| Manic Street Preachers – Peeled Apples Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[kexpseattle:17862] i have the deluxe version and live in the u.s. i don't think it was imported. the bale sample is on there. kind of neat because bale said he was a big fan of the manics. i hope he was thrilled about having the opening line on one of their best albums. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[mytwojakes:17501] Thank you. Really get tired of people reading too deeply into Richey's lyrics. (I used to do it too, though.) | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Virginia State Epileptic Colony Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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https://highschoolbioethics.georgetown.edu/units/cases/unit4_2.html "... the facility embarked on an ill-advised program of involuntary sterilization, combined with routine appendectomies, of so-called 'mental defectives with cacogenic potentialities' ..." http://www.cvtc.dbhds.virginia.gov/feedback.htm https://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/VA/VA.html Leave it to Richey to write a lyric about this. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Jackie Collins Existential Question Time Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[VictorInvisible:17500] A while before he left, Richey gave Nicky a binder and gave copies of that binder to Sean and James. The binder contained not just lyrics but drawings and general musings as well (i.e. things that obviously were not lyrics). I think Nicky said there might've been around 30 lyrics all together (don't remember for sure) but they didn't put all of them to music. Some of them just couldn't be put to music because they were too short. In one case, "Dolphin Friendly Tuna Wars," they simply took the title and used it to name an instrumental track (the track doesn't appear on JFPL). It seems Richey was in a different headspace when he wrote what was in this binder, certainly a far different headspace from where he was when writing The Holy Bible. Also, James and the rest of the band edited some of the lyrics for the songs, and some of them might not have been as fully formed as an alphabet stew from The Holy Bible. If you get the deluxe edition of JFPL you can see this editing process, as it contains copies of the original work from Richey's binder. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – Jackie Collins Existential Question Time Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[ShakerMaker1994:17499] It's a shame a lot of the lyrics that were in the binder he gave to them were left out. And then they absolutely butchered "William's Last Words" to the point that it takes on an entirely new meaning all together. But that's their right, I suppose. I'm still glad they made the album and I like it a lot. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Jackie Collins Existential Question Time Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[MBlack:17497] @[lateleigh:17498] I see how Jackie and Joan play into this but I'm not so sure it just utterly disgusted Richey that people consumed the Collins' media. I doubt Richey sat around reading drugstore romance novels, but Nicky has stated that both he and Richey enjoy(ed) low art as well as high art. Class and trash; if that doesn't describe the Manics I don't know what does. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – Mausoleum Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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As the song was inspired by a visit to Dachau, I'd like to think the lines: Regained your self-control And regained your self-esteem And blind your success inspires And analyse, despise and scrutinise Never knowing what you hoped for And safe and warm but life is so silent For the victims who have no speech are just tearing Germany a new one. When I was younger I used to read too deeply into Richey's lyrics and attempt to uncover some nugget about his own state of mind, but as I've gotten older I've learned that, if they say the song is about the Holocaust, etc., then it's really just about the f*cking Holocaust. Here, I think Richey is criticizing Germany's "shapeless guilty remorse," which is useless when faced with the reality of what happened, and that their people allowed it to happen. (Not a personal attack on Germany from me. I think most Germans are probably genuinely remorseful about what happened, and I think that remorse has value.) I do take the closing line to be a general comment about the reality of the world and its tendency to crush whatever clarity of mind and joyousness we had as children, which is a theme that later returns in The Holy Bible. This album is fantastic, to say the least. I'm always finding something new to appreciate or discover each time I go back to it. |
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| Manic Street Preachers – 4st 7lb Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[a:12886].10684121 And by eat right I mean consuming lots and lots of protein. You also have to eat above your average recommended calorie intake in order to build muscle, which is antithetical to Richey's vanity troubles. If I had a time machine I'd use it just to go back to 1993 and give Richey a copy of Starting Strength. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – 4st 7lb Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The irony of Richey's workout routine is that he was never going to get fit and have a six pack living his life like that. If you want to be fit and toned (I doubt he wanted to hulk out) you have to eat right and lift weights. No sit-ups because you work your midsection doing squats. 1500 sit-ups a day is overkill and just becomes aerobic exercise, which further serves to burn fat, and coupled with "an eating problem" he was destined to be a twig. Too bad Scooby wasn't around to show him the way. With that out of the way, I think the song is partly autobiographical, but I think the autobiographical aspect of it is attributed too strongly to the song by others. I sometimes think he is deriding young girls who believe their troubles - in this case anorexia - somehow make them deeper. The last line in particular seems to be a sarcastic jab at that. |
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