Wall of Mouths

Unplugged - a voyage through experimental acoustic folk music

I had this one too, and I loved it- and I have no idea where it is either!

I thought everyone might like to know that I took troublegum out of the CD changer for the first time in 6 months today and I thought

“what should I put in there to replace it”

Which could be paraphrased into your subconsious as

“what is my second favourite Therapy? album”

And I picked up OCFA and had a bloody good singalong up the M6 to it.

I really like it still, although I did skip to the next track after the second verse on most of them (I was in a rush)

I used to use Knives back in the day.

I used to have a paper round, until I was 18 and if I had had a good night the previous night I would set my CD player with Troublegum in to come on on high volume with Knives and I would hide the remote so I would have to jump out of bed to turn it down. The amount of adrenaline that used to send through you was astonishing and you’d be awake immediately.

Good short term fix, but what you’d do for the next 19 and a half minutes I don’t know.

I edited his Wikipedia entry - if anyone has anything else to add - dive in

No, no, no, no, no. This is shit. Rewind the tape and let’s start again.

Can’t we have someone anoying die instead, like Jimmy Carr?

allroy wrote:

I hope it’s not starbucks. :->

I dunno, I can see the plus points to that.

I googled it and didn’t get anything of note.

Has the smell of bootleg to it if you ask me. I suppose it’s an efficient enough way to pick up tracks whose original releases have been deleted, but I’d rather trawl ebay for the priginal singles.

But that is becasue I am a nerd though.

I think they should create a concept album about a deaf, blind and dumb boy who excels at fruit machines.

Are the rumours true? Have Therapy? split up?

IF not, when are you playing in Blackpool? (sorry Hooch!)

What is your all time favourite Therapy? song?

Any ideas floating for “So Much for the 20 year plan?

You didn’t put Babyteeth or Pleasure Death in your poll.

Viirkokka wrote:

NANE is about a trip around the zoo?
Personally I can’t see that :P

Polar Bear, Rock You Monkeys, Smoking in the Elephant Enclosure (OK I made that one up)

I like Shameless, but nobody else does. High Anxiety is rated as being very similar to Troublegum, and Never Apologise, Never Explain brings back a lot of the complicated rhythms and darkness from the early albums, although it is all about a trip round a zoo.

Hope that’s of some help.

I think the best thread for voting in the WoMmies was about 45 people strong. What’s wrong with letting the general pubic in and playing a dozen gigs in different towns.

They could call it a tour, then record a bunch of new songs to release in conjunction with it - they could call that an album.

I’m a f’king genius I tell you.

I might be echoing a lot of people’s sentiments here, but I know that Therapy? are making some of the best music of their career at the moment. Each album builds on the successes of the previous one and if this was their first 20something brush with fame they would be selling out arenas and making the front page of NME and getting singles released by a record company that actually gave a crap about promoting the product and generating exposure.

As it is, they are now in a sort of second period of success, which is much less mainstream than that of the 90’s. In the 90’s they were chart-bothering top of the pops regulars and I just can’t see a band of this pedigree and experience returning to that level of exposure and mainstream popularity.

That isn’t to say that they aren’t successful - I’m sure there are plenty of flash in the pan 5 minutes of fame emo bands that would love to tour for two weeks solid, sell out every show and enjoy a dedicated and rabid fanbase which laps up everything they do.

Ultimately the media dictates to a lot of people what they like that week - in that respect Therapy? are a lot like oxtail soup - a reliable old favourite, but you’ll never be carrot or coriander or whatever flavour of the week is this week.

And that, my gemil-worshipping friends, can only be a good thing because from here we build on a loyal fanbase and as we degenerate into middle age, fatherhood and doing fucking DIY on a sunday morning we can get together every 5 years or so for half a dozen dates that sell out the size of venue not seen for 20 years and confuse the shit out of teenybopper students of the future, who haven’t been born yet, wondering who all these old farts with badly drawn triangles and question marks all over their faded grey T shirts stretched tight over beer guts are.

Choose your future
Choose life

not as nice as your mum knoxville

While you’re at it make me a personal compilation of my favourite live songs too. 1990 - 1995 is the best era but throw in a few from the OCFA tour for good measure.

