Happy Mondays

Anyone who heard the single "24-Hour Party People" when it came out in 1987 would have been hard-pressed to predict the eventual success and cultural import of its authors, the Happy Mondays. A mess of nonsensical lyrics ("24-hour party people, plastic face can't smile the white's out") that were slurred by the band's buffoonish singer, Shaun Ryder, over a stupidly repetitive synth melody, the son...