Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
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Album Review
Release date: 27 May 1999
Manic Street Preachers : This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
When asked to reflect on the events of 1996, Nicky Wire freely admitted that he defines his years in terms of sporting achievement ...
WHEN ASKED TO REFLECT ON THE events of 1996, Nicky Wire freely admitted that he defines his years in terms of sporting achievement. Thus, the 12 months during which the Manic Street Preachers had at last made an indelible impact on the mainstream pop consciousness were most notable for Cardiff beating Bath at rugby union and Nick Faldo defying improbable odds to win the US Masters golf...
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- The Everlasting
- If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
- You Stole The Sun From My Heart
- Ready For Drowning
- Tsunami
- My Little Empire
- I'm Not Working
- You're Tender And You're Tired
- Born A Girl
- Be Natural
- Black Dog On My Shoulder
- Nobody Loved You
- S.Y.M.M.
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Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours: Wikipedia Album Entry
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours is the fifth album by Welsh band Manic Street Preachers. It was released in September 1998 on Epic Records, and in the United States the following year, on Virgin Records.
The title is a quotation taken from a speech given by Welsh British Labour Party politician Aneurin Bevan. Its working title was simply 'Manic Street Preachers'.
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours was the first Manics album to feature lyrics solely by Nicky Wire, while all the music was written by the habitual duo of James Dean Bradfield and cousin Sean Moore. The album is a much more subdued affair compared to previous albums with many songs having a more acoustic feel.
At the same time it shows the band experimenting with studio and production possibilities, as shown in several tracks — "S.Y.M.M.", "I'm Not Working" and "Born a Girl". In the bridge of the track "Ready for Drowning" there is a sample of Richard Burton (as John Morlar from the 1978 film The Medusa Touch): "I will bring the whole edifice down on their unworthy heads".
The cover photograph was taken on Black Rock Sands near Porthmadog. Hidden behind the disc's tray is a quotation from the 1995 book, No Truce With The Furies by R. S. Thomas.
The album won Best British Album at the 1999 Brit Awards.
The album debuted at #1 on the UK Albums Chart and spent three weeks at the top of the charts.
The album was preceded by the single "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next", which debuted at #1 on the UK Singles Chart, their first single to do so.
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Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours Lyrics
Manic Street Preachers - Black Dog On My Shoulder Lyrics
There's a black dog on my shoulder again
Licking my neck and saying she's my friend
Solitude, the one thing that I really miss
Guess my life is a compromise
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Manic Street Preachers - I'm Not Working Lyrics
Petrified for the millionth time
Slowly my soul evaporates
No parachutes, no dismal clouds
Just this fucking space
Manic Street Preachers - Be Natural Lyrics
Be natural once in my life
Now I'll have to swallow some pride
Know that I should never give advice
But it's too late now to say goodbye
Manic Street Preachers - Born A Girl Lyrics
Do I look good for you tonight?
Will you accuse me as I hide
Behind these layers of disguise
In the mirrors of my own happiness?
Manic Street Preachers - Nobody Loved You Lyrics
What's your story baby?
No control of what I am saying
Winter leaves still make me believe
No vendettas, just a cherry blossom tree
Manic Street Preachers - My Little Empire Lyrics
My little empire has risen and it's set
My little empire is as good as it can get
My little empire is coming around
My little empire, it don't make a sound
Manic Street Preachers - Ready For Drowning Lyrics
Here's a true story
Said someone to me yesterday
Said he'd heard it in a taxi
Manic Street Preachers - You're Tender And You're Tired Lyrics
You're so fragile tonight
Been up hurting all night
It's not trivial like they think
Yes, you're desperate and you're hurt
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Manic Street Preachers - S. Y. M. M. Lyrics
The subtext of this song
I've thought about it for so long
But it's really not the sort of thing
That people wanna hear us sing
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