Wall of Mouths

suicidalmaniac wrote:

In my book I considered Wall of mouths, Jam jar jail, Hate kill destroy and Sister to be the classics ;)

Um, yes, those too!

There are plenty of good songs on there, no doubt about it, it just doesn’t seem to gell as an album, dunno why…

RE: Suicide Pact: You First

sonofjaguare wrote:

Best T? album ever… :p

After several repeated plays, I gotta disagree with you there.

I honest think that the last three albums have been T?’s best, with NANE right at the top. Maybe SP:YF could slot in as number 4…?

SP:YF has some great songs on it and a dark, claustrophobic vibe to it but some of the songs just ain’t up to scratch and the album doesn’t work well as a cohesive whole for me personally. Instrumental tracks are just half-finished songs, in my book, and God Kicks is just too difficult to listen to to actually get anything out of it (Like, what is he singing..?! SPEAK UP ANDY, SON!!!)

That being said, it’s a good album - Little Tongues First, Sister, Not That Kind of Girl…All classics!- and was a definite step in the right direction after the misguided (but still peppered with great songs) Infernal Love and Semi-Detached albums.

tk4two1 wrote:

The Best T? solo ever is Unbeliever! If you don’t agree with me I will stab you in the Jaw! Just come on over to the U.S. I’ll be the one stabbing Jaws!

Am I correct in thinking that was played by Page Hamilton of Helmet…?

Well, despite being a T? fan since just before Troublegum, I have only just gotten round to ordering Suicide Pact You First*. All you folks who know and love this album be jealous of one who, in a matter of hours, will be hearing it and enjoying its pleasures for the first time!!

(*No, I have no idea why it took me so long either…)

Egon Spengler wrote:

ps-where’s that acoustic jazz version of Knives from? It’s fantastic!

True, but…where’s the sweary bits gone?!

No “I’m gonna get drunk…” or ” All people are shit…”!!!!

Must’ve been cos it was going out on the radio, huh?

Good stuff! :cool:

If Therapy?’s copyright lawyers are reading this, can I just say thanks for some hard-to-find tracks that I DIDN’T download. Honest guv. It was someone else.
;)

soul doubt wrote:

:) deal!

:D

soul doubt wrote:

:eek: not true!!!

Ok..here’s the deal, you let me call Wicked Man a great song and I’ll let you have Bodybag Girl back…?

For years I considered Shameless to be their worst album…until this week! I put it on and finally gave it the time it needed to get under my skin.

Fuck me - it is actually one of their best, most interesting works!!*

Come out Shameless fans, and admit your love to the World! Let the fools mock, they know no better!

(*but, yes, Body Bag Girl DOES indeed suck)

Quote (author unknown):

Bad Mother…Misery

Oh My GOD!! How could I forget Bad Mother?!?! One of my all time fave T? songs - (goes off to dig out his copy of Infernal Love…)

gimmebackmybrainsaw wrote:

am i the only person who thinks polar bear sucks?

I’d personally like to hear more songs from shameless and suicide pact, i suppose the trouble with a band like t? choosing tracklists is they cant keep all the fans happy.

I Am The Money deserves a fairly regular outing, and it’d be nice to hear Gimme Back My Brain once in a while too..

I has Shameless on for the first time in…well, ages yesterday, and it is much better than I remember it!

My personal fave of the recent albums are:

If It Kills Me
Rock You Monkey
I Am The Money
Nobody Here But Us

…aw fuck it, if I keep on typing, I’m gonna pretty much have all of the tracks off all of the albums!!

Never been a fan of Polar Bear myself either, but I must admit I prefer it live to on record

I find it is still overshadowed for me by the excellent High Anxiety.

Maybe I am guilty of prefering the more commercial side of Therapy? but I think NANE could do with stronger songs and more hooks.

having said that, Rise Up and Die Like A Motherf*cker rock like prime era T?

LMAO at “I just happened to be in the room when Mum was watching”. :D

Ah ha, but no, it wasn’t Trigger Inside, it was definitely the ALL PEOPLE ARE SHIT part of Knives..must have both been used..guess there was a T? fan working for Granada at the time, huh?

Title: Therapy? On Coronation Street (merged)

Forgive me if this has been mentioned before but…
Does anyone remember, just after Troublegum came out, Knives was heard blasting away in the Cafe on Coronation Street?

I swear I am not making this up. The best part is that it was the “All people are shit” part :D I guess the props people kinda let that one slip without noticing it.

Please, did anyone else see/ hear this or have I lost my marbles ?

