Music Through a Cheap Transistor

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Music Through A Cheap Transistor : The BBC Sessions
Music Through A Cheap Transistor : The BBC Sessions cover
Compilation album by Therapy?
Released 26 February 2007
Genre Rock
Length ??:??
Label Universal Records
Professional reviews
Therapy? chronology
One Cure Fits All
(2006)		 Music Through A Cheap Transistor
(2007)

Music Through A Cheap Transistor is an album by the band Therapy?. It was one of the first releases in Universal Records 2007 series of BBC sessions.

The album features five different performances by Therapy?, which were recorded between 1990 and 1998 for BBC radio. It includes unique and exclusive versions of some of their greatest hits, alongside live favourites and three previously unreleased tracks: The Sweeney, Lost Highway and Pile Of Bricks. Most noticeably lacking is the 2004 Rock Show session. This is probably due to the compilation being released by Universal Records, as the 2004 session was composed entirely of tracks from 2004's Never Apologise Never Explain, which was released by Spitfire Records.

(The band were on A&M Records when all the featured sessions were recorded, but A&M have since been taken over by Universal Records; hence the release via Universal Records.)


"It's very flattering to be in the first batch of artists to have these old sessions made available in their entirety especially in a digital download format. Having existed as scraps on C-90's or as half-forgotten memories, it's brilliant to be able to re-visit so many unique (and one-off) performances and let people see what all the fuss was about..." Michael McKeegan - Therapy?



[edit] Track listing

  1. Innocent X/Meat Abstract
  2. Prisonbreaker
  3. Perversonality
  4. Nausea
  5. Totally Random Man
  6. Accelerator
  7. Teethgrinder
  8. Auto Surgery
  9. Totally Random Man
  10. Bloody Blue
  11. Pile Of Bricks
  12. Screamager
  13. Totally Random Man
  14. Disgracelands
  15. Perversonality
  16. Brainsaw
  17. Trigger Inside
  18. Knives
  19. Isolation
  20. Bad Mother
  21. Misery
  22. The Sweeney
  23. Lost Highway
  24. Church of Noise
  25. Black Eye Purple Sky
  26. Tightrope Walker
  27. Teethgrinder
  28. High Noon


1-3 John Peel - Recorded 15.8.91

4-7 Evening Session - Recorded 21.11.92

8-11 John Peel - Recorded 29.11.92

12-15 Friday Rock Show - Recorded 5.2.93

16-19 Rock Show - Recorded 7.1.94

20-23 Evening Session - Recorded 4.8.95

24-28 Evening Session - Recorded 18.02.98