Scandal wrote:Congratulations to the Manics for entering the UK charts at No. 2 with The Love of Richard Nixon.
It sold very poorly, though. Only 18,560 units. Single sales are at an all-time low, mind you. I think Home and Dry shifted a similar number of units in 2002 and only made #14!
It seems that the two-track cd single hasn't for some strange reason managed to save the singles market. Quick, bring on the revolutionary one-track single before the patient dies!
Eldritch wrote:I have always thought that Some Kind Of Bliss was Manics's revenge on Kylie for not agreeing to duet on Little Baby Nothing in 1991. And they almost succeeded in killing her career!
Scandal wrote:Congratulations to the Manics for entering the UK charts at No. 2 with The Love of Richard Nixon.
It sold very poorly, though. Only 18,560 units. Single sales are at an all-time low, mind you. I think Home and Dry shifted a similar number of units in 2002 and only made #14!
That explains how Eric Prydz has managed to stay at No. 1 for so long....
I don’t know if its been mentioned earlier in this thread, apologies if it has, but you can view a rather interesting video of the track ‘1985’ on the Manics official site. The video is directed by Nicky Wire’s brother and features lot’s of 80’s imagery – The Miners strike, Morrissey & Marr etc
The writers at Q magazine should be put against a wall; they've somehow given 'Lifeblood' two stars, whilst giving that awful Daniel Beddingfield guy three stars for his album!!
Native wrote:The writers at Q magazine should be put against a wall; they've somehow given 'Lifeblood' two stars, whilst giving that awful Daniel Beddingfield guy three stars for his album!!
Oh well. Manics have such a schizophrenic musical history, that there is no way that they can please their whole audience. What were the arguments behind the two stars – was this writer part of the brigade that still longs for the punk-y political fury of Holy Bible?
(A tangentual note: record reviewing has gone to the dogs since every magazine rates the albums by numbers these days. A review should be about the reviewer's arguments, not about how many starts s/he grants the album. Nowadays many readers just look at the rating – "two stars, must be crap then" – and turn the page, but if they had actually read the review they might have gone to the conclusion that the reviewer can't be trusted since his argumentation is so feeble.)
It’s pretty harsh, the headline includes – “You may have forgotten: they used to be provocative.” The reviewer really chastises the lyrics, which are – “the result of Nicky Wire swallowing a thesaurus before vomiting up random couplets.”
He basically states that ‘Everything Must Go’ was the last decent album they made.
The worst bit is at the end, when for some pointless reason they liken the album to something similar, to which they've used Bon Jovi ' Crossroads'!!!!!!!!!!
I mentioned this before and I'll mention this again there is no use reading Q anymore.
They have lost any credibility as far as I'm concerned. Reviews are innacurate (I often wonder if they even listen to the albums half the time), stories are pointless, they seem to be doing best of 50 whatever chart every issue, they release "Special Editions" every second month (which cost a fortune in Australia BTW, comparting to other magazines).
Just look at the photo of Chris Lowe they printed from the awards. I'll bet he's absolutely livid.
That magazine used to matter to me, but now I don't care if it sinks like a ton of bricks.
Totally agree about Q. It has never mattered to me the way Melody Maker did in the early Nineties, but its till used to be a pretty decent read. But since the new look it has been totally intolerable: why is it that all the magazines who go for a radical makeover do it from the premise that the people buying magazines actually hate reading? Let's reduce everything to pointless lists, shorten the reviews so that more colourful boxes full of needless information and baseless comparisons can be fit into one page and make every spread look like a photo montage.
Quick, bring on the revolutionary one-track single before the patient dies!
