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"Those who speak do not know, those who know do not speak." -Carlos Castenada
| Manic Street Preachers – 30 Year War Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant song. Nicky Wire at his PEAK!! | |
| Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[manic4manics:550] Apologies, I did not realise I had already posted a comment along these lines. Serves me right for not checking. | |
| My Chemical Romance – Every Snowflake Is Different Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Really cute :) If you listen to it though, sounds like they plagiarised parts of S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W. Not that that's a criticism btw. | |
| My Chemical Romance – Save Yourself (I'll Hold Them Back) Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Reminds me of the bit in the Sing! video where Ray helps the Missile Kid out the base and Frank is encouraging them to get out before turning his gun on all the baddies. You can almost hear him yelling "Save yourself, I'll hold them back!" in that instant :) | |
| My Chemical Romance – The Only Hope For Me Is You Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| He's (Party Poison?) in his apocalyptic world, trying to accomplish his mission while being haunted by his past and the horrors he's seen, bombs, people burning, etc. He hates how the movement of guns out there is just going to lead to more and more deaths. But though he can't forget, he tries his best to pretend to others he isn't thinking of it, with the exception of the significant other he is addressing, who remains his one beacon of light and his one hope in the miserable world. | |
| The Cardigans – Hold Me Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I think both of them are in love and she likes that and wants them to be close, but at the same time she appreciates that both of them also need their own space in life and that the balance between spending time by yourself and dedicating time to the other person isn't as simple as she'd first thought. It's almost like she's saying, "Yes, love me and hold me, but don't get too carried away." | |
| Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| A lot of this song is also about Nicky himself, admiring and celebrating the bravery and ideological purity of those who went to fight in Spain, while reflecting sadly that he'd never be able to bring himself to do something similar, hence the 'gravity keeps my head down/ or is it maybe shame?' line. 'I've walked Las Ramblas but not with real intent' is remembering a holiday he took with his wife to Barcelona in the mid-90s. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Faster Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[Zagrebo:487] *Richey | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Love's Sweet Exile Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Had my attention drawn back to this by a marker-upper. I can now confirm that, in part at least, most of this is true- Richey's interest in sex was very limited and he found it disappointing and overrated ('Nature's lukewarm pleasure' in fact- She Is Suffering). He also did not lose his virginity until after university. (Little titbit here- the partner was an older woman, someone in the music business, who took Richey aside at an aftershow party, much to the despair of James, who was reported to have raged at her "Do you have any idea what you've done?!" afterwards.) After that, yes there were a lot of one-night-stands, backstage orgies, etc, although 'monster' is a bit harsh, and Richey claimed to feel himself dirty after them. There is only one record of him paying- the notorious handjob he received in Thailand. He and Nicky (who was actually the one making the Freddie Mercury, Michael Stipe, etc comments) were very close friends but nothing more, despite their dabbling in homoerotic imagery in their videos. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Divine Youth Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This features Welsh singer and harpist Georgia Ruth, whose voice is just gorgeous on this track, which is one that has often been described as worthy of a spot on Rewind The Film instead of Futurology. The name 'Divine Youth' comes from a bootleg Manics t-shirt from quite a few years ago (which Nicky Wire has been photographed wearing) and that, as well as the gentle, meditative lyric, suggests it is quite a personal song about (possibly) him and Richey, and their friendship when they were younger, and how Nicky now copes with his loss. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Black Square Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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A few bits of quoting and paraphrasing: "Art is never modern, art is primordially eternal"- Austrian abstract expressionist Egon Schiele "Art is never finished, only abandoned"- Paul Valery (often misattributed to Da Vinci or Picasso) "Free yourselves from the tyranny of objects"- Kazimir Malevich The title is a reference to Malevich's Black Square, a Russian futurist opera concerning the capture and murder of the sun and the ending of time, and a black, square artwork which functioned as its third act. To Nicky Wire this canvas symbolised "punk. This is it. I am stripping the world of everything you have seen before and this is the reality of now." According to John Gray's recent The Immortalization Commission (the book which Wire credits for bringing Malevich back to his attention), after the death of Lenin in 1924, the black square came to mean something else. It was the inspiration for the Soviet premier's cuboid tomb, intended to be a 'fourth dimension' beyond the possibility of death itself. "Lenin's death is not death," wrote Malevich, "that he is alive and eternal, is symbolized in a new object, taking as its form the cube." The Manics have always been as much a portal