Journal For Plague Lovers - Retrospective

[Phil C]

I do love the way that (as Manics fans tend to do) the people who hate 'Postcards' are talking about it as though they're in the majority. Whatever you think of the album it got great reviews pretty much everywhere (as good as those for 'Journal' in a lot of places), charted in the same place (and would have charted at number 1 if they'd released it a week later) and has seen the band continue on the general up-curve sparked by 'Tigers' in the way in which they're being seen and written about. If you dislike 'Postcards' it is of course absolutely fine, but don't talk as though because you dislike it everyone else does as well (which not everyone is doing, but a few posters have had that tone).