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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.
Live Recording
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).
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'..." Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches Music Happy Mondays Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches Songs Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches Music Review Purchase Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Black Flag Damaged CD (1981)
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| | Suicide CDs (1977)
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Seven years after the duo's inception, Suicide's debut album finally sneaked out in 1977 on the coat tails of the nascent New York punk scene. If its aim had been to confuse, startle, or repulse, SUICIDE succeeded in spades. By the same token, if a part-time sculptor and avant-garde jazz musician form a two-chord synthesizer duo and call it Suicide, commercial considerations are presumably ...
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| | Miles Davis Quintet/Sextet CD (1955)
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Digitally remastered by Joe Tarantino (1982, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California).
Lesser heralded than their collaboration with Monk (as documented on BAGS' GROOVE and MILES DAVIS AND THE MODERN JAZZ GIANTS), this August 5, 1955 session with vibraphonist Milt Jackson was Miles' last all-star collaboration before the formation of his first classic quintet. It marked a farewell to an older generation of acolytes and fellow travellers. Miles was entering a new era of leadership and international stardom, and generally he would only record with his working groups.
QUINTET/SEXTET is notable for two compositions by Jackie McLean: "Dr. Jackle" and "Minor March" (it appears on his famous 1959 Blue Note date NEW SOIL as "Minor Apprehension"). The former is a Charlie Parker-ish line featuring a masterful Milt Jackson symposium on the blues--Miles' ...
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| | Demented Are Go I Wanna See You Bleed! CD (2000) Import
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| | Tannahill Weavers Land Of Light CD (1986)
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| | Valley Of The Giants Westworld CD (2004) (Import) Canada
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The indie rock supergroup Valley of the Giants aren't big pretenders with an ambitious scope of creating an artistically original album of rock & roll. If anything, they're slightly reserved about their various backgrounds and talents; however, an impressionable blend of many musical worlds and reflections of particular moods and spells of an isolated countryside carry the weight that is the Valley of the Giants' self-titled debut. It's a cinematic soundscape captured on a four-track recorder, an instrumental trail to unguarded moments of the most northern regions of America while also a trek to the more bleak ridges of the bottom of the earth. From the creaking flow of lap steel guitars and violins of "Claudia & Klaus" and "Westworld," Valley of the Giants' post-rock experiment ...
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