as a band, a gateway to a whole universe of art and ideas. Nicky said "We saw ourselves as transistors, like Stockhausen said, we're just transistors to another life. Because all those things that we picked up, mostly from watching the telly or listening to music, we were trying to get across how enriching that was." [Credit for all this information has to go to Quietus magazine btw] (And can I add that the little melody at the start is VERY similar to The Cardigan's Hold Me. That is all.) |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Between The Clock And The Bed Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Featuring Green Gartside from the band Scritti Politti, this song is about an Edvard Munch self portrait of the same name, one of many he created towards the end of his life, when he suffered from ill health and agoraphobia. He is reported as having told friends he did not want to die in his sleep, but wanted to be awake for the moment itself. In the painting, Munch is haggard and hollow-eyed, arms stiff beside his sides as he stands between two metaphorical coffins, a grandfather clock (the ticking away of time) and a bed (where he was frightened to remain). On a side note, the lyric 'still building the bypass in my head' could well be a reference to Nicky Wire's notorious Glastonbury 1994 line, when he yelled to the crowd something along the lines of "When are they going to get round to building a bypass over this shithole?!" A little heeheehee & reflective pause if it is so. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Walk Me to the Bridge Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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"People might have the idea that this song contains a lot of Richey references but it really isn’t about that, it’s about the Øresund Bridge that joins Sweden and Denmark. A long time ago when we were crossing that bridge I was flagging and thinking about leaving the band (the “fatal friend”). It’s about the idea of bridges allowing you an out of body experience as you leave and arrive in different places." -Nicky Wire |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Fearless Punk Ballard Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| FPB is both a testament to the Manics' youth and a view on how they have changed with age, a melancholic contemplation of their history. It echoes back to when they first started, the wildly articulate 17 year olds who 'all fell in love with one another', and also to the suffering, heartbreak and uncertainties that struck them later on, the music staggering and fading as 'the rain comes down so, so hard' and they cling together to the idea of the fearless punk ballards that made them who they are. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Mr. Carbohydrate Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This one is just pure Nicky Wire (should it have been sung by him? I reckon that might have worked.) It's a consideration of his uncertainties as to his place in the band, not fitting the 'rock star' image and caring much more about sport and TV than wanting to pick up his guitar. Although I do detect a degree of humour in his self-deprecation, the song is carried along by his agonizing cynicism ('the only thing that keeps me sane') as he breaks into eruptions of bile at those criticising him, which James' roar perfectly suits. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – New Art Riot Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| One of their earliest singles, New Art Riot is a perfect example of the Manics' early work- clashy, naive, clattering around while spitting anger at everyone and everything. Richey's power of articulation and their unapologetic honesty and wish to draw attention results in some brilliant and strikingly true lyrics, such as *that* line 'Hospital closures kill, more than car bombs ever will, and it saves money because people are expendable'- one of my all time favourites, and so relevant to the present. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Askew Road Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Named after the location of Philip and Terri Hall's house in London, where the Manics lived for a short time when they first started, Askew Road is a gentle call back to their youth. It strums very softly, James' voice almost cracking as he croons a tune that harks to an era of naivety and eagerness for success and also the intense friendship that held them so closely together. The addition of an interview clip with Richey, a small shock to the gasping listener, only serves to heighten the nostalgia and highlight his ever-presence in the band to this day. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| As well as being about the Spanish Civil War, this is also in part about Nicky Wire himself- he would love to be so strong-willed and idealistic to go and fight for something he believed in (like the Welsh farmer who the rabbits-fascists line is from) but knows that he never actually would ('gravity keeps my head down' etc). The La Ramblas line refers to the famous street in Barcelona he visited with his wife in around '96. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Glasnost Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| 'Glasnost' is Russian for openness. It's supposed to be the idea of a whole new openness to their music as demonstrated on Lifeblood. | |
