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Wow, these guys were jerks!
By adam.cozens | April 8, 2009
In an effort to put SOMETHING new on the main page every once in awhile, I wrote about how much I loved the “Suicide is Painless” cover that the band Manic Street Preachers did back in 1992 over at Rockworms.com. Not knowing anything else about the group, I began thumbing through the web looking up more info and came upon their Wikipedia article. Wow. These guys were JERKS!
From their Wikipedia entry:
In 1990, they signed a deal with punk label Damaged Goods Records for one EP. The four track EP New Art Riot attracted as much media interest for its attacks on fellow musicians as for the actual music. With the help of Hall Or Nothing management, the Manics signed to indie label Heavenly Records. Their first single for the label - Motown Junk (released on 21 January 1991) - showcased their iconoclastic (“I laughed when Lennon got shot”) punk/metal influenced rock n’ roll. The song also displayed their huge cultural scope with a Public Enemy-sampling intro and an outro sample of The Skids.
Over the next year, the Manics earned a wild reputation - much like that of Guns N’ Roses or The Sex Pistols - as well as an loyal fan base. In music press interviews they attacked bands like Slowdive, Ride, and My Bloody Valentine, the crusty pop rockers (Carter USM, Senseless Things, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin) as well as the dying Madchester movement (The Happy Mondays, The Farm, Stone Roses). The Manics’ manifesto went as follows: release one album that would outsell Appetite for Destruction, tour the world, headline Wembley for three nights and then burn out. The band also planned to release their first LP in a sandpaper covered sleeve, as The Durutti Column had already done, so that their music would burn (or scratch) out with them. It was also designed to erode other records it was placed next to, a technique first used by Guy Debord with early editions of his book Memories.
Wow. That is d-baggery at its finest.
Topics: Entertainment, Idiocy, Music |