I recall renting this album as a tape from the local library those were the days where you could borrow any tape or cd on your library card for 50p or so, I set straight to work on the task of copying it onto a blank tape with the help of my sister and it became my most listened to tape back then pure musical perfection in every sense of the word. I recall this album being on the jukebox inside the climbing wall at Plas-Y-Brenin outdoor centre in Capel Curig I always used to go there because being a member of the Chester Mountaineering Club we got great discounts on the gear as well as the walls. Nothin like having the room to yourself playing 'Australia' full blast traversing around the room to the beat, hell I remember somehow making my way around the fire escape on a 'chimney' type climbing technique. I remember that the song I really wanted to put on was a song i didn't know it's name of so you could imagine my frustration when time after time I put the wrong tune on. This jukebox was absolutely free of charge it was amazing stuff the opening track on the album 'Elvis impersonator on Blackpool pier' starts in with sea waves splashing along the shores as if this refreshed my energy to start the mammoth task of traversing around the 5ft Arc on a monkey like pose man that climb was solid.

The global success of 'The holy bible' which was the manics third album became an instant hit and is by far the most underrated album I've heard and is arguably one of the best albums ever made. While the album drew slightly more darker influences such as a line from '1984' at the start of the song 'Faster' and many songs about Richey's childhood, anorexia and depression also a song primarily centred around the Holocaust and Auschwitz / Treblinka. The bands fresh start needed fresher influenced more suited to the bands change in direction. Everything Must Go drew influences from Art in the song 'Interiors' and one of the most moving songs he manics have produced 'Small black flowers that grow in the sky'. The order of the songs have been placed with precissional perfection sprouting rock ballads in between mellow musical craftsmanship. For instance Small black flowers drives straight into 'The girl who wanted to be god' which is one hell of a classic manics style song with a typical James Dean abusing his guitar to produce some deranged classy melodies the song is perhaps similar to 'Nobody loved you' from the manics next album.

The lyrics of the album are much more mature to those of the likes of revol from the holy bible and Nicky does a splendid job to produce some solid lyrical perfection to the other half of the album not written by Richey. Take 'A design for life' the lyrics are awesome the lyrics from the first line make you witness to something special 'Libraries gave us power, then work came and made us free' the drive of the lyrics of the song is superb. On 'The girl who wanted to be god' an amazing bit of prose 'There are no sunsets just silence, you could see that she was true and faithless, but see through the future and forget all the lies, black out the words for the blind have eyes' which portrays the life of Sylvia Plath and Kevin Carter is a phenomenal story about the war photographer.

As for the albums artwork it has much less thrusting interest and curiosity than the brilliance of the 'Holy bible' with it's picture on each songs lyrics and various pictures of religious artwork no doubt taken from Welsh chapels. Everything must go has a folded sequence of pages rather than a booklet and they have gone back to their first albums style of artwork in a way by placing interesting quotes from famous figureheads in the world of art and music the other side has a nice format of a one line personal description beneath each songs title. And of course the most important and realistically vital part, the lyrics are all included for the joy to sing along to these anthemic wonders.

A design for life perhaps the manics most famous song strides nicely in with wonderful timing and orchestral precission. The bands heavy guitars and screeching vocals have been replaced by a more classy additions such as violins. The best thing about the song is the rhythm, which has that 'Phantom of the opera' style eerieness to it the way the bass goes up and down in constant motion. The flow of the song is kept together by the small strings orchestra of violins and violas the constant tremolo created by the guitar plus bass is superb a true 90's anthem.

Enola /Alone is a true rock melody and was perhaps my fave. song when i first got into this album as a kid. The chorus is absolutely mind blowing the polished perfection of the distortion and overdrive on the guitar develops a nice fuzz to the song together with the experimentals of James beautiful voice result in complete shiny brilliance and yep here's another superb guitar solo well two actually the last one is truly awesome this is what I call music sob so beautiful.

Removables is one of those rarities in music which has that guitar rhythm like that of songs like Radioheads 'Just' it has that hidden drive with the use of 4 low power chords kept low key to produce that acoustic heavy introduction to a song. The slur of the vocals drag the chords into the rocky chorus which mixes a collage of strings into perfect distortion, it really is quite idealistic for a midpoint in the album, the song drifts nicely to a halt before exploding into Australia.