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Old 28-03-2014, 12:20
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I'd probably take out one of the instrumentals and fit The Second Great Depression in there somewhere, the only properly good song on the album.
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Old 28-03-2014, 12:23
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Also, always forget how much I like the 1404 lyrics, particularly 'still looking for the question mark, at least we've not yet reached the full stop'.
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Old 28-03-2014, 13:17
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I love having an mp3 player in my car now, I have this same 'album' on a flash drive.
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Old 28-03-2014, 15:03
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I made this a few months ago:

The Art of Being Young

1.Boxes & Lists
2.Welcome To The Dead Zone
3.Anorexic Rodin
4.1404
5.Lady Lazarus
6.Love Letter To The Future
7.Heyday Of The Blood
8.Morning Comrades
9.The Vorticists
10.The Long Goodbye
11.Little Girl Lost
12.You Know It's Going To Hurt
13.Fearless Punk Ballad
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Old 28-03-2014, 15:27
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One of the best b-sides in a long time. I'd love for Nicky to release a book with all the bands lyrics in with notes on each song. That would be the best thing they could do.
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Old 30-03-2014, 19:19
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I've just put this together for an old friend of mine, the album the Manics should've released in 2007 in my opinion!



1. The Vorticists
2. Love Letter To The Future
3. Welcome To The Dead Zone
4. Little Girl Lost
5. Morning Comrades
6. The Long Goodbye
7. Anorexic Rodin
8. 1404
9. Boxes and Lists
10. Heyday Of The Blood
11. Fearless Punk Ballad
12. You Know It's Going To Hurt

The Manics have always been a great b-sides band but the Send Away The Tigers era is the only era where the b-sides actually make up a whole album of quality tunes on their own that are better than the decent tunes + shallow lyrics of SATT. There is so much more depth to the lyrics on these b-sides! And I'd forgotten just how orgasmically good the chorus to "Boxes and Lists" is.

If you've never been into making your own MSP compilations, put this album together and give it a go - I'd love to hear your opinions. And if you enjoy it and want a cover for it, feel free to use the one I've made.

EDIT: As it's a cover, I haven't included "Red Sleeping Beauty" but for the record it's fucking awesome
Love it, and totally agree, it's better than SATT.
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Old 18-03-2017, 14:58
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At least with the upcoming release of the anniversary edition of SATT, I can finally have this album with all the tracks in high quality!
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Old 25-03-2017, 16:15
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I'm going to revisit these b-sides soon as I don't remember them being so great. Some good tunes obviously, but not many would make it on to the album.

TIMT and KYE still me fav B-side era(s).
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It makes a fine album; the Manics are on hell of a B Side band.

Two of my absolute favourites are the two instrumentals, opening and closing your collection. Brilliant, evocative music. Their instrumentals particularly over the last 10 years have been wonderful. Vorticists and YKIGH are two of the finest.
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Old 02-04-2017, 14:50
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"Dreaming A City" is one of my favourite instrumentals.
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The Manics have always been a great b-sides band but the Send Away The Tigers era is the only era where the b-sides actually make up a whole album of quality tunes on their own that are better than the decent tunes + shallow lyrics of SATT. There is so much more depth to the lyrics on these b-sides! And I'd forgotten just how orgasmically good the chorus to "Boxes and Lists" is.
Playing Boxes & Lists now. One of their best.

You're right that the b-sides to SATT are, collectively, far better than the actual album: Boxes & Lists, Red Sleeping Beauty (cover, of course, but still), The Vorticists, Anorexic Rodin, Heyday Of The Blood, Lady Lazarus, You Know It's Going To Hurt... astoundingly good.
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Old 21-04-2017, 20:12
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Playing Boxes & Lists now. One of their best.

You're right that the b-sides to SATT are, collectively, far better than the actual album
I'll maintain to the day I die that it's a better album than SATT. And having all the tracks for it remastered is the only reason that I'll be buying the anniversary edition, as some of the MP3s I have of the vinyl only b-sides are not very good.
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Old 21-04-2017, 20:16
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some of the MP3s I have of the vinyl only b-sides are not very good.
Yes, some of the vinyl-only b-sides sound distinctly poor in mp3. Same goes for the RTF b-sides.
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Old 21-04-2017, 20:56
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"What Happened To The Blue Generation" is the exception for me as the low quality sound almost adds an extra layer of charm to it.
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Old 21-04-2017, 21:05
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"What Happened To The Blue Generation" is the exception for me as the low quality sound almost adds an extra layer of charm to it.
I agree. It works very well.
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