Lemo wrote:

id like them to play a one off acoustic gig, somewhere around the leeds area

then they could play our love must die, which is the most un-therapy? song they have done, and i love it

Our Love Must Die was played live on Radio 1 just as it was released (on a B side of…dammit I forget). The live version was excellent, and until I lost the knackered old tape i taped it off the radio onto, it was one of my fave T? items

Shuff wrote:

Scopophobia will not work on regular North American DVD players. Therapy?’s DVD is a PAL DVD, and so will not work on regular North American NTSC systems. It is regionally encoded. However, some DVD players in North America don’t have regional encoding, and the DVD will work on those players. If you have a region 0 player, then you’re in luck. It’s mostly the cheap DVD players that don’t have regional encoding.

Careful! Regional coding is not the same as the difference between NTSC and PAL e.g. Sex In The City Series 1 is freely available in the UK as a Region 2 DVD,HOWEVER it is NTSC not PAL and will only play in black and white on some TVs. Regional coding is not about catering for different (existing) TV standards, it is purely and simply about controlling where in the world certain titles can be viewed at any given time.

PSYCHO SI wrote:

What does everyone think of the new T? album? I was a little dissapointed because it doesn’t really compare to ‘High Anxiety’, but nothing compares to ‘Infernal Love’…

Only heard it a few times so far (thanks to being so skint I had to wait for my wife to buy it me - which she surprised me with, bless her xxx), but I have to say I haven’t “got” it yet. High Anxiety, at the moment, for me is way ahead.

Not that this makes for bad music either, but is it me or does Andy sound genuinely fucked up on this record? On previous albums the madness has been tempered with a humorous side, but here he sounds positively manic. Hope he’s OK!!

I don’t know the first thing about Spitfire and what kind of label they are.However, the fact that Therapy? seem happy that there are people within the company who they get along with and who ‘get’what Therapy? are and are trying to do is probably enough to put them head and shoulders above most companies the guys have had to deal with. Whilst it is a shame that, for all the great music and life-affirming gigs out there, the music industry still relies on money, don’t forget that Spitfire need to ensure that they make money on Therapy? - or at least break even. If they put out loads of ads in the press/ TV and plug the record like mad, it costs a fortune - and how many extra copies of the record do we expect this to sell, if we are honest with ourselves? It has to be a huge increase to sustain a long-term high profile - or else it kills the band and the label and NO ONE gets to hear the next record.
Even getting songs played on radio/TV must cost money - there must be plenty of back-scratching going on (where do you think the term “spin doctor” originated ?!?)
I do not work in the music industry, so I’m not a music biz type whingeing, I’m just saying - BE REALISTIC!

realityfuck wrote:

But I do have a suggestion, since they’re going to pressing the live cd anyway, why not produce a few more of the cd only to sell at the gigs? The money goes straight to T? we get the cd, everyone’s a winner ;)

I have a ridiculous notion that one day, long, long from now, record companies will start listening to common sense suggestions like these from the people who know far more about the music business than they bother to learn, i.e. the fans. The fat, greasy bast*rds in boardrooms moan about how mp3 downloads and pirating is cutting into their (undeserved) profits, but they consistantly fail to give value for money and consistantly fail to give people WHAT THEY ACTUALLY WANT and what they would be quite willing to shell out their hard-earned money for. Instead, they milk the cash cow by rereleasing albums in “special edition”. Hey great, I LOVE buying all my favourite albums twice over instead of something new and exciting! Wankers!:mad:

Good to see the mainstream press picking up on the album rather than just the ‘metal’ press.

Can I just add, for no particular reason, that Therapy? at the Bulldog Bash a few years ago was one of the most enjoyable and downright ROCKING gigs I have ever seen? Ta!

Was anyone else there…? They threw in a few snippets like Breaking The Law which went down great with the bikers.

Thank God! I have finally found someone else who actually rates Load-era Metallica!!!!
Yeah, I agree there is a ‘jamming’ feel to Load - with a bit of the groove that Metallica usually lack.
As far as NANE goes, I have only heard Rise Up so far, but I can see what you meant with the St Anger comparison. Metallica were going for thet “loose but tight” thing so many bands have strived for…and failed. What I like about Therapy? is that so often the energy in the songs is so in-yer-face that the songs sound like they could come apart at the seams at any point, yet it all manages to keep together, somehow. I guess that the idea of that is that it reflects a state of mind, too - I’m sure we’ve all had days when it all looks like it’s gonna come apart in our hands, so to speak.

Title: Therapy? on daytime radio!!!!

Hi guys!

Living in the West Midlands, we are lucky to have Kerrang! 105.2 FM blasting out across our airwaves - although they don’t play enough ROCK for my liking (hell, they even have a bloody Hip Hop show every week…!)
Driving home last night I was pleasantly surprised to hear them play the new Therapy? tune, Rise Up.

It’s about time people like Kerrang! and others in the industry woke up to the best kept secret in rock and started backing a sure fire winner! Could this be the tides turning in T?’s favour for once…?
If ever the time was right for T? to break back into the wider attention of the public and media without having to water down or soften the music, it has to be right here, right now. Dontcha think?