Catatonia - TV Tropes
- ️Thu Nov 14 2024
Catatonia was a Welsh Alternative Rock band from Cardiff, they were active from 1992 to 2001.
They formed in 1992 and released their first album Way Beyond Blue in 1996, with their second International Velvet in 1998, Equally Cursed and Blessed in 1999 and their final album Paper Scissors Stone in 2001, before splitting up after lead singer Cerys Matthews went into rehab due to drinking problems.
Not to be confused with the Swedish metal band Katatonia.
Discography:
- Way Beyond Blue (1996)
- International Velvet (1998)
- Equally Cursed and Blessed (1999)
- Paper Scissors Stone (2001)
Way Beyond Tropes:
- Alliterative Title: Way Beyond Blue, "Road Rage".
- Blatant Lies: The chorus of "Karaoke Queen" claims the song is three minutes long when it's actually five.
- Design Student's Orgasm: The cover of International Velvet shows a herd of horses running in what appears to be a flooded grassland.
- Horrible History Metal: "Road Rage" is about Tracie Andrews, who killed her boyfriend and tried to frame it as a road rage accident.
- I Am the Band: Cerys is the best known member of the band.
- I Am the Noun: "I Am the Mob".
- Male Band, Female Singer: Cerys is the only woman in the band and she does the vocals
- Shout-Out: One of their songs is named after Mulder and Scully, who the narrator believes her strange relationship could be a fitting case for them to solve.
- Take That!: They were so angry with Warner Brothers threatening to drop them that they wrote 'That's All Folks', a six-minute Take That! to the label, complete with One-Woman Wail. In the chorus, Cerys Matthews sings 'warn us', 'want us' and 'warm to us' to sound suspiciously similar to Warners. It was going to be the final track on 'International Velvet', but the record company cottoned on and had it replaced with 'My Selfish Gene'. The song ended up as a B-side on 'Strange Glue'. 'I Am The Mob' is another, more subtle dig at Warners.
- Truck Driver's Gear Change: "Road Rage" does this for each changing chorus.