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Music Through a Cheap Transistor: BBC Sessions
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Music Through a Cheap Transistor: BBC Sessions
Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop, Rock, Metal
 
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Subtitled: Music Through A Cheap Transistor. 2007 two CD trip through the Irish rockers' BBC archives. Therapy? might have been amongst the vast number of bands who benefited from the rise of Nirvana and grunge in the earl...  more »

     
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All Artists: Therapy
Title: Music Through a Cheap Transistor: BBC Sessions
Members Wishing: 5
Total Copies: 0
Label: Universal I.S.
Release Date: 8/20/2007
Album Type: Import
Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop, Rock, Metal
Styles: Europe, Britain & Ireland, Alternative Metal
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 602498457191

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Subtitled: Music Through A Cheap Transistor. 2007 two CD trip through the Irish rockers' BBC archives. Therapy? might have been amongst the vast number of bands who benefited from the rise of Nirvana and grunge in the early '90s, but they proved their worth by outlasting that trend and any number of sub-strains that followed throughout the remainder of that decade and the one that followed. By constantly expanding upon a frame of influential references that included the usual suspects; Black Sabbath, and the not-so-usual for a metal band; Killing Joke, Hüsker Dü, Buzzcocks, Therapy? released a number of records that constantly challenged themselves and their fans. The band carried a melodic sensibility that also separated them from their alternative metal peers, and although Andy Cairns' lyrical exorcisms were often clichéd, they were never innocuous. As the bridge between Metallica and Nirvana, they never played it straight or safe. This release features the 1991-1998 sessions and includes the previously unreleased tracks 'The Sweeney', 'Lost Highway' and 'Pile Of Bricks'. 29 tracks. Mercury.
 

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Fantastic Collection spannin 1991-1998 work!!!
Concerned One | Clarinda, IA | 10/09/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Contrary to the title, this is not cheap music through a transistor radio, but quite nicely recorded songs done during different BBC sessions throughout Therapy?'s 1991-1998 career span. These songs have all the personality and sharp whittedness that you expect from Therapy?. My favorite sessions are the early 1991-1992 work, with a fantastic rendition of Innocent X/Meat Abstract and Perversonality from the peel sessions 1991. The sound is just raw and good. Misery is a nice electric version on the 4/8/1995 session, and my absolute favorite track here is Knives 7/1/1994, just as in your face as the song was ment to be. This is a must for any Therapy? fan, or a good introduction to a new person. Two discs worth of golden material."