Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
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Artist: Manic Street PreachersEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import
Published: 2009-05-15
CD Release Date: 2009-05-19
Music Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
Product features:
- MANIC STREET PREACHERS JOURNAL FOR PLAGUE LOVERS
- Peeled Apples
- Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
- Me And Stephen Hawking
- This Joke Sport Severed
- Journal For Plague Lovers
- She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach
- Facing Page: Top Left
- Marlon J.D.
- Doors Closing Slowly
- All Is Vanity
- Pretension/Repulsion
- Virginia State Epileptic Colony
- William's Last Words
Free Music Notes for Journal for Plague Lovers
Free Music Review: Easily one of the top 5 of 2009
Hit: 5 Stars
First of all the music is brilliant. Listening to the album I have found many songs I like including Peeled Apples, Jackie Collins..., Pretention/Repulsion is a powerhouse, She Bathed Herself In A Bath of Bleach, and Bag Lady (The hidden, true, and leagues better closer to the album). Yes, while William's Last Words is supposed to close the album, I think it is awful and usually skip straight to "Bag Lady", you'll see why.
While some lyrics are forced into place, it is in the same way as The Holy Bible and the album makes it work once again. Except in the chorus of Facing Page: Top Left, which while beautiful music feels awkward lyricwise. But then there are songs like She Bathed..., which I believe the song is a success on every level.
She'd walk on broken glass for love
She thought burnt skin would please her lover
To keep love alive and lust beside
Kind people should never be treated like...
Empty arms and an aching heart
I find that lyric to be full of meaning! About the lengths people will go to to be loved, everyone wants a "table for two" but the pain that goes along with it can be awful. Plus the music is excellent.
As far as Peeled Apples I think it is expressionistic and is trying too hard to come up with metaphors, but so what? At least he was trying when so many musicians/lyricists don't even bother. What's interesting is you can make your own meanings, and sometimes that's what makes poetry interesting. For instance the line "Eternity is not a sunrise" in Bag Lady, I don't know what that means, but it challenges you to try and figure it out.
In "All Is Vanity" Richey is talking about how vanity can become an obsession, again a definite message here
Haven't shaved for days
Keeps the appearance of delay
The luxury of one more dye
Pretend humility, the ugly lie
Leaving yourself unshaved to look like you've been busy, and then saying
It's not "What's wrong?"
It's "What's right?"
Because there is so MUCH going wrong that in that mindset something going right is rare. That is incredibly interesting as vanity becomes the only escape, a point existing frequently in popular culture where perfect appearance is the primary path to happiness. Definite depth to these lyrics if you look close.
For some of the lyrics I think they are attempts at being clever through metaphor, but when the lyrics rise above and make a commentary on love or vanity is when the album shines.
Journal for Plague Lovers Poster
Manic Street Preachers return with their ninth studio album, Journal For Plague Lovers. The album follows the hugely successful and critically acclaimed 2007 release Send Away The Tigers, and the induction of the band into the NME s Hall Of Fame with their naming as the "NME Godlike Genius" for 2008. Produced by Steve Albini and recorded live at Rockfield Studios in Wales during the Winter of 2008, the album features lyrics left behind by former guitarist Richey Edwards across all 13 new tracks. An original piece of Jenny Saville s art is the cover of Journal for Plague Lovers, whose painting graced the cover of 1994 s The Holy Bible . Musically the band draw on their classic Holy Bible sound with elements of Nirvana s In Utero, as well as a delicate, beautiful acoustic side.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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