Majesty Crush

Majesty Crush served as the opening act at shows in the early 1990s for such bands as Chapterhouse, Curve, Mazzy Star, Royal Trux, and The Verve. The band recorded a demo and released it locally as A Vintage Crushed by Your Own Feet in 1991. The band self-released the Fan EP the following year. The song "No. 1 Fan" from that EP picked up significant radio airplay on Windsor, Ontario's 89X, and led to Majesty Crush signing with Dali Records, a Warner/Elektra subsidiary at the end of 1992. The band began recording their debut album in January 1993, later released as Love 15, on September 28, 1993. In 2009, Full Effect Records released the compilation album I Love You in Other Cities: The Best of Majesty Crush 1990–1995. OC Weeklys Dave Segal remarked that the album "offers 14 reasons why we should still care about this footnote in shoegaze-rock history." In 2023, the surviving members entered into an exclusive license deal with the Numero Group, which would begin remastering and reissuing various tracks in preparation for ''Butterflies Don't Go Away'', a compilation of their discography, released on March 29, 2024. In 2025, Numero Group began releasing more Majesty Crush material not featured on Butterflies: a digital reissue of the Sans Muscles EP, two songs from the P.S. I Love You EP, and live tracks "Crushed" and "Party Girl", that was originally released on the demo cassette A Vintage Crushed by Your Own Feet and also appeared on I Love You In Other Cities, culminating in a full Live EP. ==Musical style and lyrical content==

While incorporating the same lush, dreamy sound as other shoegaze acts of the time, the lyrics of Majesty Crush songs set them apart from other artists of the genre. Stroughter's often strange and obsessive lyrics cover such subjects as stalking Jodie Foster ("No. 1 Fan"), torture ("Boyfriend"), heroin ("Horse"), a female cashier at an adult book store ("Sunny Pie"), actresses ("Uma"), tennis stars ("Seles") and Italian porn stars ("Cicciolina"). The band's musical roots were focused on post-punk and new wave, specifically Joy Division and The Jesus and Mary Chain. ==Discography==

Albums • Love 15 (1993, Chameleon/Dali; 2023, Numero Group) Compilation albums • I Love You In Other Cities: The Best of Majesty Crush 1990-1995 (2009, Full Effect) • ''Butterflies Don't Go Away'' (2024, Numero Group) EPs and singles • "Sunny Pie/Cicciolina" (1991, Vulva) • A Vintage Crushed By Your Own Feet Demo EP (1991, Vulva) • "Purr/Grow" (1992, Davies Productions) • Fan EP (1992, Vulva) • Sans Muscles EP (1994, Vulva) • Split with Spare Snare (1995, Ché Trading) • P.S. I Love You (1996, Vulva) • "Boyfriend" (2023, Numero Group) • "Cicciolina" (2023, Numero Group) • "Horse" (2023, Numero Group) • "Feigned Sleep" (2023, Numero Group) • "Sunny Pie" (2023, Numero Group) • "Worri" (2024, Numero Group) • "No. 1 Fan (EP Version)" (2024, Numero Group) • "Space Between Your Moles" (2024, Numero Group) • "Gemini" (2025, Numero Group) • "Everybody's Bored"/"Gemini" (2025, Numero Group) • "Party Girl" (Live in 1991)" (2025, Numero Group) • "Crushed" (Live in 1991)" (2025, Numero Group) • Live EP (2025, Numero Group) ==References==