Not impressed by your support subby

Who??

Seriously, I've never heard of them.

Wow, have they done anything since the early 90s?

They can do a revival tour with Jellyfish, Jesus Jones, EMF, Dee Lite, and The Farm.

Unless you had a string of danceable hits you need to tone it down a notch.

In fact, some of my best friends happen to be fat, bloated artists.

the whosits?

Hallelujah

I have thrills, pills and a bellyache right now so I'm getting a kick out of these reply

/its shawn rider who after the Mondays formed the Black grapes, right? And had the arrogance to call the album "its great to be straight" after spending a decade of not sleeping, high on pure X

Here is one of their well known tunes.(Not a rickroll)

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Don' be twistin' my melon, man...

TSE: Don' be twistin' my melon, man...

You talk so hip man, you twistin' my melon, man...

/Damnit, I came in here just to say that...
//"alternative Radio" stateside pretty much considers the Manchester shiate "forgotten years"

its going to suck.


i was excited at seeing them at last years coachella and it was awful. really awful. subby is correct in calling shaun rider a fat bloated artist. not only was he fat, but you can see the drugs had affected him. he just stood there, reading the lyrics off the prompter and smoked.

plus no Dez.

Mostly bellyaches, I'd imagine.

/thinking about a come back too
//pic is so wrong

For some reason the UK music press seems to put them (and the farking Stone Roses too) up there with the Beatles and the Smiths. Bizarre.

I also like how nobody ever uses a picture of their singer if they don't have to. The guy there's the dancer and "percussionist". (They used to give him empty shakers 'cause he had no sense of rhythm and kept throwing the drummer off if he was given ones that made a noise)

badgerb

meatloaf can play the guitar?!?!
cool

You really ought to be careful with that, Shaun. You could take someone's eye out.

I still play Black Grape from time to time. It's a great party cd.

More than likely the reason there was no Bez a Coachella is that he prolly still can't get a visa - that was the reason given as to why he didn't tour with Black Grape in the 90s.

Although I haven't listened to this one in over 15 years, I remember enjoying it quite a bit. Think I'll buy it again now that I've been reminded.

I just looked into their catalog history and must say they've had an eclectic but cool list of Producers over the years including John Cale in 1987, Paul Oakenfold in 1990, the duo of Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth in 1992, and hiphop producer Sunny Levine (Quincy Jones grandchild) in 2007. Cool.

Walt_Jizzney: TSE: Don' be twistin' my melon, man...

You talk so hip man, you twistin' my melon, man...


Does anyone who where that phrase originally comes from?

I know it's from the 60s and 70s but where/ what from?

Always wondered.


/still listens to the Mondays every once in a while

dillenger69: They can do a revival tour with Jellyfish, Jesus Jones, EMF, Dee Lite, and The Farm.

Shiat, I saw DeeLite and The Farm in concert before they got famous. Yes, I'm a sad bastard.

Lorelle: Who??

Seriously, I've never heard of them.

Same here.

GungFu: Walt_Jizzney: TSE: Don' be twistin' my melon, man...

You talk so hip man, you twistin' my melon, man...


Does anyone who where that phrase originally comes from?

I know it's from the 60s and 70s but where/ what from?

Always wondered.


Not as such. I always thought it was X-tacy/lsd-fueled nonsense...


Shiat, I saw DeeLite and The Farm in concert before they got famous. Yes, I'm a sad bastard.

Nah... Spartacus (the one w/ 'Groovy Train') is a GREAT album...it's one of those albums that you can listen through from beginning to end w/o a hitch. As for Dee Lite - they always kinda bugged me. Lady Kier is/was hot though...did you ever check out Towa Tei's solo shiate? It's pretty obvious that he was the technical brains in the early years of the band...

well Bob's Yer Uncle

The guy there's the dancer and "percussionist". (They used to give him empty shakers 'cause he had no sense of rhythm and kept throwing the drummer off if he was given ones that made a noise)

Ah, good old Bez. Can't sing, can't dance, can't even shake the maracas on the beat. No wonder he appealed so much to the UK music writers of the early 90's, who couldn't write, couldn't do an interview, and couldn't identify a good song if it smacked them upside the face.

"Next in the long line of fat, bloated artists who have long ceased to be relevant yet need to plague the world with another inconsequential album."

Ummmm.... You could, and I'm just throwing this out there... Stop whining about it & just not buy it.

Pills and Thrills and Bellyaches is a killer record. Crack killed The Happy Mondays. When you hold master tapes for a ransom in order to get crack your career is over...they wasted the time of the Tom Tom Club. Still, Shaun Rider has come up with some great lyrics.

These are the assholes who went to the Caribbean to record their last record like 18 years ago...they spent all the money on crack and booze, then turned in an unreleasable tape without any vocals on it to the record company. Class act all the way.

Step off.

carmody: These are the assholes who went to the Caribbean to record their last record like 18 years ago...they spent all the money on crack and booze, then turned in an unreleasable tape without any vocals on it to the record company. Class act all the way.

Step off.

Yep.

Well, basically its Shaun and 1 other guy who was in the Mondays and Black Grape with him, you could call the band Happy Grape, basically just a vehicle for Shaun's songwriting which constantly swings from really inspired to utter shiate. If you like the Mondays, chances are you'll like the last album, I dug a couple tracks on there.

Won't someone please think of the pigeons?