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Therapy? are an alternative metal band from Northern Ireland, currently consisting of vocalist/guitarist Andy Cairns, bassist Michael McKeegan, and drummer Neil Cooper. Therapy? was formed in 1989 by Cairns and drummer-vocalist Fyfe Ewing. To complete the lineup, the band recruited McKeegan, who was Ewing's classmate.Their most famous era was undeniably the mid-90's, where they had several UK Top 40 Singles, most notably "Screamager", and released Troublegum in 1994, which has sold over two million records and is often considered one of the landmark rock 90's albums in the UK. However, it was followed by Infernal Love, which was a dark and experimental record (unlike its poppier predecessor), and the latters critical and commercial failure pretty much killed any commercial aspirations created by Troublegum.Starting with Ewing's departure shortly after its release, the band entered its Audience-Alienating Era, with several member changes and badly received albums, along with many label problems (which eventually contributed to their records not even making it into the US market). However, the lineup stabilized in the early/mid-00's with the addition of Cooper, and they have since released several well-reviewed records and maintain a small but strong following throughout Europe.Members (former members in italic):
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Love Is a Drug
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Love Is a Drug: "Screamager".
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The Quiet One
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The Quiet One: Fyfe Ewing was rarely talking at interviews, even when present.
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New Sound Album
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New Sound Album: Several, especially on the early stages of their career. Nurse, despite being their debut LP, was notably different as a Music/Grunge record compared to their earlier noise rock EP's. After the immense success of "Screamager" as a standalone single, the band was at a crossroads about how to follow it. Cue Troublegum, an album that despite its heavy guitars and fast tempo, has several melodic songs. And next? While the safe bet would be to create a duplicate of the massively successful Troublegum (as was expected by their label), Therapy? created a moody, introspective record with ballads, electronic interludes and little to no pop sensitivities: Infernal Love. After the turn of the century, they have crystallized their sound into an Alternative Metal context, that features influencies from throughout their career.
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Alternative Metal
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After the turn of the century, they have crystallized their sound into an Alternative Metal context, that features influencies from throughout their career.
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Literary Allusion Title
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Literary Allusion Title: Crooked Timber takes its title from a phrase by Emmanuel Kant.
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Longest Song Goes Last: "30 Seconds" on Infernal Love.
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Boléro Effect: "30 Seconds" has the same drum beat (minus a few fills) from the beginning to its Big Rock Ending.
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Punk Rock
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Punk Rock: While not a punk band, punk elements were clearly part of the charm at their commercial heyday. Still, some of their songs (like "Nowhere", "Loose" and "30 Seconds"), are straight-up pop punk.
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The Cover Changes the Meaning
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The Cover Changes the Meaning: "Diane" has been implied to be about sexual longing, in contrast to the original which was a straight narration of a rape/murder.
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Black Sheep Hit
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Black Sheep Hit: "Diane", a cover track that features only cello and vocals. Also "Potato Junkie", but for entirely different reasons: despite being the closing track on a low-budget, indie EP, it got quite notorious for its first and quite colorful verse, that...analyzes the relationship between the subject's sister and James Joyce. Despite all that, it has become a fan favourite to the point where it has rarely been left off a setlist. Case in point: the band decided to open their evening slot at Reading Festival 1994 with this song, and the crowd actually knew and sang the lyrics. Also, "Screamager" was this at the time, since it had no relation to their previous Noise Rock and Grunge sound.
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Their pre-A&R EP's, Babyteeth and Pleasure Teeth, with their terrible production, noise rock sound and many samples, bear no resemblance to Nurse, much less Troublegum.
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They Changed It, Now It Sucks!
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They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Most people's reaction to Infernal Love.
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Sampling
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Sampling: Used extensively up to Troublegum (for a rock band at least), sparingly since.
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Vindicated by History
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Vindicated by History: In spite of being slammed both critically and commercially at its release simply for not being Troublegum, Infernal Love is much more well-received today, and the band even did a 20th anniversary tour where they played it in full.
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Let's Duet
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Let's Duet: Manic Street Preachers' James Dean Bradfield guests on a re-recording of "Die Laughing" for Therapy's Greatest Hits: Abbey Road Sessions album.
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Religion Rant Song
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Religion Rant Song: "Lunacy Booth" goes pretty hard against religion.
