C/D : Therapy? "Troublegum"

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I hadn't thought about this album for a long time so I put it on again and realized that it's fucking terrific. Yum. Thanks to the thread author for reminding me...

John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 20 May 2005 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Very much a classic. This disc, a hand me down from a friend's brother who later layed Nitzer Ebb on me, opened up a new realm in my personality. "Screamager" had about as good lines as an immoral middle schooler can hope for.

scrimshaw (scrimshaw1837), Saturday, 21 May 2005 03:57 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...
Troublegum is one of my favorite albums ever made. Absolute classic.

Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I like it but Nurse is better. The Ep's are classic too. There should be more love for early Therapy?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

in eight days' time it will be a year since i commented that i don't own a copy of troublegum.

that gives me eight days to locate a copy. or ... i'll punch myself in the bolls.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 11 May 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I have it on green vinyl. I actually have the tshirt of the album cover.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 11 May 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I was saddened to find out that this record is out of print (at least in the US). I found this out when someone sold it to the store I work at and it wasn't in our computer anymore. I played it in the store and the CD sold to someone hearing it for the first time ever after that one play.

Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link

yeh, nurse is better.

dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

http://snurl.com/26716l
Used (39 from $0.28)

It'll be the best twenty eight cents you ever spent, folks.

NYCNative, Thursday, 3 March 2011 10:19 (thirteen years ago) link

Truthbomb

reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Thursday, 3 March 2011 10:46 (thirteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

the best £1 I have spent this week - not the expanded edition, just the single disc.

damn, did I miss out on this lot when I had the chance.

hitting the same sweet spot of noise/guitars/tunes for me as Compulsion do.

mark e, Thursday, 2 May 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.therapyquestionmark.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/THERAPY-BOOK-COVER-300x425.jpg

Kerrang! scribe Simon Young penned So Much For The 30 Year Plan, an authorized biography for Therapy?, that comes out in September.

The band is selling autographed copies on their website for £13.50.

https://www.therapyquestionmark.co.uk/shop/so-much-for-the-30-year-plan/

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link

Good lord they HAVE been around for 30 years, haven't they.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 00:20 (three years ago) link

Loved this album so much aged 16, I really don't think it'd be my cuppa at all these days.

chap, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link

whereas i am the other way around.
would never listen to this stuff when i was 16, whereas now ...

mark e, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link

Whereas I was 16 in 1985 so I am older than Therapy? but I like to think I would have loved it then.
I do love most of the things I loved when I was 16, just a lot more things too.

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link

i too was 16 in 85 (ish).
if i had heard this then, i would never have bought the album.
however, now in my early 50s and i am loving it.

mark e, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link

Even at the age of 15 I thought the masturbation stuff was laying it on a bit thick. The big singles were great though.

Therapy were massive at the time though, this whole strand of 90s British rock seems to have been entirely expunged from the history books.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link

Even at the age of 15 I thought the masturbation stuff was laying it on a bit thick. The big singles were great though.

guess i need to listen to it more closely.
then again, perhaps it's best i don't.

mark e, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link

Oh no I thought the wanking references were hilarious and edgy back then.

chap, Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link

Yup, they were huuuge. I had friends who collected literally anything they could get by them. Nobody talks about Therapy?, S*M*A*S*H, Wildhearts etc at all. Maybe projects like Three Colours Red killed the enthusiasm. Honeycrack were brill though.

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link

Therapy were massive at the time though, this whole strand of 90s British rock seems to have been entirely expunged from the history books.

I was thinking of this (on a slightly broader scale) yesterday when I got a PR mailout announcing the reissue of the first two Kerbdog albums on vinyl. (To the band's credit, the photo they sent around was them now rather than back then.)

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link

Infernal Love was a very boring, serious album but Troublegum, Nurse and the earlier EPs were really fun

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link

listening to Troublegum for the first time in probably 20+ years and wow... It's amazingly catchy, still very driving, and I'm surprised at how memorable even the deeper cuts are

doorstep jetski (dog latin), Thursday, 30 July 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link

I never owned this album but have one of the singles and liked the other singles at the time, when I was 16-17, and I always liked the pre-Nurse stuff, but I downloaded and listened to this album once about 15 years ago and was like ugh no thanks. inspired by this thread I listened to it again and kind of like it now

I listened to Infernal Love not so long ago and yeah, that was still shit

I guess I'd probably better give Nurse another go as well now

CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Friday, 31 July 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link


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