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Rating: This time they almost did it. The masterpiece, I mean.
They had already "touched the stars" with that thrilling album called "This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours," but when you hear a single like "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" (in collaboration with the frontwoman of the defunct The Cardigans, that Nina Persson who, besides being an excellent vocalist, is also one of the most beautiful women in the European starsystem) your heart truly opens up.
From the first notes of the beautiful title track, a perfect brit-rock number, you can tell that boredom will be a sensation rarely encountered through the remaining nine tracks. As if to confirm this, the guitar assault of "Underdogs" arrives, where the guitars scratch like rarely in a Manics record and Bradfield’s voice appears in full form and unadorned. We’ve already mentioned "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough," which presents itself as a truly devastating melodic impact guitar britpop piece, very pleasant in its "roller coaster" progression. "Indian Summer" is a classic rock ballad where the Manics once again hit the perfect chorus (they'll hardly miss one throughout the album), the same goes for "The Second Great Depression."
"Rendition" plays everything on an aggressive yet pleasing riff, Bradfield's voice continues to enchant (the "influence" - not the resemblance, mind you - of Freddie Mercury is undeniable), as are the very enjoyable "pumpkinesque" breaks throughout the song, punctuated by sharp and direct drum passages. "Autumn Song" opens on a solo indebted to the Guns of "Sweet Child ‘O Mine," transforming into a classic Manics midtempo, now a trademark. The rhythmic "I'm Just A Patsy" and the punk-pop of "Imperial Bodybags" lead us to the finale of "Winterlovers," which draws heavily from the more rock repertoire of Queen (including initial choruses). Notable is the ghost track "Working Class Hero," a very enjoyable cover of the immortal Lennon classic.
An album therefore aggressive (no ballad), compact (about half an hour) in which the rock soul of the Preachers comes out in all its boldness and spontaneity. It was really needed, to be honest.
And now all that remains is to enjoy it live, this newfound energy.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Underdogs (02:49)
This one's for the freaks
For you're so beautiful
For all the devotion
Written in your soul
This one's for the freaks
For the lost and weak
For the butterflies and devotees
And the disciples of our destiny
And like the underdogs we are
Shining bright but now disappeared
And like the underdogs we are
Passing like some fading stars
Like some fading stars
This one's for the freaks
Beaten down and crushed
The shy and withdrawn
Or just out of touch
May you stay like freaks
May you make mistakes
May ya will never break
For underdogs revenge is sweet, revenge is sweet
And like the underdogs we are
Shining bright but now disappeared
And like the underdogs we are
Passing like some fading stars
Like some fading stars
This one's for the freaks
This one's for the freaks
People like you need to fuck
Need to fuck people like me
This one's for the freaks for the lost and weak
This one's for the freaks
03 Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (03:55)
Your love alone is not enough not enough not enough
When times get tough they get tough they get tough they get tough
Trade all your heroes in for ghosts in for ghosts in for ghosts
They're always the one's that love you most love you most love you most
Your love alone is not enough not enough not enough
It's what you felt it's what you said what you said what you said
You said the sky would fall on you fall on you fall on you
Through all the pain your eyes stayed Blue they stayed Blue Baby Blue
But your love alone won't save the world
You knew the secret of the universe
Despite it all you made it worse
It left you lonely it left you cursed
You stole the sun straight from my heart from my heart from heart
With no excuses just fell apart fell apart fell apart
No you won't make a mess of me mess of me mess of me
For you're as blind as a man can be man can be man can be
I could have seen for miles and miles
I could have made you feel alive
I could have placed us in exile
I could have written all your lines
I could have shown you how too cry
Your love alone
Is not enough
Your love alone
Is not enough
I could have shown you
Shown you how to cry
Your love alone
Is not enough
Your love alone
04 Indian Summer (03:54)
If God persists, persists in saying yes
I guess we'll have, we'll have to test ourselves
Maybe the Summer, will come and clear our minds
And find the impulse, to love the sunshine
I guess we'll have to test, until there's nothing left
We said the truth was fixed, it's lost without a trace
This crime is eternity
When time lost its certainty
The Indian Summer
Maybe this time
We'll kiss and we'll not shake hands
Indian Summer, still hurt and broken
And leave all this material belief
Remember the reasons
The reasons that made us be
I guess we'll have to test, what's darker than ourselves
We said the truth was fixed, it's lost without a trace
This crime is eternity
When time lost its certainty
The Indian Summer
I guess we'll have to test, until there's nothing left
We said the truth was fixed, it's lost without a trace
This crime is eternity
When time lost its certainty
The Indian Summer
The Indian Summer [x3]
06 Rendition (02:59)
Rendition, rendition, blame it on the coalition
All the emeralds that are missing, oh I wish we still had Jack Lemmon
Rendition, rendition I never knew the sky was a prison
It's a long hard revolution, oh good god I feel like a liberal
For tomorrow I will beg, steal and borrow
And at the moment I'm jumping at sorrow
I wish I knew what I did wrong
Can anybody hear the screaming of us? The screaming of us
In the long hard revolution
Rendition, rendition, blame it on the coalition
The CIA will stay invisible, oh good god I sound like a liberal
Rendition, rendition, I never knew the sky was a prison
It's a long hard revolution, oh good god I feel like a liberal
For tomorrow I will beg, steal and borrow
And at the moment I'm jumping at sorrow
I wish I knew what I did wrong
Can anybody hear the screaming of us? The screaming of us
In the long revolution
For tomorrow I will beg, steal and borrow
And at the moment I'm jumping at sorrow
I wish I knew what I did wrong
Can anybody hear the screaming of us? The screaming of us
In the long revolution
08 I'm Just a Patsy (03:11)
I am just a patsy
The Oswald in Lee Harvey
Made of my own misery
The footprints of history
I am just a patsy
I sell vague conspiracy
I'm slow and I'm easy
And I'm waiting for delivery
I'm just a patsy for your love
I need an angel from above
To a life depraved and lost
Inevitable like scars and dust
I'm just a patsy for your love
Even with the most control
Tied to fragments born and grown
All fucked up with nowhere to go
The best thing I ever saw
I am just a patsy
I sell vague conspiracy
I'm slow and I'm easy
And I'm waiting for delivery
I'm just a patsy for your love
I need an angel from above
To a life depraved and lost
Inevitable like scars and dust
I'm just a patsy for your love, love, love
A patsy for your love, love, love
I am just a patsy
I'm just a patsy for your love
I need an angel from above
To a life depraved and lost
Inevitable like scars and dust
I'm just a patsy for your love
09 Imperial Bodybags (03:30)
Imperial bodybags, coming home in dribs and drabs
Life is numbers, with doggy tags
Filled with holes and coming back
So come on up the sky?
Can't make out this line very well
Never had a chance to wave goodbye
Thrown away and unhappy
Driven by hypocracy
Nothing's finished it just fades away
Like a lover who has lost her faith
Nothing's finished it just fades away
Fades away
Imperial bodybags, Prom Queen disposible
Children wrapped in home-made flags
Imperial bodybags, Prom Queen disposible
Children wrapped in home-made flags
And here we love the kids
We're still human like everyone else
I have no idea what this line is at all
Stuck in school
Always willing to stick by the rules
Nothing's finished it just fades away
Like a lover who has lost her faith
Nothing's finished it just fades away
Fades away
Fades away
Imperial bodybags, Prom Queen disposible
Children wrapped in homemade flags
Imperial bodybags, Prom Queen disposible
Children wrapped in homemade flags
Imperial bodybags, Prom Queen disposible
Children wrapped in homemade flags
Imperial bodybags, Prom Queen disposible
Children wrapped in homemade flags
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