| Pulp – Disco 2000 Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Really sad song this- I saw it as two children, family friends and very good friends themselves. However, while Deborah views their relationship as purely platonic, Jarvis secretly harbors great love and admiration for her, although he is unable (shyness perhaps?) to tell her how he feels. So they grow older and part ways, but decide to meet up again in the year 2000. By that time Jarvis, not having found a replacement for Deborah in his heart, is still on his own, while Deborah herself has got married and has had a baby (or babies). This hurts Jarvis, but he realises the past cannot be changed and ends by accepting his and Deborah's separate lives, while still wishing for them to remain friends. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – 30 Year War Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"It’s not about Thatcher, it’s definitely about Thatcherism, about the establishment across the last 30 years, and it doesn’t matter what government is around, we always love to portray ourselves as this holier than thou country, and yet we have scandal after scandal uncovered, right to the root of power, government, Murdoch, the police, Hillsborough, this stupification of the class I grew up in, which I think all stems from Thatcherism really. The idea that if you break down any power that we had we’re going to be fucked forever. That ominous [line]: 'I ask you again what is to be done?' which is obviously Lenin. Simon Price said we must be the first band to quote Lennon and Lenin on one album. I didn’t want to give the lyric to James, because I felt the album is so intimate and internal, do they really want me ranting on about class war? But he was genuinely excited, it gave him an energy, and it’s certainly a musical bridge to the next album. It’s slightly more odd sounds, a bit Blade Runner with the keyboards. I listen to it and I think, 'Fuck me', maybe 20 years ago we could have released this as a single because it sounds different for us, it’s spiky but quite considering. It’s not splenetic raging, which I can be prone to. It’s got something weirdly in common with ‘Tolerate...’ with that kind of retro-futurism. There’s that line about 'hiding Lowry’s paintings' as well, the idea of connoisseurs of taste is such a London-centric thing: 'We’ll keep these in storage because he’s a Sunday painter.' He’s not, he’s a true genius - it’s not just matchstick men, there’s true depth to his painting. I find that elitist, 'We know what’s better' is so all pervading, from the monarchy to fucking Cameron to Mumford and Sons. We’re just told… what did one of Mumford and Sons say the other day? 'Either ignore it or celebrate it.' What a fucking futile attitude. Don’t say anything bad, just ignore it or celebrate it. So what about fascism then? We don’t like it, we’ll just ignore it. It does feel like the last five years has been such a redress of monarchy and establishment and public school through all points of our culture. I feel a bit helpless about it." -Nicky Wire |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Manorbier Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I think [this track] is a bit of a breather. After the amount of words in ‘Running Out Of Fantasy’ it’s just a calm before the storm. It’s a place in west Wales I visit a lot, where Virginia Woolf visited and George Bernard Shaw. They all wrote in this castle which leads down to this amazing beach. The title informed the music, it became this theremin-infused almost medieval thing, then this Pink Floyd sort of thing at the end, where James is a one-man choir, and it sort of slips into ‘30 Year War’ there." -Nicky Wire |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Running Out Of Fantasy Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"It’s my favourite lyric on the album. It was inspired by two things, the Jan Morris book Conundrum, which is Jan when she was James, before she had the sex change, which is startling to read - you don’t think of it happening in the 70s. She had to go to Morocco to become a woman. Jan’s probably my favourite travel writer of all time. When Jan became a woman she stayed with her wife, which I think is remarkable. It was that idea of drastic change and realisation that you have to push for the truth to be happy, which I apply to being in a band. Then there’s this line in Burden Of Dreams by Werner Herzog where he goes, 'I am running out of fantasy.' He’s making Fitzcarraldo and he’s pulling a fucking boat up the mountain through the Peruvian forest and it’s not working, you can see he’s thinking, 'What the fuck am I trying to do here?' All of those elements combine. There’s this line in there, 'The seduction of a fading power in a hotel room in the middle of nowhere' and that’s the core of it really, that’s what I love about being in a band, but I realise that kind of seductive delusion is probably over." -Nicky Wire |
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| Manic Street Preachers – 3 Ways To See Despair Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"It’s just fucking sludge rock, isn’t it? When we were playing it we thought, 'This could be on This Is My Truth…' It’s got that fucking misery beat, as we call it; [it's] a suicide ballad. We wanted to do something like The White Album produced by Steve Albini, we were looking for those big drums. I was looking at the pictures of Stuart Adamson, and it’s not specifically just about Stuart, just the idea of, 'How could things go so wrong?' How could something so beautiful and talented eat itself up with anxiety and self-doubt, and can you ever fucking stop it? Which you probably can’t. There’s a lot of Elliot Smith [in this], [in the] way he mixes Black Sabbath and The Beatles, I think only he can do that. There’s also the exhaustion of being in Manic Street Preachers, that line, 'I’m as tired as John Lennon sang'. I think ‘I’m So Tired’ by John Lennon is the perfect example of just being fucked, just that White Album haze. Lennon was incredibly intelligent, but he could distill that, and that’s the fucking hardest thing on Earth to do. You’re shutting down a little bit, you realise you have to be economical. That’s the miracle of ‘Tolerate...’, we didn’t shut down at all - we got a million words in and still managed to have a huge hit. It’s a rare beast. We always get that accusation of being clunky, but I’m glad we are. When it works, on a track like ‘Yes’, it’s better than some fuck-wit on the front of the stage banging a floor tom and shouting 'Woah', like every fucking band does now. There’s nothing more irksome than that, 'Oh look, another fucking floor tom.' It’s become this moment of rapture, the crowd want it right from the first get go." -Nicky Wire |
