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BOT 90s: The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers v Screamadelica - Primal Scream

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Felt obliged to listen to THB after my first round defeat. It's a fine album, although | still maintain not as entertaining as "I Should Coco" and it does drift at times. Still, "Archives Of Pain" and "4st 7lb" are good songs for when you're bombing along the M1.

I have never, despite repeated listenings, got the fuss about Screamdelica. Is it because I wasn't off my face on drugs during the early 1990s?
 
Here's my favourite track from THB, and one of the very best singles of the decade IMHO. When they performed this on TOTP the BBC received a record number of complaints due to James wearing a paramilitary balaclava - fantastic! All the TOTP footage on YouTube is terrible quality, but here they are at Glasto '94 in the same get up...
[video=youtube;jblh5gU3fLI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jblh5gU3fLI[/video]
 
Remember, only one of these albums has been on a Royal mail stamp and it wasn't The Manic Street Preachers......
 
Uncle Leo said:
I have never, despite repeated listenings, got the fuss about Screamdelica. Is it because I wasn't off my face on drugs during the early 1990s?
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Yes, yes it is. All kinds of crap sounded great at the time. Mind you, even though this hasn't dated well, and even though Primal Scream are almost embarrassingly crap most of the time, they hooked up with some clever people and made a crossover album at just the right time. I've always found the Manics lumpen and posturing so, on balance, Screamadelica for me.
 
dingleydangley said:
Yes, yes it is. All kinds of crap sounded great at the time. Mind you, even though this hasn't dated well, and even though Primal Scream are almost embarrassingly crap most of the time, they hooked up with some clever people and made a crossover album at just the right time. I've always found the Manics lumpen and posturing so, on balance, Screamadelica for me.
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Lumpen? Pfft....

I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil its purity


No one else could write songs like Richey Edwards.
 
MK Shrimper said:
Lumpen? Pfft....

I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil its purity


No one else could write songs like Richey Edwards.
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That explains why they have been knocking out middle of the road dad rock for the past twenty years then.
 
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