The Manic Street Preachers

[R4tfink]

Brilliant band...well up until their last two albums anyway.

One of the best debut albums in the history of Rock and Roll with Generation Terrorists, they spoke about things people were shying away from.
Influenced by Public Enemy, The Clash and Guns N Roses, they shocked people with their smutty leopard skin, makeup ways.
They pissed in the face of Acid House, on bands like The Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses et al.

13 years on they are still going strong, their latest album isnt up to much but to be honest, ever since the dissapearance of Richard James Edwards, they havent ever been the same.

Favourite songs :-

Another Invented Disease
You Love Us
Condemned to Rock and Roll
The Everlasting
Motown Junk

Although i seem to have a new favourite Manics track on a daily basis.

Discuss The Manics, how they broke out of small coal mining towns in Wales and made shit hot music, discuss the dissapearance of Richey, conspiracy theories and the brilliant brilliant lyrics he contributed to a band that means so much to so many people.

Nicky Wire -Bassist - "Richey was seen by many as the greatest poet of the 90's"

I have to agree.

All hail The Manics.

[jarmo]

I got into them thanks to "A Design For Life" and I think "Everything Must Go" is still my favorite MSP album....

But I do remember seeing "Suicide Is Painless" and "Motorcycle Emptiness" on MTV and liking those back in the day. But it wasn't until later that I bought a MSP album and that was "Everything Must Go".



/jarmo

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Get yourself a copy of Generation Terrorists and Gold Against The Soul Jarmo, im telling you, you will love them both!

[Chris Misfit]

First three albums are more than amazing. All the rest are for NME readers.

Awesome band though.

...You got the Manic Street Preachers, with nothing to say....

Pity.

[Jim]

I have always fucking loved Nostalgia Pushead...

...As well as Everything Must Go, in more recent times.

My brother used to be a fucking huge fan, but I could never really get into them that much...Although they made some fantastic stuff.

And Generation Terroists is an amazing album.

[jarmo]

Get yourself a copy of Generation Terrorists and Gold Against The Soul Jarmo, im telling you, you will love them both!

I didn't say "Everything Must Go" is the only one I have.

I own: Everything Must Go
Forever Delayed (Limited Edition)
Generation Terrorists
Know Your Enemy
Lipstick Traces
The Holy Bible
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours



/jarmo

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Ach...your missing Gold Against the Soul....

Buy, Buy, Buy!

[GNR_Green]

First three albums are more than amazing. All the rest are for NME readers

I seem to remember the NME ripping into the Manics' more recent stuff when they reviewed their 'greatest hits'.   

Generation Terrorists is one of the best British Rock albums I think.  It's easy to see the GN'R influence.  Motorcycle Emptiness is my favourite track, it's got such an anthemic feel to it but keeps a good rock n' roll vibe.

[Izzy]

Generation terrorists and Gold against the soul have their moments - but their an average band at best and everything after the aformentioned albums is worse than awful, shockingly bad indie-pop made for NME.

[Ignatius]

I like a couple of songs. " Life becoming a landslide" , " Tristeza Durera" and a few others from that album ( I can't remember the title of it...) a '95 release? I lost track of those songs and can't find them anymore. I don't want to buy the album, but I wouldn't mind downloading a couple of songs. I search in WinMx and all I found was the most recent songs.

I saw them at Benicassim - Alternative Music Festival Spain summer of 2001 - They covered Sweet Child o' Mine. I thought that was pretty cool?

Whatever happened to that guitar player? I heard many theories about it. Ain't that strange? how can someone dissapear like that?

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IG, i cant be arsed to spell the name so u have been christened IG.

The album u speak of so greatly is "Gold Against The Soul"

Use Soulseek...its on there...by the tenfold!

www.slsknet.org

Easy to use and everything u ever wanted!

Richie James Edwards disapeared in 1994-95...cant remember the exact year and im not researching.
He has never been seen since...some people claim self imposed exile, others claim suicide by jumping off a bridge, near to where he was last seen...anyhow...no body was found....so he is still alive somewhere i think.

