The Fatima Mansions

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A Singer Must Die 03:49 Tools
Only Losers Take The Bus 03:07 Tools
Lady Godiva's Operation 04:54 Tools
Evil Man 04:12 Tools
Something Bad 03:04 Tools
Go Home Bible Mike 03:40 Tools
You're a Rose 03:31 Tools
Angel's Delight 04:32 Tools
The Loyaliser 07:24 Tools
Valhalla Avenue 03:19 Tools
Mr. Baby 02:54 Tools
The Door-to-Door Inspector 04:13 Tools
A Pack of Lies 04:13 Tools
Look What I Stole for Us, Darling 00:59 Tools
Viva Dead Ponies 05:13 Tools
Chemical Cosh 01:39 Tools
North Atlantic Wind 04:21 Tools
More Smack, Vicar 00:52 Tools
Perfumes of Paradise 03:03 Tools
The White Knuckle Express 04:15 Tools
1000% 03:59 Tools
Blues For Ceausescu 06:17 Tools
Be Dead 02:05 Tools
Purple Window 05:03 Tools
Blues for Ceauseseu 06:17 Tools
Farewell Oratorio 03:05 Tools
Behind the Moon 03:40 Tools
Broken Radio #1 04:38 Tools
Ray of Hope, Hoe of Rape 04:16 Tools
Shiny Happy People 03:14 Tools
Greyhair 04:26 Tools
Popemobile to Paraguay 04:28 Tools
Belong Nowhere 04:52 Tools
1000 04:16 Tools
Nite Flights 03:49 Tools
Bertie's Brochures 05:15 Tools
Humiliate Me 03:43 Tools
Thursday 00:00 Tools
You Won't Get Me Home 03:01 Tools
Wilderness On Time 03:15 Tools
Everything I Do (I Do it for You) 06:26 Tools
Hive 03:01 Tools
The Day I Lost Everything 04:16 Tools
Brain Blister 03:57 Tools
Brunceling's Song 04:02 Tools
Stigmata 03:09 Tools
Your World Customer 03:31 Tools
Lost in the Former West 02:48 Tools
Valley Of The Dead Cars 03:19 Tools
C*7 / Brekfast With Bandog 04:02 Tools
13th Century Boy 04:00 Tools
Bishop of Babel 02:53 Tools
Blues for Ceaucescu 05:51 Tools
Walk Yr Way 04:58 Tools
Only Losers Take the Bus (Dump the Dead) 03:01 Tools
Smiling 03:05 Tools
V.N. (Apology) 00:00 Tools
Big Madness / Monday Club Carol 04:38 Tools
Long About Now 01:53 Tools
Broken Radio No. 1 00:00 Tools
John the Gun 04:17 Tools
Mario Vargas Yoni 02:30 Tools
The Great Valerio 04:25 Tools
The Loyaliser (Juno Reactor Instrumental Remix) 07:23 Tools
1000 Percent 03:58 Tools
Sunken Cities 03:53 Tools
Walk in the Woods 05:11 Tools
Gary Numan's Porsche 04:12 Tools
A Walk In The Woods 05:11 Tools
Arnie's Five 03:56 Tools
On Suicide Bridge 03:27 Tools
Paper Thin Hotel 00:00 Tools
The Holy Mugger 02:40 Tools
What? 03:05 Tools
As I Washed The Blood Off 00:00 Tools
"Thug Helicopter Ón Aer Chór..." 00:59 Tools
Blues For Ceausescu (Only Solution Mix) 05:53 Tools
The Loyalizer 03:16 Tools
Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne 00:00 Tools
Tima Mansio Speaks 02:52 Tools
Evil Man II 05:11 Tools
Blues for Ceauşescu 06:17 Tools
Legoland 3 04:13 Tools
1,000,000% 00:00 Tools
Sleep Of The Just 03:42 Tools
Chemical Cosh (Scream Mix) 03:55 Tools
It's So Cold.... I Think 05:23 Tools
Walk Yr. Way 06:17 Tools
Concrete Block 00:16 Tools
CΔ7/Breakfast With Bandog 03:48 Tools
Into Thinner Air with the Loyaliser (Juna Reactor mix) 07:24 Tools
Into Thinner Air With The Loyaliser (Juno Reactor Mix) 00:16 Tools
It will be cold 03:48 Tools
Blues For Ceausescu (Radio 1 Session, 25 Mar 1990) 06:19 Tools
Only Losers Take The Bus (I'm Not Stupid) 00:16 Tools
Start the Week 00:25 Tools
Fatima Mansions - Only Losers 03:48 Tools
Evil Man (Live) 00:16 Tools
Loyaliser 03:18 Tools
Mr Baby (Radio 1 Session, 25 Mar 1990) 02:08 Tools
Farewell Oratorio--The White Knuckle Express 00:25 Tools
It Will Be Good (Radio 1 Session, 25 Mar 1990) 03:59 Tools
Big Madness 00:25 Tools
The Scarecrow 03:53 Tools
White Knuckle Express (Live) 07:05 Tools
Chemical Cosh (LP version) 02:08 Tools
The Loyaliser (JR Vocal Mix) 07:24 Tools
Behind The Moon (Live) 03:40 Tools
Broken Radio No.1 04:38 Tools
Fatima Mansions - The Day I Lo 03:53 Tools
Look What I Stole For Us, Darling (Prelude) 04:38 Tools
Angel's Delight (Live) 00:00 Tools
Into Thinner Air With the Loyalizer (Juno Reactor mix) 07:24 Tools
Only Losers Take the Bus (Drop the Dead) 03:40 Tools
Fatima Mansions - Wilderness O 07:05 Tools
Lady Godiva's Operation (The Velvet Underground cover) 03:40 Tools
What 03:05 Tools
Fatima Mansions - 13th Century 03:40 Tools
Paperthin Hotel 03:05 Tools
Fatima Mansions - You Won't Ge 03:05 Tools
Fatima Mansions - Bishop Of Ba 03:05 Tools
Everything I Do 00:00 Tools
Broken Radio 1 (Radio 1 Session, 25 Mar 1990) 00:00 Tools
Dear Dad 02:08 Tools
Fatima Mansions - Valley Of Th 02:08 Tools