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| Manic Street Preachers – As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I think this is as close to a love song to Richey as we’re ever going to write. It’s the oldest song on the album, I wrote the music and the words and I’d kept it hidden for about three years, because it’s one of those topics you just feel a bit… but then you realise it’s 20 years. We’ve done stuff like ‘Cardiff Afterlife’ and ‘Nobody Loved You’, but they were a bit more autobiographical - this is more, 'Fucking hell, it would be good if you were around, if you just turned up one day. Imagine how many festivals we could headline?' At which he would laugh. I just miss his pulverising intellect. It’s not just us - I think the musical landscape misses him. Then I lost a really good friend at Sony, our product manager for the last five years, and he died really young, so I changed a couple of lyrics because it had an awful impact. It became this song about redemptive loss. I think this is my best vocal, I put a lot of work into it. James said he thought this is the one my voice should be on, because it’s got that sort of cracked frailty in the verses. I’m dreading playing it live - I don’t like singing live." -Nicky Wire |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Anthem For A Lost Cause Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"A James lyric. We should do an Ian McDonald Manics book really, because there’s a lot of subtle interfaces. I think there’s two songs, ‘As Holy As The Soil’ and ‘Anthem…’ that really go for that kind of Dexys soul thing. Trying to write an old fashioned standard. It was originally called ‘Composition Rights’, I said, 'That’s a bit fucking John Cale isn’t it? Who’s going to know what a fucking Composition Right is?' [He said], it's rites as in ‘rites of death’. So I said, 'Well nothing sums us up better than ‘Anthems for Lost Causes’ does it?' He did all of that. The brass arrangements took ages, we were really trying to get the feel of Sam Cooke or something, for ‘As Holy As The Soil’ as well. We were trying to imagine someone like Amy Winehouse singing it." -Nicky Wire |
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| Manic Street Preachers – (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"It’s a lot of peoples favourite. It’s about being completely seduced by Tokyo. I think we all were when we first went there and we did the ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’ video, it’s the first place we ever got a gold disc. I’ll never forget, we turned up at the airport at six in the morning and there were hundreds of people, we all looked behind us because we thought The Black Crowes were there or something. We realised they were all waiting for us, and thought, 'Fucking hell!' It was such an indelible scar. It’s the most alien culture I’ve ever been to, in a good way, and I’ve loved the feeling of safety. Whenever we go back there’s a special bond. The next album in particular is filled with travel and motion and other places, because you just get tired with your own environment. The overarching power of London on the culture of the UK gets wearisome sometimes. I think the music is really interesting on that track, we did the bare bones of James on the acoustic, and then there were kids running round and the usual stuff, and we were exhausted in the studio, so we said to Sean: 'Just fuck off downstairs Moore-o, put some noise on it.' We really needed sleep. So me and James were upstairs lying on the sofa, and then four hours later we go down and he’s got all these fucking leads and boxes, it’s like a Tangerine Dream studio from 1972, he said, 'I’m trying to make it sound like a Bullet Train.' So we thought, 'Alright, we’ll go back upstairs for another hour then.' There is a real magical quality to it. The violins actually sound Japanese. Japan occurs on the album [as a theme] a few times - 'As beautiful as the spring in Japan.'" -Nicky Wire |
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| Manic Street Preachers – 4 Lonely Roads Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"It’s a lovely sepia-tinged groove isn’t it? I think we’re all, dare I say it, pretty good musicians now. It’s not something people remark on, apart from James’ guitar. I did the demo without anyone, I did the drums on that. I wanted it to sound like ‘The Two Of Us’ by The Beatles, a sort of lolloping groove. I could see that James and Sean liked the song but as usual I just didn’t want my voice on it, and the first person we thought of was Cate [Le Bon]. We wanted something really pure, almost folk-tinged. There’s a severe clarity that cuts through the haziness of the backing track. She really pierces. We sent her the track in LA, at the start you can hear her walking in her high heels, clip clopping up to the mic. She did it in three takes, it worked perfectly. There’s a lot of A. E. Housman poetry there which filters through." -Nicky Wire |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Builder Of Routines Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"It’s an odd little ditty I think. Very short for us, and as technological as we’ll ever get because it was written by text message. James and Sean were in Hansa in Berlin and I was under a mountain of shit. My Dad was in hospital, and my wife was in hospital, the kids had norovirus and I was just mopping up sick and shit, amazingly I didn’t get ill but everyone else was so poorly. I’ve never been through so many Flash wipes and so much Domestos in my entire life. I was walking round in rubber