Random Manics thoughts...

[Son of Stopped]

Originally Posted by UEF

Together Stronger vs. Ghosts of Christmas

Well... Together Stronger has a better guitar riff.
Ghosts of Christmas has the better chorus.
But Together Stronger is more forward looking as opposed to "Eeh, it's all computers these days".
So Together Stronger surprisingly the winner. But others might disagree.

[blackflower]

I hate football so Ghosts of Christmas all the way!

[Bobafettish]

Originally Posted by UEF

Together Stronger vs. Ghosts of Christmas

Oh my word...
Ghost of Christmas I think. Both are clunky af, but for a band who's sound is basically MOTD background music half the time, that's the best football song they could come up with?!

Hal Robson-Kanuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu u

[UEF]

Originally Posted by Son of Stopped

But Together Stronger is more forward looking as opposed to "Eeh, it's all computers these days".

damn kids and their "I Phones"

[Glyn]

Originally Posted by Bobafettish

Oh my word...
Ghost of Christmas I think. Both are clunky af, but for a band who's sound is basically MOTD background music half the time, that's the best football song they could come up with?!

Hal Robson-Kanuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu u

The odd thing about Together Stronger is tha the team rundown bit always sounded cheesy as hell until after that Belgium game. Suddenly that was a fairly complete list of the best Welsh team ever and celebrating Robson Kanu didn't sound quite so silly.

I like both but would go for Together Stronger just because this version still gives me goosebumps

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wal...rms-wales-song

[IntlDebris]

I like Ghost of Christmas, it works reasonably well as a homage to '70s glam rock Christmas songs and has a fun chorus.
Together Stronger is really quite nauseating.

[UEF]

Searching my email for something and got this email about the JDB album launch from 2006... a simpler time


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[LA ex]

Nice to see his myspace site survived the great crash! (Mine didn't :-( )

[Europa Gluten Free]

That post about The Great Western makes me incredibly nostalgic. Thanks for posting it.

[Porco]

Originally Posted by UEF

Plus you can see details on how to win this amazing prize - an Epiphone Les Paul Special II guitar, signed by James himself!

Still waiting to hear if I won that Les Paul. Fingers crossed!

[Bobafettish]

If they did a reissue of Lifeblood, and it’s second disk encompassed tracks from There By The Grace of God to God Save The Manics, it'd be the one I’d be most tempted to purchase.

[Bobafettish]

Originally Posted by Glyn

The odd thing about Together Stronger is tha the team rundown bit always sounded cheesy as hell until after that Belgium game. Suddenly that was a fairly complete list of the best Welsh team ever and celebrating Robson Kanu didn't sound quite so silly.

I like both but would go for Together Stronger just because this version still gives me goosebumps

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wal...rms-wales-song

That's a good point. I must admit, I was mostly just thrilled it had Tom Bradshaw in the video, as he was at the Saddlers at the time

[Borderliner]

Specific part of From Despair to Where sounds a bit like A Kind of Magic by Queen.

[UEF]

That Journal for Plague Lovers is twinned with The Holy Bible is a red herring; JFPL's sister album is really Gold Against the Soul.

[LA ex]

Still no sign of the Manics doing a Tim's twitter album party, but Dave Eringa was part of last night's one for Idlewild's 100 Broken Windows, with a few anecdote about how recording it overlapped with song Manics stuff. And he liked one of my tweets which was nice ��