Oh and make it a double CD

for £4.99

and I want free delivery and exclusive online content - Sarah can do that she’s got plenty of spare time.

By the way - if the tracklisting isn’t 100% to my taste I will complain to high heaven - so don’t be including any dross on that will you?

So go on - what are you waiting for?

johnny_knoxville wrote:

to pronounce it properly…

fill your mouth with marshmallows and say “take me”…

If you don’t pronounce it properly at least you may appeal to anyone with a marshmallow fetish!

Damn it Knoxville - GET OUT OF MY BRAIN!!!

http://www.therapyquestionmark.co.uk/wallofmouths/showthread.php? … =year+plan

I met Therapy? a couple of times. First time I was hammered and I don’t really remember what I said.

Second time I was hammered, but do remember what I said, and I was a tit. I did, however buy them all a drink so fingers crossed they don’t think I’m a complete peenarse. (for those of you who don’t know, I am a complete peenarse)

Kids - play nice

in the traffic.

Provided you send an equal sized donation to the band, I see no problem in you making your own merch. I’d say that was ethical enough, but I don’t speak for the legal department

Theng wrote:

maybe next time we should first poll the wombles and agree on 1 track and all vote for that. Bet hedging doesn’t really hold up for this list.

I tried that with some Kerrang! poll a while back - didn’t work

hoochalobster wrote:

:eek: I was at that gig, can’t believe I saw Rico live and didn’t pay any attention :( *demands that Rico tour asap*

My first one was when I was 13 at Leeds T&C in February 1994. I’d never heard of them but the gig was amazing… I’ve been a wee bit obsessed ever since.

Pretty sure it was Rico - I assumed that was where you got into him.

Have a Merry Fucking Christmas

gimmie wrote:

why would you reroute your proxy server through a coding languge (html) and ip is an adress not a type of server and debugging is something you’d do whilst coding and not to your hard drive

:D

And the award for the most compelling failure to recognise pisstaking in a techynerd thread goes to.

*drumroll*

Gimmie!

Congratulations you win a lightly steamed hedgehog and a bag of pickled onion Monster Munch

Just re-route your Proxy IP server through HTML and debug your hard drive with Javascript and hey presto you’ve confused the bejeesus out of me.

If anyone knows what to do please post extremely simple idiot-proof instructions

If you like the uber-commercial, slurping-on-the-cheesy-corporate-penis style of, say, semi detatched for instance, then the only thing recently that you will like is One Cure Fits All - it is universally opined to be one of Therapy?’s most commercially oriented albums.

It is very very good. and I recommend that you buy a copy.

High Anxiety might be worth a look too.

Never Apoologise, Never Explain is a bit noisy in places, but is a cracking album, and Shameless is the follow up to Suicide Pact, which is more of a bog standard hard rock record.

Personaly, I think SPYF is a great album, really dark and totally different to anything thy produced before or since, and I also love OCFA and NANE, althogh I am less of a fan of Shameless and High Anxiety.

Download Our White Noise, Walk Through Darkness and Sprung, then buy One Cure Fits All.

And Welcome the the WoM by the way

To be honest I think we missed the boat on the Britih Rock revival.

When The Darkness hit it big I expected a scene of clones (Hurricane Party, Towers Of London, Tokyo Dragons anyone?) and a major Wildhearts revival (As it was them who got them their big break by taking them on tour.) Sadly the general pubic didn’t respond as they should have done and the whole thing vanished without a trace - Had OCFA come out during my forecasted New Wave Of Nineties Britrock (NWONB) It would have been the return of Therapy? to the level of exposure and popular success they enjoyed in the mid-nineties.

Still - There’s always Lostprophets. :D

December 1999 - Leeds Cockpit. Rico Supporting. I’d asked this girl I fancied from Uni to come with me, and she said yes, then dropped out at the last minute so I took my little brother too.

I remember it being a bouncing set and I thought it was the bees knees, I’ve seen them better since then though.

The reason it took me so long to see them live (this was only about a year before the 10 year plan best of album) was because I lived in a farming village in Lincolnshire and the closest we’d had to a gig was something like Dave Hill’s Slade II at the Sleaford Arts Centre about 2 years earlier, and that was 20 miles away - a long bike ride indeed!