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Only a year after the intermittently thrilling Squirrel and G-Man, Happy Mondays snapped into focus on its sophomore album, 1988's Bummed. "Focus" is an odd word for the persistently addled, violently hedonistic Mondays, yet Bummed has its own peculiar drug logic, loping into view with the two-stepping "Country Song," a cut so twisted it goes far beyond irony, then settling into the dense groove of "Moving In With," its hook buzzing and circling, causing a cacophony. Such vivid, concrete textures are a hallmark of producer Martin Hannett, the Mancunian legend who has been brought on board to give the Happy Mondays direction by doing the opposite of what he did with Joy Division. His production for Unknown Pleasures was stark, austere, but Bummed is all smeared colors and harsh edges, a fistful of razors and menace cutting viciously into the subconscious. This is nasty, nightmarish music delivered with a lascivious leer by Shaun Ryder, a hallucinatory accidental poet portrayed on the album's garish cover as some kind of harlot put out to pasture. Decadence has rarely sounded as dangerous as it did in the hands of the Mondays and this is where they reveled in that debauchery, pumping out stiff psychedelic funk as Ryder spat out rhymes of luck, lazyitis and fat lady wrestlers. Hannett's bright, brittle production amplifies everything, creating a swirling hyper-reality that's almost a sonic black hole sucking everything into its vortex -- slide guitars, sound clips from "Performance," maniacally looped drum machines, Beatles melodies, drums that are pushed to the front of the mix so it all is a relentless assault, from the ears down to the loins. As jagged and lacerating as all this is, there's a sense of evil glee, that the Mondays want to drag you down to their level, but there's no sense of seduction here; you're either with them or not, as Bummed is music for after you've already succumbed to the dark side.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Happy Mondays, Composer, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett/Jay Hatt, Production - Jay Hatt, Production
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Happy Mondays, Composer, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett/Jay Hatt, Production - Jay Hatt, Production
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Happy Mondays, Composer, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett/Jay Hatt, Production - Jay Hatt, Production
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Happy Mondays, Composer, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett/Jay Hatt, Production - Jay Hatt, Production
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Happy Mondays, Composer, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett/Jay Hatt, Production - Jay Hatt, Production
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Happy Mondays, Composer, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett/Jay Hatt, Production - Jay Hatt, Production
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Paul Davis, Composer - MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Paul Ryder, Composer - Gary Whelan, Composer - Shaun Ryder, Composer - Mark Day, Composer - Happy Mondays, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett/Jay Hatt, Production - Jay Hatt, Production
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Happy Mondays, Composer, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett/Jay Hatt, Production - Jay Hatt, Production
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Happy Mondays, Composer, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett/Jay Hatt, Production - Jay Hatt, Production
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
S. Stewart, Composer - MARTIN HANNETT, Production - John Lennon, Composer - Paul Mccartney, Composer - Happy Mondays, Composer, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett, Production - D Essex, Composer - Engineered by: Lawrence Diana, Engineer - Lawrence Diana, Engineer
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Paul Davis, Composer - MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Paul Ryder, Composer - Gary Whelan, Composer - Shaun Ryder, Composer - Mark Day, Composer - Happy Mondays, MainArtist - Paul Oakenfold & Andy Weatherall, Remixer
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Happy Mondays, Composer, Writer, MainArtist
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Happy Mondays, Composer, Writer, MainArtist
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Happy Mondays, Composer, Writer, MainArtist
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Happy Mondays, Composer, MainArtist
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Happy Mondays, Composer, MainArtist
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Paul Davis, Composer - MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Paul Ryder, Composer - Gary Whelan, Composer - Shaun Ryder, Composer - Mark Day, Composer - Happy Mondays, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett/Jay Hatt, Production - Jay Hatt, Production
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Paul Davis, Composer - MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Paul Ryder, Composer - Gary Whelan, Composer - Shaun Ryder, Composer - Mark Day, Composer - Happy Mondays, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett/Jay Hatt, Production - Jay Hatt, Production
