#31
Bad Karma wrote:
Yeah the start of A Secet Society does sound a lot like She’s Lost Control.This EP will be the only new material from them until the next album which probably won’t be out until 07 or something.I’d love it they made a real return to form and had a comeback like Morrissey just did.But i’m afraid they will just drift more and more into obscurity with another mediocre album.The next album really is their last chance(mind you after Know Your Enemy everyone said Lifeblood was their make or break time),It has to be very good!
Posted on Sat, 9 April 2005 at 10:19
#32
Bad Karma wrote:
The Manic Street Preachers are making their ‘God Save The Manics’ EP available as a free download from http://www.manics.co.uk from April 20th. IN ADDITION, there will ALSO be a limited number of CD copies of the EP (featuring exclusive new artwork) available to a lucky few manics.co.uk users.
To get your hands on one of these ultra-rare collector’s items you need to send a pre-paid SAE envelope to the following address:
‘GOD SAVE THE MANICS’ EP PROMOTION
INTERACT
PO BOX 607
LONDON
SW6 4XR
The first 1500 envelopes received will be sent their CD copy of the ‘God Save The Manics’ EP***. All envelopes should be pre-paid to £0.29 and big enough to hold a standard 5” CD.
Full details are available from http://www.manics.co.uk
Posted on Thu, 14 April 2005 at 18:42
#33
mr self destruct wrote:
I got the Holy Bible 10th anniversary edition after reading this thread - and very nice it is too :)
How fucking surreal is their TOTP appearance? :p What makes it even weirder is Vic and Bob appearing during it :)
Posted on Sat, 16 April 2005 at 18:43
#34
romy wrote:
mr self destruct wrote:
How fucking surreal is their TOTP appearance? :p What makes it even weirder is Vic and Bob appearing during it :)
yes,legendary :D
i read that the BBC got LOADS of complaints after it was broadcast,hehe :D
Posted on Sat, 16 April 2005 at 21:19
#35
mr self destruct wrote:
Yeah, James talks about the balaclava/IRA complaints in the DVD interview.
On a related note, it’s the first time I’ve heard the song “Judge Yrself”. I think it’s ace, anyone know when it was recorded?
Posted on Sun, 17 April 2005 at 10:16
#36
romy wrote:
late 1994 (or early 95?),for the “Judge Dredd” soundtrack!
Posted on Sun, 17 April 2005 at 10:23
#37
mr self destruct wrote:
Aha, the clue’s in the title :)
Posted on Sun, 17 April 2005 at 10:38
#38
Bad Karma wrote:
Judge Yr’self is a brilliant song it’s the last song they did with Richey and you can find it on Lipstick Traces it’s a two CD compilation of B-sides/rarities/cover versions/unreleased tracks.It’s worth getting too for 4 Ever Delayed.
Posted on Sun, 17 April 2005 at 12:54
#39
Dennis wrote:
Anyone got this download yet? I cannot get it to work on my PC and wondered if anyone had version of it they could post a link to or email me etc etc.
??
Posted on Wed, 20 April 2005 at 09:25
#40
romy wrote:
yes,worked fine with me!there was some message on the page that it won’t work with certain systems and players other than windows media.
anyway,the songs themselves are better than most of the stuff on lifeblood.especially firefight shines, so the bad quality bootleg didn’t fool me.great :)
Posted on Wed, 20 April 2005 at 12:26
#41
Bad Karma wrote:
Dennis wrote:
Anyone got this download yet? I cannot get it to work on my PC and wondered if anyone had version of it they could post a link to or email me etc etc.
http://www.fragments.narod.ru/
Posted on Wed, 20 April 2005 at 20:41
#42
not_that_kind_of_guy (a story on the radio) wrote:
bad karma: i’ve downloaded the e.p, no problem’s with that but i only seem to be able to listen to it as a three track non-stop type loop. how do i make it track by track. i’m only interested in firefight really.
but i’ve sent my jiffy bag to the address so hopefully i’ll get the proper thing. ;)
Posted on Wed, 20 April 2005 at 22:47
#43
romy wrote:
not_that_kind_of_guy wrote:
bad karma: i’ve downloaded the e.p, no problem’s with that but i only seem to be able to listen to it as a three track non-stop type loop. how do i make it track by track. i’m only interested in firefight really.
yeah,i’d like to know that too,cos i can’t even convert it to mp3,so i cannot cut it :(
Quote (author unknown):
but i’ve sent my jiffy bag to the address so hopefully i’ll get the proper thing. ;)
good luck :)
Posted on Thu, 21 April 2005 at 09:37
#44
Bad Karma wrote:
Did you guys try that fragments link i posted it has the tracks in MP3 format.I haven’t downloaded the EP from the site because my EP came today in the post.:D:p If the site isn’t working i can rip the songs to 192kb and send them to you on MSN.
The EP is already on Ebay and when i last looked was going for over a tenner,it’s probably more now.
Posted on Thu, 21 April 2005 at 17:31
#45
Bad Karma wrote:
This website has MP3’s of the two bonus tracks there were only available on the japanese Lifeblood,The Soulmates is very good and worth checking out.
http://www.manicsguitar.com/
Posted on Thu, 21 April 2005 at 18:06
#46
Bad Karma wrote:
Posted on Thu, 21 April 2005 at 20:46
#47
not_that_kind_of_guy (a story on the radio) wrote:
yay! recieved my e.p in the post this morning!
