Top 10 Best Manic Street Preachers Albums
Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers have recently released their twelfth studio album ("Rewind the Film" in 2013), so here is a chance to debate their top 10!
This is truly a masterpiece. The lyrics are fantastic. The best album by Manic Street Preachers, and the best album of all time.
So dark, it's not quite the melodic stuff you'd find on daytime radio, but it is one hell of a masterpiece.
In my top three albums of all time! A masterpiece.
Stoic anthem rock at its finest. It packs a punch with just the right dose of pop sensibility to appeal to a wider audience and establish the band as real contenders for mainstream subversion.
Album of my youth. Loved it then. Overplayed it a bit, but I still enjoy coming back to it once in a while.
The stadium anthems that brought the Manics so much mainstream success and recognition.
I love this album! Other MSP albums have my attention and awe, but Generation Terrorists has my heart. It's like an old friend that knows me well, rejoicing or crying with me as needed.
Full of amazing guitar riffs, this album is loaded with hot tunes.
Motorcycle Emptiness. Enough said. Their best song.
A return to their original sound, with bite and a venomous attitude.
Brilliant, strong return to their previous style.
Ready for the stadiums, they've written some songs for these occasions.
That record is better than Generation Terrorists.
Probably the middle ground. The Manics' second album fuses the punky tunes of their debut, Generation Terrorists, with the darker, less immediate style of its follow-up, The Holy Bible.
A breath of fresh air for MSP. More global themes and a sense of electrorock. Neat.
Why do they hate it so much? Definitely better than Send Away the Tigers.
Oh yeah, they're back! After dabbling with electronic sounds on the previous couple of albums, the Manics bounced back to top form with this record.
Their most eclectic and complete collection of songs, with a heavenly lo-fi feel to it. Intravenous Agnostic, My Guernica, Ocean Spray, Found That Soul, So Why So Sad, Baby Elian, Miss Europa Disco Dancer, Epicentre, and Year of Purification... Too many fantastic songs on one album. Don't believe the hate for this album - if you prefer fuzzy guitars over pop music, this is your thing.
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Love everything by the Manics, so I voted for the one I am currently listening to the most.
Their acoustic album, with their distinctive sound and likability still present.
Perfect album for a band of their standing.
Beating the bloated, disjointed, and hard-to-bear Know Your Enemy into 10th place is the Manics' tenth album, released in 2010.