Shameless

Artist: Therapy?
Label: Ark 21
Category: Music

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Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 618681007326
EAN: 0618681007326
ASIN: B00005O56D

Release Date: 2001-09-18

Shameless

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Tracks:

Gimme Back My Brain
Dance
This One's For You
I Am The Money
Wicked Man
Theme From Delorean
Joey
Endless Psychology
Alrite
Body Bag Girl
Tango Romeo
Stalk & Slash

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High Anxiety
Infernal Love
Suicide Pact: You First
Troublegum
Semi-Detached

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Therapy?'s sixth studio album is a rather sophisticated proposition. Where the Therapy? of 2000's retrospective, So Much for the Ten Year Plan, was the epitome of heads-down rock, their sixth studio album is, well, different. "Gimme Back My Brain" and the sinister "Stalk & Slash" attack with thundering drums and Andy Cairns's blood-curdling bark, but with the likes of "Dance," "I Am the Money," and "Alright" playing up their Nine Inch Nails ambitions, they've emerged as a world-class metal outfit. It's a menacing makeover, with fantastically clinical production adding an unnerving layer of grime and attitude that makes the otherwise glam-rock pop of "Body Bag Girl" something that would make Marilyn Manson proud. To the raw aggression and murky production, add the best hooks, riffs, and songs of their career. Shameless is Therapy?'s most balanced album to date. --Dan Gennoe

Customer Reviews:

Shameless is simply awesome..........2005-01-11

I'm not sure how many kids have been writing on these boards, but the immaturity flows in their selfishness. This is a great album... it's not like any other album they put out. That's a good thing. People end up living in the past hoping for more and more of an artists "old" work. Get over it. You might not instantly fall in love with them from this CD, but if you're a Therapy? fan, you should love it in a short time. It has pep, it has a cuteness to it, but it's a great rock album. Lay off and Andy and the like, they have been a guitar crunching band with many styles, but rock and roll is at the heart of it. Shameless is yet another level of this and a great one.

Should have been better.......2003-04-13

I've been a Therapy? fan for quite some time now, and still consider them one of my favorite bands. "Nurse" was a raw, yet interesting mix of styles. "Troublegum" was great when I was younger, but in retrospect seems poppy and largely substance free. "Infernal Love" was a complex, ambitious album, and probably their best work. "Semidetached" seemed to blend aspects of the previous three albums into a pop/rock amalgum that also worked well. However, since "Semidetached", Therapy? seems to have struggled to put out decent work. "Suicide Pact - You First" had its moments, as well as some of the best instrumentation on any T? album. But Andy Cairns newly-adopted growly voice made "SPYF" a step backwards for the band. If "SPYF" was a step backwards, "Shameless" was another one, followed by a drop off of a steep precipice. While "Dance" was a good song, and "I am the Money" and "This One's For You" were OK, the whole rest of this album was an overly dark, growly-voiced, big dumb rock festival. Let's hope T?'s forthcoming "High Anxiety" will be more of a return to form. I'd hate to think where the next step backwards would land them.

Uneven effort.......2002-02-22

They're back. They're mad. Just not as mad as they were last time, I'm afraid. The beginning of the album is great, though.
"Gimme Back My Brain" is the most energetic and kicking song I've heard for a long time. "Dance", "This One's For You", "I Am The Money", "Joey" and "Stalk & Slash" are also excellent songs. BUT... it's the rest of the material here that just doesn't make it. I have grown to expect this band to raise riot or at least be a bit more menacing than this. Instead, half of the material here is just boring and safe midway rock songs. AOR might still be a too bad insult, but this doesn't give me too much expectations for the band's future.

best overall album from Therapy? since troublegum.......2001-12-17

I had high expectations from the boys from Ireland when I heard this album was coming out. I was not let down. This is the most solid album they have released in years. Suicide Pact had some [poor] songs on it, and lets face it, tramline and the boy's asleep are downright awful songs that keep semi-detached from being perfect. Not since troublegum has an album this good been released. It has no [lousy] songs on it. Every song is solid, although there are a few that are just run of the mill therapy? and don't really impress me much. Andy and company have given up trying to please the mainstream, and are making whatever they want to. Considering most of their fans are diehard(aka people like me), we are no longer surprised by anything they do. Everything is a new and original work. This album impresses me for it's diversity. Overall, this is the best album from the best band nobody has ever heard in years, and will be hard to top.

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