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LivDiv

Katie Melua is next week.

Moot_Geeza

Facewon wrote:

Good stuff reg. I file know your enemy right with the roots phrenology. Same vibe, same "this is the album everyone hates." But it's highs are really high, IMO.

Everyone hates Phrenology? I always assumed that would be their most popular overall.

poprock

I have a soft spot for You Love Us as a proper manifesto of a song. Sneering at the world was a good look on the Manics.

It’s not my number one though.

I’ve always loved the double whammy of Faster and P.C.P., as the best balance they ever managed between serious lyricism and adrenalin fuelled anger.

Those aren’t contenders either.

Motorcycle Emptiness is a thing of beauty. The excess of a rock ballad turned inside out and blasted clean. It’s close, but no cigar.

My top Manics track is La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh). Hits me square in the gut every time.

JMW

I do love Your Love Alone with Nina Persson although I suspect that may have more to do with Nina Persson.

regmcfly

poprock wrote:

I have a soft spot for You Love Us as a proper manifesto of a song. Sneering at the world was a good look on the Manics.

It’s not my number one though.

I’ve always loved the double whammy of Faster and P.C.P., as the best balance they ever managed between serious lyricism and adrenalin fuelled anger.

Those aren’t contenders either.

Motorcycle Emptiness is a thing of beauty. The excess of a rock ballad turned inside out and blasted clean. It’s close, but no cigar.

My top Manics track is La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh). Hits me square in the gut every time.

When I was young, PC meant police constable.

Paul the sparky

You Stole The Sun From My Heart for me I reckon. Proper poppy but it's a good 'un.

Syph79

regmcfly wrote:

poprock wrote:

I have a soft spot for You Love Us as a proper manifesto of a song. Sneering at the world was a good look on the Manics.

It’s not my number one though.

I’ve always loved the double whammy of Faster and P.C.P., as the best balance they ever managed between serious lyricism and adrenalin fuelled anger.

Those aren’t contenders either.

Motorcycle Emptiness is a thing of beauty. The excess of a rock ballad turned inside out and blasted clean. It’s close, but no cigar.

My top Manics track is La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh). Hits me square in the gut every time.

When I was young, PC meant police constable.

Nowadays I can’t seem to tell the difference.

optimark_prime

I jumped straight in with my REM choice, and have just decided I’d have liked to have changed it.

Manics are brilliant from the albums I own, but there’s lots I haven’t heard.

I do like Kevin Carter a lot, and I don’t think it’s been mentioned yet (apologies if it has and I missed it), so I’ll go with that.

regmcfly

Also a good time to remind you that MSP do a better Sweet Child O Mine than GnR.

Gremill

Paul the sparky wrote:

Mix it up a bit. Gremill will have to wait for the RHCP.

In their absence can we do Status Quo instead?

Diluted Dante

Certainly better than the current line up.

Paul the sparky

Gremill wrote:

Paul the sparky wrote:

Mix it up a bit. Gremill will have to wait for the RHCP.

In their absence can we do Status Quo instead?

Put it to a vote, see what everyone wants.

Gremill

Paul the sparky wrote:

Gremill wrote:

Paul the sparky wrote:

Mix it up a bit. Gremill will have to wait for the RHCP.

In their absence can we do Status Quo instead?

Put it to a vote, see what everyone wants.

Everyone will just down down vote it.

The Daddy

Everlasting holds some nice memories of slightly maudlin mid-late teenage days at college. Plus Mark and Lard’s rip off of if you tolerate this... was great!

https://youtu.be/mQPZ-Rn3pas

Went off the manics after seeing them live back in 2001, just didn’t really do much for me. Still enjoy hearing design for life etc when they crop up on radio 2, but I don’t choose to listen to their stuff.

Facewon

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Facewon wrote:

Good stuff reg. I file know your enemy right with the roots phrenology. Same vibe, same "this is the album everyone hates." But it's highs are really high, IMO.

Everyone hates Phrenology? I always assumed that would be their most popular overall.

I dunno where it sits now, but it's press, and certainly the vibe from folks in the scene here (God, I was young enough to be in a scene, bless) was very mixed.

