Manic Street Preachers – A Design For Life

The people are thick lol thats why. However u sound torrish to me that is fine but I think he is remarking on people looking down on the working class and also how society has imitated the working class and how unrestrained capitalism has limited the opportunities of the working class.

Basically Nicky is criticising what would now be known as the undreclass as well as the upper class, basically I was spot on in other words, thanks a lot mate, you sound like a hardcore fan, well done.

Yeah but all there best songs are on the greatest hits album all 44 of them lol. Except one... And its not the one they told me at the concert was the one they thought was going to be their big hit (she says?) something like that.

I prefer to take the "we only wanna get drunk" as literal as in the underclass and working class only wanted to drink and this attitude spread out and became prevasive in all elements of society however whilst the wealthy can drink and have "culture" the working class are only left with clubbing etc. I personally felt the line about hitting himself with a bottle is a disparaging remark aimed at the so called upper middle classes and upper clases who look down on those with less money, position and power than themselves who judge a man only by the worldy goods they posses, their apperance and accent rather than the deeper soul of the person.

They expect poor people to look like tramps and be violent so the person or people this song is about feel they might as well go in with scars to conform to narrow minded prejudices against the working class

Finally I thought the line about work making us free was ironic too as in it actually is an emprisonment born out of a capitalist society where some are allowed to have everything so others must work like rodents on a treadmill just to get by, I never knew about the "albrecht macht frei" thing. I though that was the name of a nazi lol as the libertines have a song by that name.

You have done very well as the whole song could well be about people looking down their noses and not just that bit I decided was unquestioanably about people looking down on people (the bits about we only one to get drunk I take as literal I know the other meaning is entirely reasonable too but I just think it makes more sense i.e literal before metaphors)

@danhardwick77
the drinking culture you mention as being prevalent now was just as prevalent at the time the song was released, its just more widely noted by the press and widespread across the country. it's a trend that goes way back.

Thank god you and Little baby nothing, hard core fans I assume, pumped that goose in the head. He deserved it for righting such tosh about a crap theme beating a cool theme, cant even be arsed to use my full intellect on him right now I am so annoyed, I seen them at the O2 with a bunch of middle class no knothings who cant fucking rock at all....

I dont mean the manics, I mean the fans, the manics where superb, need to see them somewhere less stuffy next time!!!!

Actually I said the same as many others, and no that one line is not open to interpretation, look at page 4 someone writes out a quote by the artist himself, I think I will take his words over your "Relatvisim" nonsense which says we are all equal in opinion, with the end point of that philosophy meaning that a murder could hold the opinon they did nothing wrong and we should not judge them, relativists can never answers this one, they just claim it isn't relevant or flat out dodge the issue. Relatvisimm sucks and the only one that is patronising is you for taking the side of people who cant even see a simple metaphor.

Its like this if someone is a million miles away from the meaning of a song then don't reward them for their effort. However if someone is fairly close to a multifaceted line then that is where your "open to inerpretation comes in", the artist himself said they were wrong, so who is narrow minded now, who thinks they know more than the artist? Yourself.

Ps someone much brighter than you made a much more valid criticism of my argument and that is this page dosent specify if its the artists intent or what you get from the song, but personally the ONLY thing that matters is what the artist was talking about. And occasionally then extrapolating from that for modern times. Missing the more straightfoward lines does not class as that.

SO spit out your dummy, because your relativism sucks.

Thats what I am saying but also that the whole of society have been influence by supposedly working class or I would say the underclass values, if society had really been influence by working class values it would be in a hell of a better state than it is now.