Ivan Drago Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdMxgFMRX4U&fmt=18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoddyhmfc Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Amazing! Back to the holy bible days. can't wait to get tickets for them tomorrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midloth_Iain Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 JDB getting angry again, need to listen to it a few times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosanostra Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Amazing! Back to the holy bible days. can't wait to get tickets for them tomorrow! It does sound a bit like Holy Bible now you come to mention it. I love that LP although i'm not really a massive fan of the rest of their stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Drago Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 apparently the new album has lots of Richey's lyrics, or is made up entirely of them. (not sure which). Also someone told me there wont be any singles so i don't think its going to be a very commercial album which for me can only be a good thing. The drums on that new tune are awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby_swing_the_bar Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 Pretty good song, like the old manics again. All the lyrics are lyrics left behind by Richey, Manics felt it was time to use them. Produced by Steve Albini as well who did In Utero amongst others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denny Crane Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 The Manics got their roar back with the last album "Send away the tigers". Early signs are, going by this song, the bite has returned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_R Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 I love the manics but mostly listen to bands that are a bit heavier rock oriented. So you'd think this would appeal but something just doesn't sit right. At first listen it seems, I dunno, a bit messy? I probably just have to hear it a few more times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Stevens Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 The chorus sounds like 'Temptation' by Heaven 17. Or am I being really dumb and missed that that was intentional? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bighusref Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 I never understood the fervour for the Manics, average indie band IMO. I liked Suicide Is Painless and little more tbh. I always remember JDB talking about the loss of Richey and stating that some of the lyrics in their new album had subtle messages to Richey if he was still out there listening. Subtle? "I just hope that you can forgive us, but everything must go!". Oh, and JDB was scathing about Scots which I found offensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Stevens Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njh6paP3eyk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northfieldhearts Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Superb song. barrowlands here I come! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makateer Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 The chorus sounds like 'Temptation' by Heaven 17. Or am I being really dumb and missed that that was intentional? That was my first thought as well hearing the song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Drago Posted March 28, 2009 Author Share Posted March 28, 2009 I never understood the fervour for the Manics, average indie band IMO. I liked Suicide Is Painless and little more tbh. I always remember JDB talking about the loss of Richey and stating that some of the lyrics in their new album had subtle messages to Richey if he was still out there listening. Subtle? "I just hope that you can forgive us, but everything must go!". Oh, and JDB was scathing about Scots which I found offensive. For me there easily one of the most underrated bands of all time. JDB is definitely an underrated guitarist - the mans a genius. Thats not really a message to Richey if you ask me, more of a message to the fans or a rallying call kind of thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToadKiller Dog Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Feck i can remember going to see live the Saturday morning kids show Get Fresh (with the legend gilbert the alien )when it turned up at Dundee waterfront where the hilton hotel casino is now located and that the live band was the manics that day,have been a fan of there manics ever since ,Will be at the barrowlands to see them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYC-Hearts Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Bumpity BUMP. I've been listening to the new album pretty much non-stop for the past two weeks. Totally compelling. A deliberate attempt to recapture the past by most veteran bands will almost definitely result in total failure...here, wow. It's not a total return to Holy Bible (although "Bag Lady" wouldn't sound out of place as track 14 on that album)--the album has more of a feel of a career overview, with a definite eye on the past--but they've given presumably the last set of Edwards lyrics a fitting sendoff. It's only May, but I'd be surprised if this album is not my pick for record of the year on December 31. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYC-Hearts Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 For me there easily one of the most underrated bands of all time. JDB is definitely an underrated guitarist - the mans a genius. He's a great guitarist, sure, but his vocal range is out of this world. From supporting post-punk, totally evil riffage to mid-tempo pop waltzes, to acoustic tracks--he has such an incredible ability of inflection and tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Kidd Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 He's a great guitarist, sure, but his vocal range is out of this world. From supporting post-punk, totally evil riffage to mid-tempo pop waltzes, to acoustic tracks--he has such an incredible ability of inflection and tone. The Manics last great album was the Holy Bible. Generation Terrorists was genuinely one of the best Rock and Roll records ever made. Q last month gave their new album 5 stars and is made up of a pack that Richey left Nicky (he photocopied it for James and the drummer) the week before he died/disappeared. if it's anything like the Holy Bible then it will be an utterly compelling piece of work. I can't wait to get my paws on it in the next couple of days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYC-Hearts Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 The Manics last great album was the Holy Bible. Generation Terrorists was genuinely one of the best Rock and Roll records ever made. Q last month gave their new album 5 stars and is made up of a pack that Richey left Nicky (he photocopied it for James and the drummer) the week before he died/disappeared. if it's anything like the Holy Bible then it will be an utterly compelling piece of work. I can't wait to get my paws on it in the next couple of days. I wouldn't say it's a Holy Bible II; at times, with the distorted bass, tortured riffs and vocals, it sounds like it, but it lacks the hate and disgust of Holy Bible. Also, it references a few career highlights other than HB. The raves the album has been receiving are not misplaced. It's easily the best album since Everything Must Go. It doesn't quite reach the heights of Holy Bible because even with the effective suicide note of William's Last Words, it can't approach the harrowing 4st, 7lb, which, to me, is such a inimitable song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lobey Dosser Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 The most important band in my life. They're back. Thank god for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Drago Posted May 13, 2009 Author Share Posted May 13, 2009 I haven't heard the album yet, I saw Me and Stephen Hawking on Later..with Jools Holland though, and I thought it was fantastic. I'd say Everything Must Go was their last great album personally, although Holy Bible is the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.J Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Just got the album today. I've been a Manics fan since early 93 and have been frankly appalled by every release since The Holy Bible. For an angry young band that after their debut effort, Generation Terrorists, had threatened to split up and hoped that Michael Stipe died of AIDS, each album from Everything Must Go onwards has been little other than a massive slice of coffee table, dinner party MOR commercialism. However, it does seem that with the new album that they are at least trying to be the band that they were before, and whilst this is in part down to Richey's lyrics being used for the first time since THB, it's still taken a lot for a now bunch of fat, middle aged men to recreate something that they last did nearly 15 years ago. All in all, no it isn't the Holy Bible.....but thank the sweet lord christ, it certainly isn't Everything Must Go. That all said, Nicky Wire singing on "William's Last Words" is abysmal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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