Seen them in concert 18 times to date! A great group from Wales. I chatted to the drummer in December 2020. I also occasionally chat to his mother too! I have many signed stuff by them. C 04 - 24

@playitagainsue

2 ай бұрын

Hey Holy Man, thanks for watching. You must be a huge fan. How cool that you got to speak with them...excellent. This was a great song. I look forward to more 😎💙

@thesoundlikechameleons2082

2 ай бұрын

@playitagainsue Please react to the following by them: The Masses against the classes (studio version) If you tolerate this your children will be next (studio version) You stole the sun from my heart (studio version)

Some information about this performance: Top of the Tops was a long-running weekly chart show on the BBC. At the time of this episode, the rule for performers was that all vocals had to be sung live but all instruments were mimed. This was the performance that received the most complaints ever for TOTP because the Manics were dressed in paramilitary gear at a time when the IRA campaign was still active. The band claimed they didn't realise it could be taken that way (which doesn't hold water for a group of politically aware and educated lads) and were soft-banned from TOTP for nearly two years.

@playitagainsue

2 ай бұрын

Hi James, thanks for the info. It must have been a really tense time then if they got banned for their outfits. It was a cool performance 😎

Wow ! Off a classic Album called The Holy Bible James took a lot of heat for the balaclava as it was interrupted as a nod of support for the IRA. Sadly Richey had a lot of metal problems and suffered from Anorexia ( among other issues ) for which he was hospitalized during recording of the album. I would love to think Richey is somewhere and at peace My favorite MSP song is From Despair to Where I could name a ton of songs but I want From Despair to stand out I just love the guitar and when you hear it you will understand Amazing Quartet and an amazing three piece .

@playitagainsue

3 ай бұрын

Hi Jesse, this is an amazing song. I would be happy to do more. Sad about Richie. So many troubled people 😪. I guess things would have been pretty tense back in that time so they would get concerned about the balaclava.

@jessem470

3 ай бұрын

From Despair to Where : Official Video 🙏

@thesoundlikechameleons2082

2 ай бұрын

It was never a nod to the IRA! they were just trying to be controversial. Richey Edwards I remember seeing him at Wolverhampton Civic Hall in 1993 we exchanged eye contact for about 5 seconds! Hard to know if he committed suicide or is still out there. The lad was a genius. I have his autograph in biro on a promotional card!

Great stuff, judging by the albums covers in the background you have impeccable taste. Yeah Richie and that whole thing is unsolvable, though tidal waters etc in the river Severn are crazy. The Clash were obviously a massive influence, but they changed their style over the years - I would suggest checking out 'little baby nothing' from their double LP debut 'Generation terrorists' - with Traci Lords ( the porn star on co-lead vocals. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qYFnsJdtkdmrgcY.html Anyway, cheers from Wales. x

@playitagainsue

2 ай бұрын

Hey Remedial, greetings back from me here in Canada. I appreciate you tuning in and for the suggestion 😎

Funny you mention 'The Clash' Sue ,the Manics were labelled as Clash and punk revivalists when they arrived. They would often talk up 'The Clash, Public Enemy and Guns n Roses' as bands in particular who they were influenced by. Their early days and first album period were visually heavily influenced by The Clash. Up until Richey's disappearance they went through many image changes as he was pretty much accepted as the driving force behind their lyrics, polemic, style and artwork. You would get more of a kick from the studio version of this but I don't know how copyright works with it. The studio version of 'PCP' also from 'The Holy Bible' would be a great follow up I think you would enjoy. Thanks for the reaction Sue 💚

@playitagainsue

3 ай бұрын

Hey Jimmy, how cool is that. I really did a Clash vibe off of them so I guess it all makes sense. Thanks for introducing them to me 🥰💙

@MarcoNegrisEye

3 ай бұрын

@@playitagainsue yeah Sue their earlier stuff was more Clash and Sex Pistols vibe with their stenciled mums blouses and white levis. I thought they looked like the heads of the 70s Stones, the faces of T Rex and the bodies of Pistols/Clash, their earlier stuff was along those sounds too with 80s hair metal thrown in. The Holy Bible era here was far more influenced by Faith No More type stop/start music. I would always suggest having their lyrics beside you as they are very difficult to decipher not only from JDB's accent but Richey and Nicky's lyrics were pretty much poems packed full of lines that JDB and Sean had to set music to. Richey's especially as his mind was always racing. I think if you listen to 'The Holy Bible' (,yourself away from the channel) I'm sure you will be just another obsessive manic nutter and dive back further and further 😂 For now though, the PCP tune is a good follow up, studio version, lyrics on, then after that I think the Spice Girls would be goo...absolutely not 😜

