If only people could see that the Manics are up there alongside Radiohead, Beatles, Nirvana, etc as one of them bands

Can never listen to enough Manic Street Preachers! ❤😊

It's hard to express how cool and fresh this sounded when it came out

@BenjaminMitrofan-Norris-hi7bj

5 ай бұрын

And it's still the unofficial national anthem of Wales

A masterpiece.

Use of the word "Kicks", in UK slang "doing it for the kicks" means doing something for the buzz, the thrill of it. I suspect there is wordplay going on there.

It amazes me that a band that started out as snotty, Clash-inspired punk rockers could so quickly prove themselves capable of writing this classic rock song. James Dean Bradfields' vocals and guitar were always the key elements to the bands' sound and are both very much in evidence here.

@gartgreenside3657

5 ай бұрын

And he had to make those insane(ly good) lyrics work with the music... how?

Hi JP - thanks for listening to us,('nehemb' is Bob by the way!) and for listening to more Manics. They really are a great band and still producing great music now. Keep up the fantastic reactions. If you fancy another 'road less travelled' choice from the 90's then maybe try Mansun - 'Wide Open Space' - another favourite of mine from a short lived band,(the whole album 'Attack of the Grey Lantern' is wonderful if you ever have the time!

Hope to see you react to some tracks from The Holy Bible By far and away their best stuff

@gartgreenside3657

5 ай бұрын

I lean towards more heavy and weird music and I do like the Holy Bible and Justin needs to check it out... but I prefer the first two.

I just love this song. I remember being totally captivated by it when I first heard it back in 1992. The clever and insightful lyrics, James Dean Bradfield being a guitar hero and singing with such passion. Also liked how cool they looked wandering around Tokyo in the video. I've been a Manics fan ever since. I'd suggest diving into something off The Holy Bible next to see them at their darkest. Maybe Faster would be a good one.

Slash and Burn is the song that made me fall in love with them.

It's one of the best guitar hooks ever written.

@Owlstretchingtime78

5 ай бұрын

Would you agree that 'If You Tolerate' etc is more pretentious than every Prog song ever written. I don't, but there's a comment here that declares that to be the case!

@delorangeade

5 ай бұрын

@@Owlstretchingtime78 I thought it was a disagreeable comment, or maybe a comment it was easy to disagree with. There's nothing pretentious about wanting to shoot fascists. That's just good old fashioned working class common sense. Something your average prog fan would fail to probably fail to grasp, unless you substituted fascists for orcs, and then they might begin to make sense of it.

@Owlstretchingtime78

5 ай бұрын

@@delorangeade Orcs 😁

Really good song from really good album.

Colossal in almost every dept. Well OK, in it's vocal, Guitar, orchestral embellishment, piano twiddling and lyrical diagnostics. 4real. La Tristesse Durerra 🤗

JP. Another great vid. I'm loving your reactions to the music. They other day I watched your full album review of the ramones.. or ramones lol debut album, which I thoroughly enjoyed. You said you were curious about how their follow-up album, leave home, sounded. Have you any plans to do a follow-up video? Would love to see it. Peace ✌️

I first loved them (and saw them - somewhat literally, and somewhat metaphorically) as a punk band... yet even very early on they became soft rock. Their genius - to me - is that they are able to make soft rock that still appeals to an "alternative" audience. Absolutely love them

@barnigranero5882

5 ай бұрын

Punk isn't a specific sound. It's an ideal. That's what a lot of people misunderstand about punk. For example people say Greenday are punk but they are not punk at all.

Probably my favourite Manic's track of all time. I also love "Little Baby Nothing" which has the "actress" Traci Lords on it taken from the same album, Generation Terrorists.

I think the thing about the Manics which people forget is that although they are well respected now - is how much they were ridiculed and not taken seriously back in the early 90s. But you read a lot of those early lyrics now - Motorcycle Emptiness, Natwest Barclay's Midlands Lloyds, Stay Beautiful... they're utterly prophetic of where we've all ended up.

