Forgotten Songs of the New Millennium: Therapy?
Forgotten Songs of the New Millennium: Therapy?
Irish rockers Therapy? had been around for over ten years before the release of 2002’s High Anxiety, their third album in three years. They’d been through quite a lot, lineup changes, faulty record deals and audience indifference, but still they persevered. With the release of High Anxiety, the band went back to their roots, driving hard rock and the album’s standout, “If It Kills Me” was one of their best songs and dare I say, one of the best songs of 2002.
The song is simple, but that’s the story of Therapy’s? career, they don’t know how to do things any differently, so why bother changing anything. The drumming of dynamo Neil Cooper propels the song to its hard-hitting best. The always reliable Andrew Cairns, a mix of soul and punk, delivers some of his best lyrics here, talking about the same thing he’s always talked about, failed relationships and how to get them restarted.
While the band gave it their best shot, it wasn’t enough and the song was left to wither and rot on the vine. But the band didn’t let it get them down and continued recording and touring. Possibly one day, the song will find the life it fully deserves by being used in a commercial and will be rediscovered by an audience that could fully appreciate it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsZCD5ak2w8 (If It Kills Me)
Irish rockers Therapy? had been around for over ten years before the release of 2002’s High Anxiety, their third album in three years. They’d been through quite a lot, lineup changes, faulty record deals and audience indifference, but still they persevered. With the release of High Anxiety, the band went back to their roots, driving hard rock and the album’s standout, “If It Kills Me” was one of their best songs and dare I say, one of the best songs of 2002.
The song is simple, but that’s the story of Therapy’s? career, they don’t know how to do things any differently, so why bother changing anything. The drumming of dynamo Neil Cooper propels the song to its hard-hitting best. The always reliable Andrew Cairns, a mix of soul and punk, delivers some of his best lyrics here, talking about the same thing he’s always talked about, failed relationships and how to get them restarted.
While the band gave it their best shot, it wasn’t enough and the song was left to wither and rot on the vine. But the band didn’t let it get them down and continued recording and touring. Possibly one day, the song will find the life it fully deserves by being used in a commercial and will be rediscovered by an audience that could fully appreciate it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsZCD5ak2w8 (If It Kills Me)
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