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View Poll Results: Best Lead Single From The Manic Street Preachers?
Stay Beautiful 2 2.35%
From Despair To Where 4 4.71%
Faster/P.C.P 24 28.24%
A Design For Life 30 35.29%
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 13 15.29%
So Why So Sad 2 2.35%
Found That Soul 7 8.24%
The Love Of Richard Nixon 2 2.35%
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 1 1.18%
(It's Not War) Just The End Of Love 0 0%
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Old 20-12-2011, 16:02
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What the shuddering fuck drove someone to vote for SWSS?
i was somewhat more disturbed by the vote for YLAINE but come on, it's Christmas, let us try (pretend if need be) to be nice to each other - if anyone here got into the band via either of those songs or any other (except Autumnsong), well then fuck it, so much the better, welcome to our merry get along gang.
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Old 20-12-2011, 16:05
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I went for Stay Beautiful. I would have gone for Faster, but SB was looking lonely with no votes.
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Old 20-12-2011, 16:35
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How could it be anything other than Faster? It's my favourite lead single by any band I've ever loved.
It's their peak in every possible way. Best music, best lyrics, best video, best clothes, best era.

I was too young at the time of the release, but it was that album that got me into them, a few years later.

2. Found That Soul
3. Tolerate
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Old 20-12-2011, 16:57
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What the shuddering fuck drove someone to vote for SWSS?
The video made me laugh. And I like the song. Maybe it doesn't work live however...
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Old 20-12-2011, 17:51
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The video made me laugh. And I like the song. Maybe it doesn't work live however...
It sounded great on Saturday. I think they should re-record it without all the jingly jangly bollocks.
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Yeah, I expect it would be vastly more tolerable without the misfiring "Look! We're the Beach Boys!" bollocks.
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Faster/PCP.

Whilst there were other great lead singles, do any have the impact of the TOTP performance of Faster?
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Yeah, I expect it would be vastly more tolerable without the misfiring "Look! We're the Beach Boys!" bollocks.
Whenever I mention So Why So Sad and The Beach Boys I always get cried down!
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Well it's not really Beach Boys, it's just general 60s US pop nonsense... but it's a reasonable shorthand and I firmly believe Beach Boys was the intent, between that and "Happy Birthday, this is the summer".
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You've got to give YLAINE credit. It sold a dreadful album to a lot of people.

However, I voted Faster/PCP because that's the correct answer.
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Well it's not really Beach Boys, it's just general 60s US pop nonsense... but it's a reasonable shorthand and I firmly believe Beach Boys was the intent, between that and "Happy Birthday, this is the summer".
I love the Beach Boys so have no problem with it sounding like them!
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I think their best single is either Faster or IYTT. But I voted for FDTW because it was the only time I heard the single before the album (out of these choices) and both thought and discovered that it was a great album. IYTT I heard before the rest of TIMT, but I was incredibly disappointed by the rest of the album. Faster I didn't even hear til I listened through THB. Course, it's bound to be weird for me because their singles never appear in the US.
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A Design for Life.

I bought it on cassette when it came out. I'd been aware of the MSP before, but probably couldn't name any of their songs. I just bought it because I'd heard it on the radio and liked the tune, especially the build up to the chorus.

But it started something: fifteen years, six gigs (not bad considering the closest they've played is 300 miles from where I live) and a whole lot of albums and singles later, there is still no other band that really matters.
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Whenever I mention So Why So Sad and The Beach Boys I always get cried down!
yes, and the last time this argument flared up ("it sounds NOTHING LIKE THE BEACH BOYS", etc, etc, etc) i defended you and directed all and sundry towards the exact Beach Boys song it sounds like. off that Cock Tales film.


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You've got to give YLAINE credit. It sold a dreadful album to a lot of people.
perhaps this is one for Controversial Opinions, but if you program SATT to play and skip YLAINE and (look away, Gutless) Autumnsong, it's actually a rather good album.
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Found That Soul.

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