Music Through a Cheap Transistor
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| Compilation album by Therapy? | ||||
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| Released | 26 February 2007(Download) 13 August 2007 (CD) | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 51:35 (CD1), 42:10 (CD2) | |||
| Label | Universal Records | |||
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Music Through A Cheap Transistor is an album by the band Therapy?. It was one of the first releases in Universal Records 2007 series of BBC sessions. Originally released as a download only on February 26, 2007, the set was later released on double CD on August 13, 2007.
The album features five different performances by Therapy?, which were recorded between 1991 and 1998 for BBC radio. It includes unique and exclusive versions of some of their greatest hits, alongside live favourites and three previously unreleased tracks: Pile Of Bricks, The Sweeney and Lost Highway (originally by Hank Williams).
(Aside from the first John Peel Session, the band were on A&M Records when all the featured sessions were recorded, but A&M have since been taken over by Universal Records; hence the release via Universal Records.)
"It's very flattering to be in the first batch of artists to have these old sessions made available in their entirety especially in a digital download format. Having existed as scraps on C-90's or as half-forgotten memories, it's brilliant to be able to re-visit so many unique (and one-off) performances and let people see what all the fuss was about..." Michael McKeegan - Therapy?
[edit] Track listing
- Innocent X/Meat Abstract (original versions: Babyteeth)
- Prisonbreaker (original version: Pleasure Death)
- Perversonality (original version: Nurse)
- Nausea (original version: Nurse)
- Totally Random Man (original version: Shortsharpshock E.P.)
- Accelerator (original version: Nurse)
- Teethgrinder (original version: Nurse)
- Auto Surgery (original version: Shortsharpshock E.P.)
- Totally Random Man (original version: Shortsharpshock E.P.)
- Bloody Blue (original version: Thirty Seconds Of Silence demo)
- Pile Of Bricks
- Screamager (original version: Shortsharpshock E.P.)
- Totally Random Man (original version: Shortsharpshock E.P.)
- Disgracelands (original version: Nurse)
- Perversonality (original version: Nurse)
- Brainsaw (original version: Troublegum)
- Trigger Inside (original version: Troublegum)
- Knives (original version: Troublegum)
- Isolation (original version: Troublegum)
- Bad Mother (original version: Infernal Love)
- Misery (original version: Infernal Love)
- The Sweeney
- Lost Highway
- Church of Noise (original version: Semi-Detached)
- Black Eye Purple Sky (original version: Semi-Detached)
- Tightrope Walker (original version: Semi-Detached)
- Teethgrinder (original version: Nurse)
- High Noon (original version: Lonely, Cryin', Only single)
1-3 John Peel Session - Recorded 15.8.91
4-7 Evening Session - Recorded 21.11.92
8-11 John Peel Session - Recorded 29.11.92
12-15 Friday Rock Show - Recorded 5.2.93
16-19 Rock Show - Recorded 7.1.94
20-23 Evening Session - Recorded 4.8.95
24-28 Evening Session - Recorded 18.02.98
[edit] Personnel
- Andy Cairns: vocals/guitar
- Michael McKeegan: bass
- Fyfe Ewing: vocals/drums (tracks 1-23)
- Martin McCarrick: cello/guitar/vocals (tracks 20-28)
- Graham Hopkins: drums (tracks 24-28)
- Ted De Bono: producer (tracks 1-3)
- James Birtwhistle: producer (tracks 4-11)
- Martin Colley: producer (tracks 12-15)
- Tony Wilson: producer (tracks 16-19)
- Miti Adhikari: producer (tracks 20-23)
- Paul Allen: producer (tracks 24-28)
[edit] Missing Sessions
- Most noticeably lacking is a live studio session recorded for the Evening Session on June 13, 1995. The tracks performed were "Loose", "Bad Mother", "Our Love Must Die" and "30 Seconds". The reasons why this session is not included are unknown.
- Also not included on this compilation is a studio session recorded for the Rock Show on October 1, 2004. This is due to the compilation being released by Universal Records, as this session was composed entirely of tracks from 2004's Never Apologise Never Explain, which was released by Spitfire Records. The tracks performed were "Rise Up (Make Yourself Well)", "Die Like A Motherfucker", "So Called Life" and "Panic".
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