Happy Mondays-Pills N Thrills And Bellyaches-CD-FLAC-1990-ERP

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 Info   
     Artist  | Happy Mondays
     Title   | Pills N Thrills And Bellyaches
     Genre   | Alternative                          Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 43:49
     Label   | London/Factory Records               Store   | 1990
     Catalog | 828 223-2                            Rip     | 2022
     Bitrate | 842 kbps                             Size    | 277.58 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Kinky Afro                                                  3:59
     02. God's Cop                                                   4:58
     03. Donovan                                                     4:04
     04. Grandbag's Funeral                                          3:20
     05. Loose Fit                                                   5:07
     06. Dennis And Lois                                             4:24
     07. Bob's Yer Uncle                                             5:10
     08. Step On                                                     5:17
     09. Holiday                                                     3:28
     10. Harmony                                                     4:02
 Notes  
     Along with The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays were the leaders of the
     late-'80s/early-'90s dance club-influenced Manchester scene, experiencing a
     brief moment in the spotlight before collapsing in 1992. While the Stone
     Roses were based in '60s pop, adding only a slight hint of dance music,
     Happy Mondays immersed themselves in the club and rave culture, eventually
     becoming the most recognizable band of that drug-fueled scene.
     The Mondays' music relied heavily on the sound and rhythm of house music,
     spiked with '70s soul licks and swirling '60s psychedelia. It was bright,
     colorful music that had fractured melodies that never quite gelled into
     cohesive songs.
     At their peak, the Happy Mondays were hedonism in perpetual motion, a party
     with no beginning and no end, a party where "Pills 'N Thrills And
     Bellyaches" was continually pumping. The apex of their career (and quite
     arguably the whole baggy/Madchester movement), "Pills N Thrills And
     Bellyaches" pulsates with a garish neon energy, with psychedelic grooves,
     borrowed hooks, and veiled threats piling upon each other with the logic of
     a drunken car wreck.
     As with "Bummed", a switch in producers re-focuses and redefines the
     Mondays, as Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne replace the brittle,
     assaultive Martin Hannett production with something softer and expansive
     that is truly dance-club music instead of merely suggestive of it. Where
     the Stone Roses were proudly pop classicists, styling themselves after the
     bright pop art of the '60s, the Mondays were aggressively modern, pushing
     pop into the ecstasy age by leaning hard on hip-hop, substituting outright
     thievery for sampling.
     Although it's unrecognizable in sound and attitude, "Step On," the big hit
     from Pills, is a de facto cover of John Kongos' "He's Gonna Step on You
     Again," LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade" provides the skeleton for "Kinky Afro,"
     but these are the cuts that call attention to themselves; the rest of the
     record is draped in hooks and sounds from hits of the past, junk culture
     references, and passing puns, all set to a kaleidoscopic house beat.
     Oakenfold and Osborne may be responsible for the sound of "Pills N Thrills
     And Bellyaches", certainly more than the band, which almost seems
     incidental to this meticulously arranged album, but Shaun Ryder is the
     heart and soul of the album, the one that keeps the Mondays a dirty, filthy
     rock & roll outfit.
     Lifting melodies at will, Ryder twists the past to serve his purpose,
     gleefully diving into the gutter with stories of cheap drugs and
     threesomes, convinced that god made it easy on him, and blessed with that
     knowledge, happy to traumatize his girlfriend's kid by telling them that he
     only went with his mother cause she was dirty. He's a thug and something of
     a poet, creating a celebratory collage of sex, drugs, and dead-end jobs
     where there's no despair because only a sucker could think that this party
     would ever come to an end.

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