THANK YOU, TIGERPANTS!

[miss kitty]

the manic street preachers are my new favorite band.

it's like david bowie, freddie mercury and the sex pistols had a baby!

[Lamont Sanford]

[miss kitty]

what














ever.

[Eviltoastman]

I'm listening to Holy Bible right now.

[the great below]

*unearths MSP CDs*
*rejoices listening to best kept secret from America*

[Eviltoastman]

Perhaps sucking Castros cock by putting on Cuba's biggest ever concert was pushing the envelope a little by American standards.

[luke_warm_luke]

it's like david bowie, freddie mercury and the sex pistols had a baby! :o

and that baby had a severe demerol addiction and missed out on any musical vision in the heraditory genetic sweepstakes.

[i'm so gay]

i have to admit i really like ONE manic street preachers song: a design for life. i despise everything else, tho.

[Eviltoastman]

Have you heard The Holy Bible Janne? A Design For Life comes from their post Richie James period which was not as dark or malignant as before. It's a pop song. Not bad, just not The Manics really.

[i'm so gay]

no i haven't.

[Eviltoastman]

Steal The Holy Bible. You either like it or not. No harm done.

[Lamont Sanford]

holy bible = teh good

[Eviltoastman]

Generation Terrorists is pretty good too.

[Lamont Sanford]

I've only heard Bible & Gold Against the Soul....Gold really didn't do much for me.

[refs unsheep]

were msp the ones who did "if you tolerate this then your children will be next" ? if so, i hate them on the basis of that one song. i dont know any of their others.

[Teddy Ruxpin]

First of all, we have an excellent letter by a fellow named Richard P., explaining why Nicky Wire, bassist and lyricist of the Manic Street Preachers, could be considered one of the worst rock stars ever. Since the Manics never made much of an impression here in the states, I’ll briefly explain their history: they started out as an extremely inauthentic hard rock/punk band, and were prone to claiming that they’d be bigger than Guns N’ Roses. They peppered their songs with half-understood political and intellectual slogans, making them basically the sonic equivalent of a bumper sticker. At some point after their third album, their nutcase guitarist/lyricist Richey Edwards disappeared, never to be seen again (who’d blame him?). In response to this tragedy, the remaining members decided to become the poor man’s U2, and have made several gut-wrenchingly awful records since. Despite the Manics being a c-list act here in the states, Richard has made a great case for Nicky’s inclusion among the worst of all time:

I pondered for a while (3 minutes while playing Tetris) whether to include one or both of the Manic Street Preachers' "controversial" lyricists / stage props, but I'll settle on Nicky Wire since (a) Richey Edwards was actually insane, whereas Nicky was just annoying, and (b) Every single thing he's done since Richey disappeared has sucked horribly, and there's nobody else to shoulder the blame. If you haven't heard much from The Manics, it's because nobody in America liked them, prompting Mr. Wire to proclaim that "America is crap", making you wonder why he wanted to tour there in the first place. This is just one of the many instances which have put Nicky Wire in the running for the coveted "Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Talking out Your Arse" award, where he is currently tied for 2nd place with the guy who wrote Neon Genesis Evangelion [Is this some sort of anime joke? Please, Richard, this is a good letter, don’t ruin your credibility just yet. –Dave]. Other great Nicky Wire moments include:
Nicky? More like ICKY!

- Claiming his band would break up after releasing one album which would outsell Appetite for Destruction. It didn't outsell AFD, but their "Farewell" single made a lot of money, so what was he to do but make a follow-up? And another and another and another...

- Wearing a dress and eyeliner on stage, filling his album sleeves / lyrics with out-of-context "intellectual" quotes, constantly posing for photographs made up to look like Gary Numan, and claiming to be a socialist / communist / anarchist / democrat whenever the mood suited him. He then wrote a song called "No Surface, All Feeling".

- Some of the most clumsy, embarrassing "smart" lyrics ever. "Into the vein exhibit the derelict / Secular mosaic distracted at birth / A cubist abstraction let it live forever". No, seriously, those are actual lyrics.

- Some of the lamest non-John Mayer lyrics ever. "The censorship of my skin / is screaming inside / and from within / There's no room in this world for a girl like me". There are more articulate livejournals than this.

- When founding member / co-lyricist Richey Edwards disappeared (presumed dead), what better way to honour his memory than by releasing yet more albums without him? Bonus round: With nobody to shoulder the blame, we can be assured that above lyrics are 100% Nicky.

- Turning from an androgynous punk-rock "Generation Terrorist" into an AOR-playing, white suit-wearing, strolling-along-the-beach-like-Boyzone middle-aged prat so fast he actually broke the sound barrier.

- Shoving in a cynical "I AM STILL AN AGRY PUNK" song on each album of said AOR shite.

Lowest Point: In a desperate attempt to regain credibility, he debuted an album in Cuba, featuring a song about Elian Gonzales (which is sure to age well). Oh, and Castro was in the audience. DOWN WITH AMERIKKKA NO BLOOD FOR CIGARS!

Mitigating Factor: Unlike Richey, he won't be eulogized as the embodiment of the Tragic Poet (tm).

[Teddy Ruxpin]

I've only heard like one MSP song

[Eviltoastman]

Something awful, ironically from Something awful.

[Teddy Ruxpin]

That actually a response to a article about Worst Rockstars. A fan wrote that. Not Something Awful.

[Eviltoastman]

For Something Awful.

It's ill advised as well. In order for him to properly criticise, he needs to study his target properly, not throwing vague assumptions largely based on rumour and gossip.

[Teddy Ruxpin]

Something Awful owns though. The guy made a Neo Evangeline Genesis joke for peets sake..

[Grotocult]

Can someone explain why the reissue of the Holy Bible is supposed to be worth buying if you alraedy have the CD? Does it have a 'BSIDE' on it or something?

[Grotocult]

i have to admit i really like ONE manic street preachers song: a design for life. i despise everything else, tho.

This is like saying your fave Nirvana song is You Know You're Right.

[notHuman]

i have to admit i really like ONE manic street preachers song: a design for life. i despise everything else, tho.

This is like saying your fave Nirvana song is You Know You're Right.

are both songs recorded under the same circumstances foreal?

[vgx]

it's like david bowie, freddie mercury and the sex pistols had a baby!

*cries*
then runs away.
my family has disowned me.
again!?