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26-06-2013, 13:01
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KYE revisited
Spending a nice afternoon at work with KYE keeping me company while churning through meaningless data, and I just have to say...
Damn this album is good. OK, it's very disjointed in places, a classic rough diamond if you will, but from Dead Martyrs onwards, it's just delicious. So under-rated and neglected an album, and I must admit I'm loving it right now. Lyrically interesting, musically challenging, a great MSP album. Epicentre and His Last Painting are definitely doing it for me.
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26-06-2013, 13:35
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I like that album too. Well, actually I like them all, depending on my mood, but I find this one very experimental, which is something that I always welcome when it comes to art. And I like the variety of the songs too.
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26-06-2013, 13:46
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Knocked sideways by Epicentre at the moment, I'd always considered KYE to be a bit bland in comparison to other albums, and there are a couple of tracks on there which it could do without (Baby Elian, Year of Purification in my opinion), but His Last Painting, Epicentre and Royal Correspondent are just beautiful.
Non-existent energy adrenalin my God Still clinging to the umbilical chord, umbilical chord I'm breaking and I'm shaking, so delete the feeling Beneath the real thing, delete the feeling, delete the feeling Like a stunned fox, with memory loss A sad numb creature, I worship the painkiller It is my epicentre It is my epicentre Wire at his best.
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26-06-2013, 13:50
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You got me!
That part of Epicentre randomly comes to my head every now and then and then I wanna listen to the whole album and I set it up and press "play".
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26-06-2013, 13:56
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Got to confess that it's one thing I completely love about MSP. Every so often I stumble into one of their old tunes which I hadn't really noticed at the time; when KYE came out I was still over-critical of them, comparing everything new to Richey-era stuff, and I had this on my ipod at work, and it just knocked me sideways. I'm now still here with it on repeat thinking "how did I not notice how good this was?".
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26-06-2013, 14:00
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Well it's the charm of the Manics songs. Always rediscovering what we already know, but from a different point of view. This is why they never get boring to me.
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26-06-2013, 14:04
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Can't fault that!
They've made a really shit day at work just that little bit better.
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26-06-2013, 14:09
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Nice to see some KYE love!
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26-06-2013, 14:15
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Still on repeat... getting louder. Epicentre - making algorithm design less soul destroying since 2pm today....
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26-06-2013, 14:22
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Intovenous agnostic, baby elian (perhaps Wire's most whole and realised lyric? Apart from the cradle or whatever it was bit), dead martyrs, don't mind epicentre (is that them wishing happy birthday at the end?). Bit of a mess of an album that could have done with some quality control although I suspect that we probably can't work out what the duds are!
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26-06-2013, 14:37
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Agreed, it is a bit confused as albums go, but some real classics on it. Let's face it, it wouldn't be an MSP album without some cack on there. There's always one which deserves the "skip" button. Still loving it today. From Dead Martyrs to Epicentre is all good in my opinion (complete with weird Happy Birthday bit).
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26-06-2013, 14:56
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I agree!
Epicentre and His Last Painting are ace!
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26-06-2013, 15:03
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Definitely an album that has got better over time - the sheer weight of expectation placed on it after the commercial build-up of EMG and TIMT, followed by the declarations by the band, Manic Millenium and Masses meant it was always going to struggle. Still remember the bewilderment felt after the first play of SWSS!
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26-06-2013, 15:31
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It's a proper mixed bag, a bit of a mess of ideas perhaps, but when it's good - it is very, very good. When it's bad, it's 'Wattsville Blues' bad.
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26-06-2013, 16:35
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KYE and its b-sides are among my favourite Manics stuff! It's a bit incoherent and slightly too long, but I love the roughness, the guitars, the vocals, the lyrics! (well, some
 ) That being said, my version of KYE has lost Wattsville Blues and Miss Europa, I totally forget they exist. Even without them it is still at least one song too long, but I never have the heart to kick one out. I adore Epicentre and Dead Martyrs and consider Found That Soul the perfect album opener. I'm weird that way!
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