MANIC STREET PREACHERS Best Album Poll

nicky's way cuter though. i saw them in concert once and nicky made both me and my female friend swoon!

one of the last times I saw them he wore angel wings

one of the nights at the barrowlands on the know your enemy tour.

he was wearing a feathered boa when I saw him.

oh he probably had that too. He definitely had one on his mic. That gig was 1999 it seems.

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.

Before that they didn't mean much.

you mean when they were great.

I'm glad I did make this poll last longer now.

So Manics.........

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.

Would've loved to have seen them then.

My mate saw them at King Tuts in 91

he told me he saw them quite a few times back then.

More convinced than ever that I know Fer Ark IRL.

Have you asked him?

bump

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.

http://www.thisisyesterday.com/pics/last_gig.jpg

idea that 'the holy bible' was ironic, courtesy but stanton, is adorable.

Nice pic

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

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.

Bankoksucker Blues- new handle right there!

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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.

Well maybe. It's years since I read that article.

C'mon ILX Manics fans get those votes in. I'm sure there's more out there than we think.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I think that's the order I'd rank them.

Suits me too.

Huge number of votes!

It was a lot, yes. I knew there was secret manics fans on ILM!

i guess i'm meant to vote for the holy bible or emg, but generation terrorists is the one i totally fell for at the time, so, that.

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 1 September 2008 14:35 (1 month ago)

As an addendum to this, I've just been reminded that my version of GT is the US release, with (I think) a substantially different track listing/order. Yes, Wiki agrees with me at least.

I've actually never knowingly heard the UK version, and I'm wondering if my perception of the Manics would have been substantially different had I done so. I understand the US version removed all the vocal snippets and some potentially contentious songs, so what am I actually missing out on? Should I invest, after all this time?

I've also still got the longbox my CD came in, which I suppose makes it collectible nowadays - no examples on eBay for comparison purposes, sadly.

http://theloveof.atspace.com/US-GT-longbox.gif

You should buy it, yes.

I have the pic disk of GT and i always wish i had picked up the reissued ltd pic cd that came out a few months later (probably after Motorcycle Emptiness was a hit). It sat in (the original) Missing Records in Glasgow for about a year at £9.99.

Send Away The Tigers really was a decent album. Maybe the new one will be better than could be expected.

Gold Against The Soul deserves a deluxe reissue.

Also last week people were surprised the Manics were so high in a revived ILM albums of all time poll, so this poll proves there's still LOADS of manics fans around.

there aren't many polls get 121 votes

Sometimes lurkers turn out in droves for polls

LOADS of manics fans around.

Not in America. They're completely obscure here, which is surprising because we like big stadium anthems. I always thought somebody should cover A Design For Life on American Idol. That would help.

didn't see the poll in time to vote but would have gone for holy bible, because the north american version of said album netted me $450 on ebay when i sold it in 2002

daaaaaaaaamn. that's for sure the right time to cash in.

holy shit!

Would have voted for Gold Against the Soul.

a) how'd I miss a Manics thread b)Lifeblood is totally underrated

nah Lifeblood was very poor apart from the opening track.

i only have 'everything must go' and it hasn't encouraged me to discover anything else by this band. it's the epitome of a record that leaves me cold. the music seems to reflect the frumpy cover art - the vocals are bland, the delivery clumsy, the songwriting pedestrian, and there's a general sluggishness to the songs that prevents them from assuming the anthem-like grandeur that was so obviously intended. not particularly bad, just really mundane.

"everything must go" is possibly my least fave (up until "this is my truth" after which I paid no attention) for all the reasons you mention charlie. i like "this is my truth" but each song goes on a bit too long and doesn't really go anywhere after the initial verse and chorus.

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/rank-your-records-manic-street-preachers

"There are some crimes on this album, undoubtedly."

This interview's been around awhile but I am just reading it for the first time. JDB surely one of the few rock songwriters who calls out one of his own albums for being "too rockist."