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Post by mkoasis on Apr 9, 2017 22:04:22 GMT -5
^ I'm only a casual fan of Nick Cave, but I'd definitely throw Red Right Hand in there. "Hey I guess they're right. Senior citizens, although slow and dangerous behind the wheel, can still serve a purpose. Don't you go dying on me!" |
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Post by joladella on Apr 10, 2017 12:40:15 GMT -5
^ I'm only a casual fan of Nick Cave, but I'd definitely throw Red Right Hand in there. Well, I did write that I could as well mention each and every song off "Good son", "Let love in" and "Push the sky away".  But that means that I agree of course! |
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Post by andybellwillring on Apr 24, 2017 9:28:17 GMT -5
Anyone familiar with Phoenix?
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Post by Manualex on Apr 24, 2017 9:34:42 GMT -5
Anyone familiar with Phoenix? Just listen to Wolfang Amadeus Phoenix. That's their greatest hits in álbum form 😂 |
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Post by The Escapist on Jun 19, 2017 5:13:22 GMT -5
Talking Heads anyone?
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Post by funhouse on Jun 19, 2017 7:25:03 GMT -5
I like about 10 songs of theirs, and in chronological order that might be a pretty good playlist Psycho Killer Don't Worry About The Government (not really a big fan of this, but it's somewhat hilarious which makes it worth a listen) Artists Only Take Me To The River The Big Country Life During Wartime Heaven Drugs (this is basically just because of the instrumentals, which are phenomenal) Born Under Punches The Great Curve (my personal favorite) Once In A Lifetime Burning Down The House This Must Be The Place Road To Nowhere Enjoy! |
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Post by funhouse on Mar 26, 2018 4:31:48 GMT -5
Pulp and Manic Street Preachers (excluding Common People and If You Tolerate This, Motorcycle Emptiness). Preferably in order of release, since I always find it interesting to see the progression.
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Post by andybellwillring on Mar 26, 2018 5:43:34 GMT -5
Okay this is Manics in order of release with 2 songs from album (4 from The Holy Bible since it fkn rocks):
1. Slash 'N' Burn
2. You Love Us
3. Sleepflower
4. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
5. Yes
6. Faster
7. This Is Yesterday
8. Die in the Summertime
9. The Girl Who Wanted to Be God
10. No Surface All Feeling
11. The Everlasting
12. Ready for Drowning
13. Ocean Spray
14. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children
15. 4 Ever Delayed
16. 1985
17. Empty Souls
18. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
19. Indian Summer
20. Peeled Apples
21. Marlon J.D.
22. Postcards from a Young Man
23. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever
24. This Sullen Welsh Heart
25. Builder of Routines
26. Walk Me to the Bridge
27. Between the Clock and the Bed
28. International Blue
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Post by beentherenow on Mar 29, 2018 15:33:50 GMT -5
Great thing about the Manics is I completely agree with the above playlist but there’s also tons of other stuff which is pure quality (Condemed To Rock n Roll, Archive of Pain, Removables, My Little Empire)
If you decide to get into the Manics properly you won’t regret it,
What is incredible is how their first four albums all sounded completely different to one another, you’d think they were different bands if it wasn’t for his distinctive singing
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Post by mkoasis on Apr 17, 2018 22:29:26 GMT -5
Okay this is Manics in order of release with 2 songs from album (4 from The Holy Bible since it fkn rocks): 1. Slash 'N' Burn 2. You Love Us 3. Sleepflower 4. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) 5. Yes 6. Faster 7. This Is Yesterday 8. Die in the Summertime 9. The Girl Who Wanted to Be God 10. No Surface All Feeling 11. The Everlasting 12. Ready for Drowning 13. Ocean Spray 14. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children 15. 4 Ever Delayed 16. 1985 17. Empty Souls 18. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 19. Indian Summer 20. Peeled Apples 21. Marlon J.D. 22. Postcards from a Young Man 23. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever 24. This Sullen Welsh Heart 25. Builder of Routines 26. Walk Me to the Bridge 27. Between the Clock and the Bed 28. International Blue I'm going to have to work my way through this playlist. I heard Everything Must Go and loved it, with "No Surface all Feeling" being my favourite. I had no idea they had so many albums. What would you rank as their top 5 albums? |
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Post by beentherenow on Apr 18, 2018 1:37:32 GMT -5
I love all their albums apart from 2004’s Lifeblood but like most bands a great place to start is the beginning
Generation Terrorists is longer than Be Here Now, covers Hard Rock, Punk, Industrial as well as just great pop songs. A very ambitious debut to say the least.
