Wall of Mouths

I can’t see how they can get away with using “I Know I Believe In Nothing But It Is My Nothing” when it’s already a Manics lyric…If there is nothing new in Richey’s lyrics to use as a title, then there can’t be all that much there anyway..

Steve Albini producing…? Hmmmmm. All sounds very interesting.

Big problem is that right from the start the Manics have talked a great game, and only on the Holy Bible itself have they completely delivered the goods (yes some of the other albums are great too, but nowhere near as good as THB) so I look forward to it, but with a healthy dose of cynicism.

charlie will be very pleased!

I will :p

I wish James would write more lyrics.

Indeed.

i got this e mail aswell because i too am a sad subscriber person.

thing about this is my heart says “yay” because in theory this is exactly the kind of thing i have wanted for about a decade but my head says “nay” because i know for a fact that it will probably be horrendously embarassing and beyond forgiveness. however i am seemingly in the minority of most old school manics fans in that i think richey is generally hugely over rated and romanticised as a lyricist anyway.

but it should be interesting anyway. and if i get another tour out of it then i shall be happy.

SATT was a great return i’ll agree.

i am a bit confused as to what they mean though about this. the nme has said it will be a full album but i really hope that isn’t the case. i know nicky can’t write for shit anymore but that really is scraping the barrel a bit. there was meant to be a book of richey stuff released at some point of unreleased stuff. i think it would be a bit sad for them to try to recreate THB with richey lyrics nowadays. i really don’t want to see james screaming lyrics that are about 15 years old written by his dead mate. for an entire album. i know some of the stuff on EMG was richey’s but those songs were mostly at least rehearsed with him around.

i hope it was nicky who wrote that e mail message because the one thing you can be sure of is that if nicky says “our next album will be a jazz polka album”, the last thing that album will sound like is jazz polka.

ill second that

As I was saying to Dan in an email yesterday, part of what made THB so special was that it seemed totally separate from anything else the Manics had done before and sat alone as this weird, other-worldly record that was a complete entity of its own, with its own sound, its own language and imagery.

For them to try and recreate that same feeling would kind of spoil that uniqueness that THB has.

The Manics really need to do something that is as urgent as THB was, whether that means a similar album or one that is worlds apart, because for me they haven’t done anything that has really meant much to me for years.

Send Away The Tigers WAS a step in the right direction, deffo.

Even Know Your Enemy has some great, almost THB-ish stuff on, it just wasn’t a coherent album as a whole. More than anything, I want the new one to feel like a solid, single body of work and not just a mishmash of styles and ideas. I think SATT went some way towards that, for sure.

Sounds like a fucking terrible idea to me.

Maybe it’s a ruse to try and coax him out of hiding.

Impossible to say for sure

He’s seen the fortune that Tupacs making and wants in on it.

Taunty Dan wrote:

He’s seen the fortune that Tupacs making and wants in on it.

In that case, I hope the Manics do a “Ghetto Gospel” type song with Elton John.