Random Manics thoughts...

[Automatik]

Originally Posted by Nobody

2 disc edition of Futurology is now less then £5
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00JK4K156/

Is that a good sign or a bad sign for the success of the album?

[gracie]

I love James' face on the Youtube thumbnail for From Despair to Where. Makes me smile every time.

[Lord Revan]

And on the thumbnail for Everything Must Go it looks like he's waiting to be spoonfed.

Now I'm wondering if some of the girls here have a secret fantasy of spoonfeeding James.

[UEF]

Originally Posted by socialist cook

I've just been watching The Everlasting video on youtube (like you do sometimes...) and noticed at 1:26 that on Platform 10 that there's a train going to Wales!

To be very pedantic given that the video is filmed at Euston and trains to Wales don't go from there (and there's also one going to Bath listed). Nice to see some locos though and in old BR colours. (I have a bit of a soft spot for trains, I travel on them so often!)

Whenever I get the train to Wales it starts at Euston! But changes and Crewe and Shrewsbury

[Strawberry]

When I watched Coronation Street on Friday, I noticed that Luke was wearing a camouflage jacket. And Sean wore a camouflage shirt.

Also, I was watching the news on BBC2 yesterday morning and they mentioned One Direction cancelling a gig. They showed fans and it was mentioned that the fans had been queueing for three hours. So maybe that means that Manic Street Preachers fans are similar to One Direction fans, wow.

[hummingbird]

Originally Posted by UEF

Whenever I get the train to Wales it starts at Euston! But changes and Crewe and Shrewsbury

How many days does it take you to get there?

[UEF]

'Traci Lords' is the most popular porn search term for 35-54 year olds.

http://i100.independent.co.uk/articl...ch--lknfNkI8Tl

[Lord Revan]

Originally Posted by UEF

'Traci Lords' is the most popular porn search term for 35-54 year olds.

http://i100.independent.co.uk/articl...ch--lknfNkI8Tl

I imagine that's the same demographic that actually spends the most money on music (CDs and vinyls etc), so they should just team up with her again and it would be great for business!

[Nobody]

Just noticed that John Niven's (who co-wrote the lyrics for James's album) book Kill Your Friends has been made into a film. He also wrote the screenplay. Doesn't appear to have anything else Manics related to it other than co-staring Craig Roberts (Show Me the Wonder video).

May of been a good opportunity for them to do some soundtrack work.

[UEF]

Originally Posted by Lord Revan

I imagine that's the same demographic that actually spends the most money on music (CDs and vinyls etc), so they should just team up with her again and it would be great for business!

DVD Deluxe Edition?

[UEF]

This advert reminds me of the Everlasting video : http://youtu.be/domnInfxnC4

[Littlesue]

Yes its very similar

[Frozendiva]

Nice of Wire to donate a thousand pounds to the Velindre charity hike.

[sculptureofabloke]

Listening to my Japanese import of Everything Must Go. For some reason this is the only Japanese Manics album to not have the bonus tracks stuck on the end, with No-One Knows What It's Like To Be Me stuck in after The Girl Who Wanted To Be God and Black Garden chucked in after Interiors..

If they take EMG20 to Japan, surely they're obliged to play it this way...?

That said, the Japanese National Treasures thing was bollocks only saying so cos I wasn't there

Singles in Japan:

Stay Beautiful
You Love Us
Motorcycle Emptiness
Theme From MASH
Little Baby Nothing
From Despair To Where
La Tristesse Durera
Roses In The Hospital
Faster/PCP
A Design For Life
Everything Must Go
Further Away
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
You Stole The Sun From My Heart
Nobody Loved You
Forever Delayed

Not singles in Japan but played anyway:

Suicide Alley
New Art Riot
Motown Junk (although it's on their Stay Beautiful single if they want to count it..)
Love's Sweet Exile
Slash N' Burn
Life Becoming A Landslide
Revol
She Is Suffering
Kevin Carter
Australia
The Everlasting
Tsunami
The Masses Against The Classes
Found That Soul
So Why So Sad
Ocean Spray
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
Autumnsong
Indian Summer
It's Not War Just The End Of Love
Some Kind Of Nothingness
Postcards From A Young Man
This Is The Day



What is this madness?

[sculptureofabloke]

True, but it's quite a leap between not playing two, (well four if we're counting the AA sides) and playing 23 that aren't...