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3rd Jun 2010, 5:33 AM #76
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Sorry this post is huge but look at it!
*shame" Well that's what I got for listening to a leaked album!
I intend to get a ticket for Liverpool as it just so happens British Sea Power are another band I like so I'm at their support slots!
And to further make ammends:
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3rd Jun 2010, 10:22 AM #77
I think largely the Manics are a teensy bit past it nowadays but they were such an important band to me that I can't help but love them. And I didn't think their last album was bleak!
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3rd Jun 2010, 9:57 PM #78
I agree - there was definitely more than a touch of melancholy about it, but there was hardly anything (except perhaps Doors Closing Slowly) that was anywhere near as bleak as The Holy Bible.
Oh, and I also agree about them being a bit past it; and about still loving them. I've been a fan since I was 16, and now at more than double that, I still am. I'm looking forward to this, like I always am.
Good to see Duff McKagan playing on it - as adequate a bassist as Nicky himself.
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3rd Jun 2010, 10:05 PM #79Originally Posted by Awesome Wells
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4th Jun 2010, 9:33 PM #80
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I did get my ticket for 8th October Liverpool University after all!
And two days after my 36th birthday! So far only Aberdeen has sold out, but the dates will fill up in time. I have a feeling the success of this record could mean you next see the band in stadiums? I'm seeing it as a "Last chance to see" event. And yes, it's weird how the band have been with me for as long as they have? Not to mention the dysfunctional relationship I have with them!
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5th Jun 2010, 9:24 AM #81We never did that Shepherd's Bush Empire gig, Paul...
Was listening to Generation Terrorists again for the first time in a long time and it was great. However it does make me cringe seeing James now perform Stay Beautiful.
I think they just need to realise the ridiculousness of what they've become and just enjoy playing old man rock and have a good time! Which they did on Send Away the Tigers and thats a decent enough album.
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26th Jul 2010, 6:37 PM #82Originally Posted by The Manics
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26th Jul 2010, 6:43 PM #83
Don't be Evil is a particularly poor title.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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26th Jul 2010, 6:47 PM #84
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29th Jul 2010, 6:58 PM #85
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:wayne http://www.the-fly.co.uk/words/featu.../-first-listen
Well that review has sold me over! Looks like this is the one where they try to be our friends? This could be the only Manic Street Preachers record anyone really needs to buy!
Not bothering looking for or hearing a leak.
If the idea is the last type of Classic Rock album then I may as well hear it on day of release like I did in the classic days...
Be back to this thread in September then!
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30th Jul 2010, 9:39 AM #86
The Fly, eh? Does this mean I can finally abandon the wretched NME website for all my indie music news?
Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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30th Jul 2010, 9:45 AM #87
I enjoyed Send Away the Tigers and I loved Journal for Plague Lovers so I'm quite hopeful about this album, despite the txt speak titles.
But the Manics today are sort of like your dad. When you were young you thought he was a hero and could do everything. Now you're older you realise he's just a fallable old man, with limitations, peddling the same jokes he has for 40 years but you still love him.
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30th Jul 2010, 10:55 AM #88
That's a brilliant way of describing them Paul!
I haven't heard the last two albums, maybe I should. I sort of lost paitence with them after TIMTTMY.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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31st Jul 2010, 10:39 PM #89
http://www.akirathedon.com/2010/07/l...e-end-of-love/
I wasn't listening to Radio 2 the other day.
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11th Aug 2010, 1:32 PM #90
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For fans who entered gig competition we didn't know about, the Manics released a b-side from the upcoming first single as a thank you.
I didn't enter it... but somebody on You Tube did!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Ojl5_clZk
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26th Sep 2010, 3:31 PM #91
Album is a top three smash.
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7th Oct 2010, 1:32 PM #92
I'm going to see them at the end of October!
Si.
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8th Oct 2010, 12:24 AM #93
I'm giving a cautious thumbs-up to Postcards From A Young Man; although nothing is quite as impressive as '(It's Not War) It's Just The End Of Love' (their best lead off single since A Design For Life), there's still a great deal of fun to be had - not least marvelling (i.e. chuckling) at some of Nicky's lyrics, which as ever, veer from the poetic to the pathetic. Often in the same verse. Thankfully, the music is almost uniformly superb: a Bradfield triumph. To sum up, it's better than anything they've done in the last decade (except Journal For Plague Lovers).
Top tunes include: Auto-Intoxication, Hazelton Avenue and All We Make Is Entertainment.
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8th Oct 2010, 7:34 AM #94
I downloaded the whole album for the princely sum of five bills and forty nine kerchings from Tune Tribe. I shall be listening today.
Si.
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8th Oct 2010, 12:05 PM #95
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8th Oct 2010, 12:10 PM #96
Was it my hearing or do he and James share vocals on an early track?
I really like the first four or five tracks!
Si.
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8th Oct 2010, 12:19 PM #97
I'm really liking '(It's Not War) It's Just The End Of Love', which depsite its silly title is a great song.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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8th Oct 2010, 12:23 PM #98
The title is either silly or Amazing.
Si.
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8th Oct 2010, 12:29 PM #99
That's a constant battle with the Manics.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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8th Oct 2010, 12:38 PM #100
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