|
View Poll Results: Most Under-Rated Album | |||
Generation Terrorists | 6 | 5.17% | |
Gold Against The Soul | 22 | 18.97% | |
The Holy Bible | 0 | 0% | |
Everything Must Go | 0 | 0% | |
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours | 5 | 4.31% | |
Know Your Enemy | 17 | 14.66% | |
Lifeblood | 48 | 41.38% | |
Send Away The Tigers | 2 | 1.72% | |
Journal For Plague Lovers | 9 | 7.76% | |
Postcards From A Young Man | 7 | 6.03% | |
Voters: 116. You may not vote on this poll |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#46
|
||||
|
||||
The problem with Lifeblood is that the Manics never sound like the Manics did/do. And they really, really didn't with Lifeblood.
But I fucking adore that album. Lyrically lamented mid-tempo melancholy and cynical crooners in a bleak, cold sound that one didn't really expect. It's archetype-Manics but then not.
__________________
these are my truths: lullabies for insomiacs (my electronic music) · elegies for transitory thoughts (my book of poetry) |
#47
|
||||
|
||||
Agreed. If any other band had made that album, it might not have been seen as such a failure. The fact it sounds nothing like the Manics and doesn't even feel like the Manics is what turns a lot of fans off, I reckon.
__________________
This Is My Truth So Shut Your Face |
#48
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
__________________
On a cold mids morning the sun shone bright Upon a beautiful smiling five pound note Gazing at me, from the pavement Wet with love, it wasn't there I was dreaming, you always are I see the coins that were your eyes My eyes shining like sapphires I can't think, and I can't paint, I can't love! And no one will, for money makes us up Death to monetaries! Death to monetaries! Patsy The Dolphin Dog |
#49
|
|||
|
|||
Quote:
I guess if you truly don't like a record, it's hard to understand why others would. I mean, who doesn't know of at least one album where the mere mention of it makes you cringe yet others hail it as a masterpeice? |
#50
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
This, oh god this. Always. Forever. With a vengeance.
__________________
This Is My Truth So Shut Your Face |
#51
|
||||
|
||||
Quote:
Quote:
1985 Empty Souls I Live To Fall Asleep A Song For Departure Solitude Sometimes Is Cardiff Afterlife
__________________
On a cold mids morning the sun shone bright Upon a beautiful smiling five pound note Gazing at me, from the pavement Wet with love, it wasn't there I was dreaming, you always are I see the coins that were your eyes My eyes shining like sapphires I can't think, and I can't paint, I can't love! And no one will, for money makes us up Death to monetaries! Death to monetaries! Patsy The Dolphin Dog |
#52
|
||||
|
||||
See what I'm saying about Liefblood? There really is no consensus.
Did I spell that correctly?
__________________
This Is My Truth So Shut Your Face |
#53
|
||||
|
||||
No.
Edit: Ooops. You did. But then I could've just saved it with a "no, you spelled it 'consensus'" joke. Oh well.
__________________
these are my truths: lullabies for insomiacs (my electronic music) · elegies for transitory thoughts (my book of poetry) |
#54
|
||||
|
||||
Hansfail
__________________
This Is My Truth So Shut Your Face |
#55
|
||||
|
||||
__________________
these are my truths: lullabies for insomiacs (my electronic music) · elegies for transitory thoughts (my book of poetry) |
#56
|
||||
|
||||
Best five GATS for me are Sleepflower, La Tristessa Durera, Roses In The Hospital and Nostalgic Pushead and From Despair To Where.
There are at least Life Becoming A Landslide, Symphony Of Tourette and on a good day Drug Drug Druggy fight it out for 6th place. Is GATS the closest the Richey Manics got to a scaled down PFAYM? It mass communicates more than the Seattle bands did. |
#58
|
||||
|
||||
GATS is better than anything the band have done post EMG. And that is the end of the matter.
__________________
Margate 22-09-98 Wembley 16-12-98 Cardiff 31-12-99 Brixton Academy 30-03-01 Wembley 07-12-02 Brixton 08-12-02 Wembley 09-12-04 Hammersmith 18-04-05 Hammersmith 19-04-05 Kentish Town 29-05-07 Astoria 30-05-07 Shepherd’s Bush 31-05-07 Brighton 06-06-07 Cardiff 06-12-07 Brixton11-12-07 Brixton 12-12-07 Brighton 14-12-07 O2 Arena 28-02-08 Royal Festival Hall 12-09-08 Camden 28-05-09 Camden 29-05-09 Camden 30-05-09 Brighton 02-06-09 Kentish Town 08-06-09 Southend 20-10-10 Bournemouth 22-10-10 Brixton 15-12-10 Brixton 21-01-11 Brixton 22-01-11 Hard Rock Cafe 02-02-11 Wolverhampton 19-05-11 O2 Arena 17-12-11 Shepherd's Bush 24-09-13 Cardiff 29-03-14 Wolverhampton 06-04-14 Brighton 09-04-14 Brixton 11-04-14 Brixton 12-04-14 Rough Trade East 08-07-14 London Olympia 14-09-14
|
#59
|
|||
|
|||
I like the randomness of KYE, its all over the place but that's part of its charm for me. Lifeblood is also very under-rated, maybe in 15-20 years time it will get the recognition it deserves.
|
#60
|
||||
|
||||
I'm sitting here going 'No. Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! NO!!!!' at these comments. Apart from the positive ones of course! For me Lifeblood DOES sound like the Manics just that they're doing something different with their sound.
__________________
"Former glam-punk rocker James Dean Bradfield now looks like your friendly, slightly rumpled Welsh uncle who always brings you chocolate when he visits. That's not a bad thing." - Allister Thompson aka The Gateless Gate (Canadian musician) |
|
|