This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours by Manic Street Preachers

Pros: More than you’ve been told
Cons: Not as many as you think

Forget all you’ve probably heard about This is My Truth Tell Me Yours - it’s nowhere near as bad as people want to make you think it is. The Manic Street Preachers have committed the unforgivable crime of going mainstream, which mean ...

Pros: Interesting mood and pace changes. Great range of instruments.
Cons: A couple of weak songs that are a bit depressing.

Okay, I’ll admit it. This is my only Manic Street Preachers album. When I bought it I knew vi ...

Pros: Recording is excellent; Lyrics wonderful; Variety; Musical
Cons: None

When I review music, not only do I play the CD, I play it twice. Each track contains two essential elements in music performance – lyrics and music. The ideal is a blend of both. Lyrics have to be so great that it makes sense, music has to be grand and...

Pros: -First seven tracks are excellent -A new Manics sound, that shows a very mature side.
Cons: -Weakens slightly after track 7 -some tracks don't meld.

I purchased this after the awesome 'Holy Bible', and had some idea that it would be at least slightly different to it, knowing and loving a few of the songs on the album. However, I had no idea how different it would be. 'The Holy ...

Pros: Still has some great singles and tracks on here.
Cons: Some very average tracks and not as good as others the Manics have done

That title really sums up to me what I think of the Manic Street Preachers, as well as being a line from one of the tracks on this album. At the start of their career in the music industry they had a cause and played some brilliant music making some top...

Pros: A decent assortment of politically charged songs from a band with something to say
Cons: At the halfway point an album that starts brilliantly begins to go downhill

The Manic Street Preachers are a band who seemed to have been lumped in with the "Britpop" crowd (Oasis, Blur etc.) by American audiences, but this is blatantly wrong.
One listen to this album will prove that this band are far more intelligent and...

Pros: The first half.
Cons: The second half. Simple as that.

Having reviewed three of the four brilliant Manics albums, I thought it would only be fair for me to present the lesser side of what is undoubtably an excellent band. They have so far produced two under-par albums, as well as the four others, one of them...

Pros: Beautiful - lyrically and musically, excellent songwriting, production, and establishment of an intense mood
Cons: This album may easily go over the heads of the feeble-minded

...It Will Be Believed"
-Terence McKenna

Conjuring powerful emotion has rarely been difficult for the Manic Street Preachers.

In recent years, they've had plenty to draw from, most notably the February 1995...

Pros: The first half
Cons: The second half. It's that simple.

'This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours' is the Manics' most successful album to date, scoring their first number one with the colossal 'If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next'. They dominated the covers of the UK music press for a solid year....

Pros: Great Melodic music
Cons: Not as good as their early material

First of all, a quick rant about American music reviews of British music. The term "Britpop" means nothing. Groups that are generally labeled as Britpop, Oasis, Blur, Manic Street Preachers, etc., have little in common other then that they all...

Pros: Excellent music and lyrics, for the most part.
Cons: A couple of unexceptional moments and a few slightly pointless lyrics, but that's it.

"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" surely had no right to be a Number 1 hit. The second truly great rock song to tackle the subject of the Spanish Civil War (the first being The Clash's "Spanish Bombs"), its title is sufficiently lengthy...

Pros: A vibrant and colorful record
Cons: A bit too emotionally dark

I'm so disappointed with the other reviewers of this album that I had to chime in. Don't condemn this very worthy disc because it doesn't stick to the flavor of records past. There is a lot of great stuff going on!

Most especially, everyone...

Pros: good first single
Cons: kind of unmemorable: a bit mediocre

I know that Manic Street Preachers have really picked up some critical acclaim so I bought this CD after hearing the single. You know, I honestly tried to like this album. I gave it an honest go, but in the end, I ended up forgetting about it. It is...

Pros: every track a pop masterpiece
Cons: none, unless you don't like britpop

Ah...Manic Street Preachers. I picked up this CD, having read good reviews of it in the European music mags. I was not disappointed. I really enjoyed "Everything Must Go", so I was looking forward to more of the same. What I got was...

Pros: some good bits of music
Cons: lyrics let it down

Truth, well I'm not so sure. With a title like that you'd expect a very deep and meaningful set of lyrics, but I'm afraid you may be disappointed. It's not from the lack of effort to comment on all the important things in life, but the failure to do so...