Happy Mondays: Bummed 1988 (Collector's Edition 2CD) + Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches 1990

 

Happy Mondays are an English rock band formed in Salford in 1980. The original line-up consisted of brothers Shaun Ryder (vocals) and Paul Ryder (bass), Gaz Whelan (drums), Paul Davis

(keyboard), and Mark Day (guitar). Mark "Bez" Berry later joined the band onstage as a dancer and maracas player. Rowetta began working with the band as guest second vocalist in 1990. They were originally signed to Tony Wilson's Factory Records label. The group's work bridged the Manchester alternative rock music of the 1980s and the emerging UK rave scene, drawing influence from funk, house, and psychedelia to pioneer the Madchester sound.
              

Along with the Stone Roses, Happy Mondays were the leaders of the late-'80s/early-'90s dance club-influenced Manchester scene, experiencing a brief moment in the spotlight before collapsing in 1992. While the Stone Roses were based in '60s pop, adding only a slight hint of dance music, Happy

Mondays immersed themselves in the club and rave culture, eventually becoming the most recognizable band of that drug-fueled scene. The Mondays' sound relied heavily on the sound and rhythm of house music, spiked with '70s soul licks and swirling '60s psychedelia. It was bright, colorful music that had fractured melodies that never quite gelled into cohesive songs. 
                   

By the late 1980s, the Happy Mondays were an important part of the Manchester music scene and personified rave culture. The line-up of the band during this first and most important ten-year phase

never changed, and the six original members Shaun Ryder, Paul Ryder, Gaz Whelan, Paul Davis, Mark Day, and Bez remained a tight unit until the first incarnation came to an end in 1993. The band headlined the Friday night at Glastonbury Festival 1990. In November of that year, Paul McCartney commented in NME: "I saw the Happy Mondays on TV, and they reminded me of the Beatles in their 'Strawberry Fields' phase."
                      

Unwittingly or not, Happy Mondays personified the ugly side of rave culture. They were thugs, pure and simple -- they brought out the latent violence that lay beneath the surface of any drug culture, even one as seemingly beatific as England's late-'80s/early-'90s rave scene. Under the leadership of vocalist

Shaun Ryder, the group sounded and acted like thugs, especially in comparison with their peace-loving peers the Stone Roses. Musically, the band fused indie pop guitars with a rhythmic style that owed much to house music, Krautrock, funk, and northern soul.[7] Much of their music was remixed by popular DJs, emphasising the dance influences even further. In style and dress, they crossed hippy fashion and ideals with 1970s glamour. 
                     

Happy Mondays were appropriately undone by their addictions, but they left behind a surprisingly

influential legacy, apparent in everyone from dance bands like the Chemical Brothers to rock & rollers like Oasis. In 2007, 15 years since their last record, the band (minus about half the original members, including guitarist Mark Day) released their fifth studio album, Uncle Dysfunktional. Paul Ryder, Shaun's brother and the group's bassist and co-founder, died on July 15, 2022 at the age of 58. 
                   

HAPPY MONDAYS - BUMMED 1988 COLECTOR'S EDITION 2CD 2007

                        

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.
                  

Happy Mondays – Bummed
Label: Rhino Records (2) – 5144-24010-2
Series: Collector's Edition
Format: CD, Album, Reissue, Compilation Dec 2007
Country: UK
Released: 1988    
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Rave, Synth Pop, Indie Rock

CD1.

               

01. Country Song    3:24
02. Moving In With    3:36
03. Mad Cyril    4:36
04. Fat Lady Wrestlers    3:26
05. Performance    4:03
06. Brain Dead    3:10
07. Wrote For Luck    6:05
08. Bring A Friend    3:44
09. Do It Better    2:27
10. Lazyitis    2:50
11. Hallelujah    2:36
12. Holy Ghost    2:50
13. Clap Your Hands    3:30
14. Rave On (Club Mix)    5:38
15. Boom    2:57
16. Mad Cyril (Hello Girls)    3:53
17. Wrote For Luck (Club Mix)    5:46

Flac Size: 459 MB

CD2.

