#12 Manic Street Preachers: Know Your Enemy (Deluxe Edition)
And congratulation to the @Manics! Who, with #KnowYourEnemy at #12 get their fucking TENTH entry onto Necessary Evil!!
#NE2022
And congratulation to the @Manics! Who, with #KnowYourEnemy at #12 get their fucking TENTH entry onto Necessary Evil!!
#NE2022
What’s that? A new @manics reissue?? Well, the world needs to hear my thoughts on that, right? Managed to limit myself to 6’350 words
We’re up to #31 and… Jesus Christ, *more* @Manics?? Haven’t I wrote enough about them recently?? Well, their new record is a subtle and multlayered return to form
More than 25’000 words talking about The Manic Street Preachers’100 greatest songs.I can die now…
As always, I jump on any opportunity to bore on about The Manics, so the recent reissue gave me a chance to bore on about heir most unfairly maligned album
You might not believe this- considering it sounds so much like a slogan that would have been scrawled over the shirt of an awkward looking Sean Moore in 1991*- but the Manic Street Preachers haven’t actually released an album (or even song) called ‘resistance is futile’ before! (*some classic Manic Street Preachers t-shirt slogans from the early … Continue reading 55 Manic Street Preachers: Resistance is Futile (and the Manics albums ranked)
Forever, Ever Pastiche I’ve explained on this blog before how music journalism is absolute bollocks. A person’s response to music is a primal and unconscious reaction that simply can’t be described in words. Because of this paradox 99% of music reviews are the writer vainly attempting to explain why he or she likes or hates … Continue reading Entry #2 Manic Street Preachers: Roses in the Hospital
“It still whets the appetite for next year’s promised Krautrock album (if only to see how terrible that could potentially be)”- 2013 Palmers Ah come on, were you really expecting anything else? Tiger Woods was once asked whether he considered himself to be the greatest golfer of all time and replied that he only wanted … Continue reading 1 Manic Street Preachers: Futurology
Here it is, my full 2015 memoir about my experience and partial healing ten years ago. This is the end of a lot of things