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Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible Live - Sat 13th Dec - Olympia Theatre

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    #242
    savemejebus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,557 ✭✭✭savemejebus


    The Wild Bunch wrote: »
    Hazleton Avenue, Don't be Evil, A Million Balconies Facing the Sun, Some Kind of Nothingness......... Do you want me to go on?

    Know Your Enemy was universally derided by music critics- NME, Q, Mojo destroyed it.

    PFAYM was a solid 7/10 everywhere you read and it's songs get a better reception live than anything on KYE

    Posted this about PFAYM 4 years ago and my criticisms still stand with an addition being "I think I found it" ripping off Sheryl Crow .
    Wow, what a disappointment of an album. I'm a huge manics fan but i can't get away from the fact it's just pure and utter shíte and that's before mentioning:

    - Hazleton avenue ripping off it ain't over till it's over and she's in fashion
    - All we make is entertainment ripping off 'Badlands'

    and that muck of a single (its not war) sampling Chic/steps.

    There was more too

    Know Your Enemy is ten times the album PFAYM was and has some great songs on it,sure it has some duds but it still has more quality than PFAYM by a long stretch.


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    #243
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,891 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    The Wild Bunch wrote: »
    Hazleton Avenue, Don't be Evil, A Million Balconies Facing the Sun, Some Kind of Nothingness......... Do you want me to go on?

    Know Your Enemy was universally derided by music critics- NME, Q, Mojo destroyed it.

    PFAYM was a solid 7/10 everywhere you read and it's songs get a better reception live than anything on KYE

    I don't think critics or awards really mean anything at all. Personally, I think PFAYM is their worst album as I find it to be extremely bland and boring, especially since it followed Journal For Plague Lovers.


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    #244
    [Deleted User]
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    Suas11 wrote: »
    I don't think critics or awards really mean anything at all. Personally, I think PFAYM is their worst album as I find it to be extremely bland and boring, especially since it followed Journal For Plague Lovers.

    Smacked of Sony wanted an album, so they gave them an album, to me.


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    #245
    The Wild Bunch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭The Wild Bunch


    savemejebus wrote: »
    Posted this about PFAYM 4 years ago and my criticisms still stand with an addition being "I think I found it" ripping off Sheryl Crow .



    There was more too

    Know Your Enemy is ten times the album PFAYM was and has some great songs on it,sure it has some duds but it still has more quality than PFAYM by a long stretch.

    The band themselves as well as critics universally derided KYE.

    'It's not war' works brilliantly live, as does the title track

    Opinions are like arseholes though. Everyones got one


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    #246
    homerun_homer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭homerun_homer


    The Wild Bunch wrote: »
    Know Your Enemy was universally derided by music critics- NME, Q, Mojo destroyed it.

    PFAYM was a solid 7/10 everywhere you read and it's songs get a better reception live than anything on KYE

    NME didn't quite tear KYE apart, giving it a 7/10. Same with Lifeblood, it got good reviews in most magazines and papers but afterwards the band ripped it to shreds as did reviewers. It's funny how people forget.


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    #247
    The Wild Bunch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭The Wild Bunch


    homerun_homer wrote: »
    NME didn't quite tear KYE apart, giving it a 7/10. Same with Lifeblood, it got good reviews in most magazines and papers but afterwards the band ripped it to shreds as did reviewers. It's funny how people forget.

    Both albums 57 and 66 on Metacritic respectively. Bang average reviews - critics go their claws into them long before the band ever did


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