Manic Street Preachers Know Your Enemy CD Album Virgin 2001 Brit Pop Rock EX

Description: If you are interested in purchasing multiple items, please let me know. I can combine ship items so that there is only one USPS media mail charge. There should be a way to select combine shipping in your cart at checkout or to submit an invoice request. In the event that eBay forces checkout and does not allow an invoice request, I will issue a combined shipping refund immediately after your purchase. Thank You! Manic Street PreachersKnow Your EnemyBy: Brendan Reid "As personal as the songs on Know Your Enemy may be, there's always a definite political thread tied up in there, too. Though the band's agenda can get mighty opaque at times, the album feels throughout like some sort of call to arms. And they're not just preaching to the converted. Rather than aiming stylistically at a certain audience, Know Your Enemy finds the Manics attempting to write a protest song in just about every genre. This project, stretched out over 16 tracks and 75 minutes, quickly reaches epic proportions, with an ambition approached only by the magnitude of its flaws. The range of the album makes it difficult to discern where the band's stylistic allegiances really lie. While punked-up anthems like the opening track, "Found That Soul" and "Intravenous Agnostic" make the most immediate impression, the band seems to be at its most sublimely confident in the jangle-pop of tracks like "The Year of Purification" and "Epicentre." Even some of the songs that initially sound like goofs have a core of sincerity. Ignore the sleighbells and "So Why So Sad" sounds like a genuine Beach Boys homage. The ballad "Let Robeson Sing," while flirting with parody in its brazen, throaty admiration, positively drips with honesty, cutting closer to the heart of the band's politics than any other song on the album. Some of the more interesting tracks paste together a number of styles: "Wattsville Blues," with its collage of drum machines, acoustic guitars, organs, and Fall-ish speak-singing, finds the band wearing their influences as prominently and distinctly as their varied politics. The band spreads itself thin, for sure; but, amazingly, it doesn't spread itself too thin. With the exception of an annoying anti-European Union disco number, the music is delivered with energy and ability. The songs aren't uniformly memorable, however, and with the better songs clustered toward the front of the album, the Manics have started repeating themselves by the time "Dead Martyrs" and "His Last Painting" roll around. But what a beginning-- "Found That Soul" distills all of the band's exhortations into a concentrated blast, while "Ocean Spray" takes a more melodic and compassionate approach without losing any of the passion. The excellent trio of "Let Robeson Sing," "The Year of Purification," and "Wattsville Blues" follows two songs later. It's not until "Epicentre" that they reach the same heights. The tracks in between are nothing to trifle with; however, perhaps because of the album's length, they tend to get lost in the shuffle." Manic Street Preachers – Know Your Enemy Label:Virgin – 7243 8 10113 2 4Format:CD, AlbumCountry:USReleased: 2001Genre:RockStyle:Alternative Rock 1Found That Soul3:062Ocean Spray4:113Intravenous Agnostic4:024So Why So Sad4:025Let Robeson Sing3:466The Year Of Purification3:407Wattsville Blues4:298Miss Europa Disco Dancer3:529Dead Martyrs3:2310His Last Painting3:1611My Guernica4:5612The Convalescent5:5413Royal Correspondent3:3114Epicentre6:2615Baby Elian3:3716Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children 3:00

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