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Old 01-12-2010, 18:33
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First time I've heard clips of these songs, they all sound ok to me. Hopefully the single package will come early (Saturday)
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Old 01-12-2010, 18:56
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Broken Up Again = Love of Dicky Nixon
Red Rubber = Locust Valleyish??
Evidence Against Myself = Should've Been On The Album
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Old 01-12-2010, 19:37
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Broken Up Again = Love of Dicky Nixon
Red Rubber = Locust Valleyish??
Evidence Against Myself = Should've Been On The Album
Locust Valley with strings.
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Old 01-12-2010, 20:04
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Locust Valley with spaghetti western verses.
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From the sounds of it, Broken Up Again is better than most songs on the album.

So are the songs not going to be available digitally this time?

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Old 02-12-2010, 10:07
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From the sounds of it, Broken Up Again is better than most songs on the album.

So are the songs not going to be available digitally this time?
I have to agree, the only reason I can imagine it didn't make it on is that it doesn't really fit the "one last shot at mass communication" remit - shame
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Old 02-12-2010, 13:21
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BUA sounds like they took the chorus and used it for AWMIE's bridge, or vice versa. Either way it just sounds like another run of the mill, half-arsed b-side.
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Old 02-12-2010, 20:31
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BUA sounds like they took the chorus and used it for AWMIE's bridge, or vice versa. Either way it just sounds like another run of the mill, half-arsed b-side.
The manics "run of the mill, half-arsed" b-sides are better than most bands album tracks!
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Old 02-12-2010, 20:35
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The manics "run of the mill, half-arsed" b-sides are better than most bands album tracks!
Certainly not when it comes to the PFAYM era! I'll give the album this though, the album tracks are slightly less worse than the b-sides.
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Old 02-12-2010, 20:35
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Do 'Lost Voices' and 'I Know the Numbers' end weirdly, like a couple of seconds are missing from each song?
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Old 02-12-2010, 21:07
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Do 'Lost Voices' and 'I Know the Numbers' end weirdly, like a couple of seconds are missing from each song?
They shouldn't end weirdly. I've pm-ed you.
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Old 04-12-2010, 23:31
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I fucking hate "Red Rubber". But I'd have liked "Evidence Against Myself" to be on the album, as it's a pretty cool little number. "Distractions" too, my favourite of the PFAYM b-sides so far.

Which once again leads me to ask; what were they thinking by including the fucking atrocious "The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever" on the album when that was originally supposed to be a b-side?
Richey83: I'd not heard that 'Future' was originally supposed to be a b-side. Obviously, if a track is written as a b-side it should stay as such. I heard a rumour once that they nearly put that dreary song about the Spanish Civil War on 'This Is My Truth'. Thankfully they remembered they'd written it as a b-side and kept it as such.

Personally I love 'Future' and your comment about the trumpet part seems bizarre to me, as it's one of the few Manics tracks with a trumpet part that isn't just a guitar solo played on a different instrument. It's a beautiful part of the song, and really makes it. Plus, Nick's vocal isn't really that bad, and it's much better than the one on 'Wattsville Blues'. If 'Future' had been a b-side, I'd now be asking why on Earth the band hadn't found room for it.

Incidentally, I think I'd swap 'Broken Up Again' for 'The Descent', 'Distractions' for 'Hazelton Avenue' and 'Red Rubber' for 'I Think I Found It'. 'Evidence Against Myself' might squeeze on there when I listen to it more.
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