#Manics6Music - help pick the Ultimate Manic Street Preachers Playlist
Twenty years ago Manic Street Preachers released their debut album Generation Terrorists. Its blend of buzz -saw guitars and political sloganeering launched the career of one of Britain's most successful alternative rock bands and got everyone talking when they told the music press that it was going to sell a million copies after which they'd promptly split up.
Thankfully they didn't keep their promise and the Manics have gone on to be one of the most influential bands of the last two decades. This Sunday on Now Playing we want you to help us celebrate their unmistakable impression on British music by creating the Ultimate Manic Street Preachers Playlist.
So when you think of James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and co - what instantly springs to mind?
* Is it one of the band's classic singles or one of your favourite B-sides or album tracks?
* The band's inspirations, like The Clash, The Smiths, Iggy Pop or The Jesus and Mary Chain
* Bands that the Manics have covered such as Primal Scream, Guns N' Roses, Nirvana or The The
* Acts that have remixed The Manics - perhaps David Holmes, Chemical Brothers and Massive Attack
* Collaborators and conspirators from The Cardigans' Nina Persson to Gruff Rhys via Shirley Bassey... Oh and don't forget Kylie.
It's up to you - to get involved leave your suggestions below, post them on our Facebook page, Tweet them to us using #Manics6Music, e-mail us or add suggestions to our collaborative Spotify playlist. And remenber, if you're a Manics fan it'll be the music you love for two hours on Sunday from 6pm.
Comment number 1.
At 14:11 8th Nov 2012, manicstreetmoose wrote:I think it would be nice if some of their less well known stuff was played personally. B-sides like Black garden, Dead passive, I Know the numbers, Love torn us under or Too cold here would be great. Even some of the less well known A-sides like Methadone pretty, PCP, This is yesterday, Elvis Impersonator, Enola alone, Small black flowers, Interiors, Ready for drowning, Born a girl, Black dog on my shoulder, Facing page top left or This joke sport severed would be great to hear on sunday!
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Comment number 2.
At 14:49 8th Nov 2012, relic wrote:Sleepflower would be fantastic, it sets up Gold Against The Soul perfectly, and it's a very special song for fans who went to a lot of Manics gigs in the 2000s.
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Comment number 3.
At 16:21 8th Nov 2012, The Exiles wrote:Early b-sides for me, too. Hibernation, Under My Wheels (BBC Friday Rock Show session), Comfort Comes, Sorrow 16, Soul Contamination, RP McMurphy, their live versions of The Clash's What's My Name and Train In Vain, Bored Out Of My Mind, Dead Yankee Drawl - but also later b-sides like Automatik Teknicolour, I Know The Numbers, Dead Trees And Traffic Islands, Love Letter To The Future, Slow Reflections/Strange Delays, and the Manics' beautiful covers of McCarthy's Red Sleeping Beauty and Charles Windsor need played to death too - and a Manics-inspired song, From Nowhere To Nowhere by The Exiles... there's a free download of an early mix here: https://soundcloud.com/strummerville/the-exiles-from-nowhere-to ;) And any track from The Holy Bible, any track off Lifeblood, Found That Soul off of Know Your Enemy - Some Public Enemy, like She Watch Channel Zero, Fight The Power, Louder Than A Bomb, some stuff by The Who, like I'm A Boy, Go To The Mirror or I Can See For Miles or Tattoo some Guns N' Roses, like Estranged, It's So Easy, Paradise City. French Film Blurred, Men 2nd or Outdoor Miner by Wire. Anything from the debut albums by the Pistols or The Clash or early b-sides like 1977 or City Of The Dead, I Wanna Be Me or Satellite. Some early Dexys Midnight Runners like Dance Stance, One Way Love, Show Me or Geno. But for flip's sake play PATRICK BATEMAN! x
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Comment number 4.
At 16:50 8th Nov 2012, Tholt87 wrote:Ocean Spray, just because it evokes a certain sadness that we can all relate when we lose somebody close to us but also because it proves that James on his first songwriting credit was just as much a brilliant lyricist as Nicky and Richey. Tom Holt from Wakefield.
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Comment number 5.
At 19:30 8th Nov 2012, lukeyspooksss wrote:Obvious start - greatest song in the world ever - Faster.
Prologue to History
Motown Junk
Me & Stephen Hawking
Enola / Alone
The Convalescent (Am I the only one who loves this song?)
Close My Eyes
Spectators of Suicide
PCP
This Is Yesterday
Rendition (see Convalescent)
Let Robeson Sing
Comfort Comes
Of Walking Abortion
And I think I will stop there, if I thought about it tomorrow, I'd come up with a different list (apart from Faster - did I mention it is the greatest song in the world ever?)
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Comment number 6.