Fatima Mansions - Big Madness 02:08 Tools
Blues For Ceausescu (LP Version) 02:08 Tools
Look What I Stole For Us, Darl 06:19 Tools
White Knuckle Express 06:19 Tools
Pack Of Lies 02:08 Tools
Fatima Mansions - Lady Godiva's Operation 06:19 Tools
V. N. (Apology) 02:08 Tools
CΔ7 / Breakfast With Bandog 03:12 Tools
Blues for Cesusescu 02:08 Tools
Only Losers Take The Bus (Dangers Mix) 06:19 Tools
A Singer Must Die (Leonard Cohen Cover) 02:08 Tools
Look What I Stole For Us, Darling (Intro) 02:08 Tools
Breakfast With Bandog 03:12 Tools
Great Valerio, The 03:12 Tools
It Will Be Good - BBC Session 25/03/1990 02:08 Tools
Fatima Mansions- A Singer Must 02:08 Tools
Farewell Oratorio + The White Knuckle Express 06:19 Tools
01 Angel's Delight 04:22 Tools
The Lovaliser 06:19 Tools
O.L.T.T.B. (Hail and Adios Non Stop Pumpin' Party Mix) 03:12 Tools
Hive (Live) 03:12 Tools
Mr Baby - BBC Session 25/03/1990 06:19 Tools
e Smack, Vicar 06:19 Tools
1000000% 03:59 Tools
Mario Vargas Yoni (Pt 1) 06:19 Tools
(Everything I Do) I Do It For 00:00 Tools
O.L.T.T.B. (Hail And Flames) 00:00 Tools
broken radio no 1 03:12 Tools
The Loyaliser (Juno Reactor Vocal Mix) 06:19 Tools
Singer Must Die, A 03:12 Tools
CÄ7 / Breakfast With Bandog 03:12 Tools
Fatima Mansions / Lady Godiva's Operation 03:12 Tools
It's So Cold....I Think 03:59 Tools
Chemical Block 03:59 Tools
Only Losers 03:12 Tools
C^7 / Breakfast With Bandog 03:12 Tools
1000 - Fatima Mansions 03:12 Tools
Ceauseseu Flash Back 00:00 Tools
VN (Apology) 00:00 Tools
Thirteenth Century Boy 03:59 Tools
1000 % 03:59 Tools
Chemical Cosh (Screem Mix) 03:59 Tools
Day I Lost Everything 03:59 Tools
Door to Door Inspector 03:59 Tools
Farewell Oratorio / The White Knuckle Express 03:59 Tools
The Holly Mugger 03:59 Tools
Fatima Mansions: A Singer Must Die 03:59 Tools
Legoland 03:59 Tools
Big Madness _ Monday Club Carol 03:59 Tools
A Singer Must Die (Leonard Cohen) 03:59 Tools
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Arguably the most underrated of all of the early 90s rock acts, Fatima Mansions were a refreshing kick up the backside against corporate mediocrity and musical banality - steered from start to finish by the singular vision of one man's astute and unwavering misanthropy. In a state of disillusionment, Cathal Coughlan walked out of the wonderful and melodically rich - but lyrically barbed - Microdisney and formed the Fatima Mansions, setting up stall in 1989. His former Microdisney partner, Sean O'Hagan, went off to form the High Llamas and perfected his obsession with 'Smile'-era Beach Boys drenched tunefulness but Cathal had other ideas and there were times when the Mansions' screaming indignation and eclectic belligerence went off the scale. Underneath it all was his dry and off-centre humour that many may have missed in highlights like the viciously compulsive rant 'n' roll epic 'Blues for Ceausescu' and the truly schizoid 'Angels Delight'. Other tracks veered in all kinds of unpredictable directions and styles - savage electronics, pure dance pop, soaring balladry, scabrous industrial noise, acoustic grandeur, hellish Wagner-esque vaudeville, crazed psychobilly, traditional folk, etc.... The Fatima Mansions at their mightiest were an incredible tour de force that simply refused to be pigeonholed! Indeed, very few bands at the time were in quite the same league. Aided and abetted by a chillingly intense group of musicicans including Andreas O'Gruama, Nick Allum, Nick Bagnall, and Hugh Bunker, the Mansions captivated, thrilled, provoked and confounded through 3 full albums and a couple of mini albums. Their live gigs were often equally cathartic rituals which met with critical approval and rave reviews. They even scored an unlikely hit [on the back of the Manic Street Preachers' cover of the Theme From M*A*S*H] with their irreverently skewed take on Bryan Adam's eternal number 1 hit Everything I Do (I Do It For You). Since their demise in 1995/6, Coughlan has been recording and performing solo and, with a much more acoustic and controlled sound allied to his ever caustic lyrics and fantastic voice, remains a true one-off. He is still awaiting a more widespread critical appraisal and overdue recognition that his rare talent truly deserves. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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