Manics -- first encounter with MASH theme?

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As a Yank, I'm still struggling to understand the whole cultural set of things which surround the Manic Street Preachers. So here's a question: When the Manics released the MASH theme as a single, what was your response?

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 4 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, the single was the single from an NME-organised charity double album, on which bands would cover No.1 hit singles. So the response was conditioned by that I would think. My personal response was that I'd hardly watched MASH and didn't know the song, and I assumed the MSPs, who then I had little time for, had covered it cause the lyrics fit with the doomed-youth thing I saw them as trying to peddle.

― Tom, Sunday, 4 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

IIRC they covered it because it reminded them of the sadness of Top of the Pops not being on, as was the case when the theme was number one in the summer of 1980 because of a Musician's Union strike (imagine ...).

Still comes to a broadly similar reason, though. Melancholia. In that respect it anticipated their second album and the move from the "revolutionary" mindset of the first.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 5 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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