Line #22 Music/CatherineWheel


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2	[[caption-width-right:191: Call them Crank, their idea. From left to right: Rob Dickinson, Brian Futter, Dave Hawes and Neil Sims.]]
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4	Catherine Wheel is a band, not a solo artist. Since that has been cleared up now, they formed in 1990 in the UK. The band consisted of Rob Dickinson (a paternal cousin of Music/BruceDickinson from Music/IronMaiden), Brian Futter, Dave Hawes (replaced by Ben Ellis in 1999), and Neil Sims.
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6	They started as one of {{shoegazing}}'s pioneers, and one of the more memorable; their albums ''Ferment'' and ''Chrome'' are both considered classics and early examples of "metalgaze".
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8	Over the years of their existence, they disliked being labeled "shoegaze" and thus shrugged it off, with ''Happy Days'' heading into more of a HardRock[=/=]{{Grunge}} direction and ''Adam and Eve'' being heavily influenced by art rock. Unfortunately, this led to critical reviews and commercial sales slowly dropping.
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10	After releasing the mostly unsuccessful ''Wishville'' in 2000, the band split. Dickinson became a solo artist, Futter and Sims recorded an album under the name ''50ft Monster'', and Ellis joined the band Serafin.
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12	!!Discography:
13	* ''Painful Thing'' EP (1991)
14	* ''Ferment'' (1992)
15	* ''Chrome'' (1993)
16	* ''Happy Days'' (1995)
17	* ''Like Cats and Dogs'' (1996, compilation of outtakes, B-sides and covers)
18	* ''Adam and Eve'' (1997)
19	* ''Wishville'' (2000)
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21	! ''I always thought the way you troped was neat'':
22	* AndIMustScream: The cover art of ''Happy Days'' is of a man on a bed falling down a giant baby crib; the album booklet shows him haplessly screaming while stuck as a small person in a large crib. [[SarcasmMode Sweet dreams.]]
23	* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Ferment'' in "I Want to Touch You" and its title track. ''Chrome'' gets it in "Crank" and its title track as well.
24	* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Chrome'', ''Happy Days''
25	* EpicRocking: "Black Metallic", "Pain", "Fripp", "Heal", "Eat My Dust You Insensitive Fuck", "Thunderbird", "Goodbye", "For Dreaming"
26	* LighterAndSofter: ''Ferment'', ''Adam and Eve''
27	* LyricalDissonance: One of their gentlest songs also has some of their angriest lyrics and song title, "Eat My Dust You Insensitive Fuck".
28	* LyricsVideoMismatch: "Judy Staring at the Sun" is a melancholy song about a woman's heroin addiction. The music video is a kitschy, pop art-styled PerformanceVideo set in space.
29	* MeaningfulName: The band is named after a spinning firework, which is very meaningful, especially with the subject matter of their music.
30	* TheNotRemix: On the single mix of "Judy Staring at the Sun", [[Music/ThrowingMuses Tanya]] [[Music/BellyBand Donelly]] sings the chorus and the second verse, but on ''Happy Days'', Rob sings all the verses and Tanya only sings the chorus. The two versions are otherwise identical.
31	* OneManSong: "Ballad of a Running Man"
32	* OneWomanSong: "Judy Staring at the Sun"
33	* OneWordTitle: "Texture", "Shallow", "Ferment", "Tumbledown", "Salt", "Balloon", "Crank", "Pain", "Chrome", "Fripp", "Waydown", "Heal", "Receive", "Shocking", "Hole", "Delicious", "Satellite", "Thunderbird", "Goodbye", "Gasoline", "Lifeline"
34	* {{Overcrank}}: Used in the music video for "I Want to Touch You".
35	* PrecisionFStrike: "Eat My Dust You Insensitive Fuck"
36	* ShoutOut: "Fripp" is named after Music/RobertFripp of Music/KingCrimson.
37	** "Receive" includes the lines "Grow my hair / Long and strange / I'll be a walking mountain range" as a reference to a very similar passage in Music/BobDylan's "I Shall Be Free No. 10" (" I'm gonna grow my hair down to my feet so strange / So I look like a walking mountain range")
38	* TitleTrack: ''Ferment'' and ''Chrome'' both have one.
39	* {{Undercrank}}: Also used in the music video for "I Want to Touch You".
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41	! ''Love my superstitious games, troping circles round my brain''

Context Music / CatherineWheel