                  

01. Wrote For Luck (7' Version)    3:43
02. Hallelujah (Club Mix)   6:28
Engineer [Remix Engineer] – Steve Osborne
Mixed By – Andy Weatherall*, Paul Oakenfold
03. Wrote For Luck (12" Version)    5:42
04. Hallelujah (MacColl Mix)   2:40
Remix – Steve Lillywhite
05. Lazyitis (One Armed Boxer)   3:53
Featuring – Karl Denver
06. WFL (Think About The Future)   7:12
Producer – Paul Oakenfold
Producer [Assistant] – Terry Farley
Programmed By, Engineer – Steve Osborne
Remix – Paul Oakenfold
Remix [Assistant] – Terry Farley
07. Hallelujah (12" Version)    6:21
08. Kilamenjaro    6:17
09. WFL (Vince Clarke 12" Mix)   6:12
Producer [Additional Production] – Vince Clarke
Programmed By, Engineer – Flood
Remix – Vince Clarke
10. Hallelujah (Deadstock Mix)   7:51
Producer, Remix – Unknown Artist
Remix – Deadstock

Flac Size: 394 MB

LINE - UP

                    

Shaun Ryder
Paul Ryder
Mark Day
Paul Davis
Gary Whelan
Mark "Bez" Berry

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS

Dave Hassell – percussion
Steve Hopkins – piano
Derek "Horseman" Ryder – banjo

NOTES

                 

Tracks 1-1 to 1-10 taken from the original album, Bummed.
Tracks 1-11 to 1-14 taken from the Madchester Rave On 7", 12" and cds.
Track 1-15 taken from the original Wrote For Luck 7" and 12".
Tracks 1-16 and 2-5 taken from the Lazyitis 7", 12" and mc.
Tracks 1-17 and 2-3 taken from the original Wrote For Luck 12" and cds.

Track 2-1 taken from the original Wrote For Luck 7".
Track 2-2 taken from the Madchester Rave On (The Oakenfold Mixes With Farley / Weatherall) 12" and cds.
Track 2-4 taken from the original Madchester Rave On 7".
Tracks 2-6 and 2-9 taken from the re-released Wrote For Luck 12" and cds.
Track 2-7 taken from the original Madchester Rave On 12".
Track 2-8 taken from the Madchester Rave On 12", cds and mc.
Track 2-10 taken from the Hallelujah (Deadstock Mix) single-sided 12".

Track 1-12 listed as "Holy Ghost (aka 'Mad Guitar')".
Track 2-8 listed as "Kilamenjaro (aka 'Rave On')".
Track 2-10: The booklet credits this as Producer and Remixer Unknown, but does list the title as the "Deadstock Mix". 

HAPPY MONDAYS - PILLS 'N' THRILLS AND BELLYACHES 1990

                    

At their peak, the Happy Mondays were hedonism in perpetual motion, a party with no beginning and no end, a party where Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches was continually pumping. The apex of their career (and quite arguably the whole baggy/Madchester movement), Pills 'N' Thrills and Bellyaches pulsates

with a garish neon energy, with psychedelic grooves, borrowed hooks, and veiled threats piling upon each other with the logic of a drunken car wreck. Lifting melodies at will, Ryder twists the past to serve his purpose, gleefully diving into the gutter with stories of cheap drugs and threesomes, convinced that god made it easy on him, and blessed with that knowledge, happy to traumatize his girlfriend's kid by telling them that he only went with his mother cause she was dirty.
                    

Happy Mondays – Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches
Label: Rhino Records – 5144-24011-2
Format: CD, Remastered, Reissue, Collector's Edition 2007
Country: UK
Released: 1990    
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Rave, Synth Pop, Indie Rock

THE ORIGINAL ALBUM

               

   
01. Kinky Afro    3:59
02. God's Cop    4:58
03. Donovan    4:04
04. Grandbag's Funeral    3:20
05. Loose Fit    5:07
06. Dennis And Lois    4:25
07. Bob's Yer Uncle    5:10
08. Step On    5:17
09. Holiday    3:28
10. Harmony    4:02

BONUS TRACKS            

11. Step On (Twisting My Melon Mix)    5:55
12. Kinky Afro (7" Euro Mix)    4:16
13. Loose Fit (12" Version)    6:24
14. Bob's Yer Uncle (12" Version)   6:51
Remix [Uncredited] – The Grid
15. Tokoloshe Man    4:19

LINE - UP

                       

Shaun Ryder – vocals
Paul Ryder – bass guitar
Gary Whelan – drums
Paul Davis – keyboards, programming
Mark Day – guitar
Bez – dancer

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS

Rowetta – guest vocals
Tony Castro – percussion
Simon Machan – original programming

NOTES

                          

Track 13 is approx. 20 seconds longer than the original 12" mix.
Track 14 is not the original 12", it's the remix by The Grid from the Loose Fix 12".

Flac Size: 565 MB