Mind Bomb

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The album is an absolute stunner and confirms Matt Johnson’s position as one of the best songwriters in the country.”

Billboard > Artists / The The > Chart History > Alternative Songs". Billboard. Archived from the original on 31 July 2016 . Retrieved 9 June 2017. In October 2023, the The announced their first tour since 2018 that will take place in 2024. [13] Members [ edit ] Current touring band members [ edit ] THE THE make powerful brooding music that grapples with the big questions. Mind Bomb is an eloquent rant against organised religion.” If Infected seethed and rattled with claustrophobic urgency and loathing, and it did, then Mind Bomb was slow, expansive, looming into inexorable life with a rage that smouldered rather than flamed. It creeps up on you, on 'Good Morning Beautiful', with what sounds like a muezzin's call, which for one reason and another it's likely no major label act would dare to use today (although it might be a Qawwal; it isn't credited and I haven't the ear to tell.) Next, a blast of sluggish brass over ominous piano chords, and pattering, insinuating percussion. Then Johnson's voice, a tense, febrile tenor, a voice living on its nerves, near breaking point, teetering here and there into an aspirated growl, sizzling when pressed against the side of the pan.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. 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: It features one of Sinead O'Connor's finest performances. It's a heartbreaker. The knowledge and sad acceptance by the one of the other's distance, the other of the one's infidelity.

Matt Johnson assembled a full band of The The, retaining his role as singer, primary songwriter, frontman and guitarist (and playing keyboards and other instruments in the studio), and bringing in guitarist Johnny Marr. Johnson had known Marr since the early 1980s, and had attempted to entice him into an earlier version of The The prior to Marr forming The Smiths. Completing the lineup was former Julian Cope band bass guitarist James Eller and session drummer David Palmer (while D.C. Collard provided live keyboards). Additional instrumentation on Mind Bomb was provided by sessioneers, most notably keyboard player Wix. Children of Nuggets : Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1995 CD 3-CD 4 V.A (1) Keith Laws–synthesiser (1979–1981). (later a professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Hertfordshire) 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.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). In case that doesn't clinch it, he winds up repeatedly keening, "I KNOW YOU! from a previous incarnation." By this time, Marr's trademark shuddering guitar has taken to circling the beat with a measured, sharp-edged funk riff and the entire business has gathered a torpid but terrifying momentum that can only end with it, and its protagonist, rolling unstoppably atop its object of desire. It's like being courted by a Panzer division. Come hither, or else. 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. Few artworks of any type will ever capture a time and place with the definitive gaze Johnson applied to mid-Eighties Britain on Infected. I borrow a phrase there from one of the likewise rare spirits who might be described as even remotely kindred to him. Where Howard Devoto sang in riddles, parables and allusive nightmare images, Johnson was blunt as a hammer, piercing as nails. You knew precisely what he was getting at, and you knew precisely where he was getting at it: you felt it pounded in though skin and tendons. A crucifixion of a kind. Think I'm exaggerating? Listen to Infected again and see if he isn't nailing himself to a figurative cross alongside this island Golgotha's irredeemable brigands. 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.

Uniquely optimistic yet tortured and anguished, Mind Bomb is THE THE’s most impressive work to date. A meld of bitter images and desperate hopes focusing on the individual conflicts and politics of a troubled world.” Continuing my journey through the wonderful world of The The, we arrive at their third album and the first to really be made by a full band, rather than just Matt Johnson's solo project. His most accomplished songwriting to date. Some of the most invigorating music to emerge in the late ’80s. austriancharts.at > The The in der Österreichischen Hitparade" (in German). Hung Medien . Retrieved 19 November 2011. Top 50 ( ARIA) peaks from 26 June 1988: "australian-charts.com > The The in Australian Charts". Hung Medien . Retrieved 19 November 2011.

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hitparade.ch > The The in der Schweizer Hitparade" (in German). Hung Medien . Retrieved 19 November 2011. a b c "This Is The The Day – Library". thethe.com. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011 . Retrieved 2 April 2011.

Fiona Skinner–graphic designer & film-maker: the The logo & font, typography, cover designs & layouts, video/promo direction. Now permanently relocated to New York, the The's next project was 1995's Hanky Panky, an album that consisted entirely of Hank Williams cover versions. Hanky Panky was recorded by a new group consisting of Johnson, Collard, Fitting, ex- Iggy Pop guitarist Eric Schermerhorn, former bassist for David Bowie Gail Ann Dorsey (billed as "Hollywood" Dorsey), and drummer the "Reverend" Brian MacLeod. Their cover version of "I Saw the Light" hit No.31 UK, released by Some Bizzare Label / Epic. a b "dutchcharts.nl > The The in Dutch Charts" (in Dutch). Hung Medien . Retrieved 19 November 2011.

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From the snarling visceral "Good Morning Beautiful" to the nihilistically prophetic toe-tapper (written 21 years ago, folks) of "Armageddon Days are Here (Again)" to the sweaty exhibition of a doomed relationship in "Kingdom Of Rain" to the resigned acceptance of mediocrity in "The Beat(en) Generation"- this caresses your head as it fondles your base emotions. Hanky Panky: "The The – Hanky Panky (album)" (in German). GfK Entertainment . Retrieved 9 June 2017. 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 Heim, Chris (10 August 1989). "The The: Mind Bomb (Epic)". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 26 September 2017. HarperCollins imprint The Friday Project announced in the spring of 2014 that they would be publishing the first official biography of the The. Authored by Neil Fraser, it will apparently [ according to whom?] have the full cooperation of Matt Johnson.