| Manic Street Preachers – Wrote For Luck Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is a cover version of a song by Happy Mondays. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – P.C.P. Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The lyric "Be Pure, Be Vigilant, Behave" is taken from the 2000AD story Nemesis the Warlock in which future society is portrayed as utterly authoritarian and repressive. The dictator of Earth, a reincarnation of Tomas de Torquemada, uses it as his slogan to instil fear into the population. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Little Baby Nothing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I believe that the song was originally intended as a duet with Kylie Minogue but, for obvious reasons, she did not wish to be involved and Traci Lords was drafted in. Following Kylie's split from her writing and producing team and before she reinvented herself as a dance musician, she recorded an album which featured songs written and produced by Bradfield and Wire. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Wheeled out once a year a Cenotaph souvenir" The Cenotaph is the war memorial in central London. Every year, on Rememberance Sunday, veterans and serving soldiers march past it and wreaths of poppies are laid at its foot. How ironic that the song refers to war memorabilia sold to further the ends of fashion when, on the very next album, the band posed in Soviet uniforms. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Yes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The samples at the beginning and the end are from the documentary "Hustlers, Hookers, Pimps and Their Johns" which was shown on Channel 4 in the UK several years ago. The man speaking is a frequenter of prostitutes who is showing someone a brochure for a brothel and pointing out the girls in the pictures. The lyric "I 'T' them" could refer to the novel 'Brave New World' in which Henry Ford has taken the place of Jesus Christ in society. Thus, rather than crossing oneself to ward off evil, one T's oneself. The lyric "For 200 anyone can conceive a god on video" could refer back to the previous line about virgins. Filming oneself having sex with a prostitute could cost $200, the stereotypical dilemma for a woman is whether to be a whore or a virgin, Jesus is said to have been conceived by a virgin. |
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