Never understood the manics, can't understand how such a pants band who essentially sound like Foreigner with pretentious 6th form lyrics made it so big.
no-one more surprised than me when i saw them on the covers of real music papers back in the day... no-one more pleased for them too maybe, though i dunno. looking back tho it is something which although surprises me i can understand; there was a real sense of obsessiveness about them, especially richey, and that feeling connected with a lot of people. I didn't rate their music ever, and never read enough of the lyrics to comment, but i was genuinely excited by what Richey said, and about the sorts of obsessions we shared, like Rimbaud and Plath. It's those things that made them and him special... which shows that to lots of people it's not just about music. And if you were a 6th former into poetry i think you'd probably relate to what they wrote and sang about... can't comment too much because it's a long time since i was a 6th former writing poetry... and i know it's maybe sad, but i bought the NME today because of the richey thing, and i still get tearful when i think about the whole deal, but hey... there's things that so many people in the media just don't seem to get, so what the hell. and the B&s connection? well i think that to a lot of people Stuart's lyrics will seem like wet 6th form whimsy, and they will fail to understand just what it is we are all getting so obsessively devotional about. They will continue to prefer their radiohead and Manics records, and of course that is their choice, and although it is the wrong choice, it's the way of Pop. Long may it continue. keep the faith, the duke -- Tangents On-Line http://www.virtual-pc.com/tangent/ PO Box 102, Exeter, EX2 4YL, UK tangent@lineone.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------