The promotional video for Therapy?'s Screamager, found on their home DVD, Scopophobia. Buy it from their website, therapyquestion..., or amazon.co.uk. It's in PAL, but isn't region-encoded so it plays fine on a PC.
Spot on mate. But I'm still surprized how little known this album is with modern rockers too. Shows how much image & marketing brainwash even the best of folk. Troublegum is right up there with Nirvana's best in capturing teenage angst IMO, and yet bizarely nowhere near as big.
Record label screwed them over. Told them to take a certain direction, and that was meant to be their "big breakthrough", when they should have done another Troublegum. Saw them last year in a small club, and Andy said that he's glad they didn't hit it big because he's happier doing small tours and playing smaller venues, now that he's older.
They were pretty big, in the UK at least. This was the album though, previous efforts were a tad unfocused and underproduced, with laxed sonwriting, and they werent the same after Fyfe the drummer left.
suffering form depression, hammered on whiskey alone in my room at 3am, not the best scenario, but with this blasting through my headphones, just makes everything seem okay
Robbie McKeegan just saw them for the first time supporting the stranglers in the Olympia in Dublin. Had all their albums and even a collector's edition of vinyl singles or maybe they were eps, anyway they got nicked years ago at a house party. They rocked it! Me mate (he's a drummer), talking about your uncle, said he's never seen a happier bass player, he was fuckin loving it on stage! If you read this you might tell your uncle that therapy meant everything to me growing up, thanks for the music, they fuckin rock!
Not just the above this tune is funky as fuck in the true sense of the word.The drums are tight and the riff is monster.Not just for angry `white boy`...Just saying.
Only the 2nd song I ever heard by Therapy? (after Teethgrinder), and firmly cemented them as one of my all-time favourite bands. Seen them live dozens of times, in my 40s now and still loving them! New album is pretty decent.
+Nadav Drewe absolutely right, was one of my favourite bands and the sound of the nineties for me reminding of my teens an twenties, going to metal clubs an festivals
My town has a punk/metal station that's run by students at a local highschool, they play this weird Macbeth rap song that took this EXACT chorus word for word. I was kinda digging it but doesn't seem to exist on the internet so now I'm jamming to this instead
Man every now then something comes along that makes you forget how shite N.Ireland is and just has you dancing with your fists in the air. Troublegum is still on my playlist all these years later.
This reminds me of 1996, the year i met my wife.. we didnt stop listening to therapy.. 15 years later and we are still married.. randomly remembered this song and had to listen.. man.. everyone needs a little bit of THERAPY :0
Classic, when i saw these guys in cardiff in 94 it was the first time i ever stage dived and i nearly broke my back, ahhh classic times of listening to this on a tape player in the park while drinking cheap cider and smoking nasty hash.
@CeeTeezVeeTeez Therapy? are an alternative metal band from Northern Ireland. The band was formed in 1989 by guitaristvocalist Andy Cairns from Ballyclare and drummer-vocalist Fyfe Ewing from Larne, Northern Ireland. The band initially recorded their first demo with Cairns filling in on bass guitar. To complete the lineup, the band recruited Larne bassist Michael McKeegan.
I just rediscovered this song. I must have been around 15 when the album came out, I loved it so much. Now its 25 years, a quarter century, later and this song blows me back right into my youth and makes me remember to so many situations when I listened to this song with headphones and my walkman... time is an enemy...
Funny you mention that. That drummer is Fyfe Ewing who founded the band, but left around '94 or 95 I believe. The current drummer is Neil Cooper who IS from Beyond. If you search RU-vid for If It Kills Me by Therapy? you can see and hear the Beyond drummer.
these guys were in finland on satturday night this week..last night to be more exact...i enjoyd their gig..as of so many other bands such as kotiteollisuus, turmion kätilöt, doom unit and few others ..all hail WANAJA FESTIVAL
With a face like this I won't break any hearts And thinking like that I won't make any friends Screw that, forget about that I don't wanna think about anything like that Screw that, forget about that I don't wanna know about anything like that I've got nothing to do but hang around and get screwed up on you I've got nothing to do but hang around and get screwed up on you Your beauty makes me feel alone I look inside but no ones home Screw that, forget about that I don't wanna think about anything like that Screw that, forget about that I don't wanna know about anything like that I've got nothing to do but hang around and get screwed up on you I've got nothing to do but hang around and get screwed up on you - Guitar…
I picked up their CD on recommendation from a clerk at a UK record store about 10 years ago,(I'm not from that continent). What an outrageous jam! (and album) I was trying to play guitar along with this song one time and knocked over most of my gear. AMAZING band. Therapy? definitely THERAPY!! (for me)
I always thought this band was brilliant and way ahead of their time, yet so under rated. If they were to have come out recently instead, I feel they would have had much more commercial sucess.
I saw a performance of them while they were dressed up as male nurses in a psychiatric hospital. They played very good and are really friendly to the audience. Amazing guys!
I remember first seeing this on the Headbangers Ball way back in the day; I always thought they sounded like a metal version of the Police,which is a good thing, BTW...
Fyfe used a vintage 6.5in, metal-based Slingerland snare, despite endorsing Sonor, which he (in his own words) "tuned until it was almost imploding". He topped it off with a Remo falam coated batter head.
i love the snares sound. pak pak pak pak...... i read in the studio fyfe went through 20 drum snare skins when recording troublegum because he hit the snare so hard..
It's alternative metal to be precise. (from Wiki) Alternative metal is an eclectic form of heavy metal music that gained popularity in the 1990's alongside grunge. It is characterized by some heavy metal trappings (most notably heavy riffs), but usually with a pronounced experimental edge, including experimental lyrics, odd time signatures, unusual technique, a resistance to conventional approaches to heavy music and an incorporation of a wide range of influences outside of the metal scene.
Damn i finally found this song and band again! 20 years trying to remeber this album. Loved this song! Bought it when it first came out, few years later i sold all my tapes and since then i have been trying to find all the old bands i liked. Now i can rest in peace
