Forever Delayed - The Independent Manics Forum  

Go Back   Forever Delayed - The Independent Manics Forum > Manic Street Preachers > Manic Street Preachers Discussion

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #16  
Old 14-01-2012, 10:39
Smiling#Girl's Avatar
Smiling#Girl Smiling#Girl is offline
I live to fall asleep
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere in my mind
Posts: 3,578
I opened this thread just because my husband says the same thing.The strange thing is that he liked them more than me when we met long time ago.
Really,I can see what Faster and Ready for Drowning have in common....
Reply With Quote
  #17  
Old 14-01-2012, 10:39
Heart2Heart's Avatar
Heart2Heart Heart2Heart is offline
I am purity, they call me perverted
 
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Kuala Lumpur
Posts: 238
Maybe she's been hearing them too often because you've been playing them too often. After a while everything sounds the same. Happens.
Reply With Quote
  #18  
Old 14-01-2012, 11:30
Lone Architect's Avatar
Lone Architect Lone Architect is offline
Footprint of history
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Surrounded by other people's cats
Posts: 22,970
It's so easy to confuse the drums from 'Love's Sweet Exile' with 'I'm Not Working'...

I'm quite a big fan of some bands whose songs really do all sound the same and the Manics' don't. Structurally there's a lot of similarity (yes, it's verse/chorus/verse/chorus/middle eight/chorus) but most of their influences stuck to this formula too. We're not going to get the single epic build and crash of a Mogwai track, or the formless soundscape of a Oneohtrixpointnever 'song', or even the 'no one wrote a verse, let's just whack a load of choruses together' stylings of Girls Aloud's 'Biology'. But for variation in instrumentation, stylings, and pace I can't see how they sound the same.

I reckon in part it's down to James's distinctive voice.
Reply With Quote
  #19  
Old 14-01-2012, 12:08
Bobafettish's Avatar
Bobafettish Bobafettish is offline
I live to fall asleep
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: The East End/Walsall
Age: 32
Posts: 3,178
I swear Engage With Your Shadow is just a rehash of Symphony of Tourette. Seriously, just listen to them back to back.
__________________
Facebook!

Twitter!

"To the hideousness of nineteenth-century industrialization is added the desolation of twentieth-century obsolescence. The Black Country looks like Ceaucescu's Romania with fast food outlets."
Theodore Dalrymple

Reply With Quote
  #20  
Old 14-01-2012, 12:35
amay's Avatar
amay amay is offline
Freed from the century
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: London, UK
Age: 31
Posts: 669
There are a lot of accusations that can be levelled at the Manics, but their songs sounding the same is not one of them! Sure there are a few songs with musical similarities, but I think they have vast differences within their back catalogue that aren't found in many bands.
Reply With Quote
  #21  
Old 14-01-2012, 12:38
harriet's Avatar
harriet harriet is offline
I am purity, they call me perverted
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: leeds/liverpool
Age: 30
Posts: 192
Quote:
Originally Posted by Porco View Post
A new game... blatantly dissimilar Manics songs combinations!

I always confuse Fragments and Revol.
slash n burn/some kind of nothingness...
__________________
vanilla, strawberry, knickerbocker glory, i saw the ghost of lena zavaroni /twitter
Reply With Quote
  #22  
Old 14-01-2012, 12:44
Son of Stopped's Avatar
Son of Stopped Son of Stopped is online now
Builder of routine
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: The Wirral (Been saying it wrong, didn't realise there was a THE )
Age: 49
Posts: 16,640
Hazelton Avenue is just a remake of both version of Spectators Of Suicide anyway.
Reply With Quote
  #23  
Old 14-01-2012, 13:01
starryknight's Avatar
starryknight starryknight is offline
Desire on its knees
 
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Lost amongst the undergrowth
Posts: 980
Mitch Benn did a Manics parody on The Now Show a few years back pretending to be them not wanting to perform for the Queen when she came to Wales. He managed to sound like them very convincingly with the 2 verses, 3 repetitive choruses which mention the title of the song several times and a soaring 'string's section! Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery

Yes, their songs sometimes do follow a similar pattern (as with many other artists) and over twenty years of work must produce some similar sounds. Their songs are always different (compare To The River with Kevin Carter with Solitude Sometimes Is with Engage With your Shadow) yet they are always distinctively 'The Manics'.

