The Friday Canon: MANIC STREET PREACHERS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The Manics (BA Hons, Swansea) are responsible for many things: a reasonably popular London club night, skyrocketing feather boa sales, the gratitude of the Goan tourist board and of course, thousands upon thousands of rabid fans desperate to bleed all over Steve Lamacq in 'tribute'. But what do you poptimists make of their back catalogue? 33 UK Top 40 singles means you get ELEVEN ticks to dish out. Eyeliner pencils at the ready!


[Poll #1105942]
Fleetwood Mac: (link)
1. Go Your Own Way
2. Dreams
3. Little Lies
4. Don't Stop
=5. Albatross
=5. Tusk
=7. Big Love
=7. Oh Well
=7. Sara
=10. Black Magic Woman
=10. Say You Love Me

Comments

Re: 2 things

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

1. I like them less than some on there but I think they were a "had to be there" band. I wouldn't have imagined they picked up many new fans after the rhetorical glory years, though of course Moggy's comment above reminds me that they're very definite ancestors of a lot of now-stuff.

2. I think Everything Must Go is a fairly bad record but it has its moments (4 ticks for A Design For Life? You big contraries you) and obviously there was loads of goodwill towards them right there. The theory was, I think, that either they would never make another record or that the big stadium plod-rock of EMG was to prove to themselves/Richey that they could have been huge if they wanted and it would be back to spikiness soon enough. Obviously neither of these was correct.

Re: 2 things

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

1. Yeah, I get the impression that 'getting into them' may involve more work on that time machine :(