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Editorial Reviews
Album Details
Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: Socialist Serenade, and Black Holes for the Young.

Tracks:

The Everlasting
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
You Stole The Sun From My Heart
Ready For Drowning
Tsunami
My Little Empire
I'm Not Working
You're Tender And You're Tired
Born A Girl
Be Natural
Black Dog On My Shoulder
Nobody Loved You
S.Y.M.M.

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Manic Street Preachers have come a long way from the raw Clash-style punky shoutings of their early singles and their later Guns N' Roses infatuation. Both The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go were albums to die for (almost literally: their old guitarist Richey James still hasn't been found since his disappearance a few years back), and this Welsh trio still have the capacity to enrage the most placid of souls. Some find their contradictions far too great to handle, others (this critic included) find them wonderfully inspirational. This Is My Truth is an elegant, epic album full of the huge choruses and direct slogans we've come to know and love. The No. 1 U.K. hit "If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next" is a deceptively subtle groover with a Motown-style beat--almost Jam's "A Town Called Malice" for the '90s. The windswept "Tsunami" uses sitars to get its message across, while "The Everlasting" is simply beautiful. OK, James Dean Bradfield may have a limited vocal range, but he sure has passion to spare. Four albums after they promised to break up, the Manics are still as impassioned as ever. --Everett True

Album Description

1998 album by the British alternative rock band. Includes the single 'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next' and 12 other new recordings. The initial pressing comes in limited edition packaging with a silver embossed jewel case lid & a 32 page booklet. An Epic release.

Customer Reviews:

Scratching My Head a Bit..........2007-03-29

All these glowing reviews and not one mention, 'cept from the Editorial Staff, of their majestic masterpiece, 'The Holy Bible'? Blasphemy, I tell you! Blasphemy!!! =B=

A Fantastic Recording from a great band, Manic Street Preachers.......2006-03-06

Every song is compelling. The tracks are chock full of good melodies, harmonic richness and intrigue, some good hooks, a bit of politics and a bit of lyrical weirdness, punk attitude, melancholy, love, anger, and overall musical lushness. This is one of the best largely unheralded bands (they come from Wales and came to prominence in the 1990's with some alternative radio airplay); they would appeal to a much wider audience if given the chance. This particular recording is their best one overall, in my opinion, and certainly their most accessible. The earlier albums are even more political, edgy, raw, punky, and gritty but still just
as oddly compelling and melodically and harmonically rich.

Sadly good songs, however not a good album.......2005-05-25

I love the Manic Street Preachers. Always have. I even loved it when they changed direction and went off doing If you Tolerate this. I still like them when they further went on and released their next album know your enemy (Rage Against the Machine Fans maybe???). But both albums lack the direction of Holy Bible or Everything must go. Although singular tracks such as "nobody loves you", "if you tolerate this then your children will be next", "Black Dog", "Ready for Drowning" and "You stole the sun from my heart"; the album slowly plods along playing tracks that sound too similar and too unlike the manics to be memorable. Although it complete's my record colletion its not one that is played often... or at all

Not as good as Everything Must Go, but still good.......2004-12-16

This 1998 follow-up to Everything Must Go isn't as good as it's predecessor, but it still has some great songs. My favorites are The Everlasting, If You Tolerate This (Your Children Will Be Next), Tsunami, and My Little Empire. However, this album gets really ponderous and sluggish towards the end, and songs like Black Dog on My Shoulder and Born a Girl are bordering on rubbish.

But now unforgiven, the everlasting!.......2004-06-17

This is a much more relaxed offer by the Manics and it's really good. It starts perfectly with one of my favourites songs ever "The Everlasting" and the first half of the record is excellent. However it starts to get way too slow in the middle and in the end.
NI!

Average customer rating:

Addicted to MSP
Good, but how can you follow Richey?

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Manic Street Preachers
Manufacturer: Sony/Epic
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Everlasting
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
You Stole the Sun from My Heart
Ready for Drowning
Tsunami
My Little Empire
I'm Not Working
You're Tender and You're Tired
Born a Girl
Be Natural
Black Dog on My Shoulder
Nobody Loved You
S.Y.M.M.
Socialist Serenade [*]
Black Holes for the Young [*]

Customer Reviews:

Addicted to MSP.......2001-08-01

I love, love, love this album. Can't get enough of it. After seeing MSP win the band of the year award on MTV in the UK back in February '97, I bought "Everything Must Go." I listened to it for the entire flight home to America. I was addicted. I'm not especially a fan of their lyrics per se. I don't share the leftist leaning, and I find the meaning of many songs too cryptic. As a teenager, I would have delved into their meaning, but as an adult listener, I have a greater appreciation for the sound of the words and music together. Sometimes the music itself is deeper than the words, like the vocal pleading of "Kevin Carter" on "Everything Must Go," and the vibrating guitar in "The Everlasting" on "This is my Truth..." This album clearly demonstrates that MSP in indeed "4 REAL."

Good, but how can you follow Richey?.......1999-05-17

With the legend of Richey James seemingly as strong as ever in the minds of many British music fans, it is always hard for the Manics to retain both left-field credibility and the consumer nouse to shift albums. Where should they go, for a band so highly-acclaimed and award-laden? And without Richey, aren't they a little like the Beatles reforming without John lennon?

