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I'll look into that album.
Cheers.
I tend to go for their more commercial stuff. I think Everything Must Go is one of the great british albums. The first few tracks heard one after the other are killer.
Holy Bible
Everything Must Go
The new album is probably their best ever in my opinion, but is to as classicly them, if you're looking for something like motorcycle emptiness.
The other stuff is a little bland, repetitive and formulaic for my tastes, but they're successful so good for them.
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The Holy Bible is, in my opinion, one of those "bedroom classics" like The Queen Is Dead...albums that appeal to the lost student in me.. One of my favourite albums, and one that the Manics have never bettered, but probably too dark and claustrophobic for the casual listener.
Alas, in recent years they have really lost me along the way and I now feel they have done more that I don't like than they have that I do...Shame, as at one point they were far and away my favourite band.
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+1, have a wisdom.
Apart from the odd song (Slash and Burn and From Despair to Where spring to mind) from the other earlier albums Holy Bible is the only one I can listen to now. In their day, I loved Generation Terrorists and Gold Against the Soul, but I just can't listen to them now.
Anything post Holy Bible has just been bland shite. They kind of became the type of band they hated when they first started off.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
Some influence is fine, and don't get me wrong, these ARE original songs not outright copies, but still Futurology sails too close to the wind for me.
Can't really argue with this, but I DID give up on them after 'Know Your Enemy' so can't comment on the last decade's stuff. I don't want to deify Richie ('specially as by all accounts he was a bit of a dick), but since he went and Nicky started doing most of the lyrics they've lost an undefinable 'something' to me - the music's gone a bit limp and the lyrics sound like a sixth-form English Lit student trying to write like Richie.
His lyrics are a large part of what makes their recent output unlistenable for me.
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