This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (Limited Edition) - Manic Street Preachers

Advantages: Some decent tracks and flashes of what can be done
Disadvantages: Not as good as other things they have done, average album with some poor tracks

...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 albums. For me they reached their peak in the previous album ‘Everything Must Go’, and this is just not up there with that and others. Having said that I think there are some really good songs on here, it is just not as good and their latest offering ‘Know Your Enemy’ seems to ...
...Like I said this album has some good songs on it, though it also has some weaker songs and overall is pretty average. It starts strongly but then peters out towards the end and is not the best release ever from the Manic Street Preachers. This sort of thing is just not as good as some songs that they did earlier and is much more commercialized and in that sense is a run of the mill album. A change of direction and style, and not a good one at that. ... Read review

Advantages: Six songs that don't betray what they stand for
Disadvantages: Unforgiveable bland crap

...very soon after I purchased This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, I knew it just wasn’t a very good record and was pretty sure that it was a symptom of decline rather than a momentary illness in the Manics’ greatness. Until today I hadn’t listened to this album in about a year, but the memories it brings back are not so happy. The Manics have been accused of so many things in the past, it was obvious that they’d be slated for whatever ...
...roots. The Manics on this album sound like a different band, a soulless, passionless band. Symptomatic of this is the opening track, The Everlasting. On it’s own it’s an ok song, but it doesn’t sound like the Manics. The opening drum beats sound cheap and horrible, adding to the demo sound of the entire song. This song was produced by Mike Hedges, a very expensive man to hire indeed, but he does nothing to save this passionless ... Read review

Advantages: It is a classic album
Disadvantages: A few weaker links

...Street Preachers. I remember when this album was released, because I had not anticipated an album like I did with this one in a long long time. It came at a time in my life when getting lost in the music a loved was a great comfort, and I can always rely on The Manics to produce the type of music which is easy to get lost in, and this album is no exception, although I will say it took me a few listens to fully appreciate the message the band were ...
...record as saying he hates this song, and I think that is a shame, because it is the track that always leaves me eager for more. The more widely known 'If You Tolerate This.....' follows, and this is where the album truly made it's mark on me, and I knew it would be CD I would listen to time and time again without tiring of it. Many fans of the band feel that they have strayed too far from their roots, and there seems to be less and less of a punk ... Read review

Advantages: Easy Listening Tunes
Disadvantages: Can be boring at points

This is My Truth...the fifth Manic Street Preachers album, was the first one I ever bought. I don't think that it is a good album to judge the Manic Street Preachers by, as it does stand out from all the rest. Listening to it, you often have to question if it is a rock. It seems that the Manic Street Preachers, have toned down their music since the Holy Bible, and surprisingly after the departure of Richey Edwards, lyricist and guitairist. This ...
...fit around them. This is an extremely good album to sit and lay back to. Not all the songs are incredibly slow, such as the upbeat You Stole The Sun From My Heart and Tsunami. However there is the anthemic-sounding The Everlasting and the number 1 hit, If You Tolerate This, Then Your Children Will Be Next. The main lyricist of this album, bassist Nicky Wire, touced many different areas in the songs, and not just about personal torments. There is ... Read review

Advantages: mellow, easy to listen to, sung with meaning
Disadvantages: different sound from "old" Manics

...as good as the last. This album has introduced the Manics to a more widespreead audience than ever before, yet has still managed to delight their old fans from 92. The Welsh rockers have never been ones to be stuck for lyrics, and many of the songs on the album have deep meaning. Very nearly a musical masterpiece. ... Read review

Advantages: at last some decent riffs!
Disadvantages: still not the same without richie

...well, after everything must go, i feel the good ol' manics are getting bk to their roots with this (in my book) highley acclaimed album. nothing will compare to the albums made when richie was in the band, but this is their best effort to date. deep lyrics and a mixture of soothing melodies and rockin guitar solos, this is definately worth a listen by anyone thats heard of the welsh lads. # my little empire is a chilled out track (if a little sombre) made for chillin out to, whereas the more upbeat # black dog on my shoulder certainly raises the bar when comparing tracks on the everything must go album. for anyone who is considering buying this album, go check it out now!... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Interesting, powerful
Disadvantages: Less 'punkesque' than their old stuff

...This is their second album without Richie. I wasn't a fan of 'Everything Must Go', feeling that it lacked both passion and politics - 'This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours' definitely revived some of the passion. It was criticised on release for being their most commercial album, partly due to the success of the singles 'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next', 'The Everlasting', 'You Stole the Sun From My Heart' and 'Tsunami' [it spent 3 weeks at #1 in the UK Album Chart], and partly due to its subdued tone [when compared to the near-punk rage of its predecessors]. However, I find that the lyrics are actually more thought-provoking and less pretentious than their overtly political tracks from previous albums; this CD was released in 1998, when there was still plenty left to challenge and shout about, but it was all less obvious... Read review

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