1001 Untrue Manics Truths
 

#1 JDB had to re-record the line before the solo in Archives Of Pain hundreds of times because he kept spelling dessert instead of deserve.

#2 Richey played all the solos on Generation Terrorists.

#3 Nicky's most common recurring dream is winning Strictly.

#4 Russian and American delegates wanted to use Glasnost as the official song of some peace unto world's bullshit but were put off when the Delegates met the band who then played them every other album that wasn't Lifeblood.
Just revealing this could ruin their fortunes forever now.

Coulda just bumped this existing thread:

http://www.foreverdelayed.org.uk/for...ad.php?t=50006

But Sean wiped the memory of it from 90% of the population with his magical powers. ;)

#5: JDB likes to reinforce his down to earth, man of the people image by pulling a shift at his local chippy, every other Tuesday evening.

6# James lives in a glass house and often spends his evenings up on his roof throwing stones at Sean, who lives in the garden.

7# Sleepflower was written about the fact that Nicky refuses to go to bed unless there is a vase of fresh flowers on his bedside table.

#8 Nicky Wire has an irrational fear of pencil illustrations.

#9 The numerical measurement used for guitar playing capability is known as a “Bradfield”.

#10 That Manics have repeatedly played Springsteen-esque long sets.

#11 During any gig or live performance, Sean wears a small pouch around his neck that contains all of his baby teeth.

#12 It's actually physically impossible to play the song Faster more slowly. A delicate construction of harmonic frequencies mean that the song plays at the same speed whatever you do to it.

#13 International Blue sounds more sad when played internationally.

Walk Me To The Bridge is absolutely, DEFINITELY NOT about Richey.

We managed to get to #26 before abandoning the numbers last time... lol

#15 Sean's dad was a bankrobber

#Sorry, just got a new keyboard and couldn't work out how to type a hashtag.

#16 Sorrow 16 is the Manics' 16th best song.

It's fine, all good fun :)

#17 The Manics sometimes steal people's hashtag keys.

#18 Every attempt to set up a Manics museum always ends up disastrously as after the first bid was instead used for military land, every subsequent plot chosen unearths ghosts so Scooby Doo things happen while band argue like:
"So who is the ghost then?"
"No it's an actual ghost"
"Yeah but Scooby Doo has an actual character in it wearing a mask."
"But it wasn't wearing a mask it was a ghost?"
"So it's not a Scooby Doo then is it? It's always a character in a monster suit pretending to be a ghost in Scooby Doo so if it's real and unresolved then it's not Scooby Doo. You should have said it was just a Ghost."
"Never even said or could possibly know in first place"

#19 Richey Edwards was allergic to Caramac.

#20 There exists a 30 minuite version if SYMM, that contains an additional 15 verses, but we are yet to hear it.

#21 No matter how long James spends in the sun no part of his body tans nicely, apart from his thighs which bronze easily.

#22 in disappoinment over the musical direction Richey went on to found SlipKnot. He's behind the Clown-mask still to this day.

#23 The first full week of December each year is given over to the construction of a winter hibernation nest in the Bradfield house.

#24 Lifeblood would have been one of the most successful albums of all time around the world, but special paperwork is needed for exporting blood products, and there was some confusion... some arguments... some incidents involving heated debates over crisps... so they just left it and went to the pub instead.

#25 Slash N Burn is about a urinary tract infection.

#26 Because of the geometry of contempt, so important to the Manics' stage presence, it's James who sings when the band plays live; but it is Sean who is the singer on all of the Manics' albums

#27 Moths are attracted to Nicky's grin. Bats are attracted to James' falsetto vocals. Robots are attracted to the sub-sonic data signals both received by and transmitted from Sean's embedded sub-dermal cranial antennae array.

As an Elvis impersonator?

#28 If you listen carefully to the lyrics to Horses Under Starlight you'll find the song is actually about sheep rather than horses

#29 Nostradamus may have predicted the Manics... "And contrarians from the nation West of the English shall cause waves in musical circles and will play at the turn of the age in a large cathedral, and many shall see them on small boxes of light, also the very life-blood of these people will be under-appreciated, even by creators themselves" is a rough translation.

#30 James loves that amp, but Nicky hates it and Sean just isn't bothered one way or the other.

#31 Sessions for Generation Terrorists were fraught due to fundamental disagreements within the band regarding the classification of Jaffa Cakes as either a cake or biscuit. The 1991 VAT tribunal did little to quell the arguments; refusing to accept the court's verdict on the matter, Sean quit the sessions, leading to the programmed drums you hear on the finished album today.

#32 Original bassist Flicker eventually found fame as a popular photo sharing website.

:D

#33 Original bongo / triangle player Pete 'Photobucket' Buckét (son of Hyacinth and Richard) followed the same path as Flicker, but is even less well-remembered by fans these days.

#34 Richey was eventually banned from the Cardiff Virgin Megastore after routinely getting caught swapping the Screamadelica and Reign In Blood discs in their cases.

#35 Plans for the other three Manics to follow Nicky's lead and have a nickname based on their favourite DIY supply were abandoned when it was pointed out to James that the name Jimmy Nail was already in use in showbiz circles and he refused to consider other possibilities.

When you take the first three letters from each album, the letters can be arranged to say Spontaneous RJ fetus - eleventh egg Loki hoofprint. This is deliberate.

#37 Richey was disappointed when the band vetoed his idea of listing the titles of every track on The Holy Bible in reverse, "to demonstrate society's backwards approach" to many of the songs' subject matters. In the end a compromise was made, and he was allowed to retain two reversed titles: 'Revol' (actually titled 'Lover'), and 'PCP' (actually titled 'PCP').

:lol:

#38 Don't Be Evil is the only Manic Street Preachers song where the initials of the title (D B E) is also the chord sequence use for the song's chorus.