New Manic Street Preachers Single

MLM

The new Manic Street Preachers single, "Your Love Alone is Not Enough". Definite return to form. Can't wait to see them at Electric Picnic.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyrJJxGWQ5g

super_furry

It's the best single I've heard all year. Brilliant stuff.

Creature

Yeah I'm really liking this single too. Reminds me of the old Manics .

Prezatch

Is the new album going to have the woman singer in all the songs!?! Jaysus I hope not

Edit: Just realised that's the one from the Cardigans. Ughhhh

Think it's a pretty awful single to be honest. Cheesy and generic, it reminds me of the Zwan singles for some reason. Although they do look quite healthy in the video, I think I preferred the Manics when they were depressed.

ghostdancer

the single is alright, but the other songs (apart from Imperial Bodybags) that i've heard so far are much better IMO. Indian Summer should be the next single i think, best thing they've put out in years. must grab the rest of the album later on...

1huge1

I've only their greatest hits (forever delayed) cd but I think their brilliant
faourite songs re
suicide is painless and there by the grace of god

im only going to one festival this year (ahem) and its not electric picnic, id love to see them

Mr Magnolia

I think it's a great tune. It's gotten plenty of airtime on SoccerAM which is generally a good sign

Robbo

Sparks400 wrote:

I think it's a great tune. It's gotten plenty of airtime on SoccerAM which is generally a good sign

I love the song to bits, best single I've heard from them since If You Tolerate This, but how is it being played on Tim'n'Kasabian in Da Bungalow a good sign?

MisterAnarchy

The new album Send Away the Tigers is very impressive.
2 instant classics in 'Indian Summer' and 'Autumn Song'.
Still one of the most talented bands out there .

ellenmelon

JoeyD wrote:

Is the new album going to have the woman singer in all the songs!?! Jaysus I hope not

Edit: Just realised that's the one from the Cardigans. Ughhhh

Think it's a pretty awful single to be honest. Cheesy and generic, it reminds me of the Zwan singles for some reason. Although they do look quite healthy in the video, I think I preferred the Manics when they were depressed.

my boyfriend wont hear a bad word about that song..but i just think its really irritating!

David O'Keeffe

Did anyone hear Manic Street Preachers Live, as featured on "Festival Sounds", issued in last weekends' "The Sunday Times!".

cashback

David O'Keeffe wrote:

Did anyone hear Manic Street Preachers Live, as featured on "Festival Sounds", issued in last weekends' "The Sunday Times!".

Unfortunately not, as my particular copy featured everything but the cd. Plastic was slightly torn open. Happens too often, missing stuff in that paper.
Anyway I quite like that single, nice summery vibe off it.

magpie

Its a bit of a lyrical climbdown to go from this:

I hate purity. Hate goodness. I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone corrupt.

I am an architect, they call me a butcher
I am a pioneer, they call me primitive
I am purity, they call me perverted
Holding you but I only miss these things when they leave

I am idiot drug hive, the virgin, the tattered and the torn
Life is for the cold made warm and they are just lizards
Self-disgust is self-obsession honey and I do as I please
A morality obedient, only to the cleansed repented

I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer
I spat out Plath and Pinter
I am all the things that you regret
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell

The first time you see yourself naked you cry
Soft skin now acne, foul breath, so broken
He loves me truly this mute solitude I'm draining
I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing

Sleep can't hide the thoughts splitting through my mind
Shadows aren't clean, false mirrors too many people awake
If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down
I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else

I am stronger than Mensa, Miller and Mailer
I spat out Plath and Pinter
I am all the things that you regret
A truth that washes that learnt how to spell, learnt to spell

So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything
So damn easy to cave in, man kills everything

to this

Your love alone – is not enough not enough not enough
When times get tough they get tough they get tough they get tough

Trade all your heroes in for ghosts in for ghosts in for ghosts
They’re always the one’s who love you most love you most love you most

Your love alone – is not enough not enough not enough
It’s what you felt it’s what you said what you said what you said

You said the sky would fall on you fall on you fall on you
Through all the pain your eyes stayed Blue they stayed Blue Baby Blue

But your love alone won’t save the world
You knew the secret of the universe
Despite it all you made it worse
[ these lyrics found on http://www.completealbumlyrics.com/lyric/131325/Manic+Street+Preachers+-+Your+Love+Alone+Is+Not+Enough.html ]
It left you lonely it left you cursed

You stole the sun straight from my heart from my heart from heart
With no excuses just fell apart fell apart fell apart

No you won’t make a mess of me mess of me mess of me
For you’re as blind as a man can be man can be man can be

I could have seen for miles and miles
I could have made you feel alive
I could have placed us in exile
I could have shown you how too cry

Your love alone is not enough
Your love alone is not enough

TBH it sounds like it was written by a 14 year old.

