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Manchester, England (1993 – 1998)

Black Grape were a rock and roll band from Manchester, England, formed in 1993 by Shaun Ryder and Bez, formerly of Happy Mondays. They recruited rappers Kermit and Jed of the Manchester-based group The Ruthless Rap Assassins, plus guitarist Wags from The Paris Angels. Recording of new material started that year, although the group were not under contract.

In 1995 they signed to Radioactive Records (an imprint of major label BMG) and released their debut album. It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah immediately charted at number one in the UK, and spawned three top-twenty singles.

Black Grape’s music is funky and eclectic, using varied instrumentation and samples. Ryder’s lyrics seem to derive mainly from nonsense rhymes and humorous catch-phrases. It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah received critical acclaim in Britain, but the group made little impact in the U.S…

Subsequent album Stupid Stupid Stupid was less favoured. The group split in 1998 after Ryder fired the rest of band while touring.

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October 2009

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October 2009

Put on your Reeboks and play some fucking tennis!

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October 2009

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mrmocha wrote:
October 2009

I saw Black Grape at the ill-fated Enit Festival in the mid90's. I sold my "It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah" CD in the late 90's. At that point I wasn't aware of the Happy Mondays connection. Now 14 years later I am going to a Happy Mondays concert and rediscovering Black Grape. Weird.

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Biff_Bang_Pow wrote:
September 2009

AMEN! What a great fuckin band.

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Nochek wrote:
August 2009

happy birthday, Shaun!

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ARCHIGOLES wrote:
July 2009

They were great live, party vibes.

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RachelAPP wrote:
June 2009

Think you know your British rock bands? Check out my Britpop crossword

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nancykitten wrote:
June 2009

I forgot that this band existed. I haven't heard them since 1995.

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optimistic_tour wrote:
June 2009

yeah I kinda prefer this to Happy Mondays as well, purely on an album-to-album comparison between Straight and Pills...

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pilfanatic wrote:
February 2009

EVer noticed how much Shaun Ryder sounds like Abe Simpson?? MATLOOOOOOCK!!!! LOL yeah Rofl! You're right!

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weetsie wrote:
February 2009

EVer noticed how much Shaun Ryder sounds like Abe Simpson?? MATLOOOOOOCK!!!! LOL yeah

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paulhawk wrote:
February 2009

EVer noticed how much Shaun Ryder sounds like Abe Simpson?? MATLOOOOOOCK!!!!

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ChaffinchJones wrote:
January 2009

Matty 303 your wrong. Why can't they both be considered poets. Just like music, poetry is all embracing - can't someone like Ted Hughes and Charles Bukowski at the same time? I do for starters. Anyway, check out The Abodes at http://www.last.fm/music/The+Abodes - are they poetry? Even Shakespeare spluttered forth the occassional daft rhyme.

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Matty-303 wrote:
December 2008

whats that feller on about Sean Ryder being the greatest british poet?! ram that, Weller is one of the best british poet and songwriters to have ever lived. Sean isn't, he just blabs shit haha not slating him! I love Happy Mondays and Black Grape, but he's just not a poet, end of "women don't talk about masturbation, fuck me man it's her occupation" talk about throwing any words that rhyme together!:P as I say, NOT disrespecting them!

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rinadasler wrote:
November 2008

anyway i like black grape more than happy mondays but both bands are good for me

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Musihk wrote:
October 2008

that's a lie!! err, well, they're simply not better than the mondays..

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tomicanthelpit wrote:
September 2008

is that a joke?

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Kipposaurus wrote:
September 2008

So much better than Happy Mondays

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