Seat68 Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 17 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: 24 years ago today, The Manic Street Preachers issued Everything Must Go. Yet strangely, it wasn’t the best album released that day. It wasn’t even the best Welsh album released that day. Super Furry Animals issued their first ‘big label’ release, Fuzzy Logic. I was never much in to The Manics, they were ok, but I think maybe Everything Must Go is the only thing of theirs that I have, and even that is a token effort CD. SFA on the other hand, were just instantly one of the biggest things in my little social circle. We can’t remember who discovered them first, but the best version is that a couple of us heard it on the radio and went out the next morning and got a copy. Off the top of my head, I’ve seen them live 9 times and they’ve always been excellent. One of those bands that still do the £25 venues and would rather perform somewhere interesting rather than somewhere vast and soulless. Hence, I’ve seen them in places like Brecon Farmers’ Market or Cardiff Uni, as well as Brixton Academy or Royal Festival Hall and the likes. I think at 9 gigs, they are my second most seen live band. Spin off bands and solo gigs, that would be more like 15 or 16 gigs. Jostling in the crowd for a good spot, the lights go down, a laser, and the opening bars of Slow Life. Proper affirmation of what life is for. I am trying to think when and how I first heard them. I know I loved them when I did hear them. I will say Hometown Unicorn, but I also own Triskadekaphelia. Regardless, they were part of a really **** excellent welsh scene, that was releasing completely different music to their contemporaries. Sadly I also know the point where I stopped loving them, it was so trivial and now if I went back I would slap me around the head. Thankfully my wife continued to love them. I know that they couldn’t play the man don’t give a **** without tapes. But I went off them because they used tapes. I was that word removed. Fuzzy Logic is a phenomenal album. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 Everything Must Go was a fairly good album in all honesty. Familiarity breeds contempt but at the time I think it was solid. When the Manics toured it in 1996 they had Gorkys supporting so it was a given we were going GZM was my wifes favourite band during the 90s and so we saw them a lot. Anyway, we went and watched them followed by the Manics at the Civic in May of 1996 and during the Manic Street Preachers set my wife proposed to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 Yeah I loved Gorky’s. Christina is a hell of a song. Not least for the immortal lines: “Christina, I saw you in a magazine a” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted May 20, 2021 Moderator Share Posted May 20, 2021 2 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: “Christina, I saw you in a magazine a” Were they doing a Mark E Smith impersonation? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 53 minutes ago, bickster said: Were they doing a Mark E Smith impersonation? They couldn’t be further removed from Mark E Smith could they? Gentle little folk with songs about patios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veloman Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 2 hours ago, chrisp65 said: 24 years ago today, The Manic Street Preachers issued Everything Must Go. Good as Manic Street Preacher are, there is only one Everything Must Go" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted May 20, 2021 Moderator Share Posted May 20, 2021 2 hours ago, chrisp65 said: They couldn’t be further removed from Mark E Smith could they? Gentle little folk with songs about patios. It was the a after magazine. MES has a habit of pronouncing things with a pronounced Manc Ah at the end of lines of his lyrics (but not as much as the jokes in the music papers used to say he did) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Seat68 Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 35 minutes ago, blandy said: Did you post that for cheap likes from the usual Fall fans. If you did, it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted May 20, 2021 Moderator Share Posted May 20, 2021 13 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Did you post that for cheap likes from the usual Fall fans. If you did, it worked. Its relevant to the discussion, its one opf those Fall songs that MES does the Ah thing an awful lot in 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted May 21, 2021 Moderator Share Posted May 21, 2021 11 hours ago, Seat68 said: Did you post that for cheap likes from the usual Fall fans. If you did, it worked. No, like Bicks said, it is an example-ah of-ah the-ah way-ah…. Probably the best example? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 1 hour ago, blandy said: No, like Bicks said, it is an example-ah of-ah the-ah way-ah…. Probably the best example? I know this. I am wasted on this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted May 21, 2021 Moderator Share Posted May 21, 2021 23 minutes ago, Seat68 said: I am wasted on this forum It's not compulsory to drink whilst VT'ing...but it helps 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 Flexi discs. I now have two, bought about 35 years apart. Pop Art Poem, by The Jam, and this doozie I’ve not played the Jam one in quite some time. From memory, it used to need a 2p on top of the cartridge head to stop it skidding all over the place. Hopefully this one won’t require a return to keeping loose change around the place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 2 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Flexi discs. I now have two, bought about 35 years apart. Pop Art Poem, by The Jam, and this doozie I’ve not played the Jam one in quite some time. From memory, it used to need a 2p on top of the cartridge head to stop it skidding all over the place. Hopefully this one won’t require a return to keeping loose change around the place. I have a few. My favourite of them is this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 21, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted May 21, 2021 (edited) I've got some Beatles Christmas flexidiscs. Just looked at the prices on Ebay. I may sell! Edited May 21, 2021 by mjmooney 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted May 21, 2021 Moderator Share Posted May 21, 2021 I have a few flexi discs, I think most of them are unplayable, there's nothing on them that I want that I haven't got. Easily the worst format ever 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 1 minute ago, mjmooney said: I've got some Beatles Christmas flexidiscs. Would they have much value? I’d sort of presumed my Jam one would be worth something, looked it up on discogs a couple of years back and it was worth about 75p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 21, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted May 21, 2021 (edited) 2 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Would they have much value? I’d sort of presumed my Jam one would be worth something, looked it up on discogs a couple of years back and it was worth about 75p Several hundred a throw for the Beatles ones. Edited May 21, 2021 by mjmooney 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 1 minute ago, bickster said: I have a few flexi discs, I think most of them are unplayable, there's nothing on them that I want that I haven't got. Easily the worst format ever I’m sure they’ll end up being the one thing that graphine was actually used for and revolutionise the whole industry. But yeah, I’ll play it later, but I’m not exactly expecting a mind blowing sound experience. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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