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Old 21-04-2017, 18:00
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Originally Posted by Mr Richey View Post
The Manics have always been a great b-sides band but the Send Away The Tigers era is the only era where the b-sides actually make up a whole album of quality tunes on their own that are better than the decent tunes + shallow lyrics of SATT. There is so much more depth to the lyrics on these b-sides! And I'd forgotten just how orgasmically good the chorus to "Boxes and Lists" is.
Playing Boxes & Lists now. One of their best.

You're right that the b-sides to SATT are, collectively, far better than the actual album: Boxes & Lists, Red Sleeping Beauty (cover, of course, but still), The Vorticists, Anorexic Rodin, Heyday Of The Blood, Lady Lazarus, You Know It's Going To Hurt... astoundingly good.
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