gloves. It was proper Howard Hughes, I had face masks on and everything, but there you go. Out of misery a flower blossomed. We’d arranged this two week session in Hansa which I was so looking forward to, and everyone did get slightly better so I thought I might go for the last four days- and then I got snowed in. James said, 'Have you got anything going?' So I texted him that and within two days they’d done that track. I didn’t even write it down on paper, which I’ve never done before. It’s about crawling through the ship wreckage and still trying, I guess like a junkie will try and get some semblance of justification and routine, I’m always obsessed with how, in whatever situation I’m in, trying to invent that one bit of stability to keep it all together. Sean plays this amazing flugelhorn solo which I love, it’s very ‘God Only Knows’, something about it lifts the song out of the pit. Something about how you’ve been through all of that and now you’re out." -Nicky Wire |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Rewind The Film Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I was listening to David Axelrod a lot, and I literally started singing the vocal line over one of his songs, ‘Little Girl Lost’. I did the demo of it for James, he sent it off to [Richard] Hawley and he kept the vocal line, he said, 'I love those words Nicky.' James knew him from when we did Shirley Bassey, and James loves him anyway, they get on really well. We just wanted something deep, very Scott Walker and cinematic, a bit of Johnny Cash. We’ve been lucky to do some great duets, and it’s definitely one of the best. He kind of quivers - without being overbearing he controls the song, and that’s a really hard trick. It’s a tiny bit heartbreaking, that song - 'I want to be small, lying in my mother's arms.' It’s saying, 'I’d like to do it all again.' It’s not about changing stuff because it’s been fucking brilliant. That’s hard to put into a lyric. I loved growing up, I loved being a kid, I love my Mum and Dad and my brother, and then I loved being in a band, and doing education in between. Being very blessed in a very simple way - there’s no extravagances in those years." It’s about realising it’s fucking over, and that’s what permeates the sadness. I think Postcards was nostalgic, it was one last 'C’mon! We can fucking do it! We are Queen!' This album is more, 'I can’t fucking star jump without my arthritic knee packing up and my back packing in.' It’s about having a migraine if I read too much because my eyes are shit. A lot of the stuff that has fuelled me is just no longer applicable. It’s difficult to put that into a commercial album." -Nicky Wire |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Show Me The Wonder Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"It’s the one uplifting song on the album - slap James’ electric guitar on that and you could have had a more traditional Manics song. We were obsessed with 70s Elvis at the time - the horns are from our Mums and Dads' record collection, ‘Suspicious Minds’, ‘I Just Can’t Help Believing’- it gives me a lift every time I hear it. Just that celebration, the idea that we’re sick of the opposing forces of science and religion trying to prove truth. We just wanted to wallow in the magic of how something you see, a song, how certain things work, how certain individuals are unexplainable, a good haircut, the way a drummer will react to a guitar, the way a footballer will be truly stunning without even trying - science or religion just cannot explain certain things." -Nicky Wire |
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| Manic Street Preachers – This Sullen Welsh Heart Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"The first line, 'I don’t want my children to grow up like me, it’s too soul destroying, it’s a mocking disease', sets the tone for the kind of cruel self examination of the album. It’s about looking in the mirror and realising we’re all 44, and while we’re still deeply enthralled and still in love with the delusion of being in a band and playing to people, and all those brilliant rock cliches which we’ve always specialised in - we probably can’t do it any more. That line, 'I can’t fight this war anymore, time to surrender, time to move on', I don’t want to be like that but I think… it’s better if we are. It’s The Holy Bible for middle aged men - the horror of realising you’re in charge, you’re the grown up. I think our generation hangs on to being young more than any there’s ever been, but it’s fucking hard. Musically it’s very tender, we wanted something very Leonard Cohen-ish with Lucy [Rose] adding those beautiful textures. I think it’s the most sparse start to a Manics album." -Nicky Wire |
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| James Dean Bradfield – That's No Way To Tell A Lie Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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'That's No Way To Tell A Lie is a song basically about the push and pull of your head and your heart telling you different, conflicting things about the way you should feel about religion. I grew up in the Valleys in Wales in a very left wing environment and you always grew up with that great old Marxist cliche that religion was the obsolete of the masses. I wad taught from an early age that religion was just pointless to our existence. That song is just about your head telling you that there's no way in this world you need a religion to get by but your heart always telling you that perhaps you're still searching for one. So like I said, that song's just about the conflict, the dilemma between the heart and the head in terms of realising religion is obsolete, destructive, stupid, but your heart actually wanting one.' -James Dean Bradfield |
