Has anyone downloaded the new manics EP? pretty good stuff dontcha think?? firefight is definitely worthy of a release....

i wish they'd done us a favour and all jumped off the severn bridge.

i thought they were going to release one great album and split up? oh thats right, we're still waiting..

one born every minute......

Mr pots is correct. Never seen what the fuss was about the MSP.

STOP IT!!! ALL OF YOU, JUST STOP IT!!! the manics are music brilliance. and all the people who '' never saw the fuss'' about them are the ones missing out

once again...

Oh for goodness sake, grow up. People are allowed to not like the things you like, you know and the Manics have always polarised opinion, even amongst Manics fans themselves.

I still think Gold Against the Soul, the Holy Bible and Everything Must Go are amazing albums but they've gone off the boil somewhat lately. Know Your Enemy was a pile of wank.

yeah, ive been a lifelong manics fan, but gave up on them after this is my home. the holy bible though, is indeed one of the greatest albums of all time

you know, winding up manics fans is so easy these days. its no fun anymore.

having said that, i think the term 'lumpen proletariat' was designed to describe the lead singer and his podgy little belly.

Yep, Holy Bible is superb. I have the 10 year anniversary edition and play it often, its a superb album. Lifeblood I'm still uncertain about, its good but it lacks that certain something........

BTW I can actually play Design for Life on my Les Paul.........

Mark.

you grow up...

Well, I'm a fan of the Manics, at least I have been since 'Everyting Must Go' arrived, although earlier songs like Tristessa Durera and Motorcycle Emptiness I've always enjoyed. I love the melancholia of the Manics' music cause I find it tugs my emotions more than a lot of their contemporaries. It might also be that I'm just a miseryguts. But I'm sorry, frankly the 'Holy Bible' album is fucking ghastly. I hate it, bloody thrashy, shouty* horror it is. It's just not what I call music at all, just horrific noise. I just can't listen to it.

Stella's right about the Manics polarising folk, especially the fans. One of my friends cites the Holy Bible as his fave MSP album, and he hates 'This Is My Truth' & 'Lifeblood', which are my two personal favourites. We don't quarrel about it, it's just personal preference. Okay, their more recent albums aren't what the more hardcore MSP fans would like to hear, but I much prefer their more epic, melancholic, piano/string-laden sound, something with some emotional resonance (God that sounds fucking pretentious.) But that's my preference.

*Granted, James Dean Bradfield does 'shout' the majority of their songs, but at least he's shouting in tune in their more 'palatable' material. He also has a much better singing voice to listen to when he ain't shouting, and certainly not as venomously as he is on The Holy Bible...

no, you grow up

yeah the album of reggae covers. i loved that one.

( i can see another ade comedy thread coming up - 'motocycle hemptiness' etc.. )

Gah.

Ev'ryting!

Now, do I address ya Tape Line CD to Mr Half Hempty, or Mr Half Fool...?

Cheers Pots, I really needed that!!

Are you serious? Sheesh.



Too true. I adore Everyting (hee hee) Must Go without equal and have grown to really love This is My Truth and yet my Manics-obsessive friend won't even acknowledge their existence.

The Manic Street Preachers are boring.

Well, that's my general approach to their music, a few songs are pretty good, "You love us" "Design for life" etc. But the rest of it is great material for a comedy sketch in the vein of "going for an english" from Goodness Gracious Me - "what's the blandest thing on the jukebox?"