The other side of the A…
22 September 2020
Band: Happy Mondays
B-side: Boom
A-side: Wrote For Luck
Released: 1988
Boom! Here comes the Boom!
Ready or not, here comes the boys from the South
Boom! Here comes the Boom!
How you like me now?
Rap on, Shaun..
(Thx to and then the green man)
HAPPY MONDAYS: Facebook
Great idea!
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Listen safely to Happy Mondays
Great magazine covers from the past…
SHAUN RYDER
Happy Mondays
November 1990
AVANT Magazine
Knockouts from the past…
27 December 2019
Band: Happy Mondays
Song: WFL (Wrote For luck)
Released: May 1989 – 30 years ago
Album: Bummed
Here’s the original rave clip…
HAPPY MONDAYS: Facebook
30 November 2019
It was the Madchester era. It seemed like all great bands at the time came out of that buzzing city up north, called Manchester, the town of 24 Hour Party People.
Two of the biggest bands on the scene, THE STONE ROSES and HAPPY MONDAYS even performed on the same edition of the legendary BBC music programme Top Of The Pops. It happened on 30 November 1989, 30 years ago.
The Stone Roses played their greatest single success, the awesome trippy ‘Fool’s Gold’
and Happy Mondays, with surprising special guest, the late great Kirsty MacColl played ‘Hallelujah’ from their Madchester Rave On EP. Time to watch some cool moves.
– ‘Hallelujah’ by HAPPY MONDAYS –
– ‘Fool’s Gold‘ by THE STONE ROSES –
From ‘Lazytis‘ by HAPPY MONDAYS
Here’s that groover in full…
Now that one got lazyitis
And that one go it alone
And this one go, wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah
All the way home
At my home (And I hope) I don’t come top of the class
Got no brown tongue lickin’ ass, can’t do what he’s asked
Won’t do what he’s asked
I think I did the right thing by slipping away, yeah
And the ache that’s making me ache has gone for the day
Now I’m the man that shot the boss
I pinned him down and blew his face off
I’m doing time with weirdo kind
Hustlin’ and rustlin’ and watchin’ from behind
Now that’s the man that shot the boss
He pinned him down and blew his face off
He’s doing time with weirdo kind
Hustlin’ and rustlin’ and watchin’ from behind
Now that one got lazyitis
And that one go it alone
And that one go, wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah
All the way home (x2)
From their 1998 album BUMMED – stream it on Lazytis
Still movin’ and groovin’ – coming tour dates here
Weekly series of five rolling ripsnorters to go completely bananas to this summer…
1. L.S.F. by Kasabian
(Album: Self-Titled Debut / 2004)
2. ‘Wrote For Luck’ by HAPPY MONDAYS
(Album: Bummed – 1988)
2. ‘Davey Crockett’ by HINDS
(A cover of a 1992 song by British band Thee Headcoatees)
4. ‘Cheer Up London’ by SLAVES
(Album: Are You Satisfied? / 2015)
5. ‘All Hail’ by PINS
( EP: Bad Thing / 2017)
The best of the past…
This is the last time Turn Up The Volume! travels to the past in these
retro series. Here are 25 Killer Crackers & 3 Top Albums from 1990.
The 25 Killer Tracks…
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The 3 Top Albums…
– ‘Bossanova‘ by PIXIES
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– ‘Songs For Drella‘ by LOU REED & JOHN CALE –
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– ‘Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches‘ by HAPPY MONDAYS –
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The best of the past…
Every week Turn Up The Volume! travels to the past to reactivate
25 Killer Crackers and 3 Top Albums per year/per week. Here’s: 1988.
The 25 Killer Crackers
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The 3 Top Albums
– ‘If I Should Fall From Grace With God’ by THE POGUES –
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– ‘Bummed‘ by HAPPY MONDAYS –
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– ‘Green’ by R.E.M. –
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Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
5 November 2018
Band: HAPPY MONDAYS
Album: BUMMED
Released: 5 November 1988 – 20 years ago via Factory Records
BBC MUSIC review: “Released as a new musical movement was gaining focus and shape
after the second summer of love, Bummed represented something of a great leap forward
for the Happy Mondays. The shambolic monotony of their John Cale-produced debut, ‘Squirrel and G-Man 24 Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)’ was replaced by well, a Martin Hannett-produced shambolic monotony. However, it is the rogue heart and spirit that beats away here is what stops the album from collapse. Given the pedigree of the city, Shaun Ryder’s lyrics are some of the best to come out of Manchester, bringing a cast of no-hopers
and vagabonds to life over the album’s 10 tracks, all delivered with a great wit and slurry anti-charm… “Wrote For Luck” is the album’s monster, one of the handful of definitive Mondays’ tracks. When it was later remixed as “W.F.L” by Paul Oakenfold and Vince Clarke, Madchester
as we know it was born.”
TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: Bob Dylan once sang ‘Every Must Get Stoned‘ and David Bowie sang ‘Let’s Dance‘. The Happy Mondays put both together and what you got was Madchester, a whole city on Es while going gaga on the dance floor.
* WROTE FOR LUCK – classic Mondays…
* LAZYITIS – I never get tired of this one…
* COUNTRY SONG – sounds like a hallucination…
ALBUM in full…
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Going back in sonic history…
1988 was a year of versatile vibes and kicks
Here are TURN UP THE VOLUME’S ten picks…
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1/ ‘Fiesta’ by THE POGUES
Ultimate party cracker…
Album: ‘If I Should Fall From Grace With God’
2/ ‘Wrote For Luck’ by HAPPY MONDAYS
Eight miles high…
Album: ‘Bummed’
3/ ‘Sidewalking’ by THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN
Psych pop pearl…
Album: ‘Barbed Wire Kisses’
4/ ‘People Have The Power’ by PATTI SMITH
Sing it loud, maybe it’ll help…
Album: ‘Dream Of Life’
5/ ‘Gigantic’ by PIXIES
Kim Deal on a roll…
Album: ‘Surfer Rosa’
6/ ‘Hit The North’ by THE FALL
You can dance to The Fall…
Album: ‘The Frenz Experiment’
7/ ‘Don’t Believe The Hype’ by PUBLIC ENEMY
Just believe Public Enemy…
Album: ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’
8/ ‘Sweet Child O’Mine’ by GUNS N’ ROSES
Massive rock and roll riffs…
Album: ‘Appetite For Destruction’
9/ ‘Orange Crush’ by R.E.M.
R.E.M. becoming a big alt act…
Album: ‘Green’
10/ ‘Christine’ by THE HOUSE OF LOVE
Pure pop melancholia…
Album: ‘The House Of Love’
