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“Diane” by Therapy
From the album Infernal Love (1995)
“Diane” by Therapy appears on 19 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1995 and 2013. It was first released in 1995 on the album Infernal Love. Its best result is #16 on the Studio Brussel De Tijdloze 100 (1995). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,189 alternative song of all time.
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"Diane" is Therapy?'s stark reworking of a Hüsker Dü song, released as a single on A&M on November 6, 1995, and included on the Northern Irish band's album Infernal Love. Grant Hart wrote the original about a real crime, the 1980 murder of West St. Paul waitress Diane Edwards by Joseph Ture Jr., and Therapy? stripped away everything but the dread.
No guitars, no drums: just Martin McCarrick's cello sawing away and Andy Cairns's voice, cold and close, turning the song into something closer to a chamber-music nightmare. It's an unnerving left turn from a metal band, and it paid off. The single reached number 26 in the UK and number 20 in Ireland, went top 10 in several European countries, and won Belgium's Humo magazine award for best single.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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