Old Manics Fans
Just wondering if anyone is as disillusioned by their new stuff as I am?
Then again I'm a Holy Bible Nutter:D
Its just that I heard their new offering the otherday and actually said out loud "what a pile of crap!"
Just wondering what other fans think. X
Then again I'm a Holy Bible Nutter:D
Its just that I heard their new offering the otherday and actually said out loud "what a pile of crap!"
Just wondering what other fans think. X
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To be honest, in terms of being disillusioned by the manics, nothing will top the EMG era for me. And as such I'm pleasantly surprised whenever they release anything that isn't "Kevin Carter".
The new stuff isn't their best, but far from their worst either.
Every album I've heard since has been music by numbers, like they're going through the motions but there's no real substance. One or two songs are still quality but mostly it's all a bit formulaic.
I can't abide the traditional Manics fan "they don't sound exactly like they did 17 years ago!!!!!" whining, because firstly, well DUH, and secondly every album they've done, with the possible exception of This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours has been a departure, musically and lyrically from the last.
Lets face it, people love to find fault and if they were still making records like The Holy Bible or Generation Terrorist, they'd be criticised for showing no musical development,
They are also a million times better as a live act now than in the nineties. I saw them six times on the last tour (with the also amazing British Sea Power) and they were bloody fantastic. Slash n Burn and My Little Empire as well as Your Love Alone and a good few from PCFAYM? Perfect.
Why is it I seem too lean more over too Generation Terrorists and Everything Must Go .
I think there new album is great you should here the lyrics very clever.
Like The Godfather 3 we never can escape.That abit like Camron and Clegg abit they never can escape there own faults.
I remember they did a radio one showcase thing live with bands like Silverfish and Slowdive and also 5'30 on the bill and they just wiped the floor with the lot of them, Nicky Wire on amazing form just slagging them and the fans off and rightly so
I saw Richey and Nicky at Fulham broadway as they were recording the LP and thought they just looked amazing amongst all the baggy shoegazers and casuals that were around at the time,
I don't know wha happened, naybe it was Richey that was the driving force that gave them an edge, but since he left they have become very soft and very uninteresting.
But then i think many bands should've split long before they did, Oasis being a classic example, they should've quit after the third LP.
After all the hype i remember being really let down by the debut LP, it was far to soft for my liking compared to the EP that preceded it.