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Marks, Craig, ed. (9 November 1990). "Upcoming Releases" (PDF). CMJ New Music Report. 24 (211). ISSN 0890-0795. Manc music royalty Richard Ashcroft will return to his hometown of Wigan next summer for a massive gig. Harrison, Ian (March 2020). "Happy Mondays: Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches". Mojo. No.316. London. ISSN 1351-0193. Renshaw, David (14 April 2015). "Happy Mondays announce 'Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches' tour". NME. Archived from the original on 9 October 2021 . Retrieved 9 October 2021. As with Bummed, a switch in producers re-focuses and redefines the Mondays, as Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne replace the brittle, assaultive Martin Hannett production with something softer and expansive that is truly dance-club music instead of merely suggestive of it. Where the Stone Roses were proudly pop classicists, styling themselves after the bright pop art of the '60s, the Mondays were aggressively modern, pushing pop into the ecstasy age by leaning hard on hip-hop, substituting outright thievery for sampling.

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The star is perhaps best-known for his time spent with The Verve, with whom he released Urban Hymns, the UK’s 18th-biggest-selling album of all time. Reynolds, Simon (2 December 1990). "Home Entertainment/Recordings: Recent Releases". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014 . Retrieved 5 January 2014. Step On' proved to be such a huge and instant hit that Steve Osborne and Paul Oakenfold were then brought in to produce Happy Mondays's next album, Pills 'N' Thrills And Bellyaches. The sessions were conducted in the fabled Capitol Studios in Los Angeles. "It was a big room," says Osborne, "and we had an engineer [Ray Blair] with us who was a bit older. I think he thought the whole thing was crazy." Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches came in on our Indie Basement Best Albums of 1990 list where we wrote:Straight (Radioactive, 1995) unleashes the easygoing impetus of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the epic choruses of the Clash, from the frenzied shuffle of Keyboards-wise, Osborne relied mainly on a Roland U-220 module, working with the Mondays' Paul Davis capturing his parts as MIDI in the Atari. "So, the piano riff on 'Step On', that would have been him jamming away and I'd just have gone, 'Oop, that's the bit there.' I would've grabbed that. So, it was very much, 'Let him jam and edit the bits that we want.'" Lewis, John (23 August 2019). "Happy Mondays on 'Step On': 'It was dead easy!' ". Uncut. Archived from the original on 9 October 2021 . Retrieved 9 October 2021. maintain a sufficiently broad scope. Few albums so accurately document the atmosphere of those years. Happy Mondays: Biography". The Guardian home. Guardian News and Media Limited. 13 August 2010 . Retrieved 6 May 2012.