Favourite manic street preachers song ?

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  • Tel69Tel69 Posts: 26,991
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    Eraserhead wrote: »
    Really difficult to choose. The entire Holy Bible album is amazing and it doesn't feel fair to pick one or two tracks as favourites from that. Otherwise there's:

    Motorcycle Emptiness
    Motown Junk
    Ocean Spray
    Small Black Flowers...
    Ready For Drowning
    You Love Us (original version)

    Agree about The Holy Bible, it's a fantastic album that is rarely mentioned in any polls. My favourites are

    La Tristesse Durera
    She's Not Suffering
    To Repel Ghosts
    Prologue To History
    Judge Yourself
  • mr mugglesmr muggles Posts: 4,601
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    The Stealth Sonic Orchestra remixes of:
    A design for life
    Kevin Carter
  • ArcanaArcana Posts: 37,521
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    If You Tolerate This...
  • ashtray88ashtray88 Posts: 1,531
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    Slash n Burn.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 201
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    Ian Brown's remix of Let Robeson Sing is pretty great for novelty value. Some cracking guitar on it as well!
  • jargonjargon Posts: 558
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    So many good songs but if I had to choose one I think I'd go for 'Kevin Carter', always like listening to that one; 'Australia' is not far behind.
  • meechyemoomeechyemoo Posts: 659
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    A design for life (although This life 10+ nearly ruined that, funny it popped up on my random play this evening and all I can think about is that scene!)
    Motor Cycle emptiness
  • barbelerbarbeler Posts: 23,827
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    Mo'town Junk
    Motorcycle Emptiness
    She Is Suffering
    If You Tolerate This, Then Your Children Could Be Next
    Your Love Alone (the version with Nina Persson)
    Marlon JD (because the intro sounds like The Cure's 100 Years)
  • eugenespeedeugenespeed Posts: 66,695
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    Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
  • clarriboclarribo Posts: 6,258
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    Dead Trees and Traffic Islands.
  • DRAGON LANCEDRAGON LANCE Posts: 1,424
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    Pretty much everything off Everything Must Go. Sorry if that's a predictable thing to say, but god that was one hell of an album!
  • Paul WilsonPaul Wilson Posts: 5,108
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    UOTE=Soupietwist;69367303]Faster.[/QUOTE]

    Yeah, faster for me too. Fabulous song.
  • KalmiaKalmia Posts: 493
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    I love so many of their songs but I'd chose Motorcycle Emptiness as my favourite.
  • Multimedia81Multimedia81 Posts: 83,335
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    mred2000 wrote: »
    Off the top of my head (I spent far too many years following these guys...):
    Motown Junk
    We Her Majesty's Prisoners
    Condemned to Rock n Roll
    Patrick Bateman
    R P McMurphy
    Donkeys
    Are Mothers Saints
    Sepia
    Found That Soul
    Ocean Spray




    First western band to play a concert there, I believe. Which they released on DVD...
    Eraserhead wrote: »
    Really difficult to choose. The entire Holy Bible album is amazing and it doesn't feel fair to pick one or two tracks as favourites from that. Otherwise there's:

    Motorcycle Emptiness
    Motown Junk
    Ocean Spray
    Small Black Flowers...
    Ready For Drowning
    You Love Us (original version)

    Ocean Spray is also my own favourite. I love the bit where they blow their own trumpet about 2/3 of the way through. This even surpassed If You Tolerate This...
  • performingmonkperformingmonk Posts: 20,086
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    Nice to see some fans on here. :)

    I flitter between Manics eras all the time, going through periods of really hating the more commercial stuff (e.g. Tsunami) and then later embracing it! Though some tracks transcend all that for me, those being...

    Yes (The Holy Bible)
    Faster (THB)
    4st7lb (THB)
    Elvis Impersonator...(Everything Must Go)
    A Design For Life (EMG)
    Kevin Carter (EMG)
    Small Black Flowers...(EMG)
    The Girl Who Wanted To Be God (EMG) - that one is a current favourite
    Kevin Carter (EMG)
    Natwest...(Generation Terrorists) - if only for the middle bit alone!
    Motorcycle Emptiness (GT)
    Little Baby Nothing (GT)
    The Everlasting (This Is My Truth...)
    1985 (Lifeblood)
    Send Away The Tigers (SATT)
    Your Love Alone...(SATT)

    There are way too many others to list, including b-sides. The new record, Rewind The Film, has really grabbed me. I absolutely love This Sullen Welsh Heart, Rewind The Film, Builder of Routines, Tokyo Skyline, 3 Ways To See Despair and 30-Year-War.
  • Anika HansonAnika Hanson Posts: 15,629
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    Design for life or Kevin Carter.
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