Classic Rock attacks Lifeblood !!!!!

[The Gutless Wonder]

Originally Posted by Rookesy

*agrees vociferously*

Good lad! I knew I could count on you!

[Smiling#Girl]

Originally Posted by y2kyle16

I love Lifeblood, At least the Manics HAD THE BOLLOCKS TO RELEASE SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT, unlike the following bands who's albums ALL sound the same, yet they are critically acclaimed.....

u2
Arctic Monkeys
Coldplay
Foo Fighters
Elbow
Athlete
Embrace
The Killers

etc.

Agree.I can't see why these bands are so much acclaimed cos i see nothing special in their music.
Lifeblood is a great album in my opinion.Classic rock or not doesn't matter.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by y2kyle16

I love Lifeblood, At least the Manics HAD THE BOLLOCKS TO RELEASE SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT, unlike the following bands who's albums ALL sound the same, yet they are critically acclaimed.....

u2
Arctic Monkeys
Coldplay
Foo Fighters
Elbow
Athlete
Embrace
The Killers

etc.

Except they don't. I never understand why people defend one band by simply listing a load of other bands that they don't like.

[Nabby]

Originally Posted by y2kyle16

I love Lifeblood, At least the Manics HAD THE BOLLOCKS TO RELEASE SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT, unlike the following bands who's albums ALL sound the same, yet they are critically acclaimed.....

u2
Arctic Monkeys
Coldplay
Foo Fighters
Elbow
Athlete
Embrace
The Killers

etc.

Arctic Monkeys? There is very little in common at all between their debut and what they've just released.

[Tom]

Originally Posted by Nabby

Arctic Monkeys? There is very little in common at all between their debut and what they've just released.

Ah but to know that you'd actually have to have, like, listened to those albums.

[Flint]

I can't stand Arctic Monkeys, haven't heard a single album of theirs in full, and even I know that they've gone through quite significant sound changes between their albums. All of those bands have, bar maybe Athlete and Embrace (I've zero idea about them so cannot vouch for them either way).

[grimlock]

I like the Foo Fighters' first two albums but everything afterward got a little too generic for my tastes. Wouldn't call them an AWFUL band, just generic.

[Clarence Pistoldinner]

Originally Posted by Aestivate

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours – “...too patchy to be considered a true classic, with the lumbering S.Y.M.M. and Wire’s My Little Empire as tedious as you’d expect from a song written about hovering.”

Was that Nicky's 'Within You Without You'?

[cricri]

My Little Empire 'boring'?
I fainted...

[Nature's Discontent]

My Little Empire and SYMM are both masterpieces. Classic Rock? Pffft, what do they know?

[meganslastwords]

Whether you like Arctic Monkeys or not, their albums don't all sound the same

[French Dog Rhymer]

Arctic Monkeys only have one good album, they all sound fairly different. Third album was a real departure (in the wrong direction)

As for Lifeblood... no classics, 6 really good tracks, lots of average filler, nothing truly terrible. 6/10 Deserved most of the reviews it got in my opinion, certainly their worst album.

[Rookesy]

Originally Posted by The Gutless Wonder

Good lad! I knew I could count on you!

We can change this foolish insistence on the existence of "average" manics albums!

[The Gutless Wonder]

Originally Posted by Rookesy

We can change this foolish insistence on the existence of "average" manics albums!

Absolutely! To infinity and beyond!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Industrial Symphony No.1]

Originally Posted by Classic Rock magazine

Avoid

Lifeblood

“It’s not like we had rows or anything,” Wire mused of Lifeblood’s half-arsed recording process. “It’s just we had a theory that we must sound like New Order or Pet Shop Boys”

Contrary to the title, this was anemic: a huge, wafty, water-treading record that reaches for ‘epic’ but defies even the most die-hard fan to recall a single memorable hook, barbed lyric or reason for listening. It’s no surprise that Lifeblood dropped like a stone from the UK chart, that both Bradfield and Wire would dip into solo projects afterwards, or that 2007’s Send Away The Tigers felt like an embarrassed apology.

Bloody awful

That's not what they said at the time in 2004! Having found their original review of Lifeblood I can confirm that they gave it 4 out of 5 stars and called it

...an assured album that is streets ahead of recent entries by near contemporaries like Blur, Oasis or Radiohead, and in much higher orbit than work by newbies like Muse, Coldplay and The Libertines - who are essentially just the Manics with all the politics and meaning hollowed out.

and that

there are none more likely to hate this new Manic Street Preachers album with quite the same passion as the self-styled true Manics fan for whom everything since 1994's 'The Holy Bible' is anathema.

Oh the fickle nature of music journalism.