Showing posts with label Manic Street Preachers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manic Street Preachers. Show all posts
Sunday, January 05, 2020

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: A slippery slope all the way to ... the point of no return?

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Manic Street Preachers had a hit song in 1998 with a variation on a theme of slippery slopes. The future teaches you to be alone The p...
Friday, April 26, 2019

Remembering the Spanish Civil War: Britain's "Last Brigadista" dies at 99.

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Having just now posted about George Orwell's fundamental truthfulness , it's worth recalling the classic song by Manic Street Pre...
Friday, July 06, 2018

Tunes, or the bimonthly roundup of the music playing in my head, May/June edition.

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In 2018, I've resolved to offer a musical recap every two months. For those just tuning in, I can no longer carry a tune across the...
Wednesday, July 04, 2018

Paine & Pleasure, Part 2: A design for life.

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Part one of "Paine & Pleasure" urged you to think about Thomas Paine on July 4. In retrospect, this repeat of a column wri...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

The two most recent Manic Street Preachers albums, ending one era and beginning another.

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A new Manic Street Preachers album has been released. It's called Resistance is Futile , and I love it. There'll be more to say a...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: We only want to get drunk, so send away the tigers and climb into your cups.

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I'm a Manic Street Preachers enthusiast. The band's 2007 album ,  Send Away the Tigers , recently was reissued. In my opinion, th...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

A six-pack of Manic Street Preachers documentary films and interviews.

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The following collection of Manic Street Preachers video clips is intended more for my personal benefit than yours as a reader. After all,...
Friday, November 18, 2016

This Sullen Hoosier Heart ... with apologies to the Manics.

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You can't ever be sure when a song will come out of nowhere and grip you. It might be the melody, the beat or the words; of course, i...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Mencken meets Manics: "A farrago of nonsense" ... because "the penalty of intelligence is (everlasting) oblivion."

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I awoke to the word "farrago" as it fought for release from my tortured conscience, no doubt an inevitable side effect of watc...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

ON THE AVENUES: A design for life.

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ON THE AVENUES: A design for life. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. Throughout my decidedly mediocre high school basketball career,...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS: Elegiac.

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Welcome to another installment of SHANE'S EXCELLENT NEW WORDS , a regular Wednesday feature at NA Confidential . But why new words?...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

No. 1: Roger's Year in Music 2014 ends with Futurology by Manic Street Preachers.

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It took only a couple of hours on the ground in Berlin on September 12, near the Tiergarten and Zoo Station, amid the swirling leaves of a...
Sunday, June 29, 2014

"Manic Street Preachers still have plenty to get mad about."

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To know me is to know how much I love this band. It isn't just the music. It's because the Manics have no interest in their music...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

The Manics: "Running Out of Fantasy" (cue the New Albany metaphors).

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Just in time for year's end ... my beloved Manic Street Preachers.  My eco-system is based on hatred My DNA remains untested I ...
Friday, January 11, 2013

Pierce, Thompson and the Manics on the life of Richard Nixon.

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That's right: One hundred years ago on Wednesday, Richard Nixon was born. The tributes are effusive and deadly accurate, as with Char...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Is rock and roll dead?

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New Labour's passive consumers, Coldplay as Enya, the Manics' impending "Achtung Baby" moment ... it's such a delight ...