At 21:05 8th Nov 2012, Simon Edmunds wrote:The first manics song I ever heard was Motorcycle Emptiness and I've been hooked ever since, It has to be on. I love the classics, so I'd also add Little Baby Nothing, La Tristessa Durera, Australia, If You Tolerate This and Faster. There are so many great songs to choose from, I wouldn't disagree with anyone choices.
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Comment number 7.
At 23:01 8th Nov 2012, Danny M wrote:This is very difficult and what I would pick this week would be different next week!! Have gone with a Concert Style 28 songs!
1.The Girl That Wanted To Be God
2.Faster
3.We are all bourgeois now
4.Roses In The Hospital
5.Motorcycle Emptiness
6.You Love Us
7.Solitude Sometimes Is...
8.Yes
9.Die in the Summertime
10.Black Dog on My Shoulder
11.Working Class Hero
12.She Bathed Herself In a bath of bleach
13. Golden Platitudes
14. La Tristesse
15.1985
16. Nobody Loved you.
17. Stay Beautiful
18. Let Roebson Sing
19.Mauseleom
20. Tsunami
21. You Stole The Sun..
22 Close My Eyes
23 Motown Junk
24 Baby Elian
25 Motown Junk
26 Design For Life
27 If You Tolerate This...
28 Your Love Alone...
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Comment number 8.
At 01:45 9th Nov 2012, Frankie_M wrote:I'd love to hear Yes played on the radio for once - an amazingly powerful and emotive song - but I guess that's a tough ask. So how about Never Want Again, one of the early B sides, in all its joyful nihilism - a glorious contradiction in terms of course but hey, we are talking about the Manics here ...
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Comment number 9.
At 11:28 9th Nov 2012, Wandru wrote:The Manics released some cracking B-sides around this time - the best of which is probably Democracy Coma, which the record company in the US deemed good enough to include on Generation Terrorists. Some corkers were left out of the Lipstick Traces B-sides compilation too - most notably Starlover (Heavenly You Love Us B-side) - their last grungy shout before the polished sheen of GT swept in.
Also when I think back to gigs around the time of GT, I think of Shampoo - the two members of which used to show up at gigs in leopard print coats selling their Manics fanzine. So Bouffant Headbutt by them would be amazing to hear. Supporting the Manics on that tour was Kinky Machine (later Rialto)... anyone remember them? Swivelhead was a brilliantly riffy tune.
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Comment number 10.
At 13:16 9th Nov 2012, Katie wrote:Roses in the Hospital has everything - a great dance beat, Slashtastic guitar break, AND a **** in the chorus. Hazelton Avenue - Manics soul train #2, who could not swing their hips to this. Autumnsong and I'm Just a Patsy - G'n'R still an influence. Take the Skinheads Bowling - James gets the tone so right, bet they had fun recording this. The Future Has Been Here 4ever - great song and it would be lovely to hear a song sung by Nicky on the radio.
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Comment number 11.
At 18:21 9th Nov 2012, radio2 lover wrote:Sculpture of man, comfort comes, everlasting, faster, revol, lover's sweet exile, motorcycle emptiness. The whole of the holy bible would be too depressing in these difficult times! Maybe Cardiff Afterlife which I love but not all Manics fans I know like it.
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Comment number 12.
At 11:36 10th Nov 2012, Katie wrote:Ooh, I can't believe no one has mentioned their cover of Rihanna's 'Umbrella' - epic.
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Comment number 13.
At 17:11 10th Nov 2012, matt24 wrote:Found that soul
Me and Stephen Hawking
PCP
Yes
Faster
Elvis Impersonator
Ready for Drowning
Glasnost
Solitude sometimes is
Small black flowers...
This Joke Sport Severed
Sculpture of man
No Surface all feeling
Sleepflower
Suicide Alley
Strip it down
This is Yesterday
Interiors
No one Knows what it's like to be me
Motown Junk
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Comment number 14.
At 20:38 10th Nov 2012, lamelani wrote:Ultimate top 10 tracks
Crucifix kiss
Facing page:top left
I live to fall asleep
Valley boy
Auto-intoxication
Interiors
Underdogs
Faster
Ocean spray
This joke sport severed
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Comment number 15.
At 03:43 11th Nov 2012, Defoni wrote:Some personal favourites from official albums:
So Dead
Nostalgic Pushead
Yes
A Design for Life
You're Tender and You're Tired
Ocean Spray
I Live to Fall Asleep
All Is Vanity
A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun
And, since Katie mentioned it, Rihanna's "Umbrella", 'cause that cover totally rocks.
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Comment number 16.
At 17:28 11th Nov 2012, kasmo wrote:It has to be 'A design for life' we always play it in the car as we cross the Severn Bridge into Wales
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