@playitagainsue

3 ай бұрын

​@MarcoNegrisEye what a cool combo of comparisons. I love it! You named some really cool bands there. You are most welcome, Jimmy. Thank you for telling me about them and this song. This was a blast. Oh and Spice Girls next then haha😂😂

@MarcoNegrisEye

3 ай бұрын

@@playitagainsue I can't say I know much of The Clash besides the obvious standards. I never really delved into their catalogue and I KNOW you have 'London Calling' there so I should 😂 I looked back at the Pistols and (ignorantly) thought "this is all I need from punk, this is perfect". Green Day were my version of punk as a kid who didn't know any better but they were great (just a pity BJA became a total w@nker 😉) haha I'd love to see you react to that Spice Girls tune just so you could blame me and I receiving heaps if abuse because of it 😂

@playitagainsue

3 ай бұрын

@@MarcoNegrisEye haha 😂🤣 I could never put you through all that 😜🤣

Fantastic band. They've been one of my favourites since I first heard them back in the early 90s. This them at their heaviest. There's a lot of variety to their sound. Richey was a very troubled soul in so many ways. Other good songs to try are 'Motorcycle Emptiness', 'A Design For Life', 'If You Tolerate This, Then Your Children Will Be Next', 'Ocean Spray' or 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough'. There's plenty of deep cuts as well.

@playitagainsue

3 ай бұрын

Awesome, thanks Richard! I appreciate the suggestions. This was great. 🤩

@KevinKaffy

3 ай бұрын

I can pretty much guess that “If you tolerate this your children will be next” is how you heard of them as that had some modest success in the US while their other tunes done nothing there.Its my fav song of all time while A Design For Life,Faster & Motorcycle Emptiness not far behind. Tolerate is about Welsh Farmers who volunteered to fight against the Spanish Dictator Franco in the 1930s and is lyrically and musically an absolute masterpiece IMHO. I believe faster is about Richey coming to the conclusion there is no meaning to life “He believes in nothing” and is therefore much better than the other philosophers like Miller he namechecks in the song. The song that got me into the band was “Kevin Carter” penned by Richey who disappeared. Again musically and lyrically I was completely in awe of the band after hearing that although on first listen I didn’t like it bizarrely.Its about the Pulitzer Prize winning photographer of the same name. His most famous photograph was of a vulture waiting for a child to die in Africa. You can even hear a vulture sound at certain times in the song.Such a thought provoking brilliant band that are criminally underrated. I hope you can enjoy some of their other tunes also!

@playitagainsue

3 ай бұрын

@KevinKaffy thanks for the backstory and suggestions, Kevin. I will check them out. I appreciate you tuning in 😎

@Richarddraper

3 ай бұрын

@@KevinKaffy I'm from the UK and I first heard them in 1992 . It was either Motorcycle Emptiness or their cover of Suicide is Painless , I don't recall which it was now. Faster is like a manifesto to nihilism taken to the extreme. Not the recipe for a happy life. I agree 'Kevin Carter' is a great song, along with many others they've done over the years.

@KevinKaffy

3 ай бұрын

@@Richarddraper Thanks for your comment. I am just across the pond from you 🇮🇪. Well for me it was Motorcycle Emptiness which was really amazing but initially I thought it was not an English song due to the complex lyrics 😆. I got interested in them but didn’t like their other songs at that time. I remember seeing Suicide is Painless on Top of the pops and thought it pretty good but didn’t blow me away so lost interest in them until the EMG era. They have so many fantastic tracks even b sides are really excellent that it’s impossible to list them all. I see some guy on KZread made a couple of videos of his favorite 100 tracks which is great but I think that doesn’t even cover all their great songs. Faster is just an amazing song. It’s really Nihilistic as you said. James deliberately used a cold dark voice also which is another brilliant dimension to the song. Easily my favorite band.

Hi Sue, they are not a band that I could name any tracks for but listening to a few today I recognize them, you might know Motorcycle Emptiness. They may not be as punkish as you think, much more melodic. This is like punk with music lessons, great stuffQ Poor Ritchie: the 'bridge' that you mention is the Severn bridge over the Severn estuary (the original one.) You don't survive a jump off of that and you may not be found. They have the cameras and patrols out to stop 'jumpers'. However that service road is also a cycleway and riding that when the mist is rising is like riding into the clouds...wow! Just don't get a puncture or you get company.

@playitagainsue

3 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks for the info on that area, Pete...fascinating! I don't think he made it then based on what you said....very sad. Ok I will give some more of their stuff a listen 🤩