Released 27 September 2004 Artist Therapy? Producer Pete Bartlett | Length 39:48 Release date 27 September 2004 | |
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Genres Rock music, Heavy metal, Alternative metal, Noise rock, Post-punk Similar High Anxiety, One Cure Fits All, Semi‑Detached, Suicide Pact – You First, Crooked Timber | ||
Never Apologise Never Explain is the eighth full-length album by the band Therapy?, and the second to be released on Spitfire Records. It was released on 27 September 2004. The album was recorded in June 2004 at Parkgate Studios, Hastings.
Contents
"Never Apologise Never Explain" marked a return to the claustrophobic sound of the bands’ early releases. It failed to chart in the Top 200 of the UK Albums Chart. The album was not released in North America.
The album was released on CD only. A limited edition CDROM of the album contains two live videos ("Teethgrinder" & "Who Knows") from the Scopophobia DVD.
Polish label Metal Mind Productions re-released the album on 2 November 2009. The album was remastered using 24-Bit technology, limited to 1000 copies, on a gold disk digipak CD.
Track listing
All songs written by Therapy?
Personnel
Singles
Promo videos
Origins of the phrase
The originator of this commonly used phrase, often attributed to the hardline politicians of the House of Windsor (British Royalty), Duke of Wellington, Benjamin Disraeli and others, is said to be John Arbuthnot Fisher, a notable British Admiral of the Victorian and Edwardian era. ("Boldness has genius, power and magic in it ... Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologise”). And even earlier, King Charles I of England is quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations as writing "Never make a defence or apology before you be accused", in a letter to Lord Wentworth as long ago as 1636.
Songs
1Rise Up (2010 rework)2:49
2Die Like a Mother Fucker2:42
3Perish the Thought3:41