Music Through a Cheap Transistor

Music Through A Cheap Transistor : The BBC Sessions
Compilation album by Therapy?
Released 26 February 2007 (Download)
13 August 2007 (CD)
Recorded 1991-1998 at Maida Vale Studios, London, England
Genre Alternative rock / Heavy metal
Length 51:35 (CD1)
42:10 (CD2)
Label Universal Records
Therapy? chronology

One Cure Fits All
(2006)		 Music Through A Cheap Transistor
(2007)		 Crooked Timber
(2009)
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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. Originally released as a download only on 26 February 2007, the set was later released on double CD on 13 August 2007.

The album features five different performances by Therapy?, which were recorded between 1991 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: "Pile of Bricks", "The Sweeney" and "Lost Highway" (originally by Hank Williams).

(Aside from the first John Peel Session, the band were on A&M Records when all the featured sessions were recorded, but A&M have since been taken over by Universal Music Group; hence this release.)

"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?

Track listing

Disc 1

No. Title Length
1. "Innocent X/Meat Abstract" (Original versions: Babyteeth)  
2. "Prisonbreaker" (Original version: Pleasure Death)  
3. "Perversonality" (Original version: Nurse)  
No. Title Length
4. "Nausea" (Original version: Nurse)  
5. "Totally Random Man" (Original version: Shortsharpshock E.P.)  
6. "Accelerator" (Original version: Nurse)  
7. "Teethgrinder" (Original version: Nurse)  
No. Title Length
8. "Auto Surgery" (Original version: Shortsharpshock E.P.)  
9. "Totally Random Man" (Original version: Shortsharpshock E.P.)  
10. "Bloody Blue" (Original version: Thirty Seconds of Silence demo)  
11. "Pile of Bricks"    
No. Title Length
12. "Screamager" (Original version: Shortsharpshock E.P.)  
13. "Totally Random Man" (Original version: Shortsharpshock E.P.)  
14. "Disgracelands" (Original version: Nurse)  
15. "Perversonality" (Original version: Nurse)  
Total length:
 51:35

Disc 2

No. Title Length
1. "Brainsaw" (Original version: Troublegum)  
2. "Trigger Inside" (Original version: Troublegum)  
3. "Knives" (Original version: Troublegum)  
4. "Isolation" (Original version: Troublegum)  
No. Title Length
5. "Bad Mother" (Original version: Infernal Love)  
6. "Misery" (Original version: Infernal Love)  
7. "The Sweeney"    
8. "Lost Highway"    
No. Title Length
9. "Church of Noise" (Original version: Semi-Detached)  
10. "Black Eye Purple Sky" (Original version: Semi-Detached)  
11. "Tightrope Walker" (Original version: Semi-Detached)  
12. "Teethgrinder" (Original version: Nurse)  
13. "High Noon" (Original version: Lonely, Cryin', Only single)  
Total length:
 42:10

Personnel

Missing Sessions