Having said that, they can be lazy - Geez, Nicky! No more using these words in the same line: you-stole-the-sun-(straight)-from-my-heart eh?
__________________
He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing - Cicero 64BC
Reply With Quote
  #24  
Old 14-01-2012, 15:31
Blixa's Avatar
Blixa Blixa is offline
I am purity, they call me perverted
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 282
I'm just going to say the same thing about song structures (verse - chorus - verse - chorus - solo / break - chorus being the rule), truthfully the Manics stuff I like least is when they go into dubious "classic rock" territory. Play me a track off Send Away The Tigers and one off Postcards From A Young Man when I've not listened to either in a while and I won't be able to tell which is which (unless the track is good in which case it'll clearly be off Postcards From A Young Man). I can understand a non-fan who hasn't heard much thinking it all sounds the same as "the hits" tend to have a fair bit of irritating arena rock bluster about them.
Reply With Quote
  #25  
Old 14-01-2012, 18:17
pingu's Avatar
pingu pingu is offline
I am purity, they call me perverted
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Dublin
Age: 35
Posts: 403
Quote:
Originally Posted by starryknight View Post
Mitch Benn did a Manics parody on The Now Show a few years back pretending to be them not wanting to perform for the Queen when she came to Wales.
oh man, I would love to hear that.
__________________
we figure it out but it's clear and crazy, isn't it?
Reply With Quote
  #26  
Old 14-01-2012, 18:57
Nick2 Nick2 is offline
I am purity, they call me perverted
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 250
.

Last edited by Nick2; 20-02-2014 at 14:42.
Reply With Quote
  #27  
Old 14-01-2012, 20:33
The Gutless Wonder's Avatar
The Gutless Wonder The Gutless Wonder is offline
Bored out of my mind
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: World Headquarters of 'Team JDB' and CoJ
Posts: 42,921
Might have had this said to me once about Manics songs sounding the same. Which they don't.
__________________
"Former glam-punk rocker James Dean Bradfield now looks like your friendly, slightly rumpled Welsh uncle who always brings you chocolate when he visits. That's not a bad thing." - Allister Thompson aka The Gateless Gate (Canadian musician)
Reply With Quote
  #28  
Old 14-01-2012, 20:47
Bobafettish's Avatar
Bobafettish Bobafettish is offline
I live to fall asleep
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: The East End/Walsall
Age: 32
Posts: 3,178
Oh yeah, cos ADFL really sounds like Indian Summer!


Oh.
__________________
Facebook!

Twitter!

"To the hideousness of nineteenth-century industrialization is added the desolation of twentieth-century obsolescence. The Black Country looks like Ceaucescu's Romania with fast food outlets."
Theodore Dalrymple

Reply With Quote
  #29  
Old 14-01-2012, 20:50
The Gutless Wonder's Avatar
The Gutless Wonder The Gutless Wonder is offline
Bored out of my mind
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: World Headquarters of 'Team JDB' and CoJ
Posts: 42,921
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobafettish View Post
Oh yeah, cos ADFL really sounds like Indian Summer!


Oh.
Apart from the maritime timing thingy, it's not THAT similar!
__________________
"Former glam-punk rocker James Dean Bradfield now looks like your friendly, slightly rumpled Welsh uncle who always brings you chocolate when he visits. That's not a bad thing." - Allister Thompson aka The Gateless Gate (Canadian musician)
Reply With Quote
  #30  
Old 15-01-2012, 08:09
meganslastwords's Avatar
meganslastwords meganslastwords is offline
Knowlede Is Power
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: England
Age: 29
Posts: 1,266
Miss Europa Disco Dancer and Intense Humming Of Evil are clearly the same song
__________________
03-07-11 Camden Roundhouse 04-10-11 Nation Radio Cardiff (Acoustic) 17-12-11 O2 Arena 11-04-14 O2 Academy Brixton
twitter facebook
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 18:06.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.6
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.