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Audience Participation Song
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Audience Participation Song: The pre-choruses of both "Screamager" and "Stories" are sung by the crowd. As is the "You're gonna die anyway" line in "Die Laughing". Sometimes (especially in acoustic shows), Andy will instruct the crowd to sing along to the riffs of "Screamager" or "Teethgrinder".
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Non-Appearing Title
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Non-Appearing Title: Several, most notably "Screamager", "Die Laughing" and "Potato Junkie".
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One-Hit Wonder
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One-Hit Wonder: "Screamager" is their only Top-10 hit.
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Unreplaced Departed
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Unreplaced Departed: After Martin McCarrick was fired in 2004 (despite not performing with the band since 2003), they never replaced him in guitar/cello and continued as a three-piece.
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Phrase Salad Lyrics
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Phrase Salad Lyrics: "Your ass is like Jesus' feet - worth kissing" from "A Moment of Clarity".
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Greatest Hits Album
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Greatest Hits Album: Two — "So Much For The Ten Year Plan" and "Greatest Hits: Abbey Road Sessions".
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Homesickness Hymn
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Homesickness Hymn: "Six Mile Water" off Suicide Pact-You First.
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Grunge
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Grunge: Their record company initially tried to shoehorn them into the genre, even going as far as proposing Butch Vig for producer on their debut, but the band was never comfortable with that label — luckily for them, "Screamager"'s success stopped any relation with it.
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Ascended Extra
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Ascended Extra: Martin McCarrick played cello in both Troublegum and Infernal Love, while he also guested in several live performances at the time. In 1996, the band asked him to join them full time as a cellist/guitarist.
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Re-release the Song
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Re Release The Song: "Greatest Hits: Abbey Road Sessions" recreates all their Top 40 hits.
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Big Rock Ending
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Big Rock Ending: "30 Seconds" dissolves into total chaos on the last couple of minutes.
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Epic Riff
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Epic Riff: On the guitar side, "Screamager" and "Teethgrinder". Fyfe Ewing has several, most notably on "Teethgrinder" and "Meat Abstract".
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Take That!
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Take That!!: Despite its at first incoherent lyrics, "Potato Junkie" is an attack on the "James Joyce and shamrocks image that the Irish Tourist Board is trying to promote".
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Rock Trio
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Rock Trio: Have been throughout their career, with the exception of the period between 1996-2003.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: Averted: while there have been several albums where they had a Pop Punk sound, they always had a certain heaviness on their sound.
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Cover Version
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Cover Version: Most notably "Diane", which was their last big hit and has more streams/views on Spotify/Youtube than the Hüsker Dü original. Their cover of "Isolation" by Joy Division, while not as popular as "Diane", is a fan favourite and has been a live staple for decades.
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Title-Only Chorus
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Title-Only Chorus: "Teethgrinder", minus the samples.
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Album Title Drop
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Album Title Drop: The first few lines of "Epilepsy" on Infernal Love. Suicide Pact - You First takes its name from a lyric on "Little Tongues First".
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Broken Record
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Broken Record: At the end of "Brainsaw", there's an extra part which is the song "You Are My Sunshine" as it played in a vinyl turntable. In the original US release, after the "So please don't take my sunshine away" phrase, the "away" part repeats itself for several times until the song stops abruptly, leaving the noise that the vinyl record makes for several minutes more until the song stops at 25:27. On subsequent releases, that part is reduced to a fade out.
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Long-Runner Line-up
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Long Runner Lineup: Their current one is Type 2.
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Garage Band
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Garage Band: Started as one.
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Lead Drummer
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Lead Drummer: Fyfe Ewing sang lead vocals on several early songs, like "Meat Abstract" and "Teethgrinder". It has been implied by some fans that his gradual removal from vocal duties was a factor in his leaving the band in January 1996.
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Tough Act to Follow
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Tough Act to Follow: Troublegum. To their credit, despite being told by a label executive that "your new album is expected (by the label, no less) to hit one million sales", they never intended to make a simple copy of Troublegum. Also, Fyfe Ewing was the band's not so secret weapon, and even today a simple scroll through the comment section at most live videos will result in several "I wish Fyfe was still there" comments.
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Fading into the Next Song
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Fading into the Next Song: The majority of both Troublegum and Infernal Love has this.
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Textless Album Cover
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Textless Album Cover: Infernal Love.
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