Tsunami - Manic Street Preachers

Journal For Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers

The Manic Street Preachers previous album Send Away The Tigers saw them recapture their glory days with a series of anthemic stadium-rock classics. And while no one could begrudge them more chart success, there was always a feeling of unfinished business hanging over the band, in the shape of missing lyricist Richey Edwards. Richey was officially declared dead last year, and this has perhaps allowed the band to revisit his left-behind lyrics and actually do something with them. It may seem a bit morbid, but there genuinely isn t the sense on this album that they are trying to cash in on the cult of Richey - in fact, it s more of a tribute to him. A quick glance at ...

Journal For Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers

The Manic Street Preachers previous album Send Away The Tigers saw them recapture their glory days with a series of anthemic stadium-rock classics. And while no one could begrudge them more chart success, there was always a feeling of unfinished business hanging over the band, in the shape of missing lyricist Richey Edwards. Richey was officially declared dead last year, and this has perhaps allowed the band to revisit his left-behind lyrics and actually do something with them. It may seem a bit morbid, but there genuinely isn t the sense on this album that they are trying to cash in on the cult of Richey - in fact, it s more of a tribute to him. A quick glance at ...

Journal For Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers

MANIC Street PREACHERS - Journal for plague lovers. So The Manics for years were one of the top rock/pop groups to come from the UK, first three albums all offered something to show the rest of the world that we could still do rock music as well, with the beautifully tuneful "motorcycle emptiness" you could already see the class in this band. Over the years they changed styles many times, though their earlier input tended to be poppy punk based with a lot of melancholic lyrics which is right up my street!! This was mainly due to chief songwriter Ritchey Edwards, well sadly come 1995 Ritchey disappeared, car left on a notorious suicide spot nothing heard ...

Journal For Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers

MANIC Street PREACHERS - Journal for plague lovers. So The Manics for years were one of the top rock/pop groups to come from the UK, first three albums all offered something to show the rest of the world that we could still do rock music as well, with the beautifully tuneful "motorcycle emptiness" you could already see the class in this band. Over the years they changed styles many times, though their earlier input tended to be poppy punk based with a lot of melancholic lyrics which is right up my street!! This was mainly due to chief songwriter Ritchey Edwards, well sadly come 1995 Ritchey disappeared, car left on a notorious suicide spot nothing heard ...

Lifeblood - Manic Street Preachers

amazing on “Fragments” it is the track that took the longest to grow on me. It’s still an excellent track and will help this album become one of the great Manic albums that have been so lacking in recent years. The album is a slightly different direction for the band granted, but the best bits of the old Manic’s are still there 7 albums after they first appeared. If you are a fan of the band then I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. It’s a marked improvement on the last album. The album contains a lot more ballads than previous albums but this seems to suit the Manic’s style more than the Punk Indie sound they started out with 7 albums ago. It’s a shame its taken them ...

Lifeblood - Manic Street Preachers

amazing on “Fragments” it is the track that took the longest to grow on me. It’s still an excellent track and will help this album become one of the great Manic albums that have been so lacking in recent years. The album is a slightly different direction for the band granted, but the best bits of the old Manic’s are still there 7 albums after they first appeared. If you are a fan of the band then I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. It’s a marked improvement on the last album. The album contains a lot more ballads than previous albums but this seems to suit the Manic’s style more than the Punk Indie sound they started out with 7 albums ago. It’s a shame its taken them ...