The Manic Street Preachers are the best band in the world.

[Thereisnotheoryofeverything]

They just are. Have these guys ever done anything wrong? Anything less than brilliant? Righteous searingly articulate rock with feeling. I love them. All of them.

Always found it really sad about the missing band member

Aornis I was fuming at the time. They did some good songs though. Agree about A Town Called Malice - it's fucking art, that song. Languid yeah I don't know that they can ever get past that. It was utterly shocking at the time even for fans but for people who were as close as they were ... I've seen them a few times since and I always feel like he's there - not in a woo way - I think they carry him with them; I don't know how they'd not.

Aaaand here are my people!

My favourite album wavers between Generation Terrorists and the criminally underrated Gold Against the Soul.

And when I marry Nicky I will truly be Princess Wire 😆

How did I miss this thread?! YANBU at all, OP, I love the manics. 💜 When I first moved to the UK, I was in a band and we used to soundcheck to Archives of Pain. 🤘

I’m more of a metalhead so do prefer the earlier stuff, but they’re one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen.

I always think that they are very underrated and I don’t understand why.

[whispers] I prefer the Stereophonics

YABU They lost me when they carped on about being "the first Welsh band in Cuba" . Design for Life is great though.

I have a bit of a thing about The Holy Bible.

I've moved on from indie schmindie though, I'm not a teenager any more

The best Welsh band are the Super Furries. I won't mention Shakey.

YABsooooooU. The MSP are probably the dullest band in the world. When their dirge comes on the radio it gets switched straight off. Surely everyone can see all of it since Design for Life sounds the same?

It’s always a boring guitar riff then the lead singer shouting about an injustice. It’s like they’ve pigeonholed themselves into being the voice of the angry working class man and can’t diversify their sound.

"So Come on Ramsey
Lets set the world alight
When Gareth Bale plays
We can beat any side
So come on Wales
So come on Wales
With Ashley Williams
We can win any fight

Chrissy Coleman, Gunter, Chester
Hennessey, Allen, King and Collins
Davis, Ledley, Taylor, Richards
Hal Robson Kanu"

No, they’re whiny and awful and sound like they wet the bed a lot. DP is not allowed to play them when I’m in the house. Einstürzende Neubauten - now there’s a decent band! Or Franz Ferdinand!

When Jason Donovan and Rick Astley were guests with Kylie the other night I couldn't stop myself getting annoyed at the missed opportunity for a Some Kind of Bliss duet. I like to think that it definitely happened and I just didn't hear about it.

YANBU. I always assume ‘they must be shit these days’ then they bang out an album like Futurology and you have to keep paying attention.

shackup yes! The Super Furry Animals will always be the best welsh band!

YANBU, they are fab.

'If you tolerate this then your children will be next', seems quite prophetic these days, to me anyway.

Love 90s bands - Pulp, Blur, Suede, Manics, Ash etc. Makes me feel young to listen to them now, like I'm a teenager again, getting off with boys behind the bike sheds and hiding cigarettes in my glasses case. Fun times!!!

YANBU OP... Good call!!

Although Cold Chisel provide a photo finish on this debate...!!

YANBU. They are my favourite band ever!!!

Nooooooooo way! Sorry Op! His voice on the new track is awful, whiney, screechy mediocre dad rock

Manics were my first ever mosh pit, age 15. I lost a shoe and got hit by a bottle of piss.

Ah cheesefield! Memories eh

Yeah. I feel old even thinking about it. V festival Chelmsford 1998.

Saw MSP live in my youth. Paid a fortune, qued for ages and was a foot from the stage. They were awful- dull and uninterested.

Never been so disappointed by a gig.

Do you know what I think I was at the Leeds v98! I think the verve headlined.

Love the manics op, must dig the holy bible out for the car

You are correct. Brilliant live!!

Yessssss. Although I don't like anything post-Masses Against the Classes (which I've just sung at my cats, complete with screams 😁).

Generation Terrorists and Gold Against the Soul were the best, with a bit of Holy Bible thrown in. Anyone who thinks they're whiny need to listen to something before Design for Life.