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The Paralyzed Future: Manic Street Preachers’ ‘Lifeblood’ Turns 20 | Album Anniversary

October 27, 2024 Stephen Lee Naish
Manic Street Preachers Lifeblood

The Manics’ seventh studio album is apolitical and reflective for a very good reason, as the horrors of the world at the time of its arrival were so turbulent to make an articulate comment on.

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Manic Street Preachers’ ‘The Holy Bible’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary

August 28, 2024 Stephen Lee Naish
Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible

Despite its dour worldview, antagonistic posture, and, at the time of its release in the summer of 1994, quite poor sales, ‘The Holy Bible’ has been recast as a triumph of extreme art.

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Hope In A Hopeless Place: Manic Street Preachers’ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ Turns 15

May 18, 2024 Stephen Lee Naish
Manic Street Preachers Journal For Plague Lovers

A strange, though welcome, anomaly of an album, ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ sits more as an isolated artistic act in the band’s catalog than a proper record.

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Manic Street Preachers’ ‘This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

September 10, 2023 Stephen Lee Naish
Manic Street Preachers This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

Despite the sour tone and bleak outlook of most of these songs, the record still remains the band’s best selling effort and earned them another round of awards and accolades.

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Your Fave is Problematic or Why ‘Know Your Enemy’ is Manic Street Preachers’ Most Vital Album

July 31, 2018 Stephen Lee Naish
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If there was ever a record that explained our own current political and cultural mishaps then ‘Know Your Enemy’ might just be it.

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