"We live in urban hell, we destroy rock and roll." Those were the closing sentiments of the 1991 single Motown Junk by the Manic Street Preachers, a band of Welsh nihilist iconoclasts who declared greatness from the start, aligning themselves with The Clash, Public Enemy and Guns n' Roses. Four albums and the disappearance of one member later, the band was no longer a confrontational blitzkrieg. 1998's This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours is the sound of a band collectively exhaling and confronting both the past and their heartache, while building upon the success achieved on the previous album, Everything Must Go. On TIMTTMY, the band embraces a clean pop production that would propel the single "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" to number one in the UK, trading in guitars for organs, electric pianos and sitars. We revisit the record recognizing now that the band would continue on the path of deconstruction with Know Your Enemy three years later and the synth heavy Lifeblood in 2004. In fact, it would take almost a decade to recapture the guitar driven bombast on 2007's Send Away The Tigers. It's a fascinating if uneven attempt to pair pathos and pop sensibility that works for some but not all.
Intro - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
13:38 - Ready for Drowning
17:43 - Black Dog on My Shoulder
26:45 - Tsunami
41:20 - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Outro - The Everlasting
#495: Desert Rain by Indian Ocean
#494: Tribute Albums of the 90s
#493: Blokes You Can Trust by Cosmic Psychos
#492: Born To Quit by Smoking Popes
#491: Hello Halo by Pollyanna
#490: Electro-Shock Blues by Eels
#489: Origins - Muse In The 90s
#488: Dig by Dig with Scott Hackwith
#487: Spanaway by Seaweed
#486: Michael McDermott and Brian Koppleman revisit Gethsemane
#485: Lilith Fair in the 90s
#484: Less Is More by Even
#483: Good Weird Feeling by Odds
#482: Music Has The Right to Children by Boards of Cananda
#481: Ebbhead by Nitzer Ebb
#480: Sophomore Slump Revisited - American Highway Flower by Dada
#479: Choochtown by Hamell On Trial
#478: LP2 by Sunny Day Real Estate
#477: Caviar by Caviar
#476: R.E.M. In The 90s Roundtable
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