Manic Street Preachers
 

I have the Holy Bible, Gold Against the Soul, Everything Must Go and Generation Terrorists. Their music is pretty awful nowadays but back when they had Richey they were solid. I like the Holy Bible best but Generation Terrorists is pretty close to it. Everything Must Go has some good songs, I mainly keep that album just for those songs

Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky is beautiful. My favorite song is probably 4st 7lb other favorites are Roses in the Hospital, From Despair to Where, Die in the Summertime, Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky and the ones below.

Recommendations:
Faster
4st 7lb
Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthetc
Yes

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I saw this band support INXS on their first UK tour.
They stole the show.

Not bad for a bunch of Taffy's.

Disclaimer: My mate dragged me along to that gig...he just got back from Oz at the time. *is not a INXS fan*

As you long as you just stick with what you got you will be fine. The Holy Bible is an increbible album.

The rest of their stuffs a pile of sh*t. In their early days they were trying to be the Heartbreakers with a political conscience and in their latter days they just started to make dull music. The last album was music to yawn at as afar as I was concerned.

I don't like any of the songs on their myspace, they're all rather dull and I'm Just A Patsy sounds like a song for a car commercial.

Holy Bible was the pinnacle. The last album with Richey, if you think they are rather dull that album will change your mind.

I've taken the trouble to create a graph as a quick guide to the Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers
 

:band: Yeah Yeah I love Manic Street Preachers.

Their new album rocks even though the two previous
ones wern't my favorite. I really think they proved themselves
again in this album by successfully coming back with great
songs and good instrumentation. Love it

any MSP fans out there?

Holy Bible and the stuff before it, that is all.

That or at least read their lyrics.

Stuff like this makes me really hate the Manics nowadays.

^:(


They will always be special in my heart
For The Holy Bible
I love that album soo much
........

Holy bible was their only good album.....I don't know what happened after that

I have never heard The Holy Bible. Gold Against The Soul had some OK tracks on it. I have always thought that they were just another average band. Is Holy Bible THAT good then?

Yeah.

my preference...

1. The Holy Bible (1994) - "Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforoneday..."
2. Generation Terrorists (1992) - "Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll"
3. This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998) - "Be Natural"
4. Everything Must Go (1996) - "No Surface All Feeling"
5. Gold Against the Soul (1993) - "Gold Against The Soul"
6. Know Your Enemy (2001) - "Miss Europa Disco Dancer"
7. Lifeblood (2004)
8. Send Away the Tigers (2007)

....still haven't mustered the courage to attempt the last two albums. I fear it will tarnish my view on them... 'Know your enemy' was hard enough to listen to. One day.

the Holy Bible ****ed me up, properly. Probably. And people are going to hate me but I like 'Lifeblood'. It's just lowkey and good in the winter, sometimes. And I get nostalgic listening to 'Know Your Enemy', cos thats when I was getting into music innit. But honestly how can Nicky ****ing Wire accept an NME award for Godlike Genius with a clear conscience? It's not exactly a people's award is it? Personally I look to Gruff Rhys for my inspiration from the valleys.
Has anybody heard McCarthy, the band that inspired them? 'Keep an open mind or else'

I enjoyed send away the tigers to a degree.

"Nicky Wire can suck my cock." - Eddie Argos

Bet Nicky said it first.

The coolest thing about MSPs is how that dude disappeared and never showed up.

For some reason I thought he was the singer...

Anyhoo, they're playing in Croatia supporting Bob Dylan but I cannae be bovvered...
I quite like If you tolerate this though so I should probably get around to downloading a few albums...

I'm missing The Killers at Reading to watch the Manics instead (damn clashes)

gonna be great although they will be playing their new stuff as well unfortunately

Nice group! A design for life great song!

Always liked the Manics (up until Everything Must Go after that they died)

and have a new found respect for them after seeing them at Reading Fest 2008 I've neglected their music in recent years.

The Holy Bible has jumped into my all time top 20 after re listening to it after all these years.