Obviously the seed is a monster track, but the emphasised guitar and playful metal excursions and quest getting a little looser where seen as departures.

Tempy

Can’t believe Cocko thinks a band that put out Holy Bible and EMG are weak MOR. Is this what pop punk does to you?

Anyway, probably 4st 7lb for me. Everything about it is a brilliant encapsulation of that album even if it is incredibly morbid and gross. Guitar that would peel flesh from bones, lyrics that are acid drenched and whip smart, a killer intro sample and a perfect sonic reflection of its subject matter in the way it contrasts choppy dissonance with a dreamlike closing pass.

“Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat, all things I like looking at.”

Diluted Dante

Gremill wrote:

Paul the sparky wrote:

Gremill wrote:

Paul the sparky wrote:

Mix it up a bit. Gremill will have to wait for the RHCP.

In their absence can we do Status Quo instead?

Put it to a vote, see what everyone wants.

Everyone will just down down vote it.

Whatever you want mate.

Moot_Geeza

Facewon wrote:

Good stuff reg. I file know your enemy right with the roots phrenology. Same vibe, same "this is the album everyone hates." But it's highs are really high, IMO.

Everyone hates Phrenology? I always assumed that would be their most popular overall.

I dunno where it sits now, but it's press, and certainly the vibe from folks in the scene here (God, I was young enough to be in a scene, bless) was very mixed. Obviously the seed is a monster track, but the emphasised guitar and playful metal excursions and quest getting a little looser where seen as departures.

That was where the buzz was over here, that's how it seemed to me anyway. When I bought it from Virgin Megastore the guy behind me was also buying it and there was a chat about it with the till staff. Obviously this tiny experience could be representative of nothing, but in my head it was their most famous album based on that, magazine coverage and the fact that non rap fans seemed to know about it at work etc.

Bob

Travis? The worst bunch of indie bed wetters? Fuck off

Moot_Geeza

Collateral probably had something to do with it.

Edit: Roots thing.

Diluted Dante

Bob wrote:

Travis? The worst bunch of indie bed wetters? Fuck off

I'm coming around to them.

Bob

I like them
But they’re no Manics on their best day!

Their best day they’re a Tesco value Coldplay

Roujin

LivDiv wrote:

A bit like R.E.M I only really appreciate Manics at a surface level. However Motorcycle Emptiness is one of my fave songs. Not top 10 but probably would be in a top 40.

I second this sentiment. I really only have very scant knowledge of them but Motorcycle Emptiness is probably my fave track of theirs and one of the few I can even recall on demand from memory really.

Otherwise it's a soft spot for Design for Life purely because it came out around the time we went on a field trip for Geography GCSE and the place we were staying at had it on the jukebox and it was getting rinsed, also this was the same trip my friend would introduce me to the track P Control by Prince and forever change my life (thank u Neil, although we are separated by the passage of time and don't talk anymore, I never forget u for that, large up my friend).

regmcfly

Aa-aaa-aa-a-a-a-a PUSSY CONTROL

AND THE MORAL OF THIS MOTHER FUCKER IS...

cockbeard

hahahaha, I knew Travis would push buttons but I'm serious, U16 Girls is an anthem, just for many acts that were to follow it should have been a mantra

Bob

You’ll
Be banging the Top Loader drum
Next

Paul the sparky

Achilles Heel was alreet.

LivDiv

Bob wrote:

You’ll
Be banging the Top Loader drum
Next

That will be a quick round.
They had one song and it was shit.

Week 27
Top Loader
Throw your stereo in the bath.

cockbeard

On the plus side, it seems there's plenty I missed, so I can remedy that with some of the suggestions on these here pages. At the moment I still stand by earlier comment, they just didn't inspire me, I had Cornershop really pushing boundaries

Eric

LivDiv wrote:

Bob wrote:

You’ll
Be banging the Top Loader drum
Next

That will be a quick round.
They had one song and it was shit.

Week 27
Top Loader
Throw your stereo in the bath.

And it wasn't even their shit song, it was a cover. Pisses me off that they managed to forge any sort of career off the back of it.

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