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Everything Must Go

Manic Street Preachers

Group Rating: 2
Global Rating: 3.13
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jason-cobb

This album is so caught up in the times. It made sense in the mid-90's, but not so much now. You forget how much of a mainstream breakthrough it was for the Manics. At the time they were the support act for The Stone Roses at Wembley Arena. No one outside of the music inches had really paid much attention to them. Design for Life remains an anthem, although not one that I would want to keep on singing 25 years later. It's such an anti-ladism song, yet at the time it got swallowed up by the Britpop masses with takes of only wanting to get drunk. It's a decent album, but very, very dated.

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boombox-generation

A real mash-mash of styles. The Chic one. The Nirvana one. None of it really grabbed me. They always came across as playing at being a punk band, and this album did nothing to disabuse me of that notion. Stodgy riffs with pseudo-meaningful lyrics and whiny vocals. The musical equivalent of Banksy - one dimensional and dogmatic.

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