LIFEBLOOD is 50 % amazing.
can you list the songs you think this of?
It's not that bad but it does have one of the worst songs ever made The Everlasting
whoa, whoa, whoa.... that song's great! the first few times I thought it was forced, but now I find it to be among their best songs, and one of their most affecting.
― res, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 02:28 (fifteen years ago) link
IF YOU STAND UP LIKE A NAIL
fUCK YOU
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 02:36 (fifteen years ago) link
God, I remember thinking "I've been too honest with myself, I should have lied like everybody else" was the greatest thing I'd ever heard. I was WAY old enough to know better at that point as well.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 09:06 (fifteen years ago) link
There are no bad tracks on the 1st three ablums, I'm gonna vote GT to balance out the contrarianism a bit.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 09:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't look for nihilistic songs. Period.
WHY THE HOLY FUCK ARE YOU LISTENING TO THE MANICS THEN?
― ailsa, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Ailsa otm
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm a bit amazed at how popular this band seem to be here
― Tom D., Tuesday, 2 September 2008 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
but you're delighted about it?
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Couldn't be less delighted
― Tom D., Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
These guys sell out arenas in Europe, right? Cause in America they're completely obscure.
I don't pay attention to their lyrics very much, and could care less about their politics. But Know Your Enemy is a great rock album, particularly Epicentre.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 18:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't pay attention to their lyrics very much, and could care less about their politics.
Yeah I feel this way about the Democrats.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Are they big in mainland Europe or just here in the UK? (stan m to thread?)
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i like the way Sean looks in that photo. He looks like he's about 12 years old.
― res, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
V big in Thailand apparently.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Funny you should say that, as I was in Thailand several years back and heard one of their songs playing out of someone's car. at the time, I thought it very odd.
― res, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember reading an article about them about 14 years ago with them visiting Thailand and mass hysteria and arm cutting occurring amongst their fans. Pretty fucked up.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
And Richey visiting a prostitute
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
yes that's right ham shandies all round!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Even better is how Nicky looks like Shirley off EastEnders in that photo.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
dunno who that is
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Carter
― res, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
It is pretty uncanny:
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:JfT_AndWpk4K7M:http://static.whatsontv.co.uk/images/0836_103919_116883.jpg
― Neil S, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
i see the resemblance
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
nicky's way cuter though. i saw them in concert once and nicky made both me and my female friend swoon!
― res, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
one of the last times I saw them he wore angel wings
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
one of the nights at the barrowlands on the know your enemy tour.
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
he was wearing a feathered boa when I saw him.
― res, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
oh he probably had that too. He definitely had one on his mic. That gig was 1999 it seems.
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Are they big in mainland Europe or just here in the UK?
The "Everything Must Go" album sold well here, as did also "This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours". Before that they didn't mean much.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 23:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Before that they didn't mean much.
you mean when they were great.
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 23:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm glad I did make this poll last longer now.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 3 September 2008 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link
So Manics.........
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Manics at Hull Adelphi 1991 - incendiary. Ruffled Ritchie's hair and haven't washed my right boot since.Can't reach it as strapped in zimmer.
― Fer Ark, Wednesday, 10 September 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Would've loved to have seen them then.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 11 September 2008 00:46 (fifteen years ago) link
My mate saw them at King Tuts in 91
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 11 September 2008 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
he told me he saw them quite a few times back then.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 13 September 2008 00:12 (fifteen years ago) link
More convinced than ever that I know Fer Ark IRL.
― Camille Pagliacci (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 September 2008 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Have you asked him?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 13 September 2008 00:18 (fifteen years ago) link
bump
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Listened to the 1st 3 albums this evening. Still sound great, even if GT is a bit overlong and the ep versions of songs were better.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 21 September 2008 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.thisisyesterday.com/pics/last_gig.jpg
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 21 September 2008 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
idea that 'the holy bible' was ironic, courtesy but stanton, is adorable.
― spanish girls, they like to call me pancho (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 21 September 2008 11:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice pic
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 September 2008 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
That Thailand article xp had the quite brilliant headline Bangkoksucker Blues. The NME didn't even use it properly, they threw it away as the tagline on the masthead
I read it again a couple of years ago. Disturbing as the cutting stuff was, it was striking to me now how prudish the tone was. The band sleeping with groupies was a scandal, and Richey's visit to a brothel ('it was just paid masturbation, really') was like the end of the world. I was aware that we're supposed to have become a more sexualised culture over the past decade, but I didn't realise that we started off as the 50s midwest
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 25 September 2008 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember the same story in RAW or Kerrang and they didn't seem that bothered, they asked how old the girl was and he said not particularly young (prob his age) I suppose the shock may have been because they thought the manics wouldnt approve of groupies and read books and drank tea on the tourbus.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 25 September 2008 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Bankoksucker Blues- new handle right there!
― Neil S, Thursday, 25 September 2008 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 28 September 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I suppose the shock may have been because they thought the manics wouldnt approve of groupies and read books and drank tea on the tourbus.
IIRC, the other manics did feel that way and were privately horrified at what richey had done but didn't want to call him out in public -- similar to the '4 real' incident.
― J.D., Monday, 29 September 2008 02:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Well maybe. It's years since I read that article.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 29 September 2008 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link