December Vinyl Spins Challenge

Day 18: Manics
Play something by the Manics or something that inspired them or that they inspired.

The Charlatans - Between 10th And 11th
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I am a fan of 90s Brit Rock and whatnot but once I get past the surface level stuff that made an impression stateside; your Blurs, Radiohead, Oasis, Etc., Etc., there is still A LOT of stuff that wasn’t super prevalent here that I have discovered in fits and starts over they past 25 years. I have yet to give Manic Street Preachers more than a cursory listen and while nothing immediately jumped out at me I also don’t recall disliking it either. One day I am sure the mood will strike me and I will jump down that rabbit hole but until then here is a Charlatans LP that I just took a random flyer on and quite enjoyed.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Day 18: Manics
Play something by the Manics or something that inspired them or that they inspired.

The Charlatans - Between 10th And 11th
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I am a fan of 90s Brit Rock and whatnot but once I get past the surface level stuff that made an impression stateside; your Blurs, Radiohead, Oasis, Etc., Etc., there is still A LOT of stuff that wasn’t super prevalent here that I have discovered in fits and starts over they past 25 years. I have yet to give Manic Street Preachers more than a cursory listen and while nothing immediately jumped out at me I also don’t recall disliking it either. One day I am sure the mood will strike me and I will jump down that rabbit hole but until then here is a Charlatans LP that I just took a random flyer on and quite enjoyed.
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The manics and the states have a somewhat complex history and relationship. To the point that in 2001 they decided fuck it, we hate touring there and they’re never going to get our Marxist rock thing so let’s just go and play a gig for Castro in Havana…
 
Day 18: Manics

I also don’t know much about the Manic Street Preachers or their discography, so I just went by what I found on their Wikipedia page and since Appetite For Destruction has already been taken…

Alice In Chains - Facelift

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AIC were apparently a big influence on their Gold Against the Soul album. Idk if it was this album in particular tho (it could’ve been Dirt).
 
Joe Mac said:
The manics and the states have a somewhat complex history and relationship. To the point that in 2001 they decided fuck it, we hate touring there and they’re never going to get our Marxist rock thing so let’s just go and play a gig for Castro in Havana…
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Yeah, I don’t have any clue about their politics but most Americans barely pay attention to that part anyways. If they did, Reagan wouldn’t have used “Born In The USA” as a campaign song, Paul Ryan wouldn’t have Rage Against the Machine on his “arms day” workout playlist and Trump would be doing his double wank-off dance moves to gay anthem “YMCA” during his rallies. There was a lot of stuff that for one reason or another never broke through here and maybe their politics played small part but more than likely it just had a certain British sensibility that was only fully appreciated by the hardcore Anglophiles.

Plus pre file-Sharing those UK imports were pricey AF if you could even find them. Usually you had to get them from super cool indie record shops or Virgin megastores to pick them up for like $40 a pop.
 
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TenderLovingKiller® said:
Yeah, I don’t have any clue about their politics but most Americans barely pay attention to that part anyways. If they did, Reagan wouldn’t have used “Born In The USA” as a campaign song, Paul Ryan wouldn’t have Rage Against the Machine on his “arms day” workout playlist and Trump would be doing his double wank-off dance moves to gay anthem “YMCA” during his rallies. There was a lot of stuff that for one reason or another never broke through here and maybe their politics played small part but more than likely it just had a certain British sensibility that was only fully appreciated by the hardcore Anglophiles.

Plus pre file-Sharing those UK imports were pricey AF if you could even find them. Usually you had to get them from super cool indie record shops or Virgin megastores to pick them up for like $40 a pop.
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It wasn’t really their politics. The first two albums were just kind of white noise and as they were coming to America to push Bible, Richey vanished. So their moment kind of evaporated.
 
Nee Lewman said:
It wasn’t really their politics. The first two albums were just kind of white noise and as they were coming to America to push Bible, Richey vanished. So their moment kind of evaporated.
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I think even when they became really big in Britain after that they just felt they didn’t seem to fit into whatever America wanted them to, and didn’t really enjoy playing that game. They could also be outrageously outspoken and contrary and controversial in their statements at times. I don’t think distribution was an issue as much for them, they’ve always been on a Sony imprint and their records, well the 90s ones anyway, all had American mixes and releases.
 
Day 18
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Manic Street Preachers - Postcards from a Young Man

My story with the band is longer and windier than it would seem with me becoming hugely into them in the last year and a half or so. It actually starts with this album which was in my top ten for 2010. I wasn’t really familiar with them, knew I just loved the edgy somewhat political pop of this album then. A buddy on a comic forum introduced me to them. I didn’t go spelunking in the rabbit hole and kind of forgot about them. Then we pulled Holy Bible in the generator thread and I’ve become rather obsessed, trudging through their discography and taking forever to read a survey book of their career. (Two books on Bible are in my to read pile.)
 
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