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

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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.

They are wonderful. Not my faves (not sure anyone will ever top Radiohead although Low are very close... and Elbow... and Divine Comedy...) but they're still fantastic.

Just three words OP...

FAITH NO MORE

DH and I often joke that we'd never knowingly be friends with a Manics fan. They're so beige.

Funny how we're all so different.

I have to switch off if that Tolerate song comes on.

La Tristesse Durera is my favourite song EVER.

Saw them in mid/late 90s at a festival thingy in London. No idea what era that was, but they were good. Had a couple of their cds.

Introduced my 13yo DD to The Holy Bible this week having not heard it for years. Had forgotten just how magnificent it is.

I love the Manics! Generation Terrorists and Gold Against the Soul are their best albums. I regret not seeing them earlier while Richey was still around, I didn't see them until 96 (Phoenix Festival anyone?). My favourite song isn't a popular choice, Life Becoming a Landslide, but I love it and James looks hot in the video

Life Becoming a Landslide is one of my favourites. Little Baby Nothing will always be my favourite though. An unrecognised feminist anthem!

YABVU.......take that are the best band in the world.

However I am partial to a bit of Rammstein

Former james dean bradfirld appreciation society member signing in. All time fave band.

Very fond of Manic Street Preachers but The Specials are the best band in the world.

No Surface All Feeling
La Tristese Durera (sp?)
Faster
Revol

Some of my all time favourite songs.

A town called malice is another.

I also saw the Holy Bible show in Mcr and I cried it was so wonderful and intense!

MSP fans are beige, really? We're all glitter and eyeliner and leopard print and tiaras - we're a long way from beige!

And nobody can call this man beige!

Yes. So much yes. Apart from Queen, who they tie with.

I don't understand how anyone can call them beige either. Have you seen Nicky Wire? Have you read about their history as a band? Have you actually looked at any of their earlier lyrics? I can't think of anything less beige.

I also saw the Holy Bible show in Mcr and I cried it was so wonderful and intense!

i wish I could do it all over again.

Former james dean bradfirld appreciation society member signing in.

That Sailor Suit tho'.

Beige?

This man...beige?

www.last.fm/music/James+Dean+Bradfield/+images/281349b3814d4865b6eedf3670e39b3e

Sean Moore is not beige! I became a (very bad) drummer because of him!

Nicky calling James “rebel without a clue” when Melody Maker tried to label him a rebel without a cause still cracks me up laughing 20 odd years later! Anyone remember the interview? In the lobby of a posh Japanese hotel?

TIMTTMY is 20 years old today 😫

Love the Manics BUT THE KINKS ARE THE BEST FULL STOP

They're not the best, but I do love them.

Saw them in 1990 at my student union, they could barely play their instruments, were really shit to the point they started getting heckled and bood by the crowd. Richey got pissed off and jumped into the crowd punching out at everyone wildly fun times

The Everlasting is an amazing song!

The early albums were the best. Gold against the soul was played over and over by teenage me on my cassette player! And the Holy Bible, wow!! Had to play that unfortunately quietly so my parents didn’t hear! Manics were a big part of my teenage years.

But I have to say Muse are the most incredible live band I’ve ever seen. Matt Bellamy is a rock god!!!!!!