Postcards From A Young Man Thread

[Scarecrow]

Gotten back into it lately after a few weeks of not listening to it. Really love it.

[CardiffAfterlife]

I really like Postcards, but am I the only person who prefers Send Away The Tigers?

[Blue Cat]

Originally Posted by CardiffAfterlife

I really like Postcards, but am I the only person who prefers Send Away The Tigers?

do we have to choose between the two? That's like choosing between torture and painful death.

[Beat Poet]

Originally Posted by CardiffAfterlife

I really like Postcards, but am I the only person who prefers Send Away The Tigers?

After JFPL I wrote off SATT, but PFAYM made me appreciate SATT again.

[Matt_o_Mac]

Originally Posted by Masochist Revol

I haven't listened to it in it's entirety that much, but I do think it is a really good album. For me, it's not as amazing or as exciting as JFPL was, but it feels like everything Send Away the Tigers should have been.

Personal favourites on the album are auto-intoxication, the future has been here forever, some kind of nothingness and it's not war.

Because it's lyrics are better in my view. SATT is the one album that in my view has nothing. It has a melancholy video in Indian Summer which I like but thats it. The SGD actually sounds too similar in texture and movement so they go and stick them together?!?

I still like some of Postcards, it's not amazing but I like it, Platitudes really does hit the spot for me.

[The Gutless Wonder]

Originally Posted by MSPKYE

Really quite easily!

Get bored easily of EMG, SATT, Lifeblood and pretty much most of their other stuff then? I know everyone has different tastes and stuff but come on! If the majority of the stuff on Postcards bores you I would have thought the Manics in general would bore you!

*awaits a spanking from Franny*

[CardiffAfterlife]

Originally Posted by Blue Cat

do we have to choose between the two? That's like choosing between torture and painful death.

Oh be fair now - do you really think they're that awful?

[Beat Poet]

Originally Posted by The Gutless Wonder

Get bored easily of EMG, SATT, Lifeblood and pretty much most of their other stuff then? I know everyone has different tastes and stuff but come on! If the majority of the stuff on Postcards bores you I would have thought the Manics in general would bore you!

*awaits a spanking from Franny*

Being bored of one album doesn't automatically mean that you're bored of all the rest of them. You sound more the opposite - if you like one album, you have to like them all.

[Blue Cat]

Originally Posted by CardiffAfterlife

Oh be fair now - do you really think they're that awful?

yep. If I could choose any two albums from history to erase, it would be them.
Thankfully, ha would mean I'd think the manics would have a near perfect back catalogue.

Originally Posted by Beat Poet

Being bored of one album doesn't automatically mean that you're bored of all the rest of them. You sound more the opposite - if you like one album, you have to like them all.

Agreed. It doesn't make sense to say "you don't like this, how can you like the manics?". It's a bit ... odd.

[Ken Korda]

Originally Posted by CardiffAfterlife

I really like Postcards, but am I the only person who prefers Send Away The Tigers?

No. SATT isn't an amazing album but it has a spark of originality, something a little bit special about it, that PFAYM most certainly lacks.

Originally Posted by The Gutless Wonder

Get bored easily of EMG, SATT, Lifeblood and pretty much most of their other stuff then? I know everyone has different tastes and stuff but come on! If the majority of the stuff on Postcards bores you I would have thought the Manics in general would bore you!

*awaits a spanking from Franny*

Oh TGW.

Lifeblood is a beautiful album, perfectly crafted with some really thought provoking, intellectual lyrics.
EMG is a fantastic album showcasing the extremities of The Manics, lyrically and musically. The downright brilliance of such songs as A Design For Life, Small Black Flowers and No Surface All Feeling contain powerful lyrical imagery and diverse musical styles which are evident to any listener.
SATT has a ferocity to it. A drive. It's an album that has great flaws, granted, but it also has an overwhelming sense of, 'We are not dead. We still have lots to give and by God, are we going to give it to you whether you like it or not.'

It is this beauty, intelligence, originality and ferocity that I love in The Manics and unfortunately, when they were throwing everything they could into this album, those were four important traits they completely forgot about.

[hummingbird]

i don't understand how people prefer SATT to postcards tbh. I got bored of that album very very quickly whereas i'm still regularly playing this one. I do like strings mind.

[UEF]

SATT is like a mug of cold sick.

[Blue Cat]

Originally Posted by UEF

SATT is like a mug of cold sick.

you've put me off my mug of cold sick now

[riot_star]

Originally Posted by Blue Cat

you've put me off my mug of cold sick now

Awwwww no

[riot_star]

Originally Posted by hummingbird

i don't understand how people prefer SATT to postcards tbh. I got bored of that album very very quickly whereas i'm still regularly playing this one. I do like strings mind.

Same. I get bored with SATT it really easily, I think PFAYM has a bit more to it then SATT.

I do like SATT but out of the two I'd choose PFAYM.