Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches - Happy Mondays

...harass you, I want your pills and your grass you You don't look first class you Let me look up your ass you I smell dope, I smell dope, I smell dope, I am smelling dope" Some might feel that the drug use that is constantly referred to in the lyrics detracts from the songs and belittles the album but we have to remember this album was of its time, the use of E, the massive raves were not simply down to pleasure seeking the Manchester music scene ...
...ground up it was a reflection of what was happening in the UK. If you were under 30 for good or bad The Happy Mondays were just telling as it was. The rest of the songs on the album fit nicely with each other and carry on the groove and attitude that I've described already. The album works as a whole and can be played through and grooved to without interruption. 'Pills and Thrills…' represents the band at the peak of their powers. The band did more ...

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The Happy Mondays are an acquired taste. I can quite understand why a lot of people would not be able to stomach any of their, ahem, work. But that's exactly the point. You see, the Happy Mondays were the seeds of a lazy, disillusioned and dirty generation. They made music the only way they knew how. Hell, they got accused of plagiarism left, right and centre, but it was all good fun. And at times, great music too. I won't pretend to know a huge ...
...band was; Shaun Ryder: Lead singer, purveyor of filthy and sometimes visionary lyricism, consumer of copious amounts of alcohol, ecstacy, and other mind-altering substances. Lad with a capital 'L', with a mouth like a sewer. Paul Ryder: Brother of Shaun, scowling, goateed bassist. Mark 'Moose' Day: Madcap and crazee lead and rhythm guitarist. Paul Davis: Keyboards, programmes, and designer headgear. Gary Whelan: Shaggy-haired drummer. Mark ...

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Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones - how come they all died but Mr Shaun Ryder, the craziest son of a bitch ever and a walking drugs cabinet, seemingly goes on for ever in his shambolic, brilliant, bumbling, genius way. If excess were a competition, Ryder would be about a million laps ahead of everybody else. He's quite literally off his tree. It's always the same, though, it's the real crazies who produce the most wonderful music - seems you ...
...the bacon - and Ryder has certainly been round the block a few times. Manchester madcaps (crazy, man!) The Happy Mondays were Ryder's first vehicle and in conjunction with that other tinker, Bez, he fronted a band which blended funk and punk in an astonishing amalgam of wonderful music. The Mondays in the 80's were trash rock of the best form and together with their total opposites The Smiths spearheaded Manchester's dominance of the music scene. ...

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