Worst Manics lyric

[It's Light Again]

The Manics have some great lyrics, but what would you say was their worst lyric? I have to say, PCP: "pass the Prozac / designer amnesiac". There's just so much wrong with it. Had it been "pass the Xanax", it at least would have made factual sense, but it still would've been an obnoxious tub-thump against Big Pharma. But "pass the Prozac"...

[cherrybomb]

"So God is dead, like Nietzsche said".

[cool-groovey-morning-fine]

At the moment everyone's favourite line from TVFSH is sticking with me, "the misguided tweets, the sad facebooking", ugh.

[EnolaEdmonds]

Originally Posted by cool-groovey-morning-fine

At the moment everyone's favourite line from TVFSH is sticking with me, "the misguided tweets, the sad facebooking", ugh.

Hate that line as well

[cherrybomb]

Originally Posted by cool-groovey-morning-fine

At the moment everyone's favourite line from TVFSH is sticking with me, "the misguided tweets, the sad facebooking", ugh.

I actually really don't mind that line, in fact I quite like it, I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that rather than spending every waking moment trying to improve your Angry Birds score and posting things like 'beans for tea lol' you should go out, look around and find the beauty of the world around you. Adam Ant did a similar anti internet rant on his last album, brilliant song too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNoU3MDMsvo but there wasn't a murmer about the lyrics on his forum, maybe it's an age thing.

[cool-groovey-morning-fine]

Originally Posted by cherrybomb

I actually really don't mind that line, in fact I quite like it, I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that rather than spending every waking moment trying to improve your Angry Birds score and posting things like 'beans for tea lol' you should go out, look around and find the beauty of the world around you. Adam Ant did a similar anti internet rant on his last album, brilliant song too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNoU3MDMsvo but there wasn't a murmer about the lyrics on his forum, maybe it's an age thing.

It's not the concept I find embarrassing, just the wording. There is something about the use of "tweets" and especially "facebooking" in a lyric that really irks me. It's like it already sounds dated.

[gladstone]

Originally Posted by cherrybomb

I actually really don't mind that line, in fact I quite like it, I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that rather than spending every waking moment trying to improve your Angry Birds score and posting things like 'beans for tea lol' you should go out, look around and find the beauty of the world around you. Adam Ant did a similar anti internet rant on his last album, brilliant song too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNoU3MDMsvo but there wasn't a murmer about the lyrics on his forum, maybe it's an age thing.

I don't think the lyric is about that. Given the context of Stow Hill I think he's attacking internet activism, or slacktivism as it's been referred to recently. I think he's comparing the Chartists with what passes for dissent today. I don't whole heartedly agree with him on this, he's conveniently ignoring the role social media has played in Egypt for example, but he's an ageing Luddite isn't he.

[who's responsible?]

Originally Posted by cool-groovey-morning-fine

At the moment everyone's favourite line from TVFSH is sticking with me, "the misguided tweets, the sad facebooking", ugh.

Agreed on those two lines, which is a real shame from my view, because the rest of that chorus is just beautiful..
"Look up to the skies, avoid the casual litter, running from the pitiful nihilism"
Bloody love that.

Typical MSP really - flawed genius and beautiful imperfection.

[UEF]

While we're at it, what is a 'misguided tweet'? What constitutes 'sad Facebooking'?

Does Nicky mean 'sad' as in 'unhappy' or as in 'you need to get a life mate'? If so...

[Dancing Kirby]

Misguided tweets are any of the ones from Nicky that mention Jimbo.

[amaitheanhorn]

Originally Posted by UEF

While we're at it, what is a 'misguided tweet'? What constitutes 'sad Facebooking'?

Does Nicky mean 'sad' as in 'unhappy' or as in 'you need to get a life mate'? If so...

I don’t think that is a bad lyric at all, I don’t think it’s supposed to be read alone. It gets its meaning from the rest of the chorus, which forms one strong image/statement.

Just my thoughts from the song about meaning, to me I take those lyrics like this (hope these are the right lyrics ) :
Misguided tweets – (1) People often read something on the internet and base their opinion on very little and inaccurate information. It then gets spread as fact and people are misguided about the views they form. So you repost/retweet without thinking. You ‘support’ a charity for example, by sharing their post appeal for donations, but don’t actually donate yourself.
(2) People expose so much of their lives freely online, not thinking of how they’ll be perceived.

Sad facebooking – I feel like it’s an observation of how people often behave now when out with friends. People don’t get the full experience of life, because they need to tell everyone about it. It’s almost automatic whenever something good happens, people feel the need to tell others and get validation. You don’t privately feel happy about life anymore, everyone needs to know. People often go on a night out and spend lots of time updating their status or uploading photos because they feel a need to prove or show others that they’re having fun. By feeling compelled to tell everyone about the fun you’re having, you are actually missing out on the real fun.
For me, these lines really get their meaning from the others in the chorus.

Look up to the skies- avoid the casual litter – take a wider look at the world around you and don’t get bogged down with what everyone else is doing – once you do you’ll see it’s completely irrelevant to you and your life.
Running from the pitiful nihilism – wanting to escape the thing (social media) which takes the meaning out of what you are doing. The pointlessness of needing everyone to know everything you are doing.
The cheapness surrounds me – the way that everyone constantly needs to say what they are doing, no matter how trivial cheapens the experience for everyone.

But I’m not looking – to me this sounds really defiant. It’s a refusal to pander to those people who seek attention constantly and to validate them. They are going to ‘look up to the sky’ and experience life for themselves, doing exactly what they want to do – not what others would approve of.

The song to me is a refusal to get sucked in to the shit that social media throws at you and makes you believe it is important. It’s about reclaiming your life from the petty stuff that everyone else is doing and to which you compare yourself to.

[allisvanity]

Originally Posted by who's responsible?

Typical MSP really - flawed genius and beautiful imperfection.

Likewise SPLAM contains the lyrics "We could have been heroes, but failure is more fun" (great) and "Upload your future, download your past" (shit).

[MoMoney MoJunk]

Originally Posted by allisvanity

Likewise SPLAM contains the lyrics "We could have been heroes, but failure is more fun" (great) and "Upload your future, download your past" (shit).

*thumbs up*

Great lyric indeed.

[EnolaEdmonds]

"Have you heard of Matthew Maynard
He's my favourite cricketer
I would rather watch him play than pick up my guitar"

[gabo86]

Originally Posted by EnolaEdmonds

"Have you heard of Matthew Maynard
He's my favourite cricketer
I would rather watch him play than pick up my guitar"

Funny, this is one of my favourites (actually because it's from one of my favourite songs, and the song that talks about me more than any other)