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* BrokenRecord: The entire second half of "Free Huey" consists of the line "And you know you gotta be all you can be" over and over.
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While definitely considered part of the first wave of Shoegazing bands, they lasted ''much'' longer than most of their contemporaries (Music/CatherineWheel being the only band that would still be together into the 2000s, Music/MyBloodyValentine aside). Depending on what popular music history buff you talk to, they'll either mark their break up, or Catherine Wheel's break up as the marker between First Wave and Second Wave shoegazing bands.
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** "Lazarus" alludes to TheBible (the song is nothing to do with it, though).
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* AGoodNameForARockBand: They named themselves after a character in ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''.
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* NewSoundAlbum: The rockier ''C'mon Kids'' startled a lot of people who were expecting something LighterAndSofter like ''Wake Up!''. Martin Carr denies this was intentional.
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* NewSoundAlbum: All of them, basically. The rockier ''C'mon Kids'' startled a lot of people who were expecting something LighterAndSofter like ''Wake Up!''. Martin Carr denies this was intentional.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Carr admits that this usually made their records stronger, and that he regrets the times he resisted it (such as when he insisted on "Free Huey" as the lead single from ''Kingsize'' when Alan [=McGee=] wanted... anything ''but'' "Free Huey, basically).
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Carr admits that this usually made their records stronger, and that he regrets the times he resisted it (such as when he insisted on "Free Huey" as the lead single from ''Kingsize'' when Alan [=McGee=] wanted... anything ''but'' "Free Huey, Huey", basically).
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Carr admits that this usually made their records stronger, and that he regrets the times he resisted it (such as when he insisted on "Free Huey" as the lead single from ''Kingsize'' when Alan [=McGee=] wanted... anything ''but'' "Free Huey, basically).
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* SmallTownBoredom: How Martin Carr felt about living in Preston - it heavily influenced the ''Wake Up!'' album.
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* EpicRocking: "Blues For George Michael"
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* SongStyleShift: They were quite partial to this.
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* CreatorBacklash: Carr and Sice both reckon fan favourite "I Hang Suspended" was mere AlbumFiller.
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* RedOniBlueOni: "Wake Up Boo!" - the narrator is the Red Oni, addressing the song to the Blue Oni.
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* SimilarlyNamedWorks: It's often been assumed that ''Giant Steps'' is named after JohnColtrane's seminal album of the same title, though the band have denied this.
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* GreatestHitsAlbum: Two: the definitive one is the double CD ''Find The Way Out'', a career-spanning collection including B-sides, album tracks and outtakes as well as the singles, plus liner notes by Martin Carr; there's also a single CD grab-bag of mid-career tracks called ''Best of The Boo Radleys''.
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* JustifiedTitle: "It's Lulu" is a ShoutOut to a 1970s TV pop show starring the singer Lulu, but the song is also about a girl called Lulu.
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* JustifiedTitle: "It's Lulu" is a ShoutOut to a 1970s TV pop show starring the singer Lulu, but Lulu. As Martin Carr confirms in his sleevenotes to ''Find The Way Out'', he liked the title so much that he wrote the song is also about a as an excuse to use it, and justified it by naming the girl called in the song Lulu.
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* JustifiedTitle: "It's Lulu" is a ShoutOut to a 1970s TV pop show starring the singer Lulu, but the song is also about a girl called Lulu.
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* ChorusOnlySong: "Wake Up Boo!", leading to the misconception that it's about spring or summer even though the verses make it quite clear it isn't (the very first line is "Summer's gone").
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* RefrainFromAssuming: The prevalence of non-appearing titles leads to quite a bit of this. And then of course there's "Wake up, it's a beautiful morning...", though at least that starts with the same two words as the actual title.
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British group of TheNineties who started as a {{Shoegazing}} band, became NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly experimentalists, were briefly (and against their will) co-opted into the {{Britpop}} movement, and showed more Rock-ist tendencies towards the end.
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British group of TheNineties who started as a {{Shoegazing}} band, became NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly experimentalists, were briefly (and against their will) co-opted into the {{Britpop}} movement, and showed more Rock-ist tendencies towards the end. \n Most remembered by the general public for the hit "Wake Up Boo!".