@thesoundlikechameleons2082

3 ай бұрын

Richey Edwards was a prophet.

The Holy Bible is really a must-listen in terms of 90s rock music that came out of the UK. It's effectively unknown in America, but it's a monster of an album. You could do a lyrical analysis of any of the tracks on there and be totally blown away, there's not much else like it.

Where's the link to patreon?

@Owlstretchingtime78

5 ай бұрын

My question exactly.

@normandavidtidiman9918

5 ай бұрын

In the description box. There's a clearly marked number.

@lucianoteixeira7993

5 ай бұрын

@@normandavidtidiman9918 Thank you. Now it has. But when I wrote it was not there.

They wanted to be both The Clash and Queen with GnR ambitions, if not politics. A bit of a larf until the Holy Bible, really. Then things got real serious real fast(er), 4 REAL. That specific album remains a pillar of the nineties, overshadowed by silly britpop antics and the sheer bad taste of the the US record-buying public (Stone Temple Pilots and Bush, really?) which c/would not be bothered anyway. From YES on (a proper cards-on-the-table opener in the One Hundred Years - Pornography - mold), THB is a relentless march of traumas laid bare, albeit set to smashing tunes. Beachy Head, mods and rockers unite. What's left to say of what could have been? Wounds still fresh.

@thesoundlikechameleons2082

3 ай бұрын

Yes sounds like One Hundred Years? The Intense Humming Of Evil resembles One Hundred Years, Yes is way too upbeat!

@thesoundlikechameleons2082

3 ай бұрын

Stone Temple Pilots debut Core is a work of art, Bush I couldn't care less about.

@nomisnestral6956

3 ай бұрын

@@thesoundlikechameleons2082 I did not mean sonically as much as this is a statement about what this record is about: everything's for sale / it doesn't matter if we all die. That said, I was obviously in a mood when I wrote that rant.

You do know that the main songwriter of this song disappeared in 1995?

@thesoundlikechameleons2082

3 ай бұрын

Wire/Edwards contributed. It was not solely Edwards alone.

The Manics were HUGE in the UK in the nineties but the reason why escapes me. For some reason they now seem to be linked with prog (I think some of them were fans) but their music is largely unadventurous indie-style. Prog often gets labelled pretentious but is there a more pretentious record than 'If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next'? They're very average yet hugely overrated, imo.

@delorangeade

5 ай бұрын

The link to prog comes from them proclaiming their love for Rush at a time when Rush was about as far from being popular or cool as any band could be. It set them apart from the indie herd even though the music didn't stray far from that template or audience. Nicky Wire interviewed Geddy Lee as part of his recent book tour.

@Owlstretchingtime78

5 ай бұрын

Too many to mention, and the majority from the Progressive world.

@traceyb9443

5 ай бұрын

Forever thankful that the Manics got me into Rush! Got to see Rush live once for the last time they toured the UK. ❤

@Owlstretchingtime78

5 ай бұрын

@traceyb9443 Glad to hear that, as i'm a massive Rush fan. Saw them live eleven times!

@duffman1863

2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

The ONE ok song they did!!

@Owlstretchingtime78

5 ай бұрын

'A Design For Life' is a decent number!

@traceyb9443

5 ай бұрын

Lots of decent numbers! 😅

An ok, if rather average pop song.

@Owlstretchingtime78

5 ай бұрын

With this song only being available on Patreon, i'm having difficulty getting it to play. I'm not a subscriber, but this has never affected me in the past. What do i press to hear the song?

@jfergs.3302

5 ай бұрын

@@Owlstretchingtime78from another comment, looks like there isn't one... I know the song well enough, just put up with the edited version.

@Owlstretchingtime78

5 ай бұрын

@@jfergs.3302 I think i'll skip it considering the overall strength of the song.

@paulcollins5586

5 ай бұрын

agreed their other songs are average. Never liked them really.

@gablen23

5 ай бұрын

pop?

Very MEH