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Old 09-10-2011, 18:44
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The band never like anything they do for very long!
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Old 09-10-2011, 19:45
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To be fair, why would a band in their 40s do a video about teenagers? I can see why they turned against it.
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Old 09-10-2011, 19:46
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Why not? They were teenagers once!
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Old 09-10-2011, 20:27
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Don't mention the video. Never mention the video!!
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Old 09-10-2011, 20:28
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Don't mention the video. Never mention the video!!
it was either that or tell everyone that i've lost my manics dvds. Thought the latter would be more boring.
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Old 10-10-2011, 10:33
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Old 10-10-2011, 14:01
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Just noticed in my sig pic that James is signing the gig setlist! (I think!)
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Old 11-10-2011, 16:28
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the less additional tracks, the better the album?

THB and JFPL have very few b-sides and a good deal of those are covers, and they're both fantastic, maybe the more the band concentrate on the album tracks the better they turn out...
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Old 11-10-2011, 22:50
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the less additional tracks, the better the album?

THB and JFPL have very few b-sides and a good deal of those are covers, and they're both fantastic, maybe the more the band concentrate on the album tracks the better they turn out...
Hmm, interesting theory. But I think with a lot of albums they've done, they focus fully - musically and lyrically - on them, and then move on to writing /recording the b-sides afterwards when they're considering what to put out as first single.

But...The examples I can think of where they didn't do this were SATT (where apparently they recorded 30 or so tracks overall) and PFAYM (loads of songs were written from what we know of what was in Nicky's diary etc). And they were, er, not so good.
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Old 13-10-2011, 20:07
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The boyfriend unit's been going through my (digital) Manics collection today. His tracks of choice: Solitude Sometimes Is (his favourite Manics song, apparently), Cardiff Afterlife, Tolerate, I'm Not Working and Autumnsong.

Loving the sheer randomness of the quintet.
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Old 13-10-2011, 20:13
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was just watching the video for Faster U.S. version....and that footage looks so incredible, the editing, everything....wonder if they have more footage from those final astoria gigs of that caliber
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Old 16-10-2011, 13:57
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It's been just long enough since PFAYM that I can listen to the earlier stuff again without embarrassment. Some good stuff there. I still maintain JFPL is the equal of THB. Give me those two records, the odd brilliant single (or should-have-been single) and let me block out the rest, especially their disastrous "one last shot at mass communication"/desperate lunge at centre-ground mediocrity... and maybe we'll be on speaking terms again.
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Old 16-10-2011, 14:27
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It's been just long enough since PFAYM that I can listen to the earlier stuff again without embarrassment. Some good stuff there. I still maintain JFPL is the equal of THB. Give me those two records, the odd brilliant single (or should-have-been single) and let me block out the rest, especially their disastrous "one last shot at mass communication"/desperate lunge at centre-ground mediocrity... and maybe we'll be on speaking terms again.
postcards put you off their entire back catalogue? Bit harsh...
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Old 16-10-2011, 14:48
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someone who is befriended with Saxy on fb please tell him that he should block things for people he doesn't know. there might be some stalkers around
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Old 16-10-2011, 15:15
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oooooooooooooh what's on there?
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