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21-09-2010, 15:18
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Everything Must Go?
Wondering the reasons why the album is not near the very top of many of the Manics best album lists posted here of late. I don't listen to it often these days - It's been played to death, but the reason why I consider it as the second best Manics album ever are as follows:
Great energy - comparable to THB Written (both music lyrics) and played from the heart - as above Fantastic songs/no filler (in fact the first half of the album and the last track are contenders for the best 20 Manics songs ever) Surely only the Holy Bible is in the same league (possibly one better), with perhaps JFPL as a respectable but distant third in terms of the quality and potential longetivity of the music. So the question to those who don't rate it in their top 3 is - in your opinion where does it lack in comparison with the other albums? (not including THB/JFPL) 
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21-09-2010, 15:20
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I rated it in my top 3. Although my ranking for my Manics collection isn't set in stone. Depends on my mood, time of year, what I'm listening to, what's going on in my life. And I go through phases where'll I play something 'to death' and then take a break for a while. Did that with 'The Holy Bible' too.
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21-09-2010, 19:52
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21-09-2010, 15:24
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It's great but not as great as the ones that go before it in my lists. I'd rank it as #5 (and only THB is above it out of the two highly arguable 'surefire' choices you presented, at #4) and the best reason is just that the others before it hit my tastebuds stronger. If you honestly, genuinely want me to ramble my brains off on my preferences then sure, but really it just all boils down to individual taste. It's a bit daft to assume that some albums are objectively better than others because of one's own preference to them or their status in the band's history.
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21-09-2010, 15:55
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I don't like this album very much. I just can't think of it as an album, it is more like a collection of songs, collection of singles, I can't feel any concept there. I feel like those tracks were artificially glued together. There are great songs out there, some of them are really mindblowing, but they don't go together well as an album. At least for me.
Also this record contains 2 of 3 songs of the Manics catalogue that I don't like at all and 2 songs that are just mediocre.
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21-09-2010, 16:11
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It's not only my favourite album of theirs, it's my favourite album by anyone. Been that way 14 years now.
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25-09-2010, 10:47
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I love the whole feel of the album from start to finish, and I disagree with the notion that the album is just a bunch of songs artifically stuck together. It is simply an album in which each song is not in the same style, but they all deserve thier place.
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21-09-2010, 16:21
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Totally agree. 'The Holy Bible' (the only completely untouchable album they've ever made IMO) will never be beaten and is as near to a work of art as an album has any right to be, closely followed by 'Everything Must Go' (simply fantastic songwriting and production) then 'Journal For Plague Lovers' (a true return to form and an incredible achievement for a band's 9th album). This is my Holy Trinity of Manics albums.
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21-09-2010, 16:24
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#13
21-09-2010, 16:28
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It's still my favourite album by anyone, and likely to remain so.
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25-09-2010, 12:19
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EMG was the first album I brought and is my favourite manics album. It also takes me back to when I was 16 and enjoying college/having a good time and discovering the joys of real music. Also the singles off the album had really good b-sides so it was like having two great albums by the manics, and I saw them live in manchester (first gig) so the whole EMG era manics holds special memories for me.
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