This Is My Rewind The Film Show Me Yours

[mr bowlase]

So Rewind The Film was originally compared with This Is My Truth....but which album is superior? And why?

[tzb]

Good question but I find it hard to compare the two, I feel like it has more in common with EMG to be honest.

[Littlesue]

I don't think its like any of them. TIMT has better more memorable tunes and a better style of music.

[sculptureofabloke]

I think there's quite a strong lyrical comparison but not so much musically. I love Rewind The Film but it's early days, might get sick of it before long for all I know.

This Is My Truth will always have a special place for me because it's the one that got me obsessed with them and knowing it's the first one completely without Richey. They'd gone massive with Everything Must Go and I think anything would've got to number one after that but I think it was a brave record to make, quite experimental in places and I just think overall it's an unlikely hit of an album. I say hit of an album, it's been in more charity shops and bargain bins than I've had hot dinners. And after 15 years I still love it, still touches me.

[Mr Richey]

TIMTTMY is higher in my album rankings, so the better album for me is TIMTTMY. But I also love RTF, just not to the same degree.

[Borderliner]

Truth forever.

[Industrial Symphony No.1]

RTF is better because it doesn't have anything as bad as SYMM on it.

[FacelessSenseOfVoid]

It's a little early to be asking that question. Truth has definitely grown on me MASSIVELY in the last few years, I'd say it's the better album. Ready For Drowning, Be Natural and You're Tender And You're Tired are probably some of my favourite MSP songs. I'm Not Working used to be a song I hated but now it's one that I absolutely admire because I actually get it now!

RTF has a few duff songs on it, particularly 4LR. And for that reason alone I'm choosing Truth as my favourite out of the two.

[Radiomanic]

They are nothing alike, what is the comparison all about? Oh it's the most mellow thing they've done since? Well no, Lifeblood was equally mellow. I can't compare these albums, it would be like comparing GATS with THB.

One thing is for sure though, it's far too early to say 100% which is the strongest (although for me TIMT is their best album so very very hard to top in general).

[Manualex16]

Originally Posted by FacelessSenseOfVoid

RTF has a few duff songs on it, particularly 4LR. And for that reason alone I'm choosing Truth as my favourite out of the two.

U could agrue that thruth(sic) has SYMM

[Dancing Kirby]

This is my objective THIS IS MY REWIND THE FILM SHOW ME YOURS tracklist.

READY FOR DROWNING
IF YOU TOLERATE THIS YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE NEXT
THIS SULLEN WELSH HEART
TOKYO SKYLINE
TSUNAMI
NOBODY LOVED YOU
MY LITTLE EMPIRE
4 LONELY ROADS
YOU'RE TENDER AND YOU'RE TIRED
BE NATURAL
RUNNING OUT OF FANTASY
BLACK DOG ON MY SHOULDER

That is an 8-4 victory for Truth. However, this is my alternative subjective THIS IS MY REWIND THE FILM SHOW ME YOURS tracklist.

4 LONELY ROADS
4 LONELY ROADS
4 LONELY ROADS
4 LONELY ROADS
4 LONELY ROADS
4 LONELY ROADS
4 LONELY ROADS
4 LONELY ROADS
4 LONELY ROADS
4 LONELY ROADS
PROLOGUE TO HISTORY
4 LONELY ROADS

[The Gutless Wonder]

Truth is my favourite album ever because it has so many emotional links for me. I love RTF too. It's like to Truth what JFPL is to THB for me!

[Europa Gluten Free]

Despite what the Manics might say in interviews or like to think themselves, TIMT was their best period commercially and critically. On the one hand they sold more records than they ever had or would again and, in terms of songwriting, were at their strongest when you look at how good the B-sides were in that era.

[starstruck]

Originally Posted by proevpete

Despite what the Manics might say in interviews or like to think themselves, TIMT was their best period commercially and critically. On the one hand they sold more records than they ever had or would again and, in terms of songwriting, were at their strongest when you look at how good the B-sides were in that era.

well.....commercially they seem to have gotten it into their heads that TIMT was their best period, as for some reason they think that Tolerate was their "only international hit". not true, really - the first EMG singles were pretty big everywhere, and the So Why So Sad & Found That Soul singles off KYE were released everywhere and did reasonably well. after that the wheels fell off somewhat, the FD set didn't really get that much of a push around the world to cash in.

i cannot wholeheartedly say 1 of the 2 albums here is better than the other. i will say this; RTF is perhaps the most relevant the band have been to me since TIMT. RTF speaks to me and connects aged 40 just like TIMT did when i was whatever age i was when that was released, mid-20s i think. the albums in between have been a mix of impressive and wtf, man. on the whole brilliant songs, and ones that certainly strike a note inside in the right places.

i suspect some here might know what i am saying, yeah?

so go on then, i will vote RTF, because the wagons are circled, there's no going back. TIMT can give me memories of days gone, RTF has an awful lot of today in it.

[RookUK]

I've said Truth, but only tentatively as it's only early days.

I think there a lot of links between the two albums - I wouldn't quite as far as to say that RTF is to TIMT what JFPL was to THB, but they are connected in my mind for sure.

They both had an upbeat single which wasn't very representative of the rest of the LP (and Show Me the Wonder is massively superior to Stole the Sun, for me), both had a song with a Japanese connection, both mention Hillsborough in their final track, both are intensely personal... it's odd to me that some people claim the two albums aren't in any way similar. I think Truth is a lot more glossy production-wise and is more concerned with depression than with ageing, which I think is RTF's main theme.

It's probably Truth's sequence of several brilliant songs back-to-back on the second half (I'm Not Working to Nobody Loved You) which edges it for me for the time being at least.