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SATT is definitely superior, despite the presence of throwaway tracks like The Second Great Depression, cock rock Winterlovers and the biggest insult of their career Autumsong. It still has at least got some energy to it, I see it as a sequel to GATS. Just as cheesy, full of guitar solos and full on stadium rock anthems. Just as MSP sound like completely different bands sometimes, these two could've been recorded by the same version.
PFAYM just isn't worth wasting any time on. Rock Bottom. |
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I do agree; not much between the two but SATT has so much more energy although it might have benefitted from one or two pared down songs [i.e. acoustic-based slower ones].
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Oh god, I'll be crucified for this but here goes:
Hate SATT with a passion except for the title track, it's my least played Manics album by a country mile AND I love PFAYM, play it all the time, never skip any tracks and think Autumnsong is an absolute delight. Puts me in a right good mood it does. No this is not a joke btw. x |
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I genuinely love both of them for what they are. Although they're obviously not a patch on THB and JFPL, I think I probably prefer them to RTF and Futurology.
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Oops, so it is lol.
I still really like it though. |
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In contrast, on 'Postcards' there's a sense of them pushing the boat out a bit. The first use of gospel choirs for example might not be to everyone's taste (I love them myself, maybe it's because I used to sing in choirs when I was younger) but it's still a new ingredient to the sound, something 'Tigers' fails to introduce. 'Golden Platitudes' in particular doesn't really sound like anything else they've written, while 'Some Kind Of Nothingness' uses voices to create a wall of sound in a way they've not tried since 'Tolerate'. And it's not just the choirs. In the past Sean's trumpet playing has been a rare treat, and usually employed in the place of a guitar solo. But on 'The Future Has Been Here 4-Ever' it drives the song for the first time, again sounding unlike any Manics song previous. 'Auto-Intoxication' is not just a very decent rock song with a big chorus - it has three distinct sections at different tempos and John Cale's bridge between verse and chorus is something you can't imagine they'd have included in their heavier moments in the past. Even the songs that are more straight-forward are largely better than their 'Tigers' counterparts. 'A Billion Balconies' vs 'Underdogs'? Only one winner. 'Auto-Intoxication' vs 'I'm Just A Patsy'? 'Some Kind Of Nothingness' vs 'Autumnsong'? 'Golden Platitudes' vs almost anything on 'Tigers'? Also, lyrically 'Postcards' is a much stronger album than 'Tigers', the latter seemingly deliberately bland most of the time to not put people off what was in effect a comeback record. 'Postcards' may have an FM sheen but there's more bite in the words. 'Postcards' is far from perfect - 'The Decent' should have been a b-side, 'Hazelton Avenue' is ok but not special, 'I Think I Found It' is a rip off of 'Time Ain't Nothing' and neither are especially great. But around those is an interesting commercial rock album - in the sense that 'Everything Must Go' was a commercial rock album. |
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Aside from the title track and It's Not War, I can easily live without PFAYM.
Though flawed, SATT has a fair amount of glory. In terms of post Lifeblood, it goes: 1. JFPL 2. Futurology 3. Rewind The Film 4. Send Away The Tigers 5. Postcards From A Young Man
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Is it just me or was PFAYM not just absolutely over-produced shite?
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Both of them have great tacks. Second Great Depression from Tigers + Golden Platitudes from Postcards = <3
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Being part of the ''Playlist Generation'' an all thah, I spliced these two rather similar and ropey albums into one barnstorming summery Manics elpee years ago. 'Send Away The Postcards' is the commercial rock album they've been trying to make!
1. It's Not War (Just The End Of Love) 2. Postcards From A Young Man 3. Auto-Intoxication 4. Golden Platitudes 5. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 6. I Think I Found It 7. Indian Summer 8. I'm Just A Patsy 9. Imperial Bodybags 10. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever 11. All We Make Is Entertainment It works really well and I actually listen to it quite a lot. Brighten up a cold November day and make yer own, kids. If you get bored you could move on to 'This Is My Lifeblood..' or summat (the cold, elegiac album the Manics have always been trying to make, obv). |
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Postcards has: Some Kind Of Nothingness, A Billion Balconies, Golden Platitudes.
Send Away has: Underdogs, Send Away The Tigers, and Rendition. 3 decent tracks on each, both underwhelming. |
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