30 Days of Manics - Day 19-21
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Day 19: Your favourite song from Generation Terrorists.
Motorcycle Emptiness.
Easy one that. That song stands out, not just from that album but from their entire back catalogue. There is something immediate about the opening guitar riff. And the emotion which never fails to wash over you in the opening bars means I have a stronger, immediate, guttural connection to that one song than I do to almost any other I've ever heard. It's really that simple.
Day 20: Your favourite song from Gold Against The Soul.
Ah, a bit more difficult. It's a three way contest between Sleepflower, Tristessa and Despair.
All things considered I'd probably go for From Despair to Where.
I say 'all things considered' but really I sat here flicking through youtube videos and photos and suddenly became aware that a little voice at the back of my head was just singing "I write this alone in my head" over and over again. It's one hell of a hook.
I'm not sure why - probably to do with historical connections I have with that entire album - but I get a good, warm, strong feeling singing along. So yes, my favourite.
Day 21: Your favourite song from The Holy Bible.
Yes.
Opening lyrics? "For sale, dumb cunts sing dumb questions".
Positives? Had Richey not disappeared, it would have been released as a single. And the fourth word of their commercially released single (they had refused to censor) would have been 'cunt'.
It's immediate and in many ways I think it sets out exactly what the next 12 tracks on that album are going to be - lyrically, musically, emotionally - and it does it beautiful.
That end rush of lyrics (I eat and I dress and I wash/and I can still say thank you/Puking - shaking - sinking) is exhilarating and represents some of Richey/Nicky's finest, most well rounded and most uncompromising lyric writing.
Motorcycle Emptiness.
Easy one that. That song stands out, not just from that album but from their entire back catalogue. There is something immediate about the opening guitar riff. And the emotion which never fails to wash over you in the opening bars means I have a stronger, immediate, guttural connection to that one song than I do to almost any other I've ever heard. It's really that simple.
Day 20: Your favourite song from Gold Against The Soul.
Ah, a bit more difficult. It's a three way contest between Sleepflower, Tristessa and Despair.
All things considered I'd probably go for From Despair to Where.
I say 'all things considered' but really I sat here flicking through youtube videos and photos and suddenly became aware that a little voice at the back of my head was just singing "I write this alone in my head" over and over again. It's one hell of a hook.
I'm not sure why - probably to do with historical connections I have with that entire album - but I get a good, warm, strong feeling singing along. So yes, my favourite.
Day 21: Your favourite song from The Holy Bible.
Yes.
Opening lyrics? "For sale, dumb cunts sing dumb questions".
Positives? Had Richey not disappeared, it would have been released as a single. And the fourth word of their commercially released single (they had refused to censor) would have been 'cunt'.
It's immediate and in many ways I think it sets out exactly what the next 12 tracks on that album are going to be - lyrically, musically, emotionally - and it does it beautiful.
That end rush of lyrics (I eat and I dress and I wash/and I can still say thank you/Puking - shaking - sinking) is exhilarating and represents some of Richey/Nicky's finest, most well rounded and most uncompromising lyric writing.