- 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 bandTherapy? . 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 " byJimmie 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" (anElvis Presley song). There was a second CD released, with two remixes of the title track, provided by theSabres 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 twoSabres of Paradise remixes previously released on theNowhere 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 byDavid 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"
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