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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'' |
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