Leviathan

[Gusto]

Great James solo

[mr bowlase]

Originally Posted by Gusto

Great James solo

One of the best alongside Locust Valley, Found That Soul, Donkeys, Faster and Archives of Pain

[dozzer]

Love it, incredible solo! Would love it played live as unlikely as that
is.

[Tetsuo]

Originally Posted by Aestivate

I always wondered what happened to the spoken intro that was on the download but not on the CD. Copyright I presume ?

The sample was taken from a live version of a Skids song that appeared on a Skids compilation CD. Maybe there was a royalties issue but it could've just been to save space on the CD or just that the producers of the CD thought it was knaff to have a leery Scot proclaiming to speak politics.

Originally Posted by Matt_o_Mac

When did they do a song that said this?

It's an unsung line in the written lyrics to "All we Make is Entertainment" seen in the deluxe booklet.

Originally Posted by Matt_o_Mac

I agree with you on Secret Society, but I just thought Leviathan was a bit throw away and cliche.

It was a throwaway in the sense that it was just for a charity album and unlike Suicide is Painless wasn't released as a single and doesn't get played live or hasn't even been mentioned since. Even Raindrops which was on the last War Child compilation was done live by James a few times.

As for it being cliche: it was something totally different to Lifeblood and just about anything they'd done for years at least in terms of the words.

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

Hmm, chances are zero but I really would like to hear Leviathan live after having in a playlist over the last few days.

[Thenationsmoralsuicide]

Would rather hear this live than Hazelton, Platitudes or You Stole The Sun From My Fucking Heart FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME.

Best Bradfield solo since 'Bateman' - discuss.

[The Gutless Wonder]

Don't put them off playing YSTS! Not until I get it at Birmingham anyway!

[Tetsuo]

Originally Posted by Thenationsmoralsuicide

Would rather hear this live than Hazelton, Platitudes or You Stole The Sun From My Fucking Heart FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME.

Best Bradfield solo since 'Bateman' - discuss.

The Patrick Batemen song was one of the poorest attempts at metal by a band like this. It follows that the guitar solo is poor. Just standard generic cliche 80s metal kinda crap. It also sounds like Motorhead's WWF wrestler song The Game

[LoveMeToDeath]

i havwe very fond memories of when Leviathan was released, it was supposed to be the two year break and i hate breaks, but then we got Leviathan and then solo stuff so actualy it wasn't a break at all. James vocals are amazing on it and i think it is a shame it has kinda just dissapeared

[Mr Richey]

If they played "Leviathan" on the upcoming tour, that might just be enough to get me to go.

[IntlDebris]

Leviathan marked the beginning of a period of me losing interest in the Manics after ten years of being a fan. I absolutely loved Lifeblood, and the infamous 'our next album will be even more electronic' interview had me really excited. Then along comes what seemed like a fairly meat and potatoes sounding rock song on the Help album and I was totally deflated. Followed by SATT and then "we're using Richey's lyrics" on JFPL and I really felt like they'd gone massively backwards and lost it.

A couple of years later I gave JFPL a proper chance and loved it and I've been back on track since, but Leviathan falls into the SATT camp for me - something I'm happy to never hear again.

[Automatik]

Originally Posted by Ken Korda

Ah yeah. So it is! I have a compilation album which was supposed to be all SATT B-sides but that is included.

Ah well, still brilliant.

Even though it's (chronologically speaking at least) the bridge track between Lifeblood and SATT I've always included Leviathan on my SATT b-sides playlist because that's where it fits musically, lyrically and in tone.

Great wee track too.