Wall of Mouths

Epitome wrote:

Can I then hope for a Shameless re-issue one day, with a bonus disc including the never-heard title track :-)

I know most of you don’t appreciate Shameless, but that’s just because you’re all deranged ;-)

^ This.

Shamelss is a great album, one of my favourite T? releases.

I’ll get lambasted for this, but I’d much rather listen to Shameless these days than Troublegum.

Really impressed with this album.

It’s quite dark, and quite stark in some places too, so might be a “difficult” album to come back to a lot…but I think it’s great that a band that has been going so long can push forwards into different areas and still retain what it is that makes them what they are.

Liking the sense of space in this album, as much as anything else - some really stripped down moments.

Different enough from CT to be worth making, similar enough to not be a let down (CT was effin’ ace, after all!)

Yes, I like.

Thefanthattriedtostrangleitslf wrote:

I don’t know about Neil but he’s awesome as it gets so it doesn’t matter.

This.

I could listen to an entire album’s worth of his playing alone.

Andy brings many great things to Therapy?, but a knack with a great guitar solo is not one of them - and I think he’d be the first to admit that, no?

Even as a guitar geek myself, I don’t miss guitar solos from Therapy? - the music doesn’t need them, there’s more interesting stuff going on between the vocal parts anyway.

Fuck. Me…

This sounds AMAZING.

So, great, this new album will send me back to the gibbering, drooling fanboy state I was in after Crooked Timber…

Squall wrote:

I thought Crooked Timber was their best album since Troublegum :)

I thought Crooked Timber was their best album.

NO idea why people think Shameless is duff and/ or simple.

It’s a great album, IMO, and way better than OCFA, which is the most disappointing of the recent albums.

hoochalobster wrote:

Yeah, but everyone who’s ever bought a ticket gets special thanks ;-(

Though actually, that’s me as well… woohoo!

I’ve bought four tickets…do I get a larger share than those who only bought one?

In the sleeve they thank some people called Rene and Sarah. Never heard of them.

Looks good. It’s a f*cking great set of songs too.

Looks a bit like TauntyDan…

They could do a split vinyl release with that Dj fella out of Gnarls Barkley and call it:

“Therapy? - Live. And Danger Mouse”

I think they would take that as a great compliment.

“Michael Jackson - The Unreleased Final Recordings”

Fuck all to do with Therapy? but it might help to shift a few copies…?

Gemil’ll Fix It

Therapy? Live..? In London?

Therapy? Live At San Quentin.

Well, it worked for Johnny Cash, didn’t it?!

“It should be a good opportunity for those who’ve yet to get the album to catch up on what they’ve been missing.”

Don’t kid yourselves, it’s the fans who bought it first time around that get fleeced by this kind of thing. I mean, that buy this kind of thing.

Nothing against extra tracks, remixes etc but reissues this soon after a release are a bit insulting, in my opinion. Might as well sign to Roadrunner if you’re into that kind of thing.

I think doing Troublegum in its entirety is a pretty pooh idea, personally, but hey.

?!

NANE the weakest T? album?!

Yeah, it’s all over in a green flash

Music’s not a competition

Therapy? seem to me to be one of those bands that seem to exist in their own space - not hugely acknowledged in the media or by other bands but they keep plugging away and doing their own thing and fair play to them for that.

Anything fashionable is, by definition, bound to be unfashionable - so thank god Therapy? have never been fashionable!

I hope he wasn’t saying anything along the lines of “I bet mrs h has brought our batting average right down on this one” or some such offensiveness.

:D

I think you can make a rock album sound punchier and brighter and therefore more rock n roll in some cases through remastering, but you’re right that sometimes you can polish the life out of a record.

Fair comment, but putting the albums of gold discs with little or no input from the band/ producer isn’t going to get my vote.

Whilst we’re on the subject of audiophiles, it gets my goat these folk who show off their latest flashy iPod dock and boast of the sound quality and how much it cost them. If you want HiFi quality, use a HiFi, not a fucking iPod!

That’s not to say I don’t love my iPod as if it were my own offspring, of course.

Taunty Dan wrote:

To be honest i’m thinking some songs go unreleased for a reason…

It’s very rare that an unreleased song that gets tacked onto a reissue or expanded edition type thing turns out to be anything other than a throwaway curiosity.

buffalo-boy wrote:

Remastered digipacks of recent albums…eh??? i have no need of 2 copies of the same album but in a cardboard box

My thoughts too.

Pointless reissue, too soon after the original releases, with negligable extra content but slightly fancy packaging…did T? sign to Roadrunner or something?!

I think the next Therapy? album will be released on Monday.

Just not sure which Monday.

I like the idea of an electronic fanzine much better than a printed one, myself.

Having said that, is there really anything you could put on there that you couldn’t post/ scan/ link to on here? I’d say the WoM was as good a Therapy? fanzine as you’re gonna get!