Favourite Manic Song Goosebumps?

[Lindz Delirium]

Nynex 97 video, James accapella Further Away in the rehearsal footage.
In tears every time.

[A Design For Manic]

miss europa disco dancer

[Siouxsie Sway]

Antarctic by far!
but also So Dead and the ending of Nobody Loved You

[Borderliner]

No souvenirs
No symphonies
No dead feelings


from the Soulmates

[Nature's Discontent]

The drum roll leading into the La Tristesse Durera solo.

[rosetree]

lots but mostly:

all of The Holy Bible
A Design for Life
Motorcyle Emptiness

[Borderliner]

These beautiful lines from Golden Platitudes

What happened to those days
When everything seemed possible
With no one to tell you no

[comradestripe]

Originally Posted by StunnedFox

The first song that comes to mind is Ready For Drowning - firstly, "fascinated by good, destroyed by evil, what is there to believe in?" leading into the second chorus; secondly, the sample ("I will bring the whole edifice down..."), and thirdly, as the song is finishing up, when the melody comes in again.

Yes! Can't believe I forgot this. The whole song is magical, but particularly those bits.

Originally Posted by A boy called Rita

Everyone I've loved, or hated always seems to leave.

Originally Posted by allisvanity

'I-KNOW-I-BELIEVE-IN-NOTHING-BUT-IT-IS-MY-NOTHING!'

Still my favorite part of any Manics song.

These two are excellent ragey bits

Originally Posted by UEF

"A situationist sisterhood of Jackie and Joan
Separates us the questions without a home"

Delivered like a jet engine taking off. Awesome.

Also perfect. That JDB bellow...

[Ange Etrange]

1. Postcards from a Young Man
1.1. "impo-o-oose its will..." = that melisma JDB does on "impose" is very hard to do, and a testament to his skills as a singer
1.2. and all the way up to the gospel chorus to the end

2. I Live to Fall Asleep
the call and answer of "How could you become / another boy struck dumb"

3. Australia and No Surface All Feeling
the ends in particular

4. My Little Empire and All Is Vanity
pretty much the whole song

So many too mention!

[Siouxsie Sway]

pretty much all of As Holy As The Soil, and especially 'As holy as those nights we walked in the rain
I love you so, will you please come home.'
'
As beautiful as the spring in Japan
As generous as your safe strong hands
As wasted as the lifetimes we spent apart
I love you so will you please come home'

'Oh I love you so won't you please come home
Oh, it's been so long, I can't let go.'

<3

awww Nicky

[allisvanity]

Originally Posted by Siouxsie Sway

pretty much all of As Holy As The Soil

Same here, I really love that song.

[Siouxsie Sway]

Originally Posted by allisvanity

Same here, I really love that song.

goosebumps and 'knot in stomach'-feeling all through. sadly beautiful. <3

[Bazza2658]

Archives of Pain guitar solo is just something else!

[Borderliner]

So Why So Sad Every attosecond of it.

[degina]

When the chorus kicks in for the first time in "Nobody Loved You". And the " so why, so why so sad" is sung with so much of a strange, cathartic, almost accusatory emotion it stirs something up in me every time.