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| Manic Street Preachers – 1985 Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| As well as saying 'God is dead', Nietzsche also said something along the lines of 'If there is a God I could not believe it was not me.' Nicky Wire was 16 in 1985, and so, sharing Nietzsche's philosophy, God was also 16 then, which was when he died, possibly because Nicky's growing maturity meant he no longer believed in him. You get the general idea. | |
| Taylor Swift – Love Story Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Sounds like it sampled/ took inspiration from Red Hot Chili Pepper's Universally Speaking. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Rewind The Film Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| An elderly man reflecting back on his life, particuarly the childhood he so misses and his dead friends and parents. | |
| The Smiths – Cemetry Gates Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| 'And we GRAVELY read the stones'. Ha. I see what they did there. | |
| Duran Duran – Hungry Like The Wolf Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Just makes me think of George, Nina and Tom from Being Human. They often use this song :) | |
| Oasis – Supersonic Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I write the first line and the end word, 'Supersonic', it's like, 'Well, what rhymes with that?' And you start off with 'A' and you go, 'Atomic. Bionic.' Then you go...'Gin & Tonic. Alright, that'll do.' It's no big deal. You just write it down, and people go 'Wow! Feeling Supersonic...Give me Gin and Tonic. Wow!' Basically, cos it rhymes." -Noel Gallagher |
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| Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Silvio Berlusconi's favorite song... | |
| Echo and the Bunnymen – People Are Strange Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Love this song. Just found out it's a cover of The Doors. That's disappointing. | |
| Green Day – Holiday Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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People like you are why I hate Americans. A mildly chuffed Briton. |
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| Green Day – Holiday Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I reckon it's the Iraqi war, which was led by George Bush. It's described as a holiday because the American soldiers were being sent to another country, where the narrator realizes the horror and falseness of what he is being made to do and 'begs to dream and differ from the hollow lies'. 'The ones who died without a name'- anonymous soldiers and civilians in mass graves. 'Can I get another Amen (Amen!) There's a flag wrapped around a score of men'- the American army trying to enforce their own religious and democratic values on the invaded people, and using the flag they salute and proudly wave as an excuse to get away with any number of abuses. |
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| Nellie McKay – It’s A Pose Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Bet you three at the bottom are all blokes... | |
| The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Morrissey once said 'I never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music, because nobody ever is.' | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Marlon J.D. Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Reminds me of the film/ rock star idea of 'live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse'. You haven't the rest of your life to grow old and ugly and embarrass yourself- instead you have left with a bang, leaving only a small number of beautiful photos and a revered career behind you. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – She Bathed Herself in A Bath of Bleach Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Are these the right lyrics? Only by what others have written and what I can hear, it sounds more like: 'The love she sought through faltering thought' -> 'Violence a sad truth followed with a' (works with the next lines) 'I brought you here' -> 'I'll brush your hair' (possessivness through seemingly kind, loving acts) 'But salmon pink skinned memories took care of' -> 'But salmon pink skinned Mary's still caring' (religious reference to the omnibenevolent Virgin Mary perhaps, seen as some sort of holy protector?) Aside from that, the salmon pink skin could be about the raw, dark pink way beaten or burnt skin looks, going back to the domestic violence and the harmful bleach. Perhaps the abused women looks to female religious symbols for some kind of guidance or solace? |
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| Manic Street Preachers – A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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'A billion lies becoming the truth' could refer to internet rumours, eg about celebrities, that are spread around and pushed forward as truths. 'We found expression for our hate' could be about people, happy with the distance and vague anonymity, posting hate comments on sites like Facebook and Twitter, airing their bigotry around. 'Without any kind of consequence' might have been true in 2010, but is now less so, if all the news reports and government hacking is anything to go by. |
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| Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The reason Johnnie Rotten put so much emphasis on the last syllable of the title line was so that he could say c*** on the radio and get away with it. True fact. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Patrick Bateman Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Shame this wasn't on an album. Originally Nicky stated that it was going to become 'the most fucking horrible single ever', but they instead just had to settle with it being the most fucking horrible B-side ever, as it wasn't deemed suitable enough for mass distribution on their label. Can't see why. It kicks ass. | |
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