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Originally Posted by centralscrutiniser
I've never really understood the commercial comments about this album. Maybe I'm just wrong, but aside from the first four tracks it sounds the opposite of commercial!
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Agreed. Lyrically dark, despondent, furious and challenging. Musically melancholy, desolate, stark and sweet. It isn't exactly Take That. I remember a fair amount of talk about it alienating casual EMG fans and boy racers, as if that could possibly be a bad thing.
A really important album for me - the first Manics album to arrive after I became a Manics fan, the first I bought on the day of release, the soundtrack to my second year of sixth-form college. Running down to Woolworths at 9am to buy 'Tolerate', skipping Psychology so I could pick up the album on the way home rather than have to wait until the day
after it came out. Great singles, beautiful album tracks. Lovely stuff.
My understanding is that 'Prologue' was always in the running for opening track, not closing track. Though I can't imagine 'The Everlasting' fitting anywhere else on the album.
Regards,
Marwood.