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03-10-2010, 01:02
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Nicky's contributions on PFAYM
Is anyone else very impressed with Nicky's contributions on the album? From various interviews I gather that he essentially wrote It's Not War, SKON, Golden Platitudes and The Future has Been Here Forever all by himself, which to me means that three of the best tracks on the album are 100% Nicky songs (and It's Not War is decent enough).
Bearing in mind that James' contributions include Hazelton Avenue (which is becoming increasingly tiresome), The Descent (which is becoming very skippable) and A Billion Balconies (which is pretty much just an inferior version of Masses), then I would say Nicky has a pretty good strike-rate there, and is becoming genuinely impressive as a songwriter. If JDB doesn't watch out, maybe we'll see a Manics album written entirely by Nicky one of these days...
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