Suicide Pact: You First [Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics]

Therapy? | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 8, 2000)
• Original Release Date: February 8, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Ark 21
• ASIN: B00004C4Q9
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #413,090 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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Now almost into their 10th year, Therapy?, Ireland's heaviest purveyors of dark rock, make big noise on a bigger playing field. Suicide Pact--You First is colored with great shades of Elvis and Muddy Waters--not the typical scare-your-parents album. In fact, Therapy? have matured, and it's for the better. Their snarling now has a more playful tone to it (as in the opener, "He's Not That Kind of Girl") and the newfound levity makes other tracks seem even more dour. Therapy? may have even found their signature ballad (did they need one?) with "Six Mile Water," a dirge that wouldn't sound out of place on a Screaming Trees album. While still best suited to those whose tastes are more Danzig than Donovan, Suicide Pact--You First is Therapy?'s finest hour yet. --Jason Josephes

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Different, but well-executed, August 31, 2000

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punkviper (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Suicide Pact: You First (Audio CD)

It seems like Troublegum was both a blessing and a curse. On the good side, it was the album that gained Therapy a worldwide following, and rightfully so. But it has also been a curse, as people constantly expect "Troublegum 2" with every album that Therapy releases. Well, if you are one of those STILL waiting for said record, you may leave now, as this is still not it. But the good thing is that Therapy aren't interested in making the same record over and over again, as this CD exemplifies.

Different from Semi-Detached, as SD was more of a refinement of Infernal Love (which was downright poor) and a sharpening of their previous abilities. Suicide Pact is so akin to a rocknroll Black Sabbath record that it really stunned me the first time I heard it. Very bass-heavy, very murky, very rambling in a classic rocknroll style. The raging alt-metal has been replaced by a chugga-chugga, swinging, dense, dark sound that seemingly has no history in Therapy's back-catalog. Though there are a couple of slower moments, one a decent folky ballad, the other a grumbling attempt at a Tom Waits style delivery. But the rest of the CD is filled with a straightforward rambling bombast that bears little resemblance to the agile, lean, mean, cutting machine that Therapy used to be tied to.

Make no mistake, there is quality stuff here, you just wouldn't think it would be the kind of quality stuff that Therapy would make. Give em credit for not being as obsessed with Troublegum as their fanbase apparently is.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Come on fellow citizens, PLEASE review this album!, March 12, 2000

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"gastoryrguffa" (Kitee, Finland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Suicide Pact: You First (Audio CD)

Well, Therapy?:s latest album is not by all means a very easy bit to swallow. The songs are quite no like they were on the previous releases, and after listtening to "God Kicks", "He's Not That Kind Of Gilr" and "Other Peiople's Misery" you realise, that they have had no intesntion, whatsoever to take it the eay way. However, I've personally grown up to like this album, although I have one MAJOR complain: this release features the worst mixings I've ever heard. Andy Cairn's voclas drown way under the hard guitarriffs and othe noise. Still, it features many very interesting tracks, for example "God Kicks", which was recorded out in the woods, but ht ebest song of this album might as welle be the best song of the whole year of 1999. "Six Mile Water" is a truely majestic masterpiece, which, unlike many other ballads, isn't trying to be biger tha life, and just possibly because of that, it wirks so well. Very good indeed. One of the best bands of the decade. Without doubt.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Departure from, or return to roots?, November 24, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Suicide Pact-You First (Audio CD)

Those of you only familiar with the more radio friendly Troublegum/Infernal Love/Semi Detached albums may be dissapointed and slightly miffed by the raucus 'Suicide Pact You First', which is a hugely different album to the aforementioned in many respects. Almost unlistenable to at times, persistence will be rewarded as you start to see where the group are coming from, and the 'songs' (or noisebursts!) will begin to make more of an impression (and more sense!). In the vain of Fugazi, a huge influence on frontman Andy Cairns, Therapy? offer dischordant, at times 'white-noise' anchored numbers reminiscent of earlier, equally brilliant offerings from 'Babyteeth' & 'Pleasure Death' (later released as compilation 'Caucasian Psychosis' in the US)and indeed 'Nurse'.

Standout tracks include: 'He's not that kind of girl', witty/stop/start/loud/quiet; 'Six Mile Water' a quite brilliant ballad inspired by Cairn's youth in Northern Ireland; and 'Sister', a schitzophrenic, yet magnificent closing song. Hidden track 'Whilst I pursue my way unharmed' is at once clever and stupid, yet unnerving and is driven by a slamming base loop and off beat drumming. One major gripe I have with this album (so it gets 4 instead of 5 stars in my opinion) is the (...) production, which is quiet hard to swallow after the very slick previous albums from the band when signed to A&M.

All in all, I thouroughly recommend this album to fans of the band, and those who love tuneless, dirty, heavy rock, such as Amen and Fugazi. If you like pop-punk in large helpings, you should go for Troublegum/Semi Detached/Shameless instead, or the best-of album.