At what point did you realise the Manics were for you?

[Slideling]

I 'became a fan' a long time ago, but it was JFPL that really convinced me of what the thread title says. Odd, I know.

[Mary Chain]

Originally Posted by The Gutless Wonder

I trust the Manics are still for you Hanna or have you upped sticks to the Waving Flags camp?

One foot in each camp, at least right now anyway. Manics were on form in Leicester so topped their set, but me and Kelly were worried for a moment.

[The Gutless Wonder]

Originally Posted by harrijack

One foot in each camp, at least right now anyway. Manics were on form in Leicester so topped their set, but me and Kelly were worried for a moment.

He! He! Never write off the Manics!

[RoseTintedSpecs]

I don't really know at which point exactly to be honest, but it had been building up for a while. I was aware of their existence, particularly ADFL, which was everywhere when I was about 4 or 5. But apart from that, I didn't really know about anything else they'd done. Then a few years ago when I played for a local football team, I was getting a lift to a tournament with one of my team-mates and YLAINE came on the radio. Her dad asked who it was, and she told him it was the Manics, and I remember thinking, "Oh, they're still around? I kinda like this song".

I ended up with ADFL & Tolerate on my iPod as they were on compilations my parents had, but I didn't really listen to them often. Then, in June, I went out for a meal with friends to celebrate the end of the year, and one of them mentioned that she wanted to go and see the Manics in Leeds in October. I said I'd think about it, but it went to the back of my mind and I almost completely forgot. Around this time I started listening to Tolerate a lot more and realised I quite liked it. I watched the video on YouTube and began to like it even more.

I then realised I hadn't heard anything other songs by them apart from ADFL and YLAINE, so I decided to search for Motorcycle Emptiness on YouTube, and had it in my head for ages afterwards. A few weeks later it was my birthday, so I decided to buy Forever Delayed with some of the money I got, and I just couldn't stop listening to it...I knew it was getting bad when I had to force myself to listen to other artists!

I borrowed JFPL & EMG from the friend who'd originally wanted to go to the gig but she didn't have any of the other albums. About a week later I mentioned to a relative who loved going to gigs that I wouldn't mind going to see the Manics in Blackburn, and he said "Well, why don't we go?" so we ordered the tickets there and then. I acquired all of the other albums in the weeks leading up to the gig because I was missing quite a few of them. The gig was just amazing, and by the end of it I knew who my favourite band were.

[ennanire]

...I knew it was getting bad when I had to force myself to listen to other artists!

You're like that,too?!
!!!!
It's so true!

[RoseTintedSpecs]

Originally Posted by ennanire

You're like that,too?!
!!!!
It's so true!

I know!

There are so many Manics songs that there's one for every mood, so I mostly just listen to them!

I think the rest of my music collection is beginning to feel neglected, haha

[jac185]

Was in a bar type place with a friend of mine. That silly YLAINE video came on twice in an hour. My mate said 'do you like the Manics?' and I said 'I don't really know them, but this song is really grating.'

At the next bar Tolerate comes on and I remarked that I could have listened to that song (whatever it was) forever. He said it was the same band. Then told me how even if I did not love the whole discography the history would probably interest me. He knew what a typical Salinger-teen I was.

So I went home and read all about The Holy Bible. I downloaded it and read along with the lyrics of Yes and literally could not believe that such a thing existed.

[Slideling]

Originally Posted by jac185

Was in a bar type place with a friend of mine. That silly YLAINE video came on twice in an hour. My mate said 'do you like the Manics?' and I said 'I don't really know them, but this song is really grating.'

More power to ya.

[Disenchanted]

Saw You Love Us video and thought they're ridiculous, and fantastic, and did nobody tell the singer what the dress code was? Been love ever since

[Slideling]

Do you know which version of the vid you saw?...

[sherlock]

Originally Posted by jac185

I downloaded it and read along with the lyrics of Yes and literally could not believe that such a thing existed.

That was the thing that really got me, especially with 4st 7lb that such introspection and poetry could be contained within one song - especially when the lyrics didn't scan, the music was just wrong (especially in 1994!) and the subject matter had never been so explicitly written about before. Yet it all worked into one stunning piece of beauty. Then I got The Holy Bible and, like the poster above, could not literally believe that lyrics like that could exist and, combined with the bile, hatred and spite I had against the world during that year, all rolled the thing up into an era (and, dare I say it, life) changing experience. Not a day gone by since that I haven't listened to the band in some form or another. And I doubt such a day will pass in the future.

[sherlock]

Originally Posted by Richian

Do you know which version of the vid you saw?...

Got to be the Heavenly version, surely ... (!)

[Disenchanted]

Originally Posted by Richian

Do you know which version of the vid you saw?...

The sony version

[sherlock]

Originally Posted by Disenchanted

The sony version

Blimey, I stand corrected!

[Disenchanted]

Originally Posted by sherlock

Blimey, I stand corrected!

I think I would probably have thought the same thing no mater which version I saw first, I still think the same thing half the time when I see them now!