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I opened this thread just because my husband says the same thing.The strange thing is that he liked them more than me when we met long time ago.
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Maybe she's been hearing them too often because you've been playing them too often. After a while everything sounds the same. Happens.
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It's so easy to confuse the drums from 'Love's Sweet Exile' with 'I'm Not Working'...
I'm quite a big fan of some bands whose songs really do all sound the same and the Manics' don't. Structurally there's a lot of similarity (yes, it's verse/chorus/verse/chorus/middle eight/chorus) but most of their influences stuck to this formula too. We're not going to get the single epic build and crash of a Mogwai track, or the formless soundscape of a Oneohtrixpointnever 'song', or even the 'no one wrote a verse, let's just whack a load of choruses together' stylings of Girls Aloud's 'Biology'. But for variation in instrumentation, stylings, and pace I can't see how they sound the same. I reckon in part it's down to James's distinctive voice.
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I swear Engage With Your Shadow is just a rehash of Symphony of Tourette. Seriously, just listen to them back to back.
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There are a lot of accusations that can be levelled at the Manics, but their songs sounding the same is not one of them! Sure there are a few songs with musical similarities, but I think they have vast differences within their back catalogue that aren't found in many bands.
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Hazelton Avenue is just a remake of both version of Spectators Of Suicide anyway.
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Mitch Benn did a Manics parody on The Now Show a few years back pretending to be them not wanting to perform for the Queen when she came to Wales. He managed to sound like them very convincingly with the 2 verses, 3 repetitive choruses which mention the title of the song several times and a soaring 'string's section! Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery
Yes, their songs sometimes do follow a similar pattern (as with many other artists) and over twenty years of work must produce some similar sounds. Their songs are always different (compare To The River with Kevin Carter with Solitude Sometimes Is with Engage With your Shadow) yet they are always distinctively 'The Manics'. Having said that, they can be lazy - Geez, Nicky! No more using these words in the same line: you-stole-the-sun-(straight)-from-my-heart eh?
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I'm just going to say the same thing about song structures (verse - chorus - verse - chorus - solo / break - chorus being the rule), truthfully the Manics stuff I like least is when they go into dubious "classic rock" territory. Play me a track off Send Away The Tigers and one off Postcards From A Young Man when I've not listened to either in a while and I won't be able to tell which is which (unless the track is good in which case it'll clearly be off Postcards From A Young Man). I can understand a non-fan who hasn't heard much thinking it all sounds the same as "the hits" tend to have a fair bit of irritating arena rock bluster about them.
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oh man, I would love to hear that.
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Might have had this said to me once about Manics songs sounding the same. Which they don't.
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Oh yeah, cos ADFL really sounds like Indian Summer!
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Apart from the maritime timing thingy, it's not THAT similar!
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Miss Europa Disco Dancer and Intense Humming Of Evil are clearly the same song
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