Mind Bomb

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Blending dense, tightly-wound music with anguished song writing, Mind Bomb is an eloquent statement of rage. Play it very loud, very late and very alone.” Top 100 (ARIA) peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDFed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p.277.

Johnson told Uncut magazine in early 2015 that he was starting to write the first new vocal-based The album since 2000's Nakedself. [ citation needed] This has not yet materialised. recording engineer: Felix Kendall ( UK recording engineer) additional engineer: 'Mini' Matt Howe ( producer and engineer), Stuart James ( UK producer aka "Jammer), Warne Livesey and Roli Mosimann assistant engineer: JP Baptiste, Karen Down, Geoff Foster ( sound engineer), Noel Rafferty and Wellard Walsh producer: Matt Johnson ( English singer/songwriter for “The The”) and Roli Mosimann mixer: Bruce Lampcov bass guitar: James Eller drums (drum set): David Palmer ( drummer (ABC/The The)) electric guitar: Matt Johnson ( English singer/songwriter for “The The”) and Johnny Marr keyboard and melodica: Matt Johnson ( English singer/songwriter for “The The”) percussion: Danny Cummings ( British drummer and percussionist) percussion [water percussion]: Pedro Haldemann trombone: Ashley Slater vocals: Matt Johnson ( English singer/songwriter for “The The”) recording of: Gravitate to Me(from 1988-10 until 1989-05) lyricist: Matt Johnson ( English singer/songwriter for “The The”) composer: Matt Johnson ( English singer/songwriter for “The The”) and Johnny Marr After which, the closing 'Beyond Love' does what it would not do under any other circumstances. It comes as light relief. Among other things. An experimental album Gun Sluts was recorded in 1997, but it was left unreleased by the band after it was rejected for being too uncommercial by their label. The The severed their 18-year relationship with Sony and moved to Interscope, on Trent Reznor's Nothing Records imprint. The The are an English post-punk band. They have been active in various forms since 1979, with the singer-songwriter Matt Johnson as the only constant band member. The The achieved critical acclaim and commercial success in the UK, with 15 chart singles (seven reaching the top 40), and their most successful studio album, Infected (1986), spent 30 weeks on the chart. They followed this with the top-ten studio albums Mind Bomb (1989) and Dusk (1993). [1] History [ edit ] Early years (1977–1981) [ edit ]

As well as a full band line-up, the record has quite a few guest musicians including Sinéad O'Connor, Chris White (Dire Straits touring member), Danny Cummings (Mark Knopfler) and Wix (Soul Mining) among others. This large cast means the very colourful nature of the music from the earlier albums is till here, The The are now painting with more guitars and horns and fewer synths. The album trails at the end. "Gravitate To Me", a good song, is rendered mediocre next to the excellent "August & September". I could have done without (the blahness of) "Beyond Love", or would much rather have preferred that Mr. Johnson left it off and put the excellent "Jealous Of Youth" on in its stead. The The released their official studio album debut, the synth-noir classic Soul Mining, in 1983. It featured the minor UK No.71 hit " This Is the Day", as well as a new recording of the The performing "Uncertain Smile". Produced by Johnson and Paul Hardiman, it featured guest appearances from Orange Juice's drummer Zeke Manyika, Jools Holland, Thomas Leer and JG Thirlwell (a.k.a. Foetus). In November 1977, Johnson had placed an advertisement in NME seeking "bass/lead guitarist" who liked the Velvet Underground and Syd Barrett. [ citation needed] In 1979 he placed a second advertisement in the NME, stating his new influences as the Residents and Throbbing Gristle. [2] Completed album for Sony, who declined to release it. Part I of a planned "New York" trilogy; NakedSelf was Part II.

During the The's more prolific period of releases, from Soul Mining (1983) to Dusk (1992), most artwork used on the albums and single releases was produced by Johnson's brother Andrew Johnson, using the pseudonym Andy Dog. The artwork has a distinctive style, and sometimes courted controversy, most notably the initial release of the 1986 single "Infected", which featured a masturbating devil and was withdrawn from sale and re-issued with an edited version of the same drawing. That, by the way, is not my interpretation of his phrasing. It's a transcript of the album's lyric sheet: Through four albums and most of the 1980’s Matt Johnson and his band have chronicled the ecstasies of agony with unflinching detail. This is a fierce work.” And in the third verse he sings about just how far the world has turned away from those original messages and that God itself surely no longer cares for world after what has happened to their words:

FUCK HEROINE

Fiona Skinner–graphic designer & film-maker: the The logo & font, typography, cover designs & layouts, video/promo direction. The The's next single was a retooling of "Cold Spell Ahead", now entitled " Uncertain Smile". Produced in New York by Mike Thorne, it reached No.68 UK. This version is different from the more familiar album version, and featured saxophone and flute by session musician Crispin Cioe rather than (as on the album version) the piano of Squeeze's Jools Holland. Various: Manchester North Of England - A Story Of Independent Music Greater Manchester 1977 - 1993 (1) a b "dutchcharts.nl > The The in Dutch Charts" (in Dutch). Hung Medien . Retrieved 19 November 2011.

austriancharts.at > The The in der Österreichischen Hitparade" (in German). Hung Medien . Retrieved 19 November 2011. In June 2002 the The made a sole live appearance at Meltdown festival at London's Royal Festival Hall as guests of David Bowie. At this point, the band consisted solely of Johnson and longtime friend and collaborator JG Thirlwell a.k.a. Foetus on tapes and loops, and young film director on film and video. [3] For their second studio album Infected (1986), the The still consisted only of Johnson, but was augmented by session musicians and featured friends such as Manyika and Rip Rig + Panic singer Neneh Cherry and Anna Domino. This album spawned four charting singles in the UK, notably "Heartland", which made the UK top 30. [6] It was also unusual for having a full-length accompanying film. Costing hundreds of thousands of pounds, Infected: The Movie was shot on locations in Bolivia, Peru and New York. Different songs were directed by different directors, mainly Tim Pope and Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (of Throbbing Gristle). David Roberts, ed. (2006). British Hit Singles and Albums. Guinness World Records Limited. p.555. ISBN 978-1904994107. Since 2007, The The have enjoyed a small surge of attention in the United States thanks to an M&M's advertising campaign, which has been using the band's song "This is the Day" as its theme music.Johnson’s music and words are not for the faint-hearted or feeble-minded. Mind Bomb is an unflinching look at the collective soul with all the lushness and intensity of Infected, but simpler, less dense and more spiritual.” Top 100 ( Kent Music Report) peaks to 19 June 1988: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrateded.). St. Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.307. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 19 June 1988. Bassist James Eller and drummer David Palmer weren't famous, particularly (the former had played for Clive Langer and Julian Cope, the latter was a member of ABC's classic line-up), but they were just the men for job, as Marr would have been regardless of his fame. If there's anything in Marr's post-Smiths career as good as this, and if his own work on anything since has been as good as it is on this, I've missed it. It's not simply a matter of how different Mind Bomb would be if you took his - by turns - stretched, coiled, wailing, glowing guitar off it; it's that you can't imagine anything akin to the same album might have come about without it in the first place.