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| Let's Talk About The Holy Bible
Where I got some of my information: http://articles.richeyedwards.net/holybible.html | | 1 |  | Manic Street Preachers
The Holy Bible
Yes 1:3 "He's a boy, you wanted a girl so tear off his cock. Tie his hair in bunches fuck him call him Rita if you want"
Gruesome imagery but what is it pertaining to? Is the prostitute lesbian? It's made clear she's been forced into the business and the would make sense. Or is this a continuation of the pimp's point of view from the first half of the chorus "In these plagues streets..." | | 2 | | Manic Street Preachers
The Holy Bible
Of Walking Abortion 3:1 "I knew that someday I was gonna die. And I knew before I died
Two things would happen to me. That number one, I would regret my entire life. And number two, I would want to live my life over again."
The song's message is like that of Lord of the Flies (that man is inherently evil) so that beginning quote seems interesting to me. That this man wants to live his life over again to fix terrible wrongs he's committed yet the juxtaposition of this with the absolutely cynical lyrics is jarring (in the best way possible of course). | | 3 | | Manic Street Preachers
The Holy Bible
Archives of Pain 5:6 "Amin, Manic Street Preachers. I
give them respect they deserve. I give them the respect they D-E-S-E-R-V-E."
Now, given that Nicky had a hand at co-writing/editing Richey's songs so that they could bare some semblance of melody, it could be possible this was Nicky's attempt at adding self-awareness in regards of the song's lyrics, especially since they both believed the over-the-top lyrics would go over people's heads. Or perhaps this was an impromptu decision by James to add that self-awareness himself to soften the cruel lyrics or that it was a simple slip of the tongue. This would actually be quite understandable considering the chorus is a complete word salad. Either way it's a nice touch.
Interestingly, from the live videos I've watched, James sings "Milosovec" on the final chorus rather than the band's name. | | 4 | | Manic Street Preachers
The Holy Bible
4st 7lb: Nothing lyrically I want to dissect but man the hectic instrumentation during the verses make the dark lyrics that much more frightening. Understandably, James records his vocals seperately from him doing the guitar tracks but songs like this make it that much more impressive that the man could play guitar efficiently live while singing those jumble of words. That bass riff in the verses makes for nice finger strength builders for a bass novice like me... My pinky is on fire trying to play that damn riff. | | 5 | | Manic Street Preachers
The Holy Bible
Mausoleum 8:7 "I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit and force it to look in the mirror"
Now, in the context Crash, it makes a lot of sense. However, when I first heard the song, I thought this audio sample came from someone involved in the concentration camps like the guy who is the subject of Slayer's Angel of Death song or some Nazi being asked why he served Hitler or something. Is this simply a statement the band is trying to make to further drive home how horrible WWII was?
Also JDB's vocals on that final verse never fail to send shivers down my spine. Fuck. | | 6 | | Manic Street Preachers
The Holy Bible
Faster: 9:1 "I hate purity
, hate goodness.
I don't want virtue to exist anywhere
. I want everyone corrupt."
Richey claimed the song was about self abuse. Then Nicky, understandably, couldn't make sense of it and so tried to add some of his own lyrics... Which only convoluted the message even more, thus his explanation that Faster is "the most confusing song on the album. It's probably the first time that we've written a song and not completely understood what we've written."
Anyway, Faster is arguably the one song on the album where the narrator is Richey himself; not him as a prostitute to serve as an analogy of selling out, not him as an anorexic adolescent girl, not a nameless person yearning to die in the summertime. So this specific audio sample from the 80s adaptation of 1984 is actually quite appropriate. Richey is such an outsider that he'd be a lot less lonely if the entire world was just as fucked as he was. | | 7 | | Manic Street Preachers
The Holy Bible
P.C.P. 13:10 "Two hundred and twenty-seven Lears, and I can't remember the first line."
I have absolutely no idea what this means and only a vague idea how this even ties to the song... I get the plot of the movie that it comes from but I personally don't see how that properly ties into the quote's context within the song. So the narrator, despite performing in 227 productions of (King?) Lear, he doesn't even remember either the first line of the play or his first line. I personally sort of view this in a Fahrenheit 451 sorta way. PC has gone so far that even Shakespeare has become censored and despite the old man (the guy speaking sounds old anyway) performing in an absurd amount of production for King Lear, he can't even remember the first line because he's been forced to not think about it in such a long time. | | 8 | | Manic Street Preachers
The Holy Bible
P.C.P continued: I watched a small gig the band did in support of Futurology and they closed the set with P.C.P. (although I'm quite sure this was the intended closer, someone in the audience kept yelling throughout the gig for them to play P.C.P.). Anyway, none of the samples for the songs from The Holy Bible played, except at the end of P.C.P, Nicky yells out the words of the sample with JDB just missing the cue, likely because it was an impromptu move by him. This video just made the sample stick that much more out to me after watching it because not only was it actually spoken, but just the uncanny way Nicky matched the delivery of the sample despite the chaos of the song ending. | |
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04.23.17 | Inb4 Old Testament>New Testament | CaimanJesus
04.23.17 | Old Testament>New Testament | TVC15
04.23.17 | [666] | pizzamachine
04.23.17 | NT > OT | evilford
04.23.17 | king james version> | pizzamachine
04.23.17 | New International Version 😊 | Emim
04.23.17 | ESV or NASB bro | TVC15
04.23.17 | Original UK master of this Manic Street Preachers album or the US remix? | zakalwe
04.23.17 | I think you've missed what 1 is saying dude. | TVC15
04.23.17 | What's 1 saying Zak
I explain later that I know the song is an analogy for Richey feeling like he's selling out (prostituting) to record labels. I just mean in the literal story of the song, what does that line mean? | zakalwe
04.23.17 | Exploitation for $$$$. Everything has its price regardless. | TVC15
04.23.17 | Ok glad we're on the same page | Rigma
04.23.17 | thought this was a jehovah's list for a second | dbizzles
04.23.17 | Very poor fiction by today's standards, but whatever. | mondrian
04.23.17 | i can see the fedoras tipping from my balcony | TVC15
04.23.17 | Same | Dedes
05.11.17 | The first song is so oddly upbeat in contrast with the lyrics what the fuck | TVC15
05.11.17 | Makes it all the better tbh | Dedes
05.11.17 | "You want a girl so tear off his cock" | TVC15
05.11.17 | Tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want | Dedes
05.11.17 | This is pretty batshit insane. I think i enjoy this? This is really outside my comfort zone lol | TVC15
05.11.17 | Believe me, you're enjoying this... And it's outside of everyone's comfort zone on the first listen
Also if you thought Yes was bad oooohhhh boy | Dedes
05.11.17 | That bass of Archive of Pain is thick as fuck woah | TVC15
05.11.17 | Nicky is a brilliant bass player and that song is no exception. A good bass line doesn't need to be technical, the simplicity and the tone is enough to fill the song with the appropriate amount of dread | TVC15
05.11.17 | Guitar solo on that song is also one of my all time favorites | Dedes
05.11.17 | Yeah the guitar solos here are pulled outta nowhere like I never expect them to be as good as they are. Vocals are a mild qualm because they're slightly awkward but they're really signature and fitting too | TVC15
05.11.17 | The band's first two albums were Guns n Roses worship and he still retains a little bit of that Slash style in his soloing. But the overall musicianship on the album is tight as hell. The fact that JDB and Sean, the drummer, were able to make coherent melodies out of Richey's bizzare poems is simply a testament to how much the two grew as songwriters during the process of this album. |
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