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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.
Unwittingly or not, Happy Mondays personified the ugly side of rave
culture. They were thugs, purely and simply -- they brought out the
latent violence that lay beneath the surface of any drug culture, even
one as seemingly beatific as England's late-'80s/early-'90s rave
scene. Under the leadership of vocalist Shaun Ryder, the group sounded
and acted like thugs, especially in comparison with their peace-loving
peers, the Stone Roses. Ryder's lyrics were twisted and surrealistic,
loaded with bizarre pop culture references, drug slang, and menacing
sexuality. Appropriately, their music was as convoluted. Happy Mondays
were one of the first rock bands to integrate hip-hop techniques into
their music. They didn't sample, but they borrowed melodies and lyrics
and, in the process, committed rock blasphemy. For a band that
celebrated their vulgarity and excessiveness, Happy Mondays
appropriately were undone by their addictions, but they left behind a
surprisingly influential legacy, apparent in everyone from dance bands
like the Chemical Brothers to rock & rollers like Oasis.
With their second album, 1988's Bummed, Happy Mondays became British
superstars, particularly Ryder. Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches,
released in 1990, marked the height of the band's popularity,
creativity, and influence; although the record made the Top 100 albums
chart in America, it didn't establish them as stars in the U.S. After
that, the fall was quick. By the time they released their last studio
album, Yes, Please, Manchester had disappeared from public
consciousness; it sold respectably, but the group didn't have the
commercial impact that they had just two years before. Besides the
lack of public interest, Shaun Ryder had become addicted to heroin,
tearing the band apart in the process. At a high-level record contract
meeting, Ryder walked out for some "Kentucky Fried Chicken," which was
the band's slang for heroin. He never returned and the group quickly
fell apart.
Ryder and the Mondays' full-time dancer Bez re-emerged in the mid-'90s
with Black Grape. The band released its critically acclaimed debut,
It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah, late in the summer of 1995.
Black Grape's sound pursued the same direction as the Mondays, only
with a harder, grittier edge to their sound and lyrics.
Tracks:
01. Step On (5:19)
02. Judge Fudge (4:00)
03. The Boys are Back in Town (3:46)
04. Lazyitis (2:48)
05. W.F.L (6:12)
06. Cut 'Em Loose Bruce (4:27)
07. Stinkin' Thinkin' (4:19)
08. Bob's Yer Uncle (5:09)
09. Tokoloshe Man (4:19)
10. Mad Cyril (4:38)
11. Theme From Netto (4:11)
12. Tart Tart (4:22)
13. Subshine & Love (4:44)
14. Stayin' Alive (5:28)
15. 24 Hour Party People (4:37)
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