This album, whilst being not as exciting as the first three albums (or even "Everything Must Go"), due to the knowledge that Richey's input into the actual musical process is now nil, is still an achievement of fine song writing. But, being the Manics, there are grave misjudgements, such as the plodding "SYMM", and the "honest-it's-not-really-a love song" "You Stole The Sun From My Heart". And whilst everyone may go on about how great Nicky wire is at lyric writing, compoaring him to best mate Richey is like comparing George Harrison's musical ability to that of the aformentioned Mr.Lennon's.

Tracks:

Everlasting
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
You Stole the Sun from My Heart
Ready for Drowning
Tsunami
My Little Empire
I'm Not Working
You're Tender and You're Tired
Born a Girl
Be Natural
Black Dog on My Shoulder
Nobody Loved You
S.Y.M.M.

Album Description

Album Details

Initial Quantities of 'this is My Truth Tell Me Yours'comes in a Limited Edition Packaging. A Silver Embossed Sleeve with a 32 Page Booklet CD.

Customer Reviews:

Essential.......1999-03-12

Absolutely brilliant. Especially You stole the sun from my heart you can always reley on the manics for good music. BUY IT NOW!!!

welsh rockers mellow down and it still rocks.......1999-02-09

After the disappearance of song-writter richy james the Manics have clearly calmed down a bit. This album is more personal and touching than their previous efforts but is still a great rock album and they have certainly proved themselves as one of the best bands in years. The highlights are The Everlasting, If you tolerate this... and My little empire, however all the songs are great. This almost is the perfect album. One of the best i own.

Gold=1,Soul=0.......1998-12-25

MSP's 5th album (their 2nd without Richey) is an excellent effort, this coming from a band that is yet to fully deal with the disappearance of their closest friend and guitarist Richey Edwards. But I can't help but miss the ferocity and passion of the first three albums. I suppose I couldn't have hoped for them to not change as they got more successful. In the words of Richey, "..everyone is weak.." This particular version of the CD is available by the truckload in every major retail store in the UK (which leads me to wonder why they call it the 'limited edition' version). If you're a manics fan and can't wait till march 1999 for the official US release, go for it. Otherwise, buy TheHolyBible (for a glimpse of their fiery lyrics) and EverythingMustGo(to see how the band changed after Richey left)

Average customer rating:

Another precise piece of musical literature
Superlative: the sound of true genius

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Manic Street Preachers
Manufacturer: Sony Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000G6F5
Release Date: 1997-02-14

Tracks:

Everlasting
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
You Stole the Sun from My Heart
Ready for Drowning
Tsunami
My Little Empire
I'm Not Working
You're Tender and You're Tired
Born a Girl
Be Natural
Black Dog on My Shoulder
Nobody Loved You
S.Y.M.M.
Socialist Serenade [*]
Black Holes for the Young [*]

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: Socialist Serenade, and Black Holes for the Young.

Customer Reviews:

Another precise piece of musical literature.......1999-04-18

It just seems perfect once again. Everything you'd expect from the Manics in terms of lyrics, sound and thoughtfulness. Maybe even more than that.

The kick off is the beautiful The Everlasting, a typically melancholic song by the boys from Blackwood, like a never ending search, but with a very up lifting tempo. You Stole The Sun From My Heart is probably the song on here which would be most recognisable as a Manics song. The thrashed out chorus, the lyrics declaring how someone has ripped in to the artist is one which could fit easily in to any of the Manics 5 albums. Tsnami, catchy and very artistic and proffesional, and the once again melancholic track of Black Dog On My Shoulder. Black Dog could easily be unseen as a song about depression. And SYMM. The darkest song, which points it's finger towards a subject that all the Manics feel very strongly about. The Hillsborough Disaster. A whole pointless fiasco, which is how the Manics seem to voice their opinion of it in their lyrics, and also point toward some kind of blame.

A fantastic album, worth everypenny, and if you get the chance, look at the words. After all, that's what the manics are all about.

Superlative: the sound of true genius.......1999-01-13

The Manics' fifth album is the first to feature no input by missing member Richey Edwards whatsoever, and although it would be immensely rude to say it out loud, the threesome that is now the Manic Street Preachers has put out a far better album than would perhaps have been reached otherwise.

Far from being Everything Must Go Mk II, This Is My Truth... is diverse in its tone and delivery. From the moving, pulsating beat of "The Everlasting" to the honest admittance that "I'm Not Working," the Manics state their consistent quality track after track. In a year without Radiohead, Oasis or any really noteworthy band (aside from perhaps REM), This Is My Truth stands as the best album of the year. Perhaps its only weakness lies in the confusion of "S.Y.M.M." - why? The lyrics don't help its cause ("The context of this song/I haven't really thought of one") and it comes across as mere album-filler. It tries to say something profound, but does so in such an unsubtle way that it ends up laughable. Compared with the high philosophy of some of the other tracks (for example, "Tsunami"'s "The doctor tells me that I'm cynical/I tell him that it must be chemical" or the desperate tones of number 1 hit "If You Tolerate This..."), it stands out like a sore thumb on an album of such high quality.