Happy Mondays - Bummed (1988) Album Happy Mondays Length 37:27 Format CD Genre Brit Pop; Alternative Pop/Rock; Alternative Dance; Madchester / Rave Label Factory Index 297 Collection Status In Collection Track List 1 Country Song 3:24 2 Moving In With 3:36 3 Mad Cyril 4:36 4 Fat Lady Wrestlers 3:25 5 Performance 4:09 6 Brain Dead 3:10 7 Wrote For Luck 6:05 8 Bring A Friend 3:45 9 Do It Better 2:29 10 Lazy Itis* 2:48 Personal Price £ 12.00 Rating 70 Links Amazon UK Details Live No Spars AAD Rare No Sound Stereo UPC 5016839502207 Notes Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine Happy Mondays first essayed their fusion of dance-club beats, hip-hop, funk, and rock & roll on Bummed. A considerable improvement from the unfocused Squirrel and G-Man, Bummed is slightly inconsistent, but the group's sound is beginning to gel. In particular, Shaun Ryder's incoherent bluster of non sequiturs, surreal imagery, and verbal threats is coming into its own, and it adds a sense of menace to dark grooves like "Lazy Itis," "Mad Cyril," and "Wrote for Luck." The latter was remixed by Vince Clarke after the album's release, and the new version, which was included on later pressings, was the hardest dance tune Happy Mondays had yet attempted, suggesting the direction they would follow on their next album.