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* BlackSheepHit: "Wake Up Boo!", and certainly its parent album ''Wake Up!'' (a number one and easily their biggest seller) gets very little love these days.
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* BlackSheepHit: "Wake Up Boo!", Boo!" is uncharacteristically jolly, and certainly its the parent album ''Wake Up!'' (a number one and easily their biggest seller) gets very little love these days.
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* SignatureSong: "Wake Up Boo!"
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YMMV sinkhole; also, Examples Are Not Arguable (or any synonym thereof).
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* BlackSheepHit: YourMileageMayVary on whether "Wake Up Boo!" counts or not, but certainly its parent album ''Wake Up!'' (a number one and easily their biggest seller) gets very little love these days.
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* BlackSheepHit: YourMileageMayVary on whether "Wake Up Boo!" counts or not, but Boo!", and certainly its parent album ''Wake Up!'' (a number one and easily their biggest seller) gets very little love these days.
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* ''Ichabod & I'' (1990)
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* ''Ichabod & I'' (1990)(1990) - limited-run debut, dismissed by the band as an LP of DinosaurJr rip-offs but not without its fans
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''Ichabod & I'' had one official release, vinyl-only, 500 copies. The band seemed to regard it as OldShame though one track, ''Catweazle'', was eventually included on the career-spanning ''Find The Way Out'' compilation.
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Discography:
*''Ichabod & I'' (1990)
*''Everything's Alright Forever'' (1992) - highly-rated by many Shoegazing fans
*''Giant Steps'' (1993) - sprawling, genre-blending double-album which topped critics' end-of-year polls
*''Wake Up!'' (1995) - a more accessible, commercial pop album containing The Hit, which reached number one in the UK albums chart
*''C'Mon Kids'' (1996) - a harder-edged pop-rock album which scared off a lot of fans
*''Kingsize'' (1998) - a well-recieved but commercially unsuccessful return to more experimental work.
*''Ichabod & I'' (1990)
*''Everything's Alright Forever'' (1992) - highly-rated by many Shoegazing fans
*''Giant Steps'' (1993) - sprawling, genre-blending double-album which topped critics' end-of-year polls
*''Wake Up!'' (1995) - a more accessible, commercial pop album containing The Hit, which reached number one in the UK albums chart
*''C'Mon Kids'' (1996) - a harder-edged pop-rock album which scared off a lot of fans
*''Kingsize'' (1998) - a well-recieved but commercially unsuccessful return to more experimental work.
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* [[ExcitedShowTitle Excited Album Title!]]: ''Wake Up!''
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: the band are named for a character in ''To Kill A Mockingbird''.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: the band are named for a character in ''To Kill A Mockingbird''.''ToKillAMockingbird''.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: the band are named for a character in ''To Kill A Mockingbird''.
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* SignatureSong: "Wake Up Boo!"Boo!"
* SpellMyNameWithAThe
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* BlackSheepHit: YourMileageMayVary on whether "Wake Up Boo!" counts or not, but certainly its parent album ''Wake Up!'' (a number one and easily their biggest seller) gets very little love these days.
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* NonAppearingTitle: Lots of them. "Lazarus", "Find The Answer Within", "Barney (...and Me)" (whose title is actually [[CallBack dropped]] in "From The Bench at Belvidere", itself a non-appearing title), "Martin, Doom! It's Seven o'Clock", and many more.
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British group of TheNineties who started as a {{Shoegazing}} band, became NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly experimentalists, were briefly (and against their will) co-opted into the {{Britpop}} movement, and showed more Rock-ist tendencies towards the end.
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* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: A major reason why ''Giant Steps'' was so well-received by critics.
* NewSoundAlbum: The rockier ''C'mon Kids'' startled a lot of people who were expecting something LighterAndSofter like ''Wake Up!''. Martin Carr denies this was intentional.
* SignatureSong: "Wake Up Boo!"
!Tropes in evidence:
* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: A major reason why ''Giant Steps'' was so well-received by critics.
* NewSoundAlbum: The rockier ''C'mon Kids'' startled a lot of people who were expecting something LighterAndSofter like ''Wake Up!''. Martin Carr denies this was intentional.
* SignatureSong: "Wake Up Boo!"
