Therapy? “Nausea”
Nurse, 1992
(Guest Editor - Geoff Garlock)
This is the video for Therapy? “Nausea”. Well what can I tell you about Therapy? Honestly very little. I somehow don’t really know crap about this band. I know that they are from Northern Ireland. I know they were on the Judgment Night soundtrack with that brand new ground breaking mix of rap and rock on a terrible song. I know that, for some reason, my buddy Nick’s brother had a Therapy? Poster in his room even though he was big into hip-hop and I just didn’t understand why he liked them (maybe cause of Judgment Night). I know that I was obsessed with this video when I was a kid. That is about it. Even though I loved the video I never got any of there records and don’t even remember them touring in America when we were younger. I don’t know where I heard other songs off this record, but I just wasn’t into them. They seem to be, in retrospect, almost like a poppier Amphetamine Reptile band. Kind of. But not really. Whatever I heard at the time just didn’t really grab me. I remember thinking it wasn’t as heavy as this song. But this song isn’t even that heavy really so who knows. The innocence of a child (self-referential. Way to go me).
What I do know about this video and this song. It kicks ass. They played it now and then on Headbangers Ball (or The Ball to the true fan). But I got it on a weird compilation video that my aunt got me. Remember when they made sampler compilation videos? Those went the way of the Cassingle. It wasn’t a very good video. I think it had Grunt truck and a random Soundgarden song on it. I want to say it had the video for Paw “Jessie” but then it would be a great video, cause that song is great and still makes me hug my dog George when I hear it. Either way. Weird video but that Therapy? song got a lot of play. I loved the chorus a lot. I can remember riding around town on my bike just singing “I don’t want to feel anymore” over and over again. Also, for apparently not having a huge impact on my life besides this one song, I feel like the bass part was really instrumental in changing how I played bass guitar. I got my first bass right around the time I was into this song. Trying to play the higher bass part that ends the song really moved me beyond just keeping a back beat on the E and the A string. I used to play along with that part a lot, just trying to get it right and really feel like it made me explore more range in the bass guitar and helped me along the path of whatever my playing style is. Yeah. Therapy? did that. Kind of blows my mind.
Last thing I will say about this video. It is gross. The section with all the fat people gorging themselves. Made me sick every time and still does. Some would say it gives me a sense of….wait for it….Nausea. Wow. Interesting.
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