If I ever needed inspiration, I would pick an oboe part in a movie orchestra and try to play it on guitar. Apart from the comparatively jaunty 'Loose', it is a pitch-black, sordid and forlorn affair peppered with further unjolly lyrical nuggets such as "fucking you got boring when it didn't feel so wrong". It was Andy playing guitar and singing, Paul Chapman playing bass and singing, and my brother Charlie on drums. I felt like some of the stuff we’d done on Nurse, Troublegum and Infernal Love was almost like a precursor to nu-metal, so we’d done that already and there was no need to jump onboard that band wagon. It's Another Girl Another Planet, it's Just What I Needed by The Cars, it's Someone Like You by Adele, it's With Or Without You by U2.

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But for now, join Andy Cairns and Michael McKeegan as they reflect on the record that brought Therapy?Michael: The original has that ornate high keyboard, and it’s possibly one of Joy Division’s less ominous-sounding songs. Ever since then, every set list we do has Still Hurts and Tides, and a lot of the time we play Idiot Cousin and Words Fail Me too.

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The Semi-Detached album transcended the trajectory of Troublegum and Infernal Love with their dark, broody atmosphere. We would never say let’s make something because it’s trendy because that would backfire horribly if we did. With a lot of tunes on this album we are trying and get the right context to make them sound really fresh.record in that it’s got big chunky metallic riffs and catchy choruses, and the drum patterns are really interesting and the bass lines are really melodic. The band released their third album, which set the Britpop train rolling in earnest and included the title track, Girls And Boys, End Of A Century, To The End and This Is A Low. When you look at any rock festival now there are loads of different bands on the bill with short haired bands who even have samplers with them and some of them are not even heavy! After that we sent them to GGGarth Richardson who also turned us down, and we asked Terry Date who said he’d do it for a quarter of a million dollars. But my history is as a bass player – when I started playing rock music I started as a bassist – and I was playing the bassline from Isolation on a guitar.

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began recording the new album in late July at Blast Studios in Newcastle and finished recording by late August. When I got back I trashed a load of my gear and we trashed the room that we were rehearsing in, including a massive mirror. They had a bunch of new songs that veered closer to Screamager than they did the twisted racket of old.McCarrick left the band permanently in March 2004, and the band were now slimmed down to a permanent three piece again for the first time since 1995.