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Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches (CD)

By: Happy Mondays (Artist)

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Happy Mondays Artist Snapshot:

Enormously influential on both the music and club scene of late-1980s/early '90s England, the Happy Mondays emerged from singer Shaun Ryder's desire to merge the energy of dance music (distinct from funk) with the rawness of the post-punk era, filtered through the anything-goes atmosphere of the '80s Manchester/Factory Records scene. Fueled by drugs and manic energy, the Mondays' first couple of records were cornerstones of what would become known as rave culture. Highly publicized drug problems contributed to the band's dissolution, but Ryder and cohort Bez reappeared in the mid-'90s under the banner of Black Grape.

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DISC 1 for Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches (CD) Album By Happy Mondays (Artist)
1   Kinky Afro
2   God's Cop
3   Donovan
4   Grandbag's Funeral
5   Loose Fit
6   Dennis And Lois
7   Bob's Yer Uncle
8   Step On
9   Holiday
10   Harmony
 

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Review

Spin (p.98) - "'Step On' and "Kinky Afro' were rave-worthy anthems with rhythms as fat as they were exultant."
Q (6/00, p.74) - Ranked #31 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...This was the sound of Manchester's finest out on the town....acid blues disco..."
Q (12/99, p.68) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s."
Q - Included in Q's list of the "Fifty Best Albums Of 1990."
Q (7/96, p.102) - 5 Stars - Indispensable - "After success of RAVE ON EP, Mondays arrive at artistic peak. Top-hole album..."
Uncut (p.81) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] provided funkier, more chart-friendly highs..."
New York Times (Publisher) (12/2/90) - "...the most significant group to emerge from Britain's working-class 'rave culture'..."

Title Note

Happy Mondays: Shaun Ryder (vocals); Mark Day (guitar); Paul Davis (keyboards, programming); Paul Ryder (bass); Gary Whelan (drums); Bez.

Additional personnel: Rowetta (vocals); Tony Castro (percussion); Simon Machan (programming).

From the opening bars of this near-masterpiece, the Madchester generation was defined, celebrated, and perhaps laid to rest. Combining the best elements of their earlier releases--stolen riffs, howling in a whisper, being generally rude and obnoxious yet somehow entirely endearing, the Happy Mondays created the ultimate sex, drugs, and rock & roll package.

With the acoustic strumming of the LaBelle rip-off "Kinky Afro," PILLS 'N' THRILLS' scene is set. In "God's Cop," Ryder pontificates about the ease of drug procurement, from his position as a rock star with a mobile phone. From here all hell breaks loose. There's the song for Donovan Leitch (complete with Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel's most famous lyric inserted for good measure), and "Bob's Your Uncle," the track for the ladies, where a foursome is conducted on Ecstasy. Right, Shaun. The highlight of PILLS'N'THRILLS (and perhaps of Happy Mondays' career in general) is the hit "Step On." Much more than an album for people who like some music with their drugs, PILLS'N'THRILLS is one of the coolest records ever made.

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