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New Manics album: Journal for Plague Lovers

El Jefe said:
i think there's a distinction between the studio and Albini himself in terms of charges.
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*sigh*
electrical staff said:
Attention All Potential Clients of Electrical Audio:

We've changed the rate on Steve Albini's engineer fee. For any bookings confirmed after today, it will now be $700.00 a day.

If you have already been in talks with Steve or myself about booking, or actually confirmed a booking and the previous price of $650.00 was quoted to you, then the rate will NOT be changed.
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dated April 24th 2009

also, answer your goddam phone kiss kiss
 
supermarkets covering up the cover! too innapropriate for wallmart et all :rolleyes:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8050110.stm

bbc said:
Bradfield added that the band were frustrated by supermarkets' attitudes.

"You can have lovely shiny buttocks and guns everywhere in the supermarket on covers of magazines and CDs, but you show a piece of art and people just freak out," he said.

Supermarkets' word

Four of the main supermarket chains - Sainsburys, Tesco, Asda and Morrisons - are among the shops using the slip cover.
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Sunspots said:
I was more surprised though to hear recently that he'd also done Jarvis' latest. That somehow seems an even more unlikely pairing to me.
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just been listening to them both. The Jarvis sounds more like an Albini production, iyswim, and is probably the better album as well. Not that surprisingly
 
I might actually find this one and give it a listen. I got into the Manics circa New Art Riot and went off them after Everything Must Go. (TIMT.. is patchy, everything after has been wank)
 
fieryjack said:
fair enough, I'm sure he can square that off against his pain in the arse sanctimony that he exhibits with abandon.

There's an interesting enough summary of Manic Street Preachers' view on his methods here
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I do note that the above quote comes from a 1996 book, and applies solely to non-Electrical recordings
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Nice article on Quietus....good points about Albini to be fair - he cpatures sound brilliantly and if you sound shit that's how it will come out on the record. He's not going to sit there thinking about string arrangements...and bloody right too.



Manics said:
JDB: "He was really upfront with us from the start, which put me on alert and made realise that I had to realign my sense a little bit. I said to him 'I know you've been told this before Steve but I'm in awe of some of the drum sounds on In Utero.' Straight away he was like 'That's how Nirvana sounded. I've stood in a room with you and you don't sound like that all the time.' And it's true because on 'Peeled Apples' that's perhaps akin to the violence on parts of In Utero and that's how Sean was playing it like that. Then I realised that he was going to make us sound like we did in the room. He said 'I don't have this magic button where I can press it and... ta da! In Utero!'"
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Richey Edwards the only man I've really loved since Eric Cantona.

It's quite a good album too, a pleasant suprise.

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I quite like this one, although I preferred the last one a bit more.

I must be getting deaf or something, I own a manics album :(
 
It's a huge improvement for certain...but that's damning praise considering the dross they've put out for years.
 
No. No it isn't. I'd fucking love it if it was, but it ain't.

There's just no way three filthy rich fortysomethings could ever recreate the crazed intensity of a record like the Holy Bible, and the fact that they've so clearly tried to do just that is a wee bit tragic IMO. The lyrics mostly sound like me, when I'm drunk, doing a 'Richey Manic writing lyrics' impression.
 
Riderless horses, Noam Chomsky's Camelot
Bruises on my hands from digging my nails out
A series of images against you and me
Trespass your torments
If you are what you wanna be
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Inspired...
 
SpookyFrank said:
. The lyrics mostly sound like me, when I'm drunk, doing a 'Richey Manic writing lyrics' impression.
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I think it is the best thing they have done since HB but I know what you mean about the lyrics - they're original Richey lyrics but were never used after his death.
 
I've had a chance to give it a few listens and it's not bad. I'll need to give it another week before deciding how much I like it compared to the others though. One thing it does remind me of is how much of my post-EMG Manics hate is down to Nicky Wire's lyrics.
 
True....bland GCSE poetry lyrics set to MOR is never good. Listened to this a few times now and it's growing on me, but it sounds nothing like the Holy Bible.

Gold agnaist the Soul? Seriously...that's got two okay tracks and the rest is utter "lets try and break America" bollocks with some of the worst production they ever managed, including dross like The Everlasting.
 
g force said:
True....bland GCSE poetry lyrics set to MOR is never good. Listened to this a few times now and it's growing on me, but it sounds nothing like the Holy Bible.

Gold agnaist the Soul? Seriously...that's got two okay tracks and the rest is utter "lets try and break America" bollocks with some of the worst production they ever managed, including dross like The Everlasting.
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Nah, that's a much later one.

GATS was a much more stripped down, raw-sounding album with stuff like From Despair to Where.
 
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