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View Poll Results: Which acoustic "richey" song do you prefer?
Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky 46 56.79%
Facing Page: Top Left 15 18.52%
Too Cold Here 16 19.75%
Love Torn Us Under 4 4.94%
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Old 06-11-2009, 21:21
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Best Acoustic "Richey" Song

Obviously I'm making assumptions with the b-sides but the lyrical content does point towards richey.


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Old 06-11-2009, 21:39
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Got to be small black flowers it's so sad and beautiful. A perfect synchronisation of lyrics and music.
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Small Black Flowers but also love Donkeys which is a bit acoustic
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Small Black Flowers but also love Donkeys which is a bit acoustic
is donkeys a richey lyric though? sounds nicky-ish in places to me...
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Old 06-11-2009, 21:43
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And I'm the only one who voted for "Too Cold Here" as well!
Sentimental reasons really. One of the first Manics b-sides I'd heard and it reminds me of my doomed relationship with a CoR before I got into the band.
And the whistle is pretty good.
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Old 06-11-2009, 21:48
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Went for Facing Page but that was really, REALLY hard! I love all of those so chosing one was extremely difficult!
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is donkeys a richey lyric though? sounds nicky-ish in places to me...
yes it is.

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Small Black Flowers

eerie, moving, sad, crushing, small, huge. DEFINITIVE.
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Old 06-11-2009, 22:19
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Altgough I voted for Small Black Flowers, I'm sad to see you're missing my current fav This Joke Sport Severed in the mix. One of James' finest musical interpretations of Edwards' lyrics. Such a Sad yet beautiful tune.

Btw, I don't think Love Torn us Under is a Richey lyric...I think it was penned by Wire.

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Old 06-11-2009, 22:35
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I voted for Small Black Flowers, I think you are sadly missing my current fav This Joke Sport Severed in the mix. One of James' finest musical interpretations of Edwards' lyrics. Such a Sad yet beautiful tune.
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If the production wasn't so overblown, I would of included it.

To diverge, I did love every acoustic version of JPFL songs, James is just tooo talented for my liking.
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i went for Facing Page Top Left..its just goooooooorgeous. Small Black flowers a very very very very very very (etc) close second !
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'Small Black Flowers' for me. It is very moving.
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Old 07-11-2009, 01:07
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I voted for Small Black Flowers.
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Old 07-11-2009, 01:23
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Small Black Flowers is my favourite on EMG and is probably my favourite Manics acoustic song full stop.

Utterly beautiful.
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Old 07-11-2009, 05:53
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What about Hibernation?!

Albeit Facing; Page gets my vote as it is just utterly perfect (yep, the best song on JFPL!)
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