It's hard to believe it's the same band making the dirge you hear these days (well not really the same since Richey is still M.I.A)

They definitely were better with Edwards' creativity, a sad loss.

I wish they'd go back to their early 90's awesomeness

they were great live at Reading as well

opening with Faster and closing with You Love Us and of course Design For Life

The Holy Bible will change your life

Never a truer word has been spoken on the subject of music

it's really unfortunate that they have become a really bad band since EMG

This is an article by the Stud Brothers, from Melody Maker, on the Manics. The Stud Brothers was a Melody Maker feature where they did interviews with bands and were generally very harsh and made the band being interviewed look silly. The Manics were one of the bands that held their own. I think this is a fun read and other MSP fans will enjoy.

Classic manics interviews - Destruction, Sex & Heroin

im not surprised they held their own

their Rhythm guitarist is one who carved '4Real' into his arm with a razor when the bands authenticity and values were challenged in an interview.

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"Even the bands from the past that we love - The Who, the Stones, the Pistols, The Clash - the way all of them turned out in the end was disillusioning, a letdown. We'll never let that happen." - Richey

i recently got into them due to someones name dropping of them
holy bible is excellent!!!
though i hated their newer stuff
ugh!
richey must have been key

There's a few gems in their newer stuff, Send Away The Tigers was actually a fairly alright album though i wouldn't recommend Know Your Enemy to anyone.

i listened to your love alone is not enough
purportedly a brilliant career resurrecting track according to Q magazine (no longer trusted, probably should never have been)
made me wanna die it was sooo bad

The Holy Bible really is MSP's Magnum opus.
Commendable for Richey's truly incredible lyrics and also for James' skill of putting them to a melody.
Lots of run on lines and hefty use of syllables in there. Not an easy task.

It's not bad for what it is, a catchy pop song. It's the kind of song that some people are always going to hate.
And never listen to Q ever.

i only ever bought one q magazine
not worth my cash
i think clash is fantastic though!

it didnt really grab me
the stuff on holy bible infinitely catchier and all round better

Bump.

I love The Manic Street Preachers. I love The Manic Street Preachers so much that I can never completely discredit anything they have ever done, as much as some of it most certainly deserves just that. The Manic's have been making very dull music for many, many years now. This Is My Truth is a hopelessly bland record, Know Your Enemy is an average record with a handful of decent tracks on it and I'm not a big fan of Everything Must Go either to be honest. However I too quite like Lifeblood. It's not the kind of music I want to hear from The Manics but for what it is, it's a very decent record. I also think their last one was alright, a major improvement but a couple of awful songs.

The Holy Bible is their peak, and I think It's an absolute masterpiece. You say it ****ed you up, I can actually understand that. The lyrics paint some really sickeningly dark images. I think from a songwriters point of view The Holy Bible is a real success. It's Richeys record (Nicky has said roughly 70-80% of the lyrics on this record were Richeys) and it's beautifully written but also how James actually managed to write music around those lyrics I have no idea, it is essentially poetry- hence the majority of those lyrics being barely audible. It's a good job he can sing fast.

They used to be one of my favourite bands, especially when they released Lifeblood (very adventurous and criminally underrated album). Then they released Send Away the Tigers, which just smacks of pandering to the masses by giving them exactly what they want which, needless to say, is an artistic venture I don't respect.

When you say "pandering to the masses" and giving "them" exactly what they want then what do you mean by "them?"

The general public, Manic Street Preachers fans or the more "old school" Manic Street Preachers fans who have actually heard any of their records before Everything Must Go?

I mean fans of This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours and Everything Must Go - so basically, yeah, basically the newer breed of Manics fans. People who just want catchy, guitar-driven anthems out of them. However wrong I may or may not be (I've only got through Send Away the Tigers once - really not my cuppa tea) that's how I see it.

Don't get me wrong, I love This Is My Truth... and Everything Must Go, but Send Away the Tigers to me seems like a mediocre rehash of the formula behind those two albums.