The second half of this interview about the US tour covers Know Your Enemy https://www.nme.com/news/music/manic...e-solo-3309414

with this corker of a quote

Clearly they are not doing the KYE gigs. They are probably getting more for the US gigs anyway.

New album in 2023 please.

That's the shirt I bought but the KYE print is on the wonk. Kontraband have 'apologised' but can't exchange it as no XXL left. £25 for a shirt with a print on the piss isn't great,

I emailed to complain about the signed print not being included in mine. First they emailed back to ask if I'd unwrapped to book to check (duh..) - followed by a second email promising "a prepaid postage label will follow very shortly" so they can exchange mine for the right thing.. did the label turn up? Did it heck. Hopeless.

Arriving fashionably late to the Rosebud appreciation. What a gorgeous melody, very TIMTTMY

Weird…it’s showing as in stock on the official website… hey ho. As you say they aren’t the most outstanding T Shirts going. Although, as somebody on the L plus end of the spectrum the fit is pretty generous :)

I'd not heard Fear of Motion or Masking Tape before getting this new version of the album. I really like both a lot, so to me I'm getting even more 'new' songs haha :D

Great tracks both. Fear of Motion I've liked for a loooooong time. I like how humorously negative its lyrics are. Masking Tape I've just gotten into now with this remaster. Sounds like it could have been on Solidarity.

Oh if they'd only given the best b-sides (Masking tape, Pedestal and Fear of Motion) new mixes too..

Masking Tape is a phenomenonal song that I've only got into in the last 6 months or so. Some of the vocal delivery in that song is extremely Freddie Mercury-esque, especially when he belts out the last line of the song. It deserved to be given a remix and to be put on one of the revised tracklistings.

Wednesday update, holdin' on...

Albums

1 Robbie Williams - XXV (37,462) *
2 Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9 (12,774) *
3 Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy (5,214) ^
4 Harry Styles - Harry's House (4,738)
5 The Amazons - How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me? (4,214) *

What happened to the Let Robeson Sing Keyboard demo?

- https://www.nme.com/news/music/manic...alysis-3298509

Another red herring?

I was wondering about this. Guessing somone along the line vetod it.

Really liking His Last Painting today. It expertly continues from Rosebud and Just A Kid, completing a melancholy trio with the same thoughtful grown up but rocking, somewhat raw tone. These new mixes still retain the rough-hewn vibe of the originals, adding a little more dynamics and juiciness. But that austerely serious core is still in there, especially in HLP. This song was to me just lost in the KYE tracklist, but I have a niece who says it's their absolute fav Manics song. In this sequence I can understand her choice. It's certainly a very stylish one.

It also functions as a mini ending within the tracklist, before the more golden and warmer ending trio of LRS - GD - Epicentre.

Not a single wrong choice on DTTR for me. With a set this good it's no wonder the other album suffers a tiny bit (not much but a little). They had to sacrifice from somewhere and I'm glad it was this way around, making DTTR as good as it can be would have been my priority too.

In another gush of praise, I absolutely adore the new burning teal and slightly violet cover. I've always loved the KYE cover and consider it the most "manicsy" image there is, with its combo of an oil coloured painting with agitprop grotesque font sloganeering. Just instantly conjures "MANIC STREET PREACHERS" in my mind. I could not imagine that they can outdo it, and they haven't, but it's certainly a worthy sidegrade. I use the new teal one for Door to the River, and the old one for Solidarity, which adds even more unique character to the records.

Can we speculate who that person might be? ;)

Mine currently sit under 'Know Your Enemy (Deluxe Edition)' in Apple music. Very tempted to break them out like this.

Already made the non-album tracks a nominal disc 3 and the demos disc 4.


*EDIT*
Hacked together some artwork so each disc has the right album name. Based on the re-issue artwork...

1200x12000px versions: https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...qI?usp=sharing

https://i.ibb.co/cFTDj7m/Door-To-The-River.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/P6B0g6n/Solidarity.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/FzDbpNr/Solidarity-alt.jpg