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Old 27-06-2013, 21:13
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1. Found That Soul
2. Dead Martyrs
3. Intravenous Agnostic
4. Ocean Spray
5. Freedom of Speech
6. Epicentre
7. Baby Elian
8. Let Robeson Sing
9. Just a Kid
10. Locust Valley
11. Little Trolls
12. Midnight Sun

In some sort of order. Yeah, Midnight Sun from the KYE sessions. Deal with it.
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Old 28-06-2013, 00:08
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1. Found that Soul
2. Intravenous Agnostic
3. Ocean Spray
4. Let Robeson Sing
5. So Why So Sad (avalanches)
6. Close My Eyes
7. Freedom of Speech
8. Baby Elian
9. Just a Kid
10. Convalescent
11. Epicentre
12. Door to the River
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Old 28-06-2013, 00:28
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A1 Found That Soul
A2 Ocean Spray
A3 Dead Martyrs
A4 Baby Elian
A5 Freedom Of Speech
A6 Groundhog Days

B1 Groundhog Days
B2 Freedom Of Speech
B3 Baby Elian
B4 Dead Martyrs
B5 Ocean Spray
B6 Found That Soul
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Old 28-06-2013, 02:02
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Found That Soul
Masking Tape
Ocean Spray
The Convalescent
Locust Valley
Intravenous Agnostic
Royal Correspondent
Freedom Of Speech
The Year Of Purification
Baby Elian
So Why So Sad
Epicentre
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Old 28-06-2013, 05:22
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Why would I want to remove four great tracks from KYE? :(
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Old 28-06-2013, 06:09
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Sounds better through headphones, probably because of it's binaural mix where sounds are in the left, right or level in bith - or at least for loads of the album. Everything so distorted, except for James' voice clear through the chaos around him. Maybe that was the point? Lyrically I think it's Nicky at his most bare, his THB in my opinion on tracks like Convalescent, Guernica, Agnostic, Epicentre, His Last Painting, Purification, Just A Kid, Groundhog, Bangkok which would be the 9 tracks (not necessarily in that order) I'd have with Masking Tape as that's pretty clean sounding & coherent to end things (plus would fit onto something like SATT). Second disc would have the other tracks.
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Old 28-06-2013, 13:35
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It's amusing, KYE is so long that I think there are still one or two tracks that still haven't been mentioned after all this talk!

Like Flint I love this album, and need very little in the way of an excuse to listen to it (covering it at the moment on my blog is the best one I've had, mind). It's the band's White Album moment, or at least would be if they hadn't eventually baulked at the idea of actually release it as a double. It's angry and confused and alive but in a way which is so different to the first few albums.
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1. Found that Soul
2. Intravenous Agnostic
3. Ocean Spray
4. Let Robeson Sing
5. So Why So Sad (avalanches)
6. Close My Eyes
7. Freedom of Speech
8. Baby Elian
9. Just a Kid
10. Convalescent
11. Epicentre
12. Door to the River
This has nailed it. Up there with their best, while shedding the weaker tunes along the way.

Off to read Andy's latest posts....
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Old 01-07-2013, 19:37
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Like Generation Terrorists, there's an absolutely amazing twelve song album hidden somewhere in it.

Surprised at the lack of love for Found that Soul. An incredible song live - of all the concert openers I've had them start with (Everything Must Go, Tolerate, Motorcycle Emptiness, You Love Us, Peeled Apples, You Stole the Sun) it comes out well on top as the song that sets the starting tone the best.
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Old 02-07-2013, 10:50
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After the mainstream success of the previous two albums, KYE was probably an attempt to return to something a little more raw. I've always felt that it has the feel of Blur's "Blur" album and like other posters have suggested, it would have benefited from being few songs shorter. From the album tracks alone, I would have gone with:

1. Freedom of Speech (think it would be a better album opener than closer)
2. Intravenous Agnostic
3. Ocean Spray
4. So Why So Sad (preferably a version without the Beach Boys sound!!)
5. Found That Soul
6. Let Robeson Sing
7. The Year of Purification
8. Dead Martyrs
9. His Last Painting
10. The Convalescent
11. Royal Correspondent
12. Epicentre
13. Baby Elian
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Old 03-07-2013, 07:16
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It's definitely one of the least played Manics albums for me, that said there are high points of it for me. A more electro sound which was then continued on to Lifeblood but apart from these it was just a bit of a disappointment.

The singles are great (So Why So Sad is brilliant), as are the b sides but probably the worst song on the album for me is Royal Correspondent-"you'd love to eat their food, even though it has been chewed"- is a rubbish lyric.

Miss Europa is fun for the disco beat and for something completely different.

I also like the McCarthy song, which I do prefer to the original (and that's not just because the Manics have done it).
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Old 03-07-2013, 07:53
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I also like the McCarthy song, which I do prefer to the original (and that's not just because the Manics have done it).
Agreed. I prefer The Manics 'Red Sleeping Beauty' too. They should do an album of McCarthy covers!
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Old 03-07-2013, 08:51
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I still love Know Your Enemy. Yeah, it doesn't really flow that well, it's got a couple of songs that don't really fit and it's far from perfect but who wants perfect? With hindsight, sandwiched between This Is My Truth and Lifeblood it's even more of an anomally, wish they'd dabble in it live a bit more. I'd love to hear The Conavelscent, Dead Martyrs, The Year Of Purification and Epicentre live.
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Old 03-07-2013, 22:47
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sudden 2001 flashback - did anyone else get kicked off Napster for downloading the few KYE tracks that leaked fairly early on? So Why So Sad, Found That Soul, Ocean Spray and Miss Europa, from what i remember.
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Old 04-07-2013, 12:14
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Yep, I did! Managed to get back on with some kind of patch that someone made.

They were all songs mentioned by Jo Whiley after the first play of SWSS - Sony had put the songs up on the website ready to be streamed and, using the new song names, someone managed to guess the URLs and found them.
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