I think he's hiding in Ballymona.

[PauloMacca83]

Hiya,

Im new to this board. I used to be a HUGE gnr fan back in about 1995-2001. Im 21 now so when I got into them it was kinda a little too late for me to ever see them live.... sniff... although they did announce a tour of the UK (Including a date at my home town manchester!!) in 2001 but cancelled it twice and then never rescheduled it because Axl new nothing about it...

That really killed my interest off in Guns but I just felt like joining this message board to, well, voice my views really.
I went to see the Manic Street Preachers @ the M.E.N in december and it was a really good concert. Although now they have turned into the thing they initially set out to be the antithesis of (bloated rock stars squeezing every penny out of whatever they can) they played a lot of material of their "Holy Bible " album. I dont know why Im mentioning this but hey, Im bored and Im in a computer room in a place of manchester called Salford, I can see man utds ground and its making me sick as im a big man city fan..

Ahh well I feel ive chatted enough shit to bore you all into submission but it was just a means of introducing myself...

Gotta go now

PS EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH "THE PUNISHER" WITH TOM JANE AND JOHN TRAVOLTA IN, IT ROCKS!!

Laterz....

[jrs2001_99]

Interesting that you mention that - AFD is often cited by the Manics to be one of the albums that had a big influence on them as they were starting out.

Their older stuff rocks... you can sorta hear a bit of GNR influence in songs like Motorcycle Emptiness, with the melodic guitar leads threaded right throughout the song.

[Izzy]

Hiya,

Im new to this board. I used to be a HUGE gnr fan back in about 1995-2001. Im 21 now so when I got into them it was kinda a little too late for me to ever see them live.... sniff... although they did announce a tour of the UK (Including a date at my home town manchester!!) in 2001 but cancelled it twice and then never rescheduled it because Axl new nothing about it...

That really killed my interest off in Guns but I just felt like joining this message board to, well, voice my views really.
I went to see the Manic Street Preachers @ the M.E.N in december and it was a really good concert. Although now they have turned into the thing they initially set out to be the antithesis of (bloated rock stars squeezing every penny out of whatever they can) they played a lot of material of their "Holy Bible " album. I dont know why Im mentioning this but hey, Im bored and Im in a computer room in a place of manchester called Salford, I can see man utds ground and its making me sick as im a big man city fan..

Ahh well I feel ive chatted enough shit to bore you all into submission but it was just a means of introducing myself...

Gotta go now

PS EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH "THE PUNISHER" WITH TOM JANE AND JOHN TRAVOLTA IN, IT ROCKS!!

Laterz....

What was the point of this thread?

[jaknudsen]

Interesting that you mention that - AFD is often cited by the Manics to be one of the albums that had a big influence on them as they were starting out.

Their older stuff rocks... you can sorta hear a bit of GNR influence in songs like Motorcycle Emptiness, with the melodic guitar leads threaded right throughout the song.

And it doesn't hurt that they did a live cover of It's So Easy 

I've got it on mp3 somewhere...

[Tj]

The Manics are excellent, my third favourite band. The Holy Bible has been in my CD player more than any other CD for the last month or so 

[Izzy]

Early Manic's is certainly intresting - i own Generation terrorists and Gold against the soul - some fine riffs, and very rock n' roll - but they went downhill fater than an avalanche at a ski resort, the guitarist died and so did the band's ability - 'Design for life' is one of the most awful songs i have ever heard, from then on i have done my absolute best to avoid hearing their stuff......

[Narcissa]

All their songs sound the same. The only one I like is If you Tolerate this.

[AdZ]

the guitarist died

Got any proof of that?

[R4tfink]

Yes there material has deteriorated since Richie's disapearence...but they can still cut it live!

Check out there Millenium Eve gig at The Millenium Stadium in Cardiff...fantastic performance.
Although i havent heard them live recently!

First 3 albums ruled...
The latter albums have some nice little titbits, but the rest is boring.