Everything Must Go

Unfortunately for this band, I got this album the day after I got the Ella Fitzgerald album. So I am acutely aware that the lead singer here has a very thin and not very pleasant voice. I usually don’t mind this alt-pop style of music, but the vocals on this threw me off. It’s a 2.5 star album for me, but I have a feeling I’ll probably round down.

This is a rare case where I wrote no notes on my initial listen and now, 5 days later, I can’t for the life of me remember anything I might have wanted to say about this record (good or bad). Like, I can’t even recall the general genre anymore; Brit rock, maybe? ”Everything Must Go" indeed. Complete memory hole.

Ovu albumčinu ne moram ni slušati da znam da je čista petica i jedan od najboljih na cijeloj listi. Manics su mi slaba tačka. Najbolji britanski bend iz devedesetih ubjedljivo i jedan od njihovih najjačih albuma, vjerovatno odmah iza Holy Bible i TIMTTMY (grozan akronim). Žalim što sam ih tek dubinski otkrila prije desetak godina, uprkos tome što se televizija pojačavala svaki put kad naiđe A Design for Life. I dan-danas mi je teško naći dražu pjesmu, općenito. Danas pod temperaturom nisam namjeravala ni slušati album ali je baš pravi došao. Valjda mi je malo zasjenjen ovim još boljim njihovim albumima pa je slušanje baš leglo. Izuzetan album, jedino mi Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky nije skroz legla. Uvijek će mi biti smiješno kako su im refreni bukvalni, ide ime pjesme ad nauseam i eventualno još jedan stih uz to (ne smeta mi ni to koliko su mi drag bend). No surface, all bangers.

This is just basic britpop, but I liked it more than others from this list for some reason. It was an okay listen, nothing that special but okay.

pleasant, though i can hear the beginnings of future bands that i hate. 3.5

Really not a lot to say about this

There’s 2 and a half songs I really enjoyed on this (Everything Must Go, No Surface All Feeling, the chorus of A Design For Life).

Everything else I found just a bit dull

This is a band I’ve been meaning to get into for a while, given their place in “Cool Cymru,” a movement I’ve become fascinated in. This album did not disappoint as an intro to the band.

This definitely seems like something I’ll come back to. More accessible but less immediate than Super Furry Animals. The lead vocalist reminds me of Jellyfish at times.

As a side note, I find it irritating how often people on this site seem to get an album from the 1990s UK and say “More Britpop garbage.” It’s so reductive! Why bother doing this if you’re just going to judge an album based on its metadata?

Ends on a banger which eventually turns this "ok" brit pop into a good one.

This album is primarily just loud guitar strumming with a decent vocalist on top. It's very noisy, but also somewhat polished and radio ready.

𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘎𝘰 marks the rebirth of Manic Street Preachers after the mysterious disappearance of lyricist Richey Edwards. While it’s often lumped in with Britpop, the album really belongs to the Cool Cymru movement — ambitious, emotional, and proudly Welsh. Big, orchestral rock anthems like 𝘈 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 carry both mourning and resilience, as if the band were learning how to exist again. Tragic in context, triumphant in sound.

It was good, I liked it. I dunno what else there is to say or think about this album. I dunno how influential or "greatest of all time" kinda reception it has, especially for an album from 1996. I have positive thoughts on this album but it didn't woo me or anything.

Meh

I go through phases with the Manic Street Preachers—sometimes I play them a lot, other times I forget they even exist. I saw them live last year, which reignited my interest, and Everything Must Go has been on regular rotation since.

This is a solid indie album with a strong opening, though it loses steam towards the end. That might explain why, despite their status as one of the UK’s biggest indie bands, this record doesn’t quite feel like a big landmark album.

For me, the Manics embody Britpop mediocrity: decent, polished indie music but nothing groundbreaking or wildly original. Like Stereophonics, Ash, and Ocean Colour Scene, they fall into that bracket of bands who have excellent greatest hits compilations, but no single killer album.

Favourite tracks: A Design for Life, Everything Must Go, and Australia—all great indie tunes.

Least favourite track: Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky—too whimsical and a bit naff, not one I’ll revisit.

Album artwork: An iconic indie cover.

The Manic Street Preachers are one of many British bands of this era featured on the list, but they are one of the best ones to listen to. The music is really energetic and catchy while still maintaining a rock edge. I found myself enjoying a bunch of the songs on here, such as Interiors and The Girl Who Wanted To Be God. There's a lot to explore here and a lot to love, I don't think one listen is really enough to give it a fair rating.

Manics were always alright in my opinion, nt something I had to seek out, I knew some stuff from before this like "Motorcycle Emptiness" from Generation Terrorists, and "La Tristesse Durera" from Gold Against The Soul... And I knew about Richey Edwards mysterious disappearance.

So most of the draw in this album was the inbuilt lore, could this band survive as a trio while missing half their songwriters (though some say more than half given Richey's lyrical input) and down a guitarist who didn't play guitar? And the answer is mostly yes, but the soul had gone and tone had shifted from introspective to outwardly more political, even the few songs Richey wote felt different, like "Kevin Carter" which is probably my favourite song on this album.

An alright album, but a step down from their previous work, ironically the band would become way more accessible and commercially successful in the later 90s as a result

Better than Coldplay.

Finally a band from my neck of the woods

I've heard so much about them, but honestly couldn't name you one song of theirs. I did end up recognising a few by the end of this album

I quite enjoyed it! But they're more of a band I'd happily watch at a festival, but wouldn't pay for their tour

4 ⭐️

The sound of 90s radio.

I've always been frustrated by Manic Street Preachers. They have fragments of absolutely amazing ideas and melodies, but they always seem to back off or give up before completing them.

This very much reminded me of Spilt Milk by Jellyfish. Some high quality power pop here. There might be too much Britpop on the list, but it allows me to find new ones I like such as this so I can’t always complain. Favorite songs were Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier, Kevin Carter, Ebola / Alone, Everything Must Go, and Australia.