Manicography
Ruby asked me to compile a short list of Manic Street Preachers songs with which to introduce a new listener to their oeuvre. It was a bit difficult knowing where to begin, but assuming the songs should be spread fairly equally across their career, I may have whittled the list down to a reasonable amount.
If the person is only prepared to listen to two songs:
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. Faster
Five:
3. Design For Life
4. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
5. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
If they want ten:
6. Sleepflower
7. So Why So Sad
8. A Song For Departure
9. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
10. Some Kind Of Nothingness
Twenty:
11. Motown Junk
12. This Is Yesterday
13. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
14. Sepia
15. There By The Grace Of God
16. Secret Society
17. Send Away The Tigers
18. Door To The River
19. Which Way To Kyffin? (James Dean Bradfield solo)
20. Doors Closing Slowly
And that’s just an attempt at representing their discography; I’ve barely started on my own favourites. /o\
(PS Ruby, if you want any of those songs, ask and I shall deliver.)
If the person is only prepared to listen to two songs:
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. Faster
Five:
3. Design For Life
4. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
5. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
If they want ten:
6. Sleepflower
7. So Why So Sad
8. A Song For Departure
9. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
10. Some Kind Of Nothingness
Twenty:
11. Motown Junk
12. This Is Yesterday
13. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
14. Sepia
15. There By The Grace Of God
16. Secret Society
17. Send Away The Tigers
18. Door To The River
19. Which Way To Kyffin? (James Dean Bradfield solo)
20. Doors Closing Slowly
And that’s just an attempt at representing their discography; I’ve barely started on my own favourites. /o\
(PS Ruby, if you want any of those songs, ask and I shall deliver.)