Happy Mondays - Pills n' Thrills And BellyachesPills n Thrills and Bellyaches was Happy Mondays commercial peak, both a No. 4 victory and a benchmark album in history. That year the Mondays made a generation feel like the freaks were winning again, the dreamers and schemers hurtling in from the shadows to park themselves, like grin faced goblins, in the daylight glare of the mainstream. Artwork lovingly replicated by original Manchester designers Central Station Design. Featured the singles Step

we have mani­fested a serpent of consumerism which now coils back upon us

I think ‰ÛÏken‰۝ also means ‰ÛÏto know

red x gold packaging (art direction by kanye himself)

was pressed and ready to ship when contract negotiations shelved the record indefinitely

spiritual leader

In particular

(there was talk of Fripp leading Eno into 'un-commercial territory')

are here to remind us to keep our feet on the ground—and Hope Downs is as delicious a taste of terra firma as you're going to get from a rock band right now

Those who feel a 27-disc set is too big for their shelves or too expensive you can also get a 2CD highlights compilation

Raymond McGinley and Gerard Love

Stinging riffs

the band was formed around the Munnings brothers (Ray