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This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 1998

[Album] This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

May 15, 2013by Andy Johnson Leave a comment

Proving to be an enormous commercial success and a big winner at the 1999 Brit Awards, This Is My Truth has still gone on to be seriously under-respected due to the dominance of mid-paced – but actually wonderful – songs.

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1998, Album Essays, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998)
Everything Must Go 1996

[Album] Everything Must Go

April 12, 2013by Andy Johnson Leave a comment

Having eventually decided to continue on without Richey Edwards, the Manics reinvented themselves to an extent with Everything Must Go, an album which more than delivered on its grand commercial and artistic ambitions.

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1995 - 1996, Album Essays, Everything Must Go (1996)
The Holy Bible 1994

[Album] The Holy Bible

February 27, 2013by Andy Johnson Leave a comment

The most acclaimed album in Manic Street Preachers history is also one of the most gruelling, exhausting, harrowing, powerful and ultimately life-affirming records ever made.

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1994, Album Essays, The Holy Bible (1994)
Gold Against the Soul 1992

[Album] Gold Against the Soul

February 17, 2013by Andy Johnson Leave a comment

Recorded at Outside Studios in Oxfordshire, Gold Against the Soul saw the Manics enter the traditional working schedule of a rock band for the first time. At just ten songs, it was comparatively modest and focused effort which paved the way for their subsequent career.

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1993, Album Essays, Gold Against the Soul (1993)
Generation Terrorists 1992

[Album] Generation Terrorists

January 27, 2013by Andy Johnson Leave a comment

After spending over a year generating fan and press buzz with a succession of singles, Manic Street Preachers unleashed what was to be “the most awesome and scandalous rock record of 1992″ – Generation Terrorists.

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1992, Album Essays, Generation Terrorists (1992)

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"In this country, people die emotionally at 21, maybe younger. My responsibility as an artist is to help them get past 21."

John Cassavetes, sleeve quote for 'From Despair to Where' in Forever Delayed

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