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Paul Davis, Composer - Paul Oakenfold, Remixer - MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Paul Ryder, Composer - Gary Whelan, Composer - Shaun Ryder, Composer - Mark Day, Composer - Happy Mondays, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett, Production - Remixer: Paul Oakenfold & Andy Weatherall, Remixer - andy weatherall, Remixer
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 1989 London Music Stream Ltd
Paul Davis, Composer - MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Paul Ryder, Composer - Gary Whelan, Composer - Shaun Ryder, Composer - Mark Day, Composer - Happy Mondays, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett/Jay Hatt, Production - Jay Hatt, Production
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Paul Davis, Composer - MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Paul Ryder, Composer - Gary Whelan, Composer - Shaun Ryder, Composer - Mark Day, Composer - Happy Mondays, MainArtist - Steve Lillywhite, Remixer - Production: Martin Hannett, Production - Engineered by: Lawrence Diana, Engineer - Remixer: Steve Lillywhite, Remixer - Lawrence Diana, Engineer
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
S. Stewart, Composer - MARTIN HANNETT, Production - John Lennon, Composer - Paul Mccartney, Composer - Happy Mondays, Composer, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett, Production - D Essex, Composer
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Paul Oakenfold, Remixer - MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Davis, Composer - Happy Mondays, Composer, Writer, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett, Production - Whelan, Composer - Recorded By: Lawrence Diana, Recorded by - Remixer: Paul Oakenfold, Remixer - Day, Composer - Ryder, Composer - Lawrence Diana, RecordingEngineer
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 1989 London Music Stream Ltd
Paul Davis, Composer - Paul Oakenfold, Remixer - MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Paul Ryder, Composer - Gary Whelan, Composer - Shaun Ryder, Composer - Mark Day, Composer - Happy Mondays, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett, Production - Remixer: Paul Oakenfold & Andy Weatherall, Remixer - andy weatherall, Remixer
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Happy Mondays, Composer, Writer, MainArtist
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Vince Clark, Remixer - MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Happy Mondays, Composer, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett, Production - Remixer: Vince Clark, Remixer
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Paul Davis, Composer - MARTIN HANNETT, Production - Paul Ryder, Composer - Gary Whelan, Composer - Shaun Ryder, Composer - Mark Day, Composer - Happy Mondays, MainArtist - Production: Martin Hannett, Production
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Music Stream Ltd. LC77554
Album review
Only a year after the intermittently thrilling Squirrel and G-Man, Happy Mondays snapped into focus on its sophomore album, 1988's Bummed. "Focus" is an odd word for the persistently addled, violently hedonistic Mondays, yet Bummed has its own peculiar drug logic, loping into view with the two-stepping "Country Song," a cut so twisted it goes far beyond irony, then settling into the dense groove of "Moving In With," its hook buzzing and circling, causing a cacophony. Such vivid, concrete textures are a hallmark of producer Martin Hannett, the Mancunian legend who has been brought on board to give the Happy Mondays direction by doing the opposite of what he did with Joy Division. His production for Unknown Pleasures was stark, austere, but Bummed is all smeared colors and harsh edges, a fistful of razors and menace cutting viciously into the subconscious. This is nasty, nightmarish music delivered with a lascivious leer by Shaun Ryder, a hallucinatory accidental poet portrayed on the album's garish cover as some kind of harlot put out to pasture. Decadence has rarely sounded as dangerous as it did in the hands of the Mondays and this is where they reveled in that debauchery, pumping out stiff psychedelic funk as Ryder spat out rhymes of luck, lazyitis and fat lady wrestlers. Hannett's bright, brittle production amplifies everything, creating a swirling hyper-reality that's almost a sonic black hole sucking everything into its vortex -- slide guitars, sound clips from "Performance," maniacally looped drum machines, Beatles melodies, drums that are pushed to the front of the mix so it all is a relentless assault, from the ears down to the loins. As jagged and lacerating as all this is, there's a sense of evil glee, that the Mondays want to drag you down to their level, but there's no sense of seduction here; you're either with them or not, as Bummed is music for after you've already succumbed to the dark side.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 27 track(s)
- Total length: 02:00:47
- Main artists: Happy Mondays
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: London Music Stream
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
© 2007 London Records Ltd ℗ 2007 London Records Ltd
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