Biography

Enormously influential on both the music and club scene of late-1980s/early '90s England, the Happy Mondays emerged from singer Shaun Ryder's desire to merge the energy of dance music (distinct from funk) with the rawness of the post-punk era, filtered through the anything-goes atmosphere of the '80s Manchester/Factory Records scene. Fueled by drugs and manic energy, the Mondays' first couple of records were cornerstones of what would become known as rave culture. Highly publicized drug problems contributed to the band's dissolution, but Ryder and cohort Bez reappeared in the mid-'90s under the banner of Black Grape.

Top Tracks

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• 24 Hour Party People

• Bob's Yer Uncle

• Cuntry Disco

• Dr. Dick

• God's Cop

• Hallelujah

• Jellybean

• Kinky Afro

• Kuff Dam

• Loose Fit

• Mad Cyril

• Step On

• Stinkin Thinkin

• Sunshine And Love

• Tokoloshe Man

• W. F. L.

Discography

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• Uncle Dysfunktional

  Sequel

  2007

• Yes, Please

  Elektra

  1992

• Live

  Elektra

  1991

• Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches

  Elektra

  1990

• Bummed

  Elektra

  1988

• Squirrel & G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile

  Factory

  1987