#21

realise this is probably trolling but tempted to agree, the singing is pretty restrained and it’s usually JDB’s over the top vocals that put me off manic tracks

#22

Empty Souls was also contender to be the 1000th UK Number One single… but Elvis Presley saw to that.

#23

have you forgotten this classic already?

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#24

Can’t work out if you’re just brutally dead-panning Icco Smicco here or you genuinely don’t realise that a Coldplay/Keane combination sounds like the first sign of the Apocalypse. :smiley:

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#25

I wouldn’t be surprised if a couple of songs from it get an airing on this tour. Pretty sure one of them mentioned a while back that they were rehearsing some of it.

#26

They didn’t last night in Newcastle. There were some unusual choices though!

#27

Remember a lot of people thinking it was boring AF at the time but I always liked ‘Lifeblood’. Had a kinda Pet Shop Boys thing going on, which wouldn’t be my chosen direction for them but the songwriting was pretty good. They played ‘a song for a departure’ at the Q Awards last October, which sounded big and anthemic

#28

I live to fall asleep is the last truly great song they wrote that i listened to

#29

Yeah, that’s a marvellous song

#30

I had tickets for this but I had a really draining day at work and the start time was really late and I figured they would play “The Hits” due to it being a post-award show but they pulled out a few curveballs. Gutted as I would have loved any Lifeblood songs… I’ve never bailed on a gig before and this has taught me a lesson.

Lifeblood has some huge fans that exist on the Manics unofficial forum (Forever Delayed).

#31

I love Empty Souls but dislike TLORN, which is truly awful.

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#32

I think ‘1985’ and ‘Glasnost’ are two of their very best overall, not only on ‘Lifeblood’.

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#33

‘Cardiff Afterlife’ is brilliant too.

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#34

Hoooooly shit that site/forum is still going? I used to post on there, lord, fifteen years ago maybe? That’s nice.

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#35

About eight years ago I was in the Halifax branch of short-lived pub chain Goose and the song U Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer came on in the background.

I said, “oh ffs I can’t believe they’re playing MC Hammer” and the person I was with said “this isn’t MC Hammer, it’s The Love of Richard Nixon by the Manic Street Preachers”.

And it was. I was convinced it was U Can’t Touch This, though. Has anyone else ever made this error, or is it just me. (I’ve never heard Lifeblood, assume it’s all just MC Hammer rip offs)

#36

Lifeblood is underrated. At least half of its songs are very good and the rest are at least decent.

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