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Manics closing tracks
Listened to satt on the way home from work and it struck me how "throw away" winter lovers is as a big bombastic cliched rock song. It reminded me of how I feel about symm and then I thought of manics opening and closing tunes, and how they differ. I can't think of a bad opening track on an album, yet closing tracks are very hit n miss (more so miss). I'm going to abbreviate everything here for ease (read lazy)
Gt - ctrr is a great tune - hit Gats - gats is pompous overblown rush lite fodder - miss Thb - pcp - ace - hit Emg - nsaf - ace - hit Timttmy - symm - generic stadium rock - miss Kye - foswfmc - generic grrr angry power punk - miss Lb - ca - worst track on the album, ruins perfection - miss Satt - wl - see foswfmc - miss Jfpl - wlw - poignant - hit Pfaym - dbe - generic power pop rubbish - miss Rtf - 30 year war - boring - miss So IMO 4 hits and 7 misses. Why do they end on such a damp note? |
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I think the populous is going to disagree with you there. The closers tend to be a lot of peoples favourites from albums. Specifically Lifeblood and Rewind the Film.
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Agree with GATS and Dont be evil being a rubbish closing track, disagree with freedom of speech, cardiff afterlife, winterlovers and 30 year war though. All are great in there own way and seem to fit perfectly.
SYMM is a funny one though, although its not the best manics song it does sort of leave the album on a somwhat icey note. The thing is, i couldnt imagine anything else fitting at the end of this is my truth, except maybe montana autumn 78. |
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Cardiff Afterlife is the perfect way to close Lifeblood - damn I love that album!
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I agree that most closers are weaker than the average album tracks:
CTRR: - GATS: -- PCP: - NSAF: 0 SYMM: -- FOSWFMC: + CA: + WL: - WLW: - DBE: ++ 3YW: ++ Ratings relative to album quality (PCP and NSAF surely are better than DBE and 3YW). Last edited by Lancashire Potter; 31-10-2013 at 23:42. |
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I think PCP is my personal favorite closing track.
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I've read some shite in my time on this forum but this is the biggest load of steaming shite I've ever seen.
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I don't hate their endings, though.... Anyway, I must agree with you on Generation Terrorists. That track is not amongst my favourites, but it is indeed a great choice for an ending. Especially when you think how the very song finishes too --- "there's nothing I wanna see, there's nowhere I wanna go".
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First line on lp "you need your stars" Last line on lp "there's nothing I wanna see, theres nowhere I want to go" Perfectly summed up their disillusion as they commented on the music scene at the time: boring, sterile, easy, no rock stars. By the end of recording richey (more so than others) was demoralised by the time in the studio - making his collage then ripping it down burning it, the emptiness he felt when shopping on the 'company credit card', drinking and sonic the hedgehog |
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Coming to the defence of GATS as an album closer here!
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Its a shame donkeys was recorded after gold against the soul, as that would have been the perfect closing track.
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I was just thinking the other day that RTF was unusual in that I actually liked the last song, which bar PCP was a rarity for me.
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Cardiff Afterlife is my favourite Manics song.
Then again I wouldn't expect any different than silly views from a Blues fan....!!!
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