Urban Hat€monger ?

Good write up of the Manic's there.

Ironically there's only one thing they did after 1996 that I liked and you didn't mention it in your write up and that was the Masses Against The Classes E.P. they put out in the tail end of 1999 I believe.

I didn't hate Everything Must Go but you could see it was obvious they were a totally different band by then. I bought This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours & Know Your Enemy but I hardly listened to them and by that point I'd lost interest.

You're right about Lipstick Traces though,that's a great collection I played that to death when it came out. Although they should have included the awesome version of The Faces Stay With Me they recorded with Suede which they did for their manager after he died. I think you can only get it on a Suede B Side.

Edit: My mistake, It's on the B Side of She Is Suffering. I forgot they did a pretty good cover of The Drowners on that single too.

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