As well as a full band line-up, the record has quite a few guest musicians including Sinéad O'Connor, Chris White (Dire Straits touring member), Danny Cummings (Mark Knopfler) and Wix (Soul Mining) among others. This large cast means the very colourful nature of the music from the earlier albums is till here, The The are now painting with more guitars and horns and fewer synths. The exception comes with 'Kingdom Of Rain', a tribute of remarkable sensitivity to a dying love. Again, it feels like a sequel, this time to Infected's torturous 'Slow Train To Dawn', where by now the passion and the anguish have Instead of the darkly polished dance-pop styling of earlier albums Soul Mining and Infected, Mind Bomb opens up the music to reveal a slow, winding textured world of sound, thanks in no small measure to Marr. Lyrical subjects include politics, religion, and romance. The band would also play a world tour and record a follow-up, Dusk. After that, Johnson dissolved it and went about his business alone again. A remastered version of the album was released in 2002.

This, bear in mind, was four years before Operation Desert Shield, and already Johnson saw the American century, America's global power and America's global ambitions, failing and falling in a Middle Eastern graveyard. Mind Bomb, which spread itself, lava-like, into a burning lake of foreboding about the West and Middle East, was released a year before the invasion of Kuwait. The second Gulf War, the Iraq War, was still fourteen years away. Matt Johnson was right. He saw it coming. And we laughed at him, the way one does at prophets. Because he'd really overdone the fire and brimstone this time. a b "British Band The The Release 'Mrs Mac' – Their First Single in Over Five Years". Billboardpublicitywire.com. Archived from the original on 9 May 2007 . Retrieved 2 April 2011. The studio EP Shades of Blue was released in 1990. This included cover versions of Fred Neil's "Dolphins" and Duke Ellington's "Solitude" as well as a new original song "Jealous of Youth" and a live version of "Another Boy Drowning" from Burning Blue Soul. This and a later EP of remixes, 1993's Dis-infected, were compiled into a 1994 full-length album for the North American market called Solitude. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.555. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

We (friends and I) used to do this bit for a gag, hands cupped over mouth to simulate its Darth Vader rumble. "WHO IS IT, LUKE?" If Infected seethed and rattled with claustrophobic urgency and loathing, and it did, then Mind Bomb was slow, expansive, looming into inexorable life with a rage that smouldered rather than flamed. It creeps up on you, on 'Good Morning Beautiful', with what sounds like a muezzin's call, which for one reason and another it's likely no major label act would dare to use today (although it might be a Qawwal; it isn't credited and I haven't the ear to tell.) Next, a blast of sluggish brass over ominous piano chords, and pattering, insinuating percussion. Then Johnson's voice, a tense, febrile tenor, a voice living on its nerves, near breaking point, teetering here and there into an aspirated growl, sizzling when pressed against the side of the pan. Mind Bomb is the third studio album by English post-punk band The The. [7] [8] It was released by Some Bizzare/ Epic on 11 July 1989 and recorded between October 1988 and May 1989. It is the band's first album to feature former The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. In November 1977, Johnson had placed an advertisement in NME seeking "bass/lead guitarist" who liked the Velvet Underground and Syd Barrett. [ citation needed] In 1979 he placed a second advertisement in the NME, stating his new influences as the Residents and Throbbing Gristle. [2]

Keyboardist D.C. Collard was added to the official line-up in 1989 (keyboard player Steve Hogarth, who had played on Infected, had initially been asked to join but opted instead to become the new lead vocalist of Marillion). The band embarked on a lengthy world tour in 1989–90 called the The Versus the World. The live film of the same name, directed by Tim Pope, was filmed during the three nights the The performed at London's Royal Albert Hall at the end of the tour. Vocalist Melanie Redmond, who had just completed a world tour with Duran Duran, joined the tour during the European leg as a session musician. And in the third verse he sings about just how far the world has turned away from those original messages and that God itself surely no longer cares for world after what has happened to their words: Since 2007, The The have enjoyed a small surge of attention in the United States thanks to an M&M's advertising campaign, which has been using the band's song "This is the Day" as its theme music.

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Top 50 ( ARIA) peaks from 26 June 1988: "australian-charts.com > The The in Australian Charts". Hung Medien . Retrieved 19 November 2011. The Beat(en) Generation": "The The – The Beat(en) Generation (single)" (in German). GfK Entertainment . Retrieved 9 June 2017. His most accomplished songwriting to date. Some of the most invigorating music to emerge in the late ’80s. recording engineer: Felix Kendall ( UK recording engineer) additional engineer: 'Mini' Matt Howe ( producer and engineer), Stuart James ( UK producer aka "Jammer), Warne Livesey and Roli Mosimann assistant engineer: JP Baptiste, Karen Down, Geoff Foster ( sound engineer), Noel Rafferty and Wellard Walsh producer: Matt Johnson ( English singer/songwriter for “The The”) and Roli Mosimann mixer: Bruce Lampcov bass guitar: James Eller drums (drum set): David Palmer ( drummer (ABC/The The)) electric guitar: Matt Johnson ( English singer/songwriter for “The The”) and Johnny Marr keyboard and melodica: Matt Johnson ( English singer/songwriter for “The The”) percussion: Danny Cummings ( British drummer and percussionist) percussion [water percussion]: Pedro Haldemann trombone: Ashley Slater vocals: Matt Johnson ( English singer/songwriter for “The The”) recording of: Gravitate to Me(from 1988-10 until 1989-05) lyricist: Matt Johnson ( English singer/songwriter for “The The”) composer: Matt Johnson ( English singer/songwriter for “The The”) and Johnny Marr Announced as "forthcoming" in May 2007. Was eventually released in October 2017 in the Radio Cineola - The Trilogy box set.