Gold Against the Soul is probably my least favourite 90’s album as they lose their identity a little a go a bit US Grunge. Still has really great songs though and well worth a listen
Holy Bible is my personal favourite but it’s dark and bleak. There’s a far bigger contrast between this and its follow up ‘Everything Must Go’ than BHN and SOTSOG. A must listen.
A Plague for Journal Lovers is my favourite 00’s album but like I say they’re all 8/10 or above but the first 4/5 should probably be where you start
Top 5 would be
The Holy Bible
Generation Terrorist
Everything Must Go
Journal for Plague Lovers
This is My Truth Tell Me Yours
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Post by andybellwillring on Apr 19, 2018 18:51:21 GMT -5
From the top of my head
The Holy Bible
Everything Must Go
Journal For Plague Lovers
Futurology
Generation Terrorists
But yeah listen to all of them eventually, there's always some good songs on every album even if some are a bit hit-and-miss.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Apr 23, 2018 13:40:33 GMT -5
While we're talking Manics, I've gotta say, Nicky Wire really brought it on This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours. I think it's his best album, lyrically. When it was most needed, too, as the first album not to use any of Richey's writings, and the follow up to Everything Must Go.
Love this verse from 'Black Dog on My Shoulder':
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Post by mkoasis on Apr 25, 2018 0:24:32 GMT -5
OK, now that i've had the chance to listen my way through the 90s albums I can give some sort of verdict. I like what I've heard, though Everything Must Go is still definitely my favourite of their albums.
Generation Terrorist was surprisingly more late 80s sounding, like GunsnRoses almost, than I expected. Motorcycle Emptiness and NatWest Barclays Midlands Lloyds stood out as the ones I wanted to listen to again. It is definitely a very ambitous debut (18 tracks? Bold) and is like BHN in that its quite a heavy listen to digest.
Gold Against the Soul has a Nirvana grungy vibe more than the last one, its okay, nothing bad at all but nothing really grabs me either. It's one I must come back to later. From Despair to Where is the best on here IMO, but lots of good guitar riffs.
The Holy Bible has a great sound (listened to the US mix apparently, from Youtube). Very dark themes lyrically. I think some reviewer described it as the sound of an individual in a tight-knit group of friends who is fading away and dying with self loathing as no one notices. It does make for a good concept for an album. I liked If White America..., Faster, and This is Yesterday. Warrants further listening.
This Is My Truth is interesting in that the big songs (apart from If You Tolerate This...) don't do anything for me. But You're Tender and Tired, Born a Girl, Nobody Loved You and Black Dog are the songs I really love. This album is split 50/50 almost, into really quite good and decent but nothing too special. I still blame Richard Ashcroft for putting me off strings.
Next up is Know Your Enemy...will let you know once I get there.
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Post by mkoasis on May 1, 2018 0:48:49 GMT -5
Ok Manics update: I really didn't expect to be impressed much with Know Your Enemy, but wow - it might just be my favourite yet. It's definitely got a BHN thing going on at 73 mins and 16 tracks, but they're all (what I've heard anyways, which is 12 of those) very good. They've got the blast of punk fury they do so well, and as a politically inclined band they make a steady impression here. I think stripped down a bit to 12-14 songs, it might be equal or greater to Everything Must Go.
Best tracks for me:
Found that soul
My guernica
Freedom of speech won't feed my children
Ocean Spray
It seems a lot of fans love the Ritchie era material but personally I like the post-Ritchie albums more. THB is great (songs and concept) but it's not an album id find myself returning to as often as the ones that came after.
Next is Lifeblood isn't it?
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Post by jojoww1877 on Jun 1, 2019 10:23:08 GMT -5
I don't know if it was done before but I really want to get into Half man half biscuit.
