Postcards From A Young Man Thread - Page 25 - Forever Delayed

Pasquerel · #**361** 03-06-2010, 08:20

^ Please remember: The Manics are having a thing for bad videos. It's something very unlikely to change in the near future, I only hope the upcoming ones won't be that bad.

If they want to build a huge image, they should team up with Jonas Åkerlund, he can make a popstar out of anyone.

Oh Nick...! · #**362** 03-06-2010, 08:28

I hope they're not setting themselves up for a fall with all these refs to "mass communication" and "radio hits" - record-buyers and radio producers can be a contrary bunch. Can't remember another, established band coming out with "hits" as their answer to what a new album will be about, but I suppose that's what we love about them.

If it is as fkn scary as it sounds (gospel choirs?!), I hope they at least get their 16 million sales out of it.

nocultureicons · #**363** 03-06-2010, 09:45

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Originally Posted by everlasting

Hope the lead single will get its first radio plays soon. Hope they get a good video for it, Jackie Collins was OK but very low budget and like a Patrick Jones video he does, Indian Summer was nice but not interesting unless you liked to keep watching clips of the Manics eating ice creams and them as kids, Autumnsong was fucking awful (both versions) and Your Love Alone was alright but just a bog standard band miming to the song.
And yeah, as someone said, every interview we'll ALWAYS hear about "last shot at mass communication", it'll be like last years "I got a folder with Bugs Bunny on it" which was said in EVERY interview or article.

Blur did a similar thing with the reunion interviews - in pretty much every interview Alex James said "it’s a bit like putting the A-Team back together. We had to bust Dave out of law school."

Napoleon Bonaparte · #**364** 03-06-2010, 10:32

Anyone else get a postcard this morning with the tour ad on it?

Emsie · #**365** 03-06-2010, 10:43

I got a postcard this morning from the manics.........how the hell did they get my address? who actually sent it i wonder.....

Amanda · #**366** 03-06-2010, 10:47

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Originally Posted by Emsie

I got a postcard this morning from the manics.........how the hell did they get my address? who actually sent it i wonder.....

Record label I'd imagine, and if you're registered for their website a while ago you'd have given them your address when you registered don't suppose they ask these days. Its a nice touch though I can't remember getting a postcard since probably the first TIMT tour. I guess theres been slipcases since though.

Loz · #**367** 03-06-2010, 10:47

Really? Haha. Hope I get one. They must have addresses from when we first signed up to the mailing list.

nocultureicons · #**368** 03-06-2010, 10:53

Oh my, I didn't get a postcard! I sent so many of those things off and never received anything MSP related.

Awww I miss postcards from bands

Finn · #**369** 03-06-2010, 10:55

I got four

Dext37 Fielding · #**370** 03-06-2010, 10:55

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Originally Posted by Napoleon Bonaparte

Anyone else get a postcard this morning with the tour ad on it?

yep. - in my Manics draw now!

Manicben · #**371** 03-06-2010, 10:56

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Originally Posted by everlasting

Indian Summer was nice but not interesting unless you liked to keep watching clips of the Manics eating ice creams and them as kids

I think you underestimate a lot of people on this site.

Also, I want a postcard.

Dancing Kirby · #**372** 03-06-2010, 11:04

I haven't received a Manics postcard since This Is My Truth. Oasis still keep sending me them, though. I must have registered my details with them in 1994 and I'm currently fearing getting another one for Time Flies and the disapproval from my postie that comes with it. I think I've already had one for Time Flies, actually.