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Old 16-04-2015, 20:44
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Old 16-04-2015, 21:50
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Some of those quotes are so carefully selected it hurts. I'm sure the 'Q' one was only about '1985' rather than the whole album, and the 'NME' one spent more time attacking 'Know Your Enemy' than it did talking about 'Lifeblood' - saying it was their best album since 'Everything Must Go' wasn't much of a statement given how much the reviewer clearly hated the two albums in between. Most of the good reviews came from the kind of publications that cater for the kind of audience the Manics have never quite been comfortable with I think - a great review in 'The Independent' probably wasn't high on their list of things they wanted to achieve with 'Lifeblood'.

Leaving reviews aside, the band have said that thanks to hearing a Cardigans single that was everything they were trying, and failing, to achieve with 'Lifeblood' they were disappointed with it before it was even released, something I don't think they'd say about 'Futurology'.
Haha! Q magazine absolutely slaughtered the album in their review, I believe it got 1 and a half stars out of five, still got it somewhere I think.
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Old 17-04-2015, 11:24
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Which Cardigans single did they mean? You're The Storm?
I second this question, I am a Cardigan fan and I'm interested in knowing it.
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Old 17-04-2015, 14:02
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Old 20-04-2015, 18:22
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Which Cardigans single did they mean? You're The Storm?
IIRC it was 'For What It's Worth' but I'm not a Cardigans fan so it doesn't mean anything to me.
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Old 20-04-2015, 19:17
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IIRC it was 'For What It's Worth' but I'm not a Cardigans fan so it doesn't mean anything to me.
I'm not a massive fan but enough of one to know their back catalogue. Bizarrely For What It's Worth is one of the few Cardigans songs I have grown to quite strongly dislike.
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Old 21-04-2015, 10:59
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I'm not a massive fan but enough of one to know their back catalogue. Bizarrely For What It's Worth is one of the few Cardigans songs I have grown to quite strongly dislike.
Ha! We disagree, at last!

Out of jokes, I understand the importance of this song from the Cardigans perpective: their previous album was very electronic and, I dare to say, almost trip-hop, and then after some years they come back with this rock-y song (albeit in a very soft and gentle album). I found the song almost out of place (it would have fitted better in Super Extra Gravity, that's more energic) but the song is important. It is, correctly, like YLAINE for the Manics.
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