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Post by marystroppins on Jun 1, 2019 10:52:46 GMT -5
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Post by mkoasis on Jun 3, 2019 0:51:22 GMT -5
Okay this is Manics in order of release with 2 songs from album (4 from The Holy Bible since it fkn rocks): 1. Slash 'N' Burn 2. You Love Us 3. Sleepflower 4. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) 5. Yes 6. Faster 7. This Is Yesterday 8. Die in the Summertime 9. The Girl Who Wanted to Be God 10. No Surface All Feeling 11. The Everlasting 12. Ready for Drowning 13. Ocean Spray 14. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children 15. 4 Ever Delayed 16. 1985 17. Empty Souls 18. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 19. Indian Summer 20. Peeled Apples 21. Marlon J.D. 22. Postcards from a Young Man 23. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever 24. This Sullen Welsh Heart 25. Builder of Routines 26. Walk Me to the Bridge 27. Between the Clock and the Bed 28. International Blue Okay, after a year and a bit of enjoying the Manics, here’s my top 25 Motorcycle emptiness From despair to where Yes Faster This is yesterday All surface no feeling A design for life Removables Blackpool pier/Elvis impersonator If you tolerate this... You stole the sun from my heart Born a girl Intravenous agnostic My guernica Freedom of speech won’t feed my children Send away the tigers Me and Stephen hawking All is vanity Jackie Collins existential question This sullen welsh heart Rewind the film International blue Liverpool revisited Hold me like a heaven My favourite albums are Everything Must Go, know your enemy, journal for plague lovers, resistance is futile, and this is my truth. (Holy bible is next! It is a good album but it’s harder for me to get into it as much as everyone else, apart from the few tracks here) |
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Post by Manualex on Jun 3, 2019 10:31:23 GMT -5
Have you mkoasis heard the non album singles like Motown Junk, You Love Us(Heavenly version), Suicide Alley and The Masses Against the Classes and There by the Grace of God? There are some great songs in there that should've made the cut for albums. |
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Post by mkoasis on Jun 4, 2019 0:08:14 GMT -5
Have you mkoasis heard the non album singles like Motown Junk, You Love Us(Heavenly version), Suicide Alley and The Masses Against the Classes and There by the Grace of God? There are some great songs in there that should've made the cut for albums. I only know Masses Against the Classes! Are the rest of these on the Forever Delayed compilation album? That’s one I’ve not heard yet. |
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Post by Manualex on Jun 4, 2019 8:37:34 GMT -5
Have you mkoasis heard the non album singles like Motown Junk, You Love Us(Heavenly version), Suicide Alley and The Masses Against the Classes and There by the Grace of God? There are some great songs in there that should've made the cut for albums. I only know Masses Against the Classes! Are the rest of these on the Forever Delayed compilation album? That’s one I’ve not heard yet. Motown Junk and There By The Grace of God is, the other version of You Love Us has real drums from Sean and Suicide Alley is the first manics' single. God Save The Manics is an ep that features someleftover tracks from the Lifeblood sessions(which could/should've been the third single from that album). |
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Post by dampcottage on Jul 16, 2019 11:41:11 GMT -5
dragging this thread from the wilderness purely because I love this band, a starter for 10 in no particular order: Servo Satellite Nevertheless Straight up and down- long version Not if you were the last dandy on earth Open heart surgery Fingertips Pish Van hande med dem? Anemone I have 2 playlists for them totalling about 40 songs! And Anemone is the greatest thing ever- for me anyway |
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Post by tomlivesforever on Jul 17, 2019 16:37:17 GMT -5
dragging this thread from the wilderness purely because I love this band, a starter for 10 in no particular order: Servo Satellite Nevertheless Straight up and down- long version Not if you were the last dandy on earth Open heart surgery Fingertips Pish Van hande med dem? Anemone I have 2 playlists for them totalling about 40 songs! And Anemone is the greatest thing ever- for me anyway Sorry I missed this the first time around. Dampcottage has posted a good list above but i’d like to add a few to that. Vacuum Boots Who? Wisdom (has to be the version of the lady singing the middle bit) Geezers When Jokers Attack Prozac Vs Heroin You Look Great When I’m Fucked Up Goodbye (Butterfly) Third World Pyramid (David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six Hold That Thought Seriously the greatest band hardly anybody listens in my opinion! Let me know what you think. If you do like them, there gig from Kentish Town forum this year has just been added to YouTube. Search for cardinal sessions. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2019 17:12:26 GMT -5
No love for Methodrone? I'd add these songs if I were to make a Brian Jonestown Massacre playlist: Crushed Evergreen Swallowtail That Girl Suicide Just For Today theyknowwhatimean |
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