You First (1999)
Semi-Detached (1998)
Infernal Love (1995)
Troublegum (1994)
Nurse (1992)
Pleasure Death (1992)
Babyteeth (1991)

So, thats BPNTISSSSH. Thats a lot of S’s and not many vowels. I don’t think you could make anything useful out of that ;)

If only the second and third albums had started with “D” and “M” respectively, it would have made:

BDM, TISSSSH!

The classic drum sound made after a corny joke ;)

About 6 or 7 years ago. My friend leant me tapes with Infernal Love and Troublegum on them.

I later bought those two albums, and Babyteeth. I didn’t really like Babyteeth and gave that to another friend. Then I saw them play at the Fiddlers in bristol, just as Suicide Pact was released. I bought that shortly after. Most recently I bought High Anxiety.

I just realised I never bought Nurse; I only have it on tape! I’m going to rectify that right now :)

Troublegum is definately my favourite, followed by High Anxiety.

I’m not really a big fan of Semi Detached, Babyteeth, or Shameless.

Uhh… they’ve played a mixture of old an d new whenever I’ve seen them. Maybe they just don’t like you, and always only play new stuff when you’re there? ;-)

I CAN’T buy from play.com.

I ordered Super Mario Sunshine from them ages ago, and I got an error from them saying that the transaction didn’t go through because my address details were incorrect. I checked my account, and the address was IDENTICAL to that on my bank statements, and I had definately put my switch card details in correctly.

I rang the bank up, and they said they hadn’t refused any transaction from play.com, and that they were talking rubbish.

I tried to put the order through again, but it didn’t work.

Apparently my account is now blacklisted because their own system doesn’t really work.

Thats one of the great things about T?, they always seem to have time for their fans, and thats great.

Thats great! :) Err… whats the outlaw 141? :p

Get well soon Martin! I saw you guys at Reading, and I’m really glad I went to a gig where you were all there. It was the best gig I’ve ever been to I think.

See you on the next tour!

Well, I’m 24 and I’m a hoodie wearer. (is this Hoodies anonymous? ;-) ). My ‘favourite’ hoodie was my Machine Head one, but that has now been bumped to second place with the purchase of my black “Heavyfuckingmetal” Therapy? hoodie at the Reading gig.

Actually, speaking of bootleg merchendise, I remember seeing System of a Down at the Brixton accademy, and after buying an official T-shirt, I remember being annoyed when I came outside that not only were the bootlegs much better, but I could have got two of them… The bootleg SOAD stuff really kicked ass.

I am a really big T? fan, but there are a few songs I’m not so keen on. I can’t stand Diane. 3 notes on a cello get soooo boring so quickly.

Mind you, it gave me a chance to go to the toilet in the middle of the Reading gig on friday! (which was the best gig i’ve been to in many years. There just aren’t any live bands to beat T?, IMHO).

agreed :)

I voted Troublegum, Infernal Love and High Anxiety.

Michael wrote:

What makes you think that?

You know, i’m not sure. It was just a sort of vibe i got while reading that.

so i take it you’re not pleased with this situation?