- Catatonia( Catatonia band )【 9 albums 88 lyrics 】
- Catatonia were an alternative rock band from Wales who gained popularity in the mid- to late 1990s. The band formed in 1992 after Mark Roberts met Cerys Matthews. The first major lineup featured Dafydd Ieuan on drums, Clancy Pegg on keyboard, Owen Powell on guitar and Paul Jones on bass. They recorded two EPs, For Tinkerbell and Hooked.
Pegg was fired prior to work on their first studio album, Way Beyond Blue, while Ieuan was replaced with Aled Richards shortly afterwards. This new line-up remained for the rest of the lifetime of the band. The single 'You've Got a Lot to Answer For' received radio airplay and became the band's first top 40 single in the UK Singles Chart in September 1996. Their breakout success came at the start of 1998 with the International Velvet album and the release of the single 'Mulder and Scully' some two weeks apart. The album went to number one in the album chart, and sold more than 900,000 copies being certified triple platinum by British Phonographic Industry, while the single reached number 3 in the singles chart, the highest any Catatonia single would chart.
The follow-up release, 'Road Rage', reached number 5 in May, and was nominated for best song at the Brit Awards and the Ivor Novello Awards, winning at the Q Awards. The title track of the album International Velvet received additional attention, and the band performed it at the opening of the opening ceremony of the 1999 Rugby World Cup on 1 October in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. While in Catatonia, Matthews collaborated with Space on 'The Ballad of Tom Jones' in March 1998 and with Tom Jones on a cover of 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' in December 1999. Their final top ten single came in April 1999 with 'Dead from the Waist Down' off the following album, Equally Cursed and Blessed. Rumours began to circulate about a breakup, but a further album, Paper Scissors Stone was released in 2001 following a two-year break from live performances.
Matthews' drinking had long been reported in the tabloids and gossip columns, and she entered rehab in mid-2001 for drinking and smoking. The tour to support Paper Scissors Stone was cancelled, and a month later, the band announced that they were breaking up. Matthews has subsequently released solo albums, while Powell has become a radio presenter and joined the supergroup The Stand to release a charity single. Critics have highlighted the use of metaphors in Catatonia's work, and songs have been compared to poetry by critics. Writing duties had been shared across the band, although had been led by Matthews and Roberts. They disagreed with being labelled an indie band, with Powell saying they had only ever sought to write pop music. - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
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Greatest Hits
2002
1.The Ballad Of Tom Jones2.Branding A Mountain -
Paper Scissors Stone
2001
1.Is Everybody Here On Drugs?
2.Stone By Stone
3.Arabian Derby
4.Apple Core (Provided)
5.Blues Song
6.Godspeed
7.Shore Leave8.Beautiful Loser
9.Immediate Circle
10.The Mother Of Misogyny
11.Imaginary Friend
12.Fuel
13.What It Is (Provided)
14.Village Idiot -
International Velvet
1998
1.Don't Need The Sunshine
2.Game On
3.Goldfish And Paracetamol
4.I Am The Mob
5.International Velvet
6.Johnny Come Lately7.Mulder And Scully
8.My Selfish Gene
9.Part Of The Furniture
10.Road Rage
11.Strange Glue
12.Why I Can't Stand One Night Stands -
Way Beyond Blue
1996
1.Bleed
2.Dream On
3.For Tinkerbell
4.Gyda Gwen
5.Gyda Gwen
6.Infantile
7.Lost Cat8.Painful
9.Some Half Baked Ideal Called Wonderful
10.Sweet Catatonia
11.This Boy Can't Swim
12.Way Beyond Blue
13.Whale
14.You've Got A Lot To Answer For -
The Sublime Magic Of...
1996
1.Difrycheulyd (Snail Ambition) -
For Tinkerbell EP
1993
1.New Mercurial Heights -
The Crai Eps 1993/1994: For Tinkerbell/Hooked
1.Dimbran -
Equally Cursed&Blessed
1.Bulimic Beats
2.Dazed, Beautiful And Bruised
3.Dead From The Waist Down
4.Karaoke Queen
5.Londinium
6.Nothing Hurts7.Post Script
8.She's A Millionaire
9.Shoot The Messenger
10.Storm The Palace
11.Valerian -
Miscellaneous
1.All Girls Are Fly
2.Apathy Revolution
3.Difrycheulyd
4.Don't Wanna Talk About It
5.Do You Believe In Me
6.Hooked
7.I'm Cured
8.Indigo Blind
9.Jump Or Be Sane
10.Mantra For The Lost
11.International Velvet (Welsh And English)
12.No Stone Unturned
13.That's All Folks
14.Blow The Millennium, Part 2
15.To And Fro
16.You Can17.Why I Can't Stand One Nights Stands
18.Acapulco Gold
19.Hidden Track
20.Fall Beside Her
21.Bad Bad Boy
22.Long Time Lonely
23.'Dazed, Beautiful and Bruised'
24.Dazed Beautiful & Bruised
25.Gyda Gwen (With A Smile)
26.Some Half Baked Idea Called Wonderful
27.Intercontinental Sigh
28.Mulder and Scully (live From the BBC)
29.Sweet Catatonia (live, Mark Radcliffe 1FM session)
30.Whale (live, Mark Radcliffe 1FM session)
31.Strange Glue (live acoustic version)
32.Mulder & Scully
【Correction of errors in the album information】