This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
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Artist: Manic Street Preachers
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-06-08
Music Label: VIRGIN
Soundtracks:
  1. The Everlasting
  2. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
  3. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
  4. Ready For Drowning
  5. Tsunami
  6. My Little Empire
  7. I'm Not Working
  8. You're Tender And You're Tired
  9. Born A Girl
  10. Be Natural
  11. Black Dog On My Shoulder
  12. Nobody Loved You
  13. S.Y.M.M.

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Free Music Review: Tied with The Holy Bible for best Manics album.
Hit: 5 Stars

The single "If You Tolerate This" was my introduction to this amazing band, and it floored me the second it entered my speakers. Really, it's impossible not to like. It soars. Bradfield's voice is spectacular. The "and on the streets tonight an old man plays with newspaper cuttings of his glory days" line is just genius, and the outro is pretty groovy too. It's great. So I bought the album. And after a listen, I was unimpressed with the majority of it. Had I not also purchased Everything Must Go and The Holy Bible (yes, I bought three albums on the strength of one song, it's that good) at the time, I would have dismissed the Manics as one-hit wonders that couldn't make an album with more than one good song on it. And that would have been unforgivably stupid of me, as repeated listens showed me that this is certainly at least tied for first for best Manics album, and indisputably the album of the year.

We start with "The Everlasting." This is impossible not to like - Bradfield's voice has a beautiful melancholy quality to it, the strings are great, and the lyrics are pure genius. Some may say Nicky Wire's lyrics don't match those of Richey James - I'd say otherwise, even if the Wire does write utterly daft things once in a while. But here there's nothing to criticize - "The world is full of refugees" is a great line that for some reason reminds me of Hemingway. Okay. After that gorgeous song, we hit "If You Tolerate," a song about the Spanish civil war (thus also reminding me of Hemingway), which I already mentioned rules. From here we go through 11 more tracks. Some of these are great, some merely good, and a couple not too impressive, but almost all of them are bursting with emotion and sheer musicality. Bradfield and Moore show immense musical inventiveness here - witness the smashing organ line in "Ready for Drowning," the predatory drums of "SYMM," the lovely violins of "Black Dog" or the piano work in "You're Tender And You're Tired." Bradfield shows himself to be one of rock's best singers, and Wire's lyrics range from asinine ("Delirium on helium") to breathtakingly great ("No vendettas, just a cherry blossom tree"). The thing is, these songs take time to grow on you. Give it a chance. With repeated listens, the sonic details come out, the lyrics catch hold, and we see that every song leads perfectly into the next. The only song on the album that really doesn't work is the overly long, aptly named "I'm Not Working," but all the others have at least something going for them.

Another reason why this album takes time to appreciate fully is that its emotional territory isn't as immediate as on other Manics albums. The Holy Bible gripped you by the throat; This Is My Truth does not. But over repeated listens, you see that there is just as much emotion here as before; it's just subtle, and expressed differently. Wire deals with personal, down-to-earth issues - "Black Dog" is, in his own words, an attempt to write about depression in an unglamorous light. This at first makes the song seem irrelevant, but eventually it comes to be extremely resonant because Wire succeeds in making it realistic - most people aren't theatrical and rock-star-like about their depression. The same feeling of dreary melancholy permeates "My Little Empire," and also works very well. Many other emotions, however, are evoked by other songs, such as the exultant "Tsunami," the eerie, ominous "SYMM," or the uplifting "You're Tender." But "Ready for Drowning" and "If You Tolerate" show that the Manics haven't abandoned their social commentary - it's just that they no longer feel it necessary to scream it in our ears, and that in this album it's secondary to more personal issues. Illustrating this, "You Stole the Sun" masks very naked loneliness beneath very sunny hooks (so sunny that the lyrics hit even harder when you do realize what they mean), and "Born A Girl" is a painful, aching gem of a song with a beautifully understated vocal from Bradfield. And _then_ there's "Nobody Loved You," Wire's best lyric to date. It's a song about the missing Richey James but it will resonate with anyone who has ever lost someone. Great music, great performance, great lyrics with absolutely unforgettable imagery. Utterly beautiful.

After the all-out rawk of Everything Must Go, it took guts to make this album. But they did it, and it worked. They slagged it off now in interviews for some reason. That's too bad because it's great. The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go are indispensable, don't get me wrong - in fact, almost all Manics records are - but this is a very, very good album indeed, and does not deserve the flak it has received. Thumbs up.

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Manic Street Preachers have come a long way from the raw Clash-style punky shoutings of their early singles and their later Guns N' Roses infatuation. Both The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go were albums to die for (almost literally: their old guitarist Richey James still hasn't been found since his disappearance a few years back), and this Welsh trio still have the capacity to enrage the most placid of souls. Some find their contradictions far too great to handle, others (this critic included) find them wonderfully inspirational. This Is My Truth is an elegant, epic album full of the huge choruses and direct slogans we've come to know and love. The No. 1 U.K. hit "If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next" is a deceptively subtle groover with a Motown-style beat--almost Jam's "A Town Called Malice" for the '90s. The windswept "Tsunami" uses sitars to get its message across, while "The Everlasting" is simply beautiful. OK, James Dean Bradfield may have a limited vocal range, but he sure has passion to spare. Four albums after they promised to break up, the Manics are still as impassioned as ever. --Everett True

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