Troublegum

Infobox Album | Name = Troublegum
Type = studio
Artist = Therapy?

|Album Cover
Released = February 7, 1994
Genre = Rock / Heavy Metal
Length = 45:39
Label = A&M Records
Producer = Chris Sheldon
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6zri286r052a link]
Last album = "Nurse"
(1992)
This album = "Troublegum"
(1994)
Next album = "Infernal Love"
(1995) |__NOTOC__

"Troublegum", released February 7 1994, was the second major-label album by the band Therapy?. It had a melodically dark, metal-like sound.

Track listing

#"Knives" (Cairns)
#"Screamager" (Cairns/McKeegan/Ewing)
#"Hellbelly" (Cairns)
#"Stop It You're Killing Me" (Cairns)
#"Nowhere" (Cairns/McCarrick)
#"Die Laughing" (Cairns/McKeegan/Ewing)
#"Unbeliever" (Cairns)
#"Trigger Inside" (Cairns)
#"Lunacy Booth" (Cairns)
#"Isolation" (Curtis/Sumner/Hook/Morris)
#"Turn" (Cairns/McKeegan/Ewing)
#"Femtex" (Cairns)
#"Unrequited" (Cairns)
#"Brainsaw" (Cairns)

Trivia

*The album ends with Therapy? playing the first verses of "You Are My Sunshine" by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell with the line "Please don't take my sunshine away" looping repeatedly at the end mimicking the way a vinyl record would if it were scratched.
*The album was rated the top album of 1994 in the 1000th issue of Kerrang magazine in 2004.

ingles

*"Screamager" - March 11, 1993, on the "Shortsharpshock" EP with "Auto Surgery", "Totally Random Man" and a re-recorded version of "Accelerator" from Nurse. This single reached number 16 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.
*"Turn" - May 31, 1993, on the "Face The Strange EP" with "Speedball", "Bloody Blue" and a re-recorded version of "Neck Freak" from Nurse.
*"Nowhere" - January 17, 1994, with "Pantopon Rose", "Breaking The Law" (Judas Priest), and "C. C. Rider" (an Elvis Presley song). There was a second CD released, with two remixes of the title track, provided by the Sabres of Paradise.
*"Trigger Inside" - February 28, 1994, with "Nice 'n' Sleazy" (The Stranglers), "Reuters" (Wire), and "Tatty Seaside Town" (The Membranes). A remix 12" was released with two remixes of the title track, plus the two Sabres of Paradise remixes previously released on the Nowhere single.
*"Die Laughing" - May 1994, with "Stop It You're Killing Me (live)", "Trigger Inside (live)" and "Evil Elvis (The Lost Demo)". A remix 12" was released with two remixes of the title track, provided by David Holmes.
*"Isolation" (Joy Division) - 1994, with "Lunacy Booth (string version)" and "Isolation (Consolidated mix)". This single was a German only release.

Personnel

*Andy Cairns - vocals/guitar
*Fyfe Ewing - drums
*Michael McKeegan - bass
*Page Hamilton - lead guitar on "Unbeliever"
*Lesley Rankine - additional vocals on "Lunacy Booth"
*Martin McCarrick - cello on "Unrequited"
*Eileen Rose - additional vocals on "Femtex"