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

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

This sounds just as good as our made up version of Nancy Boy which started: "alcoholic/methodist/goes out friday/and gets p1ssed"! Whatever happened to these lost gems.

was trying to remember the rest of this in the pub, I think Gorbachev married into group s3x, Yelstin umm impotent self-importance?

Farrakhan was ALI-MONEY ALI-MONAAAY! anyway!

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[zenith.livejournal.com]

Napoleon - childhood sweethearts
Chamberlain - you see God in you
TROTSKY HONEYMOON SERENADE THE NAKED

Che Guevera - we're all target now
Pol Pot - withdrawn traces, bye bye
Farrakhan ALI-MOANY ALI-MOANIER!

Breznev married into group sex
Gorbachev - celibate self-importance
Yeltsin - failure is his own impotence

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

che guevara - we're all tired now?

mind you if we're on to misheard manics lyrics we WILL be here all day ;)

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[zenith.livejournal.com]

Originally I had a cassette tape copy of teh Holy Bible, and so much guesswork was done - "hope I black out when tomorrow comes" being one lyric that does NOT exist on 'Of Walking Abortions' and which I must remember to use one day, in an emo poem perhaps - however inevitably once I got my CD copy I PORED over the lyrics reproduced therein, OBSESSIVELY.

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[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

(Me too! The Holy Bible on one side, Gold Against the Soul in the other. I remember getting the cd from HMV and opening it up FEVERISHLY on the bus on the way home and er, totally not getting about 80% of the references in it AT ALL. I think now I'm probably only at 75% :))

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[zenith.livejournal.com]

The line that still baffles me to this day, utterly:

"pro-life equals anti-choice, to be scared of... OF FEATHERS!!!"

But then it is from what freakytigger has correctly identified as the (lyrically) well-dodgy 'PCP'.

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[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

LOSER! LIAR! FAKE TELEPHONY!

Uh I should stop this now.

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[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I waaaana pie, pie in the summertime

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

politics, here's death and
GARDEN STRING FOR SA-A-A-ALE

slash and burn, kill to live etcetc

<3

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Ah zenith, with your Manics lyrics how happy you make me. Would you like a biscuit? *offers Tesco 'Viennese Selection Box'* SORRY I mean here's a half bottle of Grants cheapy vodka and a rusty Bic...