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Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers Audio CD

A fair review of the Manic Street Preachers "Journal for Plague Lovers" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Manic Street Preachers reviews here, or go back to the Manic Street Preachers tabs.

Manic Street Preachers Band: Manic Street Preachers
Title: Journal for Plague Lovers
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Release Date: 2009-07-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Peeled Apples 2: Jackie Collins Existential Question Time 3: Me and Stephen Hawking 4: This Joke Sport Severed 5: Journal for Plague Lovers 6: She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach 7: Facing Page: Top Left 8: Marlon J.D. 9: Doors Closing Slowly 10: All Is Vanity 11: Pretension/Repulsion 12: Virginia State Epileptic Colony 13: William's Last Words 14: Alien Orders/Invisible Armies [*] 15: Primitive Painters [*] 16: Peeled Apples [Demo Version] 17: Jackie Collins Existential Question Time [Demo Version] 18: Me and Stephen Hawking [Demo Version] 19: This Joke Sport Severed [Demo Version] 20: Journal for Plague Lovers [Demo Version] 21: She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach [Demo Version] 22: Facing Page: Top Left [Demo Version] 23: Marlon J.D. [Demo Version] 24: Doors Closing Slowly [Demo Version] 25: All Is Vanity [Demo Version] 26: Pretension/Repulsion [Demo Version] 27: Virginia State Epileptic Colony [Demo Version] 28: William's Last Words [Demo Version]

Excellent, bonus tracks however...
I think the rest of the album is phenomenal. I would like to begin this review by writing about how much I admire the Manic Street Preachers and how I am fortunate to own every album of theirs especially the Japanese versions which usually include fantastic songs that are usually unavailable anywhere else (unless you "find" them on a file sharing network:) Unfortunately I was a little disappointed with the two extra songs on this version. It is second only to "The Holy Bible" lyrically and musically. The first extra track "Alien Orders/Invisible Armies is a brief instrumental that could have been great if it had lyrics to it. The title comes from a line in Richey Edwards diaries which I guess did not include anything further to turn into a memeorable vocal melody. It's a letdown since the track is a fairly driving song with an ethereal breakdown. Worth listening to once but is fairly inessential. The other song is a cover by the obscure 1980's indie group Felt who were once signed to the pre-Oasis era Creation Records label. I have never heard the original version since most of Felt's records are extremely difficult to locate even in the UK. James Dean Bradfield does a splendid vocal (as always) and it is an acoustic based slow song whose chorus: "Oh you should see, my trill of disgrace, it's enough to scare the whole human race" could have been something Richey Edwards (who is responsible for all the lyrics on the rest of the album) might have come with.
After this song their is a few moments of silence before the "hidden" track "Bag Lady" (which is available in the standard editions of the album) begins. The Japanese booklet contains the lyrics (by Richey) for this song in english, which is a nice bonus I guess.

I am not going to go into any detail about the other tracks. You can read all about them in other Amazon reviews and elsewhere. If you are like me and must have all the rare Manics CD's it might be worth paying the extra cash for this edition. Anyone else is better off purchasing the other editions of this album and save some $$$. .


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