Posted on Fri, 22 April 2005 at 11:40
#48
mr self destruct wrote:
not_that_kind_of_guy wrote:
yay! recieved my e.p in the post this morning!
Bet you’re well chuffed!
Posted on Fri, 22 April 2005 at 17:03
#49
Isness wrote:
Most unimpressive. I absolutely love Lifeblood, but the songs here do nothing for me. Ah well.
Posted on Thu, 26 May 2005 at 16:31
#50
Bad Karma wrote:
Talking of Lifeblood it’s really cheap on Amazon.co.uk at min it’s less than a fiver.
Posted on Tue, 31 May 2005 at 12:27
#51
Isness wrote:
Hahaha. I didn’t realise it sold that badly.
Posted on Tue, 31 May 2005 at 16:06
#52
Bad Karma wrote:
Yeah it did really badly haha it only managed two weeks in the top 75 albums,it debuted at 13 and then on it’s second week it fell to 52 and then into oblivion on it’s third week.As you know i’m not thay overly fond of the album there is some good stuff on it but the rest of it i find sooooo bland but Lifeblood’s poor performance has surprised me.I thought this was the kind of album that would appeal to casual mainstream music buyers(even Q slagged it off) but i suppose the choice of singles didn’t help and all the lacklustre performances the Manics turned in on Jools Holland and every other music show they were on when Nixion was released.I like lots of bands whose albums will never chart in the top 75 but when you’re in a fairly successful pop/rock band like the Manics and on a major label it’s bad.
Posted on Wed, 1 June 2005 at 11:49
#53
Bad Karma wrote:
There’s a rumour going around the Forever Delayed forum that James Dean Bradfield is making a solo album.Some fans met Martin Hall and he told them,there’s been nothing official confirmed so the story might turn out to be bollocks but i hope it’s true.I think Nicky Wire’s lyrics on the last couple of albums have been really shite so i doubt James could do any worse and he still has one of the best voices in rock so it should be good or at least better than the last two or three Manics albums.
Posted on Fri, 17 June 2005 at 11:27
#54
not_that_kind_of_guy (a story on the radio) wrote:
Bad Karma wrote:
There’s a rumour going around the Forever Delayed forum that James Dean Bradfield is making a solo album.
i heard something about that the other day actually. i’d be interested to hear it if it’s true. i agree totally with what you said there about wire’s lyrics, they truly have been awful on the last few albums. but then again james writes the music and that was also pretty piss poor on those albums too. i think it’d be a lot more stripped down than any manics stuff though. i can’t imagine jamesy dean bradfield playing songs with different musicians. i remember a few years back on jools hollands new years program james did a version of “out of time” with some other session musicians and it just looked so, so wrong. on the “god save..” ep didn’t james actually write “firefight”? i really like that one. however good or bad it is if he does a solo album it really can’t be any worse than “lifeblood”. then again i remember saying prior to “lifeblood”s release, “oh well it can’t be any worse than “know your enemy”. and i was wrong there too.
Posted on Fri, 17 June 2005 at 18:26
#55
Bad Karma wrote:
Yeah James wrote Firefight which is an alright song and he also wrote Ocean Spray which i thought was the best song on Know Your Enemy.
Now that i think about it most Manics albums are almost solo albums anyway,in the early days James played all Nicky’s and Richey’s guitar parts on Generation Terrorists.
I read in a couple of interviews Sean and Nicky said The Love Of Richard Nixion was Sony’s choice for first single off Lifeblood and they weren’t allowed to pick and they didn’t really care anymore.
I’m looking forward to James solo album a hell of a lot more than the next Manics album.
Posted on Fri, 17 June 2005 at 18:40
#56
Misanthropologist (d) wrote:
I’d be interested in hearing a solo album. I have to be in the right mood for the Manics, but I’d be interested in hearing a solo album.
Posted on Fri, 17 June 2005 at 22:53
#57
romy wrote:
well,bring it on,i’d say.it can’t get any worse than lifeblood for me :p
Posted on Sun, 19 June 2005 at 21:12
#58
Isness wrote:
I’d be curious about a solo album, although to be honest, the lyrics aren’t anything I really care about with later-era Manics (it’s such a stale criticism now) and I’m not sure how well James’ newer songwriting would fit a more stripped down sound. I love Lifeblood, but the songs really fitted the electronic sound… I can’t imagine acoustic versions working.
I wonder what happened to the rumour that the band were ready to start another record and make it even more electronic…
Posted on Wed, 3 August 2005 at 01:26
#59
Bad Karma wrote:
Well what happened was Sony wouldn’t even put pay for the God Save The Manics EP (the Manics paid for it themselves)nevermind a new album.Given the reaction Lifeblood got(it’s currently £2.99 in FOPP) i’d be surprised if they carried on in more electronic direction in one interview Nicky said the new album might sound more like A Secret Society.Whichever musical direction they go in i think this next album will be the last they release on Sony i really don’t see them making a comeback anytime soon.
Posted on Thu, 4 August 2005 at 11:38
#60
Hatham wrote:
I love the manics and always will, but to be honest it’s the early stuff i mainly love. After the release of Everything must go they never seemed the same, maybe thats due to the fact that after EMG it was only nicky doing the lyrics, they never seemed to get back on track. Also nicky wires ranting and the whole glastonbury thing didnt help matters either. That said, i was probably one of the few who actually like Know your enemy, especially the track baby elian, though i dont think anyting can better The Holy Bible. Aside from infernal love, one of my fav albums of all time.
Posted on Sun, 7 August 2005 at 23:38
