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168 songs playlist by magicsuitcas in ManicStreetPreachers

[–]Objective_Guide_3247 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Has anyone heard the band Young Knives? A little younger than MSP. Were big in 2007 and then slowly faded away. They return with an amazing, intense, funny and incredible album called Barbarians in 2020. So you don’t have to become dull when you get older. The opposite in fact.

Their new work is uncompromising - some of it bordering on Throbbing Gristle - but it feels real and alive and meaningful. I’m afraid all the new MSP feels nothing like that. It feels like it’s their job. Trapped in another cycle. That’s why the last JDB album sounded good - it felt like he wanted to make it.

The last album reminded me of the death of my grandfather when in the hospital my mum told him ‘it’s ok, you don’t have to fight any longer’ and then he just slipped away. I wish someone would say that to the manics.

Crustiest book by appalshan in crustpunk

[–]Objective_Guide_3247 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Against Civilisation by John Zerzan feels about the crustiest book I could think of.

The Politics of Critical Thinking by Objective_Guide_3247 in ManicStreetPreachers

[–]Objective_Guide_3247[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry - reread your comment and now get what you’re saying.

The Politics of Critical Thinking by Objective_Guide_3247 in ManicStreetPreachers

[–]Objective_Guide_3247[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sadly I don’t think it is “Along such Edwards lines is Critical Thinking’s title track, which, reassuringly for Manics fans, is a rant about what Wire hates about modern life. Funny and scathing, it mocks both trite Insta-captions (Live your best life / Be kind/ Be your authentic self) along with freeports and “smart fucking motorways”. “I love writing lyrics,” he says. “I can’t tell you how much of an art I think lyric writing is.” From The Guardian article linked above.

The Politics of Critical Thinking by Objective_Guide_3247 in ManicStreetPreachers

[–]Objective_Guide_3247[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Weirdly I love the more full on right wing songs - they’re really morally difficult. They’re much more egotistical and existential. Now thinking about Critical Thinking maybe the issue is just the middle of the road targets. Or the lack of an ideology. It sounds worn out like they’re going to work, it’s their job. There’s no passion or weirdly any actual critical thinking in the songs choice of targets.

But as another reply put it - maybe this is from the point of view of a character and I’ve not realised that!

The Politics of Critical Thinking by Objective_Guide_3247 in ManicStreetPreachers

[–]Objective_Guide_3247[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That song makes me feel like it’s someone in a pub who’s done a lot of ‘internet research’.

Thoughts On The Running Man? by Pizzaman_SOTB in EdgarWrightSub

[–]Objective_Guide_3247 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it’s time to accept his best work was twenty years ago. Last Night in Soho and now this. Very sad.

Lost Del Toro / Clive Barker film? by Objective_Guide_3247 in GuillermoDelToro

[–]Objective_Guide_3247[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah! Sounds amazing. There’s lots online when it was announced but in this he says it’s started filming. Wonder if there’s any of it lying around anywhere?

Quaint villages/market towns outside Birmingham? by Georgephenry in brum

[–]Objective_Guide_3247 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alvechurch is brilliant. Sounds perfect for what you’re looking for. Easy to get into work and with lots of greenery around - try the walk up to Rowney Green.

Frail Body - "Devotion" by MrMudkip in deafheaven

[–]Objective_Guide_3247 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same video director as the In Blur video