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Waking Up With… STUDIES IN PARALYSIS (What?)

Posted on August 29, 2022 by JL

Works faster than caffeine

29 August 2022

Last year Welsh champions MANIC STREET PREACHERS celebrated
the 20th birthday of their 6th album KNOW YOUR ENEMY.

In two weeks – on 9 September – a remastered and extended deluxe edition
of the longplayer will make their masses against the classes fans, like me (I lost
track of the number of times I saw them play live), happy.

Two separate albums as originally planned, Solidarity and Door To The River
packaged as a 3 CD bookset, double CD, and double album.

Pre-order info here.

To get us in the manic mood you can listen to a previously unreleased song
from the Know Your Enemy sessions. STUDIES IN PARALYSIS is a heavy and
riff-motorized, sinewy rocker. Just what I needed to get awake.

Manics 4ever!

Stream the original LP version here

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MANIC STREET PREACHERS Released Their 6th Album ‘KNOW YOUR ENEMY’ 20 Years Ago Today

Posted on March 19, 2021 by JL

19 March 2020

Band: MANIC STREET PREACHERS

Album: KNOW YOUR ENEMY
Released: 19 March 2001 – 20 years ago today
Score: #2 in the UK

Pitchfork said: “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. 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.” .

Turn Up The Volume: An LP that got better over the years – several
great singles on it – just like the red Bordeaux wine in your cellar.

Singles/clips: Let Robinson Sing / So Why So Sad /
Found That Soul / Ocean Spray

– LET ROBINSON SING –
(my favorite track – epic!)