New Manic Street Preachers track

[Chris71]

Heard it for the first time over the weekend. Best thing they've done in a decade.

I suppose you could argue it's a retrograde step, but it has a real '90s Manics' sound.

[Merry]

Which one? Peeled apples is awesome, the other one less so...

btw you can find links to the radio rips over here (hope i'm not breaking any rules!)

http://www.indiepaws.net/archives/tag/manic-street...

[anonymous-user]

Chris71 said:

Heard it for the first time over the weekend. Best thing they've done in a decade.

I suppose you could argue it's a retrograde step, but it has a real '90s Manics' sound.

not surprising that they sound like 90s tunes given Richey wrote them but i agree the ones i have heard do sound ace. should be good to hear them live...

[Chris71]

Got the album through today!

Quite impressed. It's very much a collection of album tracks if that makes sense, but the overall standard is high. The tracks tend to have quite an energetic rocky feel and the lyrics are madder than ever.

The best thing they've done in over a decade.

[dmitsi]

Yes, loving this album. They haven't done anything anywhere near as good as Holy Bible. It just all went a bit tame IMO. Good to hear Richys lyrics again, he had stuff to say.

[adycav]

Yes the album's excellent.

What do you lot think of 'Know Your Enemy'?

I reckon that it's one of the most criminally underrated albums of all time.

[Chris71]

adycav said:

Yes the album's excellent.

What do you lot think of 'Know Your Enemy'?

I reckon that it's one of the most criminally underrated albums of all time.

Now that's an album I haven't heard in ages! I was really into the Manics just before that came out and it somehow slipped off the radar (as I went to uni and got into other things I guess). I think the more up tempo tracks like Found That Soul were quite good, but I'm not too convinced on the slower ones. It always makes me think of that gig they did in Cuba.

[Hub]

adycav said:

What do you lot think of 'Know Your Enemy'?

I think it is really poor. But then I also think that 'Lifeblood' is actually their criminally underrated album - a warm, melodic, wintery album with no real weak tracks, but hardly anyone bought it!

[Merry]

Hub said:

adycav said:

What do you lot think of 'Know Your Enemy'?

I think it is really poor. But then I also think that 'Lifeblood' is actually their criminally underrated album - a warm, melodic, wintery album with no real weak tracks, but hardly anyone bought it!

^ That.


Had the album for a bit now, really good. In some ways i'd say its a bit better that The Holy Bible, as its more accessible. Restored my faith in them after Send Away The Tigers, though, anyway.

[Chris71]

Have to say one of the tracks that's got under my skin is the utterly un-Manics-like one at the end (sung by Nicky?). That and the hidden track.

I don't think I've heard anything off Lifeblood at all. I was out of the country when they released it and it looks like that one litterally passed me by. Might have to take a look on Amazon...

[Merry]

Yeah, Nicky singing has that effect. He did release a solo album called 'I Killed the Zeitgeist', which i actually quite like, just after Lifeblood.

You'll either love Lifeblood, or hate it. It really does sound not very much like the Manics.

Also, there is a a song on the 'God Save the Manics EP' (it was free so you can download it )called Picturesque, which stole the lyrics from Pretension/Repulsion and 'All is Vanity'


I should get out more....

[Hub]

Merry said:

It really does sound not very much like the Manics.

Well there are two types of Manics: the early period which they have returned to on occasion such as this new album, parts of the last one and Know Your Enemy, and then the more melodic and laid back style of Everything Must Go, This Is My Truth and Lifeblood. The former two being their biggest selling albums. I'm no fan of This Is My Truth, but Lifeblood really did it for me (and Everything Must Go). I can see that some might find it dull, but I appreciated its subtleties!

[Chris71]

Hub said:

Merry said:

It really does sound not very much like the Manics.

Well there are two types of Manics: the early period which they have returned to on occasion such as this new album, parts of the last one and Know Your Enemy, and then the more melodic and laid back style of Everything Must Go, This Is My Truth and Lifeblood. The former two being their biggest selling albums. I'm no fan of This Is My Truth, but Lifeblood really did it for me (and Everything Must Go). I can see that some might find it dull, but I appreciated its subtleties!

I'd say there are three (just to be awkward ).

There's the rock of You Love Us and Motorcycle Emptiness, there's the sort of indie-tinged softer rock that you get on the late '90s albums like Everything Must Go and there's the full-on acousticy stuff.

Have to say, only getting into them when they went mainstream I think the definitive Manics track are A Design For Life and, to a lesser extent, If You Tolerate This.

Ahh, I loved the '90s...

[maddog993]

Hub said:

adycav said:

What do you lot think of 'Know Your Enemy'?

I think it is really poor. But then I also think that 'Lifeblood' is actually their criminally underrated album - a warm, melodic, wintery album with no real weak tracks, but hardly anyone bought it!

I've always thought Lifeblood was a great album (also thought JDB's solo album was excellent which came out around the same time) - but I seemed to be the only one that liked them. Holy Bible still their best IMHO but haven't heard the new album in it's entirety yet..