Hats Off to the Insane

Hats Off To The Insane

Compilation album by Therapy?

Released

7 September 1993

Recorded

January 1993 at Black Barn Studios, Surrey, England (tracks 1-3); March 1993 at Livingstone Studios, London, England

Genre

Rock

Length

16:18 (US)
22:29 (JAP)

Label

A&M

Producer

Chris Sheldon, Therapy?

Therapy? chronology

Born in a Crash
(1993)

Hats Off to the Insane
(1993)

Troublegum
(1994)

Hats Off To The Insane, was a US and Japanese compilation mini-album release by the band Therapy?. It was released on 7 September 1993 on A&M Records.

All tracks were previously released in Europe on different EPs. Tracks 1, 2 and 3 originally featured on the Shortsharpshock EP, tracks 4, 5, 7 and 8 originally featured on the Face The Strange EP, and track 6 originally featured on the Opal Mantra EP.^[1]

The mini-album was released on CD and Cassette.

All tracks were included on disc 3 of the Troublegum Deluxe Edition released by Universal Music on 31 March 2014.^[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Therapy?

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Screamager"	2:41
2.	"Auto Surgery"	2:21
3.	"Totally Random Man"	2:23
4.	"Turn"	3:52
5.	"Speedball"	2:33
6.	"Opal Mantra"	2:28
7.	"Bloody Blue" (Japanese release only)	1:14
8.	"Neck Freak" (Japanese release only)	4:57
Total length:		16:18/22:29

Personnel

Andy Cairns - vocals, guitar
Fyfe Ewing - vocals, drums
Michael McKeegan - bass
Chris Sheldon - producer, mixer
Therapy? - mixer
Sunja Park - design

Promo Videos

"Screamager": Directed by Jon Klein
"Turn": Directed by Julie Hermelin
"Opal Mantra": Directed by Benjamin Stokes

Single

"Screamager" was released in 1993 as a one track radio only promo in the US, the song reached number 16 on the Modern Rock Charts.

References

Therapy?

Studio albums

Compilations

Live album

We're Here to the End

Singles and EPs

"Meat Abstract"
"Teethgrinder"
"ShortSharpShock" EP
"Face the Strange" EP
"Opal Mantra"
"Nowhere"
"Trigger Inside"
"Die Laughing"
"Isolation"
"Femtex"
"Stories"
"Loose"
"Diane"
"Stories" (re-release)
"Bad Mother"
"Church of Noise"
"Lonely, Cryin', Only"
"Hate Kill Destroy"
"Gimme Back My Brain"
"I Am the Money"
"If It Kills Me/Rust"
"My Voodoo Doll"
"Polar Bear/Rock You Monkeys"
"Rain Hits Concrete" EP
"Crooked Timber"
"Exiles"
"Living in the Shadow of the Terrible Thing"
"Still Hurts"
"Deathstimate"

Radio only promos

"Nausea" (US)
"Perversonality" (US)
"Screamager" (US)
"Knives" (US)
"Misery" (US)
"Stay Happy" (UK)
"Six Mile Water" (BE)
"Bad Karma Follows You Around" (UK)
"Rise Up (Make Yourself Well)" (UK)
"Die Like a Motherfucker" (BE)
"Long Distance" (BE)
"Perish the Thought" (BE)

Rare and specialty

Thirty Seconds of Silence (demo)
Meat Abstract (demo)
Have a Merry Fucking Christmas
Live in Japan (Fan Club Edition)
Official Fan Club 1996
Webgig

Videos

Scopophobia
Gold

Andy Cairns solo

See Also	List of rare songs by Therapy?

Bands	Catweazle Casey Jones Reaction Evil Priest Sons Of Massey The Beyond Cable Gorilla

Labels	Wiiija Records A&M Records Ark21 Records Spitfire Records Blast Records Amazing Record Co.

Categories	Therapy? Members Albums Songs

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