Blog: Bangers & Mash

Alternative dance-pop outfit, The The released its first proper album , Soul Mining in 1983. The album topped Melody Maker's best of list at #3 for the year. Fronted by founding member and brainchild, Matt Johnson in 1979, the album managed to blend easy-breezy melodies with social and political undertones. "This is the Day" is the album's catchiest track that revolves around Johnson's warm, fuzzy vocals, a simple guitar lick, bouncy bass lines, hush harmonicas, a soulful accordion and some piano tinkling with some processed drum beats. The song managed to get some airtime in a M&M commercial in 2007. However, other tracks like "Perfect" [...]