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Old 11-10-2012, 19:12
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I totally agree. I remember when I first got "Lifeblood" and thinking how much of a winter feel it had to it. Great album anytime of year, but for me too it totally is the Manics' winter album (Holy Bible is my mid to late summer album).
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I can't associate Lifeblood to a season because it's an album I mainly (only? probably) listen to when I'm at home. Too private, too strong to allow me to act as a normal human being outside while I listen to it. And I cry almost every time I listen to it, it would not be appropriate either.
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Old 11-10-2012, 19:18
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Never thought of it in a 'winter' context, but that's spot on.
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Old 11-10-2012, 19:21
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I can't associate Lifeblood to a season because it's an album I mainly (only? probably) listen to when I'm at home. Too private, too strong to allow me to act as a normal human being outside while I listen to it. And I cry almost every time I listen to it, it would not be appropriate either.
Same here. That's why I listen to it when I am driving at night.
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Old 11-10-2012, 19:25
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It was released on 1st November 2004 but I know many, including myself, had it in early October through naughty pirate gremlins. I remember buying it from HMV in Newport on that launch day. I took time off work just for it. I walked to a local park dressed up in my winter coat, hat, boots and jeans and I just loaded the CD into my discman and it blew me away despite the fact I'd heard the tracks already.
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Old 12-10-2012, 04:52
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Definitely!That's the perfect album to listen to at home when outside it's cold.
That's for sure, but I'm immagining more a scene of a cold winter or a deep autumn evening or night, returning home from late hour lessons or work. Using the public traffic system and such.

And once I happened to listen to I live to fall asleep outside on a rainy summer day. It's amazing how it fits.
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Old 13-10-2012, 19:23
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Indeed, it reminds me very much of freezing cold dark mornings from when it came out. Absolutely in the winter album collection for me!
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Old 13-10-2012, 20:05
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Doesn't get dark or cold here in winter, so doesn't really work. lol. Definitely a uk winter snowy album tho.
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Old 13-10-2012, 21:07
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Yeah the context of remembering when it was released and toured plus the keyboards/synths/production sheen on many of the tracks make it very much a winter album. You could never call To Repel Ghosts an earthy, warm summer song could you?

But then I personally have a conflicting memory of listening to it quite deliberately while sunbathing right near the edge of a cliff where I used to live, so often have the image of that afternoon popping up when I listen to it.
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Old 13-10-2012, 22:33
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Speaking of memories I think I love to listen to it at home probably because it was released when me and my boyfriend(we weren't married at that time)started to live together in this house. I remember me came back from my hometown in an autumn cold evening. One of the first things he gave me once we were at home was that album (he said he didn't like it a lot) and I immediatly fell in love with it.However I don't know why but everytime I listen to it my mind comes back to that cold evening.
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Old 14-10-2012, 07:52
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Speaking of memories and Lifeblood, I remember the days I clumsily broke my nose on the stairs right before the door of my home.....

It was the period when this album was released, more or less, and, as a completely new album and a new release after a long time of absence of one of my famourite bands ever, these songs kept playing on my CD player and in my mind almost all the time.

I went to the hospital and took a walk around the city with my eldest sister and a bend over my "new nose". I recall my internal jukebox was playing random songs from Lifeblood.
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Old 14-10-2012, 08:37
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Lyrically, Lifeblood inspires feelings of deep emotion within me. Songs such as SIS, Cardiff Afterlife and Empty Souls are heart-breaking. That's just me.
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Old 14-10-2012, 10:41
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Yeah, I tend to listen to Lifeblood more in autumn/winter too. It just feels cold to me, just associate it with autumn/winter cos of the timing of the release and tour and just makes me think of walking around kicking orange leaves and stuff.

It's kinda weird that so many people think of it as an autumn/winter album when it was probably written and recorded in spring/summer.
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Old 14-10-2012, 12:28
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I actually got Lifeblood when I got my wisdom teeth surgically removed. They had me on a bunch of Oxycodone so I get aural soothing memories whenever I listen to it, haha!

Definitely see it as a winter album though.
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Old 15-10-2012, 21:09
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its a perfect album as far as im concerned. great production, almost haunting. love it.
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