a r t i s t : Happy Mondays
t i t l e : Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : Rhino
g e n r e : Indie
r l s. d a t e : Mar/2008
t r a c k s : 15
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 99,10 MB
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Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches was the third album by
British band Happy Mondays. It was released in 1990 and was
produced by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne at Eden Studios
in London.
In 2000 Q magazine placed Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches at
number 31 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.
In 2005, the album was voted the 51st greatest album of all
time by Channel 4 viewers.
Cover artwork by Central Station Design.
In November 2007 the album was rereleased by Rhino records
with extra tracks and a DVD of music videos.
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine allmusic.com
A swirling, neo-psychedelic kaleidoscope of hallucinogenic
drugs, trippy beats, borrowed hooks, and veiled threats, Pills
'n' Thrills & Bellyaches is Happy Mondays' masterpiece and the
peak of the entire Madchester craze. Where the Stone Roses
were pop classicists, Happy Mondays pushed pop into the
ecstasy age. The Mondays' cut-and-paste rhythms and melodies
are clearly influenced by hip-hop and electronic dance music,
and their songs have the same sort of twisted internal logic,
subverting conventional pop song structures while
reinterpreting oldies, occasionally stealing entire songs and
claiming them as their own (John Kongos' "He's Gonna Step On
You Again" is transformed into "Step On," LaBelle's "Lady
Marmalade" provides the basis for "Kinky Afro"). Most of the
musical collage is the creation of producers Paul Oakenfold
and Steve Osborne, but the vision of Pills 'n' Thrills &
Bellyaches belongs to Shaun Ryder, who reveals himself as a
surreally gifted lyricist. Lifting melodies at will, Ryder
paints a bizarre vision of modern urban life, fueled by sex,
drugs, violence, and dead-end jobs -- and instead of lamenting
the state of affairs, he celebrates them in his hoarse,
arrhythmic, tuneless holler. His thuggishly surreal sense of
humor and appropriation of hooks became enormously influential
on British rock & roll in the '90s, particularly on Oasis'
sense of style.
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01-Kinky Afro [04:00]
02-God's Cop [04:58]
03-Donovan [04:04]
04-Grandbag's Funeral [03:20]
05-Loose Fit [05:06]
06-Dennis and Lois [04:24]
07-Bob's Yer Uncle [05:09]
08-Step on [05:17]
09-Holiday [03:28]
10-Harmony [04:06]
11-Step on (Twisting My Melon Mix) [05:54]
12-Kinky Afro (7" Euro Mix) [04:16]
13-Loose Fit (12" Version) [06:24]
14-Bob's Yer Uncle (12" Version) [06:51]
15-Tokoloshie Man [04:19]
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