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Jubilee Manics playlist
Hello, I want to make a Manics playlist for the Queen's jubilee in June, made up of songs which reference the royal family/royalty in general. I blasted one out last year instead of watching the Royal wedding, but I'm sure it was a missing a few songs. This is what I've got so far for this year:
Democracy Coma Repeat We Her Majesty's Prisoners Charles Windsor Sculpture of Man Elvis Impersonator/Blackpool Pier First Republic My Little Empire Royal Correspondant Freedom of Speech Won't Feed my Children Door to the River The Love of Richard Nixon No Jubilees 1404 Red Rubber Can anyone help me out with any I'm missing? Last edited by The Torture Garden; 23-03-2012 at 00:21. |
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The Masses Against The Classes ("The slave begins by demanding justice and ends with wanting to wear a crown.")
Depends how tenuous you want to go I guess... some just on titles... Australia (The Queen is still their monarch) Dying Breed Failure Bound The Girl Who Wanted To Be God (!) Hanging On Removables There By The Grace Of God Another Invented Disease Distractions All Is Vanity Pretension/Repulsion Little Trolls (!) Imperial Bodybags
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You could add Stay Beautiful only because of the chorus.
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Yeah, speaking of, what are the Manics doing for the jubilee? Those songs don't have much conviction to me considering they talk about doing an anti-jubilee gig then don't bother to follow through with something quite simple. (No, this isn't in the same vain of asking Richey to take his own life to prove he's '4 REAL') Yeah, that's right Nick, dismiss anything remotely political as 'Red Wedge'! All talk as per.
At the risk of sounding like a disgruntled 6th former, what is there to celebrate about these three men any more? The past? The band proclaim themselves to be something other than what they are (a political band/a band that makes a difference/a band with a vision) and really those days are long behind them, and have been really since Richey left. Richey was very post modern in the sense of an individual trying to make a change, do something different and was vocal about that. Yet the other three are now really trying to get people to celebrate with them a personal victory, a victory that the three of them have lots of money and don't have to really work a 9-5 for a living, which is hard to get excited about. Whilst there is nothing at all wrong with being that kind of band or hanging up your boots, what is wrong is just how they represent themselves to be something otherwise, something they used to be (and are most certainly not these days) that just doesn't sit right with me. It's a bit like a impersonator band really, a bit of a parody. Why pretend to be something you are most evidently not/trade on a past that made them important thanks mostly (if not wholly) to Richey? Makes you think of all the roles Richey played in the band: historian, philosopher,politician, poet, orator, artist, designer, image and media mogul, to name but a few. The other three will always be musicians to me, and musicians only. Richey could have joined any other band and made them massive, it was his letter writing as 'Minister of Properganda' that got them noticed after all. I think without him, these three would have been another dead end 'Funeral In Berlin' kind of band. |
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But yes, I agree that it would be good if they did something. As for the song, does Found that Soul count ("not a subject am I")? |
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Clive: Well I thought that Richey obviously shaped the course of the band's history hugely, but it was perhaps wrong to imply the other 3 were just jobbing musicians... Jennifer: Yeah, right? And Nicky has written some good lyrics in his time too... I'm not convinced you can say they wouldn't have been some kind of success without Richey, even if they would have had a very different career. I mean I starred in Leprechaun, but I still went on to appear in Friends. No, I don't know what that really means either. Jean-Claude: If there had been no Richey, they should have set fire to more things. That is my opinion.
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Anyway, songs for the Diamond Jubilee - Charles Windsor though I expect that one has already been mentioned!
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And without him the songs with Richey's lyrics that you love so much would have turned out as what?
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I think none of them would have had any greater success on their own. They gave each other a tremendous amount of self-confidence, imo it is almost a sacrilege talking about the most important band member
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