Vote For Your Favourite Album - And Why...

[mafiamonroe]

Maybe i'll go back and listen to EMG again. I think i got bored of it after playing it so much on it's release. Plus all the singles got played so much on radio/tv at the time that i've shunned it a bit. I still love SATT and play it at least once a week. I only have GATS on vinyl and have no turntable at the moment so never play that.

[starstruck]

after much deliberation, Journal For Plague Lovers. it's the only album of theirs which i have played regularly for over a year without once skipping a track. as impressive as the other albums are - and it's a toughie to argue against THB or EMG - that's what counted for me.

Originally Posted by mafiamonroe

I only have GATS on vinyl and have no turntable at the moment so never play that.

just download the mp3s of it, Nicky won't mind.

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

Journal, because "that" band returned, even if for one final time. It gave them a focus (to me) they seem to have lacked since the turn of the century. Of course Postcards has yet to drop & I am hoping that some of the judgement & focus used on Journal would remain. Certainly the means, the change in style, I have no problem with. Writing a radio friendly song should be an equal challenge, however I see what they are trying to do with It's Not War & similarly to Autumnsong I feel it's not quite there. I'm certainly intrigued by the potential sound of Postcards, aiming for an uplifting, glorious sound is a change & is certainly different. Choirs? It seems to want to have a warm glow, replacing the melancholy of EMG. I've said far too much.

/ramble

[MausoleumGlam]

Wow, This is really tough, more than I imagined actually!
So, I got into the Manics in a very weird and, I guess, pretty uncommon way, but this isn't a "How did you got into the Manics" thread.
So, to me is a tye between GT, GATS and THB, they are my favourite Manics albums of all time, even though I absolutely love every single album they have ever made (not including PFAYM for obvious reasons), those three had reached me in a deeper way than the others, I can't really put it into words, I have difficulties in expressing my feelings and those three albums express them so well, better than I do 99% of the time, so I have a "connection", between those three I can't choose which is my favourite one.
Anyways, although I got into them through The Holy Bible, I really started to listen to the Manics when I got Generation Terrorists, so my vote goes to GT.


I'll stop rambling now, sorry if what I wrote is a bit confusing.

[ulstermanic]

The Holy Bible merely cos it was the first album I got into and helping me through my youth years.

A close second would be Gold Against The Soul, followed by Journal For Plague Lovers (totally shocked me how good that album was, as I found Lifeblood very bland and took me a while to get into SATT).

And stop yousens moaning about this poll. Yes you are a party pooper so dont comment or vote if you dont like it. Not all of us are logged on here often and its the first time Ive seen such a vote being conducted.

Cannot comment at all on Postcards From A Young Man, living in Australia its not getting much airplay over here and not even released yet.

[Siouxsie Sway]

I wanted to vote for all their first 3 albums, but I chose GT (it holds my absolute fav song, So Dead and also others I rank very high, like Another Invented Disease, Little Baby Nothing and You Love Us). I think nothing will ever beat that, for me. THB is, like, 1mm behind.
both fantastic. I love them. GATS comes in 3rd place for me.

[Scarecrow]

Originally Posted by sculptureofabloke

I know Peeled Apples got played on the radio at least once and Jackie Collins got on Match Of The Day and made it onto Shit Hole's jukebox.

Don't forget that pub in Longsight, Gold Cup or whatever. Has the whole of Journal on the jukebox.

[the-indy-script]

Everything Must Go for me - Small Black Flowers,Enola/Alone,ADFL, No Surface - Quality

[MoralMajority]

Originally Posted by Mr.selfdestruct

The Holy Bible. Why? It hardly needs to be explained. A musical peak, lyrical peak, image peak.

+1

[Beat Poet]

THB, no question, their magnum opus.

[JDMANIC]

GT for me as well. It is the album that turned me into a fan (via a used cassette promo copy I found in the bargain bin, some 14 years ago)

[The Vorticist]

The Holy Bible easily for me, there really isn't a weak track on it at all in my opinion. Just songs that are outstanding and songs that outshine even those.

[franny]

Can't choose really. Sometimes JFPL, sometimes THB, sometimes GT. I'm not gonna vote

[Deets]

TIMT. unpopular choice but I don't care. I absolutely adore it.

[Littlesue]

Definately Lifeblood, just for pure lushness, also I have trouble hearing what James sings but in Lifeblood I can pick out quiet a few lines and words, I'm still stuck by the main chorus line in Glasnost though so if anyone can help