What they say about MSP
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"One hides behind his tom-toms. Another wears some make-up and gets a quote in the NME if he's lucky and the other plays the music. They live, quite literally, off supposedly deep and thoughtful teenagers who dream of Richey handing them a copy of The Torture Garden and want to varnish Nicky Wire's little toes. These are the people that are going to respond to this article with the argument: "The Manic's are beautiful/life-changing/monumental/they warm the very part of me that knows how to love��
�They may have attitude, and something to say, but they still remain an unlikely looking band. Wire tries hard to be the rock star but somehow just misses. Bradfield is the most suitably moody looking, but Moore cuts a homely appearance; the sort of younger brother you'd imagine having a stamp collection and train set rather than a drummer in a rock n roll band. Thankfully appearances can be deceptive...�
The lyric is a mild grossout recollection of the band's stay in Thailand. "Shrivel to nothing for the company/Lizards and geckos cover me/Military Police are after me/But everybody else seems so happy" It's righteous that the Manics pissed off the royal police by singing "Repeat after me: fuck queen and country" but after five flaccidly sung stanzas of on-the-road clich� ("I think that I have seen the Devil/Satan smiles at me in the mirror") you're ready to hit EJECT.
�Complaining about being irritated by Nicky Wire is like moaning that your cat won't fetch a stick. For the most part, against this fresh, textured pop, his words--alternately nihilistic and impassioned, self-pitying and perverse--come alive again�
�However, he says he's fed up with journalists not listening to his lyrics and wonders if they're incapable of understanding what he's written. Nicky Wire's lyrics have a political message and a political edge and he says it irritates him when journalists reviewing the group's songs aren't prepared to listen to the lyrics�
�The cult of laddishness is just an excuse to not change your socks and feel proud�
Sean Moore of the Manics speaks. The world is aghast. But he also speaks as wittily as the mouthy Nicky Wire. The world dies of a heart attack.
Fuji Festival
They played tight, brave and sounded hellishly loud with James Dean Bradfield's voice stronger than ever. Bassist Nicky Wire, sexy as ever in a nurse's uniform with white knee socks, trashed his guitar and the drum kit and just about everything he could lay his hands on before leaving the stage. It might be old-skool, but I guess he was just trying to do us a favor and sabotage Oasis.
NO BAND are capable of creating divisiveness like the Manic Street Preachers. Their fans hate each other: the 4REAL, feather-boa wearing 'old' fans, all of whom claim to own at least one copy of New Art Riot EP, really hate the relatively well-adjusted but not nearly so interesting new fans, and vice-versa. Both are so consumed in an all-encapsulating carapace of contempt for the other it's a wonder they have time for all the self-loathing.
James Dean Bradfield no doubt felt a bit miffed: Nicky had always let him sing up till now and so he retaliates by trying his hand at some lyrics. The result (Ocean Spray) is the album's peak. An intensely moving tribute to his late mother's favourite drink, it has him singing "Oh please stay awake / So we can drink some Ocean Spray" as he plays a riff not dissimilar to She Is Suffering.
Team Behind 'Novelty' No.1 Revealed - October 28th 1997
In a shock announcement today, it has been revealed that the band Aqua, responsible for the current UK No.1 "Barbie Girl" are none other than the Manic Street Preachers in disguise. "It's all part of the masterplan" said shadowy mastermind Sean Moore, 11. "We released a song called Little Baby Nothing back in 1991, which noone listened to, but which basically said all the same things. We decided then that we'd have to change our image a bit to get chart success"
He explained how when guitarist Richey supposedly disappeared, he had in fact embarked on a course of hormone implants, to turn him into the squeaky voiced singer. "He's a lot less miserable now" said Moore, adding "Well, you should have guessed, he did always tell you pathetic COR types 'I don't want to be a man'. Now he isn't".
The rest of the band had less radical changes required - the main difficulty was persuading bassist Nicky Wire to shave his head, not his legs, and to wear a dinner jacket, not a dress. Moore and former singer James Dean Bradfield now fill the roles of vaguely hard looking bloke at the back.
"I'm having a lot more fun now" lisped Richey James "I can wear makeup without getting beaten up and I don't have to quote all that Situationist bollocks all the time. We're thinking of doing Material Girl as our next single".
The only note of caution was struck by Bradfield who remarked "If we don't sell 18 million copies of our album Aquarium, we're gonna split up, or else record some 4 more albums of miserabilist neo-cock-rock bollocks"
Manic humour found at statslab.cam.ac.uk/~johns on/ramblings.html
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