Funny Manics criticism.

[gracie]

Not sure if you've all witnessed what the guys at Electrical Audio had to say about the Manics eight years ago, but if you haven't, here you go. These made me laugh:

minimally responsible for heroin-chic, eyeliner-wearing sluts

These guys are absolute twats. Phoneys of the worst kind, terrible music, and with Holy Bible merciless dead guy hype on a record that sounds like livejournal set to Blink-182. Political grandstanding combined with "we want to earn lots of money so we never work again" selfishness demands a punch in the nose. Claiming to be dirt poor when youse ain't, also deserves a slap in the chops.

Claiming hometown hero status when you do nothing in your hometown but buy property also deserves a slap. Manic Street Preachers, you're a bunch of rich twats with records that sound like Smash Mouth covering Queen, or Blink-182 covering Rush.

I saw Nicky Wire and I wished that he was dead.

my hatred of this band causes me to write the sort of iconoclastic cocksuckery that they made their name on in the NME.

Personal Favourite:

They can stick their A-levels up their arse.

I will not buy the argument that somehow this was good lyric writing. The choruses alone:

"If you tolerate this, then your children will be next
AND
If you tolerate this, then your children will be next
AND
If you tolerate this, then your children will be next
WILL BE NEXT, WILL BE NEXT!"

"Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter"

"A design for life
A design for life
A design for life
A design for life
For life
A design for life"

But it's anthemic, see? FUCK OFF.

They've never got past the sixth form. Each song was like they'd read another article in the Guardian's G2 about counter-culture, and written a song about it. The Kevin Carter one pissed me off the most. It was called, 'Kevin Carter', because it was about Kevin Carter, who was a photographer, which they alluded to with the lyric "click click click click click, click your life away - Kevin Carter", and by filling the video with images of cameras. That's their level all through their career, filling their songs with the kind of imagery that uses a camera to represent a photographer -

- all of which would be fine if they didn't act like such fucking geniuses.

"Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia"

That song was about Australia.

CUNTS

[Takk]

kinda have a point about the choruses lol

[Lord Revan]

I chuckled at "livejournal set to Blink-182" haha.

[Routine Builder]

"If you tolerate this, the album will be next!"

[gracie]

"That song was about Australia. CUNTS" got me

[MoMoney MoJunk]

Well they left half of the chorus lyrics out in those songs! Besides, it's the music that makes them sound anthemic.

And also fuck them.

I just googled them, is this the Chicago studio owned by Steve Albini? I wonder did they listen to Journal For Plague Lovers.

[UEF]

I'd say most of that is spot-on.

[amaitheanhorn]

Originally Posted by gracie

"That song was about Australia. CUNTS" got me

That bit made my day

[centralscrutiniser]

Yep, a lot of that seems like a fair comment really!

[Porco]

Rule number one in criticising lyrics: try to actually quote the lyrics correctly, otherwise you look like a buffoon.

[Dancing Kirby]

Originally Posted by UEF

I'd say most of that is spot-on.

And there's so much more to add.

[UEF]

Don't forget tsunami tsunami tsunami, and you stole the sun from my heart, you stole the sun from my heart, oh you stole the sun from my heart, you stole the sun from, you stole the sun from...

[UEF]

You love us, oh you love is, you love, you love , you love us, you love

Motown junk, Motown junk, motown junk, motown junk

[Porco]

Yes, the Manics are one of the only bands to use the title of the song in the chorus. What an incredible discovery.

[Takk]

I think the point is more they use it a lot, over and over again. It can be especially obvious on some hit-heavy setlists.