20 Years Of "This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours"

Manic Street Preachers are going to do a full celebration pack for the 20th anniversary of their fifth album, "This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours".
The album, that was released in 1998, will be re-released, with a lot of demos and mixes, and the Manics will play 13 concerts around the UK during next year's Spring.
The reissue will have 3 CDs, the first is the full album, the second alternative versions of the album, and the third disc will include remixes and b-sides.
Maybe the funniest and strangest thing of this release is that the band decided to leave out "Nobody Loved You" from the main album and replace it with "Prologue To History".
Speaking to the NME, lyricist Nicky Wire told:

“James [Dean Bradfield, frontman] has remastered it, I found all the demos. They’re amazing – all on cassettes, recorded in someone’s front room. We’ve put [fan favourite B-side] ‘Prologue To History’ on the album now and kicked off ‘Nobody Loved You’. We’ve moved that onto disc two with a great demo that we’ve found. It’s packed full of really interesting and intimate stuff, as well as us in the studio and off the leash on certain songs like ‘Tsunami’ that are much more raw.
“There are some amazing remixes too – by people like Mogwai, Massive Attack and Cornelius. It was a great period where people would take your work and transform it into something really special.”

"This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours" is the band's most successful album and the only one to have reached the number 1 in the official UK charts. It includes as well, probably, the Manics most famous song "If Your Tolerate This, Then Your Children Will Be Next" (it was a period for long titles, wasn't it?). This was a golden era for British music and this work represents it very well. Legendary songs like "Tsunami", "The Everlasting" or, a personal favourite, "You Stole The Sun From My Heart" were recorded for this album.


You can expect also a remastered vinyl edition.
The tracklist is:

CD 1 – Remastered original album

1 The Everlasting
2 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
3 You Stole the Sun from My Heart
4 Ready for Drowning
5 Tsunami
6 My Little Empire
7 I’m Not Working
8 You’re Tender and You’re Tired
9 Born a Girl
10 Be Natural
11 Black Dog On My Shoulder
12 Prologue To History
13 S.Y.M.M.

CD 2 – Demos & Live Rehearsals

1 The Everlasting
2 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (Dave Bascombe Mix)
3 You Stole the Sun from My Heart
4 Ready for Drowning
5 Tsunami
6 My Little Empire
7 I’m Not Working
8 You’re Tender and You’re Tired
9 Born A Girl
10 Be Natural
11 Black Dog On My Shoulder
12 Prologue To History
13 S.Y.M.M.
14 Nobody Loved You

CD3 – Remixes & B Sides

1 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (Massive Attack Remix)
2 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (David Holmes Remix)
3 The Everlasting (Deadly Avenger’s Psalm 315)
4 The Everlasting (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Remix)
5 You Stole the Sun from My Heart (David Holmes Remix)
6 You Stole the Sun from My Heart (Mogwai Remix)
7 Tsunami (Cornelius Remix)
8 Tsunami (Stereolab Remix)
9 Montana/ Autumn/78
10 Black Holes For The Young
11 Valley Boy
12 Socialist Serenade
13 Buildings For Dead People


 

Brett Anderson Is Writing a New Book

After the success of his autobiography, Brett Anderson, the lead singer of Suede is writing the second volume of the story of his life.
"Coal Black Mornings" covered the time since he was born until Suede signed their first professional contract in 1992.
We can assume now that the next book, "Afternoons With The Blinds Drawn" will cover Anderson's mid-90's life, probably until somewhere Suede's break up or maybe even further. It will be interesting to see Brett write about the departure of Bernard Butler from Suede, his relationship with his then girlfriend, Sam, the come back of Justine Frischmann, his vision of the new Suede with Richard Oakes and Neil Codling.
Well, personally, my favourite period of Suede (not counting with the current era) was the Coming Up times, where the band was just like a gang, full of confidence.

Brett's first book was very well received by the fans and the critics and, hopefully, his new work will have the same effect.

We can expect it in the Autumn of 2019. That's a long time, but as we know, Brett has been very busy, recording and touring Suede's spectacular new album "The Blue Hour"