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Riffs & Meaning : Manic Street Preachers and Know Your Enemy - Stephen Lee Naish

Riffs & Meaning

Manic Street Preachers and Know Your Enemy

By: Stephen Lee Naish

Paperback | 4 October 2018

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Despite high and low brow pop culture references in their lyrics, sleeve art, and in interviews, no concise in-depth study exists of the Manic Street Preachers. This book is in some ways a response to that fact, a study of the band through one particular record.
Whilst The Holy Bible, Everything Must Go and even Generation Terrorists seem like obvious albums to cover, 2001's Know Your Enemy is the pivotal point used here to explore the band bestowed a Godlike Genius Award by the NME.
Know Your Enemy encapsulates all previous incarnations of the Manics and acts as a pointer towards their future as a creative unit. It was a real attempt to explore new avenues in sound, embrace their socialist political views, renew their stance as music industry outsiders, antagonize other bands and basically be the Manics the fans really wanted them to be!
Industry Reviews
"The Manic Street Preachers have long been a blind spot for me. Riffs and Meaning does a great service by creating a solid context for the band--how it developed and how it intersected with its rivals and critics." --Chris O'Leary, author of Rebel Rebel and Ashes to Ashes
"This book brims with passion and insight and care... after every five pages or so Naish had me scrambling to hear various Manics songs from across the years." --Paolo Hewitt
Like many bands worth obsessing over, the Manic Street Preachers are virtually unknown here in the States. [But this is a] passionate discourse about a divisive album that you should absolutely listen to again immediately. -- John Sellers, author of Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life

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