happy mondays

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Noodle OTM as well- the Mondays were in a totally different place to nearly all the other baggy scene bands.

wrecked, wracked, rotten fucking genius. GOD, i loved that band.

I agree, but does anyone know what the fuck he's singing at the start?

Hannett's attempts to thin the gruel with little sonic touches sound oddly out of place these days, like the manager of a dog track attempting to brighten up the Tote with a few Mondrians.

ha

production is cool. But the songs are soo wack!

The new album you mean? There's a thread for that here somewhere. The lyrics for the first song were so bizarre. I haven't heard the rest yet.

According to the Guardian, they are paying for Tony Wilson's medication, because the NHS won't pay. Assuming this is true, I think it is very nice of them, and I might buy their album.

Perhaps this has already been discussed on the other thread.

Has anyone picked up the reissues? And a: are they at all worth it, b: does anyone know if there's any chance of a US release now that Rhino are putting out the Joy Division "Collector's Editions"?

i haven't heard them, but based on tracklisting alone the bummed disc seems worth it. is there no squirrel and g man 'collector's edition'? i would pay the full price and then some just for a cd with the first two singles on it

No S&GM sadly.

very disappointing. more lost master tapes maybe?

i bought them, $32 imports, i highly doubt there's plans to issue them domestically in the US (similar to the Orb's first two album reissues - no US plans yet). they're totally worth it. Pills comes with a bonus dvd with all their videos; both albums sound fantastic. i've been on a huge Mondays kick this year - i went out and bought all their UK-only videos on ebay, collected all the 12" singles i didn't have, and these two reissues compact all the best of those extraneous bits in one place. i'm stoked!

Okay, didn't know about the DVD...that's sorely tempting. What format (NTSC/PAL) and region is it?

Wilson confused? someone please publish book in Australia and reveal.

I finally got this, in England in October! Thanks to HMV buyout of Fopp, it was the Fac-style cover (wot I'd wanted all along), for 3 quid. Haven't read it yet.

reissues are sadly/bafflingly incomplete and formatted. Bummed one probably worth it for the content but the mix of tracks across two discs is annoying and $40-50 is offputting. Same price for Pills is awful, given how much music is left off for the sake of having a DVD that doesn't relate to the period at all! Why not go for an all Oakenfold/Osborne period collection and make some thematic sense? (then again I think Judge Fudge and Stayin' Alive were both on the hits collection before last in 12" versions so at least they've been out in the last ten years)

Telephone--it was released in the UK so it's pretty much guaranteed to be Region 2/PAL (could be R0, but is certainly not NTSC). However most DVD players sold these days seem to have undocumented support of both NTSC and PAL (you might need to find some special code though). Of course, any computer with a DVD-ROM drive will play them just fine in something like VLC.

Now if you ask me, the first Black Grape album seemed more accomplished than anything the Mondays ever put out...

the 'bummed' reissue looks worth having if you can get it 4 cheap.

Telephone--it was released in the UK so it's pretty much guaranteed to be Region 2/PAL (could be R0, but is certainly not NTSC).

I'm guessing Region 0- that's become more and more common on DVDs packaged with CDs, to the point that it's almost certain. You never know about PAL/NTSC, though- the CD+DVD new Kylie album is NTSC despite being a UK product, and a lot of labels have been using double-sided discs with the content in both formats (like Air's Talkie Walkie).

Listening to Bummed, what a great record. Easily their best, and Hannett's production makes them sound super-dissipated.

And "Wrote For Luck" is their best track.

Thank You Mr. Wilson...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TAS0WHWlOA

PRESS THE PAUSE OFF THE SELF-DESTRUCT

Bummed is the sound of Krautrock recorded at the back of a blazing barn, the funk that dare not speak its name. Unfriendly and muddy, as if the band that recorded it were more interested in doing Cacktory proud than unscratchin their pretence that the Kuff-Dammers were invisible. Queue righteous indignation as some middle class cunt pretends that going to East Leicester Academy of Tossery makes you a Prophet of sjarevestetey/

this guy was cock on tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ysEoIwL1Xc

"Queue righteous indignation"!

Love "Bummed" album, finally got round to buying it a month ago, it still holds up. It's easily their best record IMO.

I want to say ^yes but have to read the thread first to make sure I haven't three times already

ok, ^yes

also, Noodle OTM despite channelling The Wrekked Train. fuck knows what I was channeling above him.

btw

Wilson confused? someone please publish book in Australia and reveal.

― quote, Monday, 27 September 2004 10:43 (6 years ago)

I finally got this, in England in October! Haven't read it yet.

― and, Monday, 17 December 2007 17:43 (3 years ago)

still haven't read this!

The reissues were some ridiculous price.

I want to say ^yes but have to read the thread first to make sure I haven't three times already

― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 13:04 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I now realise this is exactly what I've done myself!

I just finished my review page on them!

http://www.listology.com/jamool/story/happy-mondays

A few great and rather obscure picks:
"Oasis" - either from the Forty-Five EP or the debut album. The EP version is grittier and thrashes a little, overall it's one of their top 5 tunes
"Do It Better"
"Dennis and Lois" - why nobody talks about this song?? Such a great bliss-out house tune with some great vocal lines.
"Submarine" - rips off three different tunes in a pretty obvious way, but I can't help but love it
"Money Back Guaranteed" - very bright spot on an ok LP (Black Grape's 2nd)
"Scooter Girl" - from Shaun's solo album. Only bright spot on that one.
"In the Blood" - really kooky and bizarre, but also catchy and very memorable. One of the best of the new stuff (which isn't all that bad!!)

noticing a trend of recent indie remixes that basically sound like WFL

not a bad thing necessarily

care to share the best?

http://soundcloud.com/mike-porter/black-in-bloom-the-porters
http://soundcloud.com/heavenlyrecordings/hvn233-toy-clock-chime-hardway

Anyone seen this before? Turns out ITV Schools made an educational documentary on Happy Mondays while they were making Bummed. I can only think of the degree of editing which went into this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S1AbjIlDZA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWcn6bJ_4l8

My god, Martin Hannett looks terrible in this. He doesn't actually say anything, but given the way he apparently was at this time, he was probably encouraged not to.

there are so many great wrote for luck videos on youtube but this might be my fav

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PhALXW7Jsg

bez was truly ahead of his time

i got no interest in the chicken in a basket get me out of here nostalgia ex-student cuddle circuit but jay sometimes you still need to hear a little Bummed

ah I was listening to them yesterday for the first time in years.
I had forgotten how many great tracks they had.
pills & thrills is just hit after hit !

Squirrel & Gman is the one I play most, but Bummed and Pills are both great.