i am now going to listen to the manic street preachers for the FIRST TIME EVER!

okay, here i go...

this is the first thing on youtube: manic street preachers featuring nina persson - your love alone is not enough

i like this! plus, nina, whoever she is, is awfully cute. and so is her all girl band.

next up is "if you tolerate this".

nina is from cardigans band

i don't hate this song! i like the mellotron-ish moments. and it's pretty. plus, i like long dreamy songs about fascism cuz i used to be an easterhouse fan.

that's her!???? i recognized the name, but it didn't look like cardigans lady. she's a femme fatale now.

next up is a cover of rihanna's "umbrella".

doesn't sound so hot....

that guy from the afghan wigs would have done it better.

next up: "autumnsong"

one of those cases where the video is 100X cooler than the actual song. bored fashionable kids in slo-mo. i could watch that forever. song is okay though. not great or anything.

Haha my first exposure to the Manics was a full SIX (6) weeks before Scott's! And I'm a year older than him. (Next on the checklist: TV on the Radio!)

now: "the everlasting"

pretty cool. good video. sweeping. epic. all that. i hate to say it, but this is the kind of song that the catherine wheel could never seem to make properly. that big catchy popgaze tune that could sell records.

next: "a design for life" live on later with jools holland

digging this one. reminds me of squeeze + kitchens of distinction. popsense + edgy guitarplay.

"suicide is painless"

1992 cover featuring that dude who died on lead vocals. it's okay. it's a great song and hard to kill. this version is pushing it though.

"revol"

i like this a bunch! driving and catchy and cool. still, nothing i've heard is as good as the first easterhouse record yet. but this is getting close.

for some reason in my head i associate the manic street preachers with ocean spray cranberry juice.
i don't know why this is, and have not knowingly heard the manic street preachers.

why the fuck would ya??

xpp

"faster"

wow. love this. as much as anything on chrome by catherine wheel? maybe not, but this is coolness.

ian, you are probably just thinking of ocean colour scene when you think of manic street preachers. another band, along with divine comedy, that barely exists in the u.s., but that you always read about via u.k. music mags.

i don't think i've ever heard of ocean colour scene. honest to god.

"kevin carter"

i dunno, they sell this song in the video. i have no idea what it's about, but it works. cool riffs too.

MSP had a song called ocean spray, it sucks

seems that scott likes the holy bible stuff best

for some reason in my head i associate the manic street preachers with ocean spray cranberry juice.

There is a reason, actually -- they have a song called "Ocean Spray," which James the lead singer wrote about his mom, as she drank a lot of said juice when she was dying of cancer as part of the chemotherapy recovery, IIRC.

Or what Jim said. The Holy Bible being the best album by them, hey.

AH HA. well that's it, then. thanks guys.

okay, i got a little sidetracked by 80's easterhouse footage and then, as only can happen in youtube land, japanese skinhead anthems. and i'm drunk. but i'll get back to the manics soon, i promise!

"faster"

wow. love this. as much as anything on chrome by catherine wheel? maybe not, but this is coolness.

I think this is the only Manic Street Preachers song I've heard. It was on some cheapo major-label sampler from '95 and, as I recall, a highlight.

Can we please stop talking about the Manics? Even I'M starting to hate them.
― Justyn Dillingham, Monday, August 5, 2002 5:00 PM (6 years ago)

I like these guys, even though in America they're completely obscure and never had anything that even approaches a hit.

Best song is Yes. Their best record is Know Your Enemy. Another excellent song is "That's No Way To Tell A Lie" from the James Dean Bradfield solo record.

Know Your Enemy = hardly their best; loses big points because of that anti-disco "brain dead motherfuckers" song. What is this, 1979?

Hahahaha I'd forgotten about that braindead motherfuckers song.

I'd forgotten about James' solo album! Like, not a snark, I'd totally forgotten it existed

Thread needs PICTURES OF MANICS FANS

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Ew.

If you're going to rock the sleeveless t-shirt look at least have the dedication to actually cut the sleeves off rather than just rolling them up. Product of Blair's mollycoddled Britain indeed!

You know I just wanted to say on that recent Richey Manic thread...that it seemed like a stunt when he disappeared, and I'm rather stunned to learn that he never actually came back.

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