Wow, that's a harsh critique of the Manics. I agree with you though about being more invested in the band itself than in the music. For me, it was about the music first. I fell in love with FOB after hearing Arms Race, and I didn't discover Patrick until later.
IOH just got me through so much last year, and it's such a special album to me. I know you're not a fan, and that's totally cool, I respect that, but out of all of FOB's albums, Folie A Deux is the only one I can genuinely say I don't like. I don't think I'll be listening to this one much. I can listen to TTTYG and FUCT and IOH in their entirety and never tire of them but this? No. This one's gonna get filed with EOWYG for the CD I listen to the least. These ones won't rate high on my Last.fm playlist, that's for sure...
Poor Andy. I wouldn't have the heart to tell him I'm not feeling the album. :/
To be fair, the comment on the Manics was harsh, but fair at the time.
I don't have the heart to tell Andy how I feel about it, either. Not in detail. Maybe I will when the shine has rubbed off of the album, but not now. I think he'd take it really personally and I'm not going to set out to hurt someone's feelings.
27 is definitely the best song on this album; the Thin Lizzy-style solo is good, and the whole thing is the most stripped down track on the album. Less show-offy vocals, less over-produced. Generally much simpler and less pretentious than anything else on there.
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on 2008-12-07 03:43 pm (UTC)IOH just got me through so much last year, and it's such a special album to me. I know you're not a fan, and that's totally cool, I respect that, but out of all of FOB's albums, Folie A Deux is the only one I can genuinely say I don't like. I don't think I'll be listening to this one much. I can listen to TTTYG and FUCT and IOH in their entirety and never tire of them but this? No. This one's gonna get filed with EOWYG for the CD I listen to the least. These ones won't rate high on my Last.fm playlist, that's for sure...
Poor Andy. I wouldn't have the heart to tell him I'm not feeling the album. :/
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on 2008-12-07 03:49 pm (UTC)I don't have the heart to tell Andy how I feel about it, either. Not in detail. Maybe I will when the shine has rubbed off of the album, but not now. I think he'd take it really personally and I'm not going to set out to hurt someone's feelings.
27 is definitely the best song on this album; the Thin Lizzy-style solo is good, and the whole thing is the most stripped down track on the album. Less show-offy vocals, less over-produced. Generally much simpler and less pretentious than anything else on there.