National Treasures - The Singles Collection Thread

[deadmartyr]

I like the composition and colour of the cover, though would've been nice for something or someone a bit more interesting on the front. Got the SATT reference too.

Fittingly, I went to the Big Pit once on a secondary school trip in February 1999, and You Stole the Sun played on the radio just as we were leaving school, sung along to by a number of kids who all almost certainly never became fans of the band.

[Littlesue]

Originally Posted by Midlands_Junk

Promo for this sounds healthy so far. I refuse to believe they won't play any shows to plug this, that would be mad(der than all the other daft and senseless things about this)

Agres, Greatest Hits are a great way to make the band some money, even more so if they do gigs to promote

[meganslastwords]

even if they only do a one off show in cardiff or london, they should do something (wishful thinking!)

[Industrial Symphony No.1]

Originally Posted by Midlands_Junk

I refuse to believe they won't play any shows to plug this, that would be mad(der than all the other daft and senseless things about this)

You could be forgiven for thinking they have already promoted it on the last couple of tours.

[Midlands_Junk]

At least the acoustic version of Faster isn't involved this time.
**Shudders**
**Then vomits**

[Bobafettish]

Originally Posted by Dancing Kirby

I... don't think it's shit?



Someone step in and call it shit!!

http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/pr...005323&pType=1


Edit: 11. The Love Of Richard Nixon .Empty Souls .Your Love Alone Is Not Enough .Autumnsong .Indian Summer .(It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love

I wish this was a medley of shit to put the edits of FD to shame and not a listing mistake.

fit.

[Phil C]

Originally Posted by Industrial Symphony No.1

You could be forgiven for thinking they have already promoted it on the last couple of tours.

Yeah, why would I want to hear them play 'Sleepflower', 'My Little Empire', 'Solitude Sometimes Is', 'Suicide Alley', 'Enola/Alone', 'Me and Steven Hawking', 'Jackie Collins', 'Peeled Apples', 'Small Black Flowers', 'Strip It Down', 'This Is Yesterday', 'Donkeys', 'Yes', 'Of Walking Abortion', 'Marlon JD', 'No Surface All Feeling' on another tour made up solely of singles?

[Bobafettish]

Originally Posted by Porco

Here's why it makes sense that 1) the bonus track is a cover version and 2) the album cover is very SATT-era

Manics UK Chart positions:

brilliant chart

[Phil C]

Originally Posted by Clarence Pistoldinner

Oh, and somebody mentioned a The The twitter feed. has anybody got a link to it as I can't find it.
I used to be 'friends' with The The on Facebook, but he seems to have either deleted his account or...deleted me :0

http://twitter.com/#!/thethe

Incidentally I do love Manics fans. 10 years ago when the FD compilation came out people on here were moaning a) about being ripped off because they had to buy the album for exclusive new material when they'd already bought 90% of the tracks and b) for not including all the singles.

Now they're releasing a singles collection that a) doesn't feature new material (except a cover which presumably will be available as a stand-alone single) and b) features all the singles...and people are *still* moaning now that they've got what they wanted.

It's like when people moaned that the set lists weren't being changed enough and that not enough of 'Postcards' was being played, only to moan even louder when they announced they were adding some fresher songs and 'A Billion Balconies' to the Brixton set list because they personally weren't going to that gig.

[Dancing Kirby]

Originally Posted by Flint

A full band version of Endless Plain of Fortune would be the best thing in this entire campaign.

But it's going to just be the BBC live thingy, isn't it?

They played a full band version on the radio months ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lbwS48dmlU

[ISLWYN]

Didn't they once threaten to use sand paper for a cover? About time they delivered the goods.

[Dext37 Fielding]

Sainsburys so fare to cheapest for the non DVD version @ £8.99

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...w=1366&bih=641

[Everlasting_Revol]

Am I the only one who thinks the girl on the cover looks like Taylor Swift?

[Son of Stopped]

Originally Posted by Everlasting_Revol

Am I the only one who thinks the girl on the cover looks like Taylor Swift?

I think she looks like Oh No who used to post on here.
In fact when I first saw it I thought "Oh no! It's Oh No!"

[Everlasting_Revol]

Originally Posted by Phil C

Yeah, why would I want to hear them play 'Sleepflower', 'My Little Empire', 'Solitude Sometimes Is', 'Suicide Alley', 'Enola/Alone', 'Me and Steven Hawking', 'Jackie Collins', 'Peeled Apples', 'Small Black Flowers', 'Strip It Down', 'This Is Yesterday', 'Donkeys', 'Yes', 'Of Walking Abortion', 'Marlon JD', 'No Surface All Feeling' on another tour made up solely of singles?

Yeah, that's high hopes right there. Least we can say "Love's Sweet Exile" and "Revol" are on a compilation album.