And all the current guff they're spouting comparing themselves to Towshend finally finding his voice with Quadrophenia is starting to give me the hump big time.

A band well beyond their best.

Garret

well of course nicky can never compare to richey in terms of lyrics. Have you listened to the new album?

weemcd

Instantly loved the single, bought the album on friday and have gave it a few good listen throughs. Im not a Manics die hard by any stretch but "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" sounds like a refreshing summer tune that trumps all the flavour of the week **** thats getting played on the radio.

Other good tracks from the album include my personal favoyurite: "Underdogs" "the second great depression", and like some people have already said "Indian Summer."

Garret

i autumnsong

Miguel_Sanchez

Yikes. Can't stand this single, as irritating as any generic piece of ****e that's out there at the moment.

lordgoat

It sounds like Ash. Never a good thing.

dimerocks

I love the manics to bits. One of my favorite bands but this single is muck. I think it is a terrible terrible song. Its put me off buying the album!! I reckon i'll get it eventually but not until i forget this one.

gasolinehorsey

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Yikes. Can't stand this single, as irritating as any generic piece of ****e that's out there at the moment.

me agree

klaus flouride

The MSP are always making a big deal about oppressive governments in the U.K. and U.S.A.- and then they play a gig in Cuba and shake hands with Fidel Castro; the man who imprisons people for publishing articles that haven't been approved of by his central government. I think the MSP are cool for talking about important subjects that other bands havent got the balls to talk about, but is it really necessary for them to make such contradictory actions?

CherieAmour

magpie wrote:

Its a bit of a lyrical climbdown to go from this:

FASTER

to this

YOUR LOVE ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH

TBH it sounds like it was written by a 14 year old.

It's always impossible to compare the Richey lyrics to the Nicky ones, but I am a die hard Manics fan and I LOVE the new single. I bought the album 2 weeks ago and have been listening to it non-stop. It's brilliant!

I don't agree with you that they are way past their best. They have changed for sure (there's nothing worse than bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers who resign themselves to churning out the same dirge over and over {ducks for cover:D }) but they are still immensely talented and have remained one of my favourite bands for many many years.

Even with albums like Know Your Enemy and Lifeblood, where I thought there were a lot of under par tracks, the good ones on there were really really good - So Why So Sad, Ocean Spray and A Song for Departure, I Live to Fall Asleep and Solitude Sometimes Is.

The new album is a true return to form in my opinion because every track is a winner. James Dean Bradfield's music is just tremendous!

I for one am a very happy camper

jester77

I saw them play at a festival last weekend. Absolutley brilliant and really like their new stuff, they were one of the highlights of the festival for me.

Cool_CM

dimerocks wrote:

I love the manics to bits. One of my favorite bands but this single is muck. I think it is a terrible terrible song. Its put me off buying the album!! I reckon i'll get it eventually but not until i forget this one.

Changed your tune a bit since then!

smackbunnybaby

never ever judge the manics on a first listen is all i can say anymore. they dont make bad songs, they just change their style. the songs are great in their own right and just need a little getting used to.

RadioGaGa

Haven't listened to the Manics in a while, this single was good. Can't say I was a fan of the cardigans but i liked that song lovefool.

Huxley10

klaus flouride wrote:

The MSP are always making a big deal about oppressive governments in the U.K. and U.S.A.- and then they play a gig in Cuba and shake hands with Fidel Castro; the man who imprisons people for publishing articles that haven't been approved of by his central government. I think the MSP are cool for talking about important subjects that other bands havent got the balls to talk about, but is it really necessary for them to make such contradictory actions?

The band have also expressed misgivings about how their gig in cuba was exploited by the government. They went there to play a concert, not to inspect the health system. They did not plan to meet Castro, he decided to meet them.
If you play a concert in a country, does that mean you endorse that countries government???? Do all those bands who play ****** every year support Bertie's actions? i don't think so.
The band spoke of Cuba's resilience in the face of the americanisation of the globe, plus the terrorism imposed on it by the US since the '60s (Cuban Democracy Act - Operation Peter Pan etc..). Just remember who the aggressor is in all of this.

Huxley10

i can't type ******?

Can someone please explain this to me?

Are we living in China or something???

******
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John

No but there's a legal dispute between MCD (the promoter of the stars you are typing) and board.ie so all mention of MCD events is disallowed until the legal dispute is over.