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09-06-2015 12:29 |
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Originally Posted by MoMoney MoJunk
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Found That Soul is amazing (I voted it number 1 in the Manics Chart recently too!). So Why So Sad was an odd choice I always thought, but KYE is a very odd album. There aren't too many natural singles actually when you think about it.
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Originally Posted by Son of Stopped
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I love "So Why So Sad" as I feel it was the last great Christmas single we never had before Cowell's Clowns kept taking the spot.
"Baby Elian" would have been an interesting single but would have burnt their fingers even more than the Cuba trip!
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I emphasise that the question isn't whether FTS or SWSS are good songs - they are - but whether or not they made good singles. They charted well enough (top ten, although something of a drop from the number one that Masses achieved), and I am sure the band wanted to use them to demonstrate the musical breadth of KYE, but at the time, after Masses, they felt - at least to me - rather underwhelming as singles.
Ocean Spray, Let Robeson Sing, Intravenous Agnostic (this in hindsight) and Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children are in my view the most 'natural' singles from that very mixed bag - the latter mainly because the band seemed to consider it one of the 'bigger' songs on KYE (plus it had Kevin Shields on guitar).
I still find it utterly bizarre that Masses wasn't included on KYE (well, outside of Japan) - it would have fit perfectly.
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Originally Posted by MoMoney MoJunk
(Post 2645790)
1985 should have been the lead single from Lifeblood. Or at least a single.
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Originally Posted by Son of Stopped
(Post 2645777)
"1985" should have been the lead single.
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Completely agree. This must be pretty much indisputable now. I'd liked to have seen Litany as a single too (which was originally the plan).
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Originally Posted by MoMoney MoJunk
(Post 2645790)
It's Not War is pretty naff. The video was kinda cool though. It's the only album I dislike, but Postcards From a Young Man itself is a fantastic song.
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Originally Posted by Son of Stopped
(Post 2645777)
No problem with YLAINE or even "Underdogs" th
Even INWJTEOL was a good pop-rock piece.
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My view is that YLAINE and INWJTEOL were essentially two versions of the same attempt at a (record company-recommended?) marketable radio-friendly chart-topper. I remember liking YLAINE a lot when it came out, but I feel it's aged terribly since then; It's Not War, by contrast, is still okay. I don't feel either is the Manics' best work.
I find it very hard to propose alternative singles from PFAYM and RTF. My favourite track by far from the PFAYM era is actually a b-side (Red Rubber), and my favourite from RTF is rather unoriginal, having been built on a royalty-begging Max Richter sample (Tokyo Skyline).
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Originally Posted by Porco
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Europa GDM might not have been an official single, but it got a separate, pre-album release with its own artwork, which is pretty much all a 'single' often is these days anyway!
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Good to see plenty of love for Europa Geht Durch Mich and consensus that it should have been/essentially was a single.
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