Manic Street Preachers Remix album (w/ Underworld Mix)
 

Each track from Journal For Plague Lovers has been remixed and will be released as a digital EP on June 15th. The band hand-picked an impressive selection of remixers:

"It's been a pretty overwhelming response to be honest. We chose people for each track hoping they would bring us back something unique, that they'd find something we maybe hadn't in the track. Without fail, they've done that. Heartfelt thanks from us to everyone involved". - Nicky

The EP boasts the following artists and track remixes:

Andrew Weatherall - Peeled Apples
Saint Etienne - Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
British Sea Power - Me And Stephen Hawking
Patrick Wolf - This Joke Sport Severed
Optimo (Espacio) - Journal For Plague Lovers
The Pariahs - She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach
Adem - Facing Page Top Left
New Young Pony Club - Marlon JD
The Horrors - Doors Closing Slowly
Errors - All Is Vanity
Four Tet - Pretension/Repulsion
Fuck Buttons - Virginia State Epileptic Colony
Underworld - William's Last Words
Jonathan Krisp - Bag Lady
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information please...

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lets hope this is awesomeness and sparks some new UW remixes of other artists again....

i'd like to see them back in remix groove....

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Here's the original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qepn6PN8Y4

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Thats crap. They were very popular when he went missing, and The Holy Bible is their best album. Not sure if this new album is tribute or barrel scraping though.

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"William's Last Words" is one of the weakest tracks on an, otherwise rather good, album. i'd even go as far and say it is the best thing they've done since "everything must go"

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BLD:nice of you to delete your responses so that my response looks weird. The point i wanted to make is that they were already popular for years at least in the UK (though i know that The Holy Bible didnt get a release in the US finitially). They were top 20/30 for the first 3 albums and already had one top 10 single. Hard to say that his suicide made them more popular. The music has to stand up for itself also.

I'll be interested in hearing what UW have done with this though.

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Manics got BIGGER post-Richie, IMHO... I mean "This Is My Truth..." was HUGE... got them world tours and such, and that had nothing to do with the disappearance.

That being said, I do feel the band have been a series of diminishing returns for a while... never releasing outright BAD material, just losing their own plot. Haven't heard Journal yet, but I have the same fears as many - that it's a little of polishing the sheen off the memory of a lost friend.

Alas - I'll reserve judgement until I hear it (novel in the Internet age, I know LOL!)

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If you tolerate this
Your children will be next

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Too bad the EP that is released today only contains six remixes and comes without the UW-remix: http://www.manicstreetpreachers.com/...mix_ep_out_now
I hope it will come available in the near future...

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It sounded like Rick was still working on it as of last week. Wonder what it's going to be released on and when.

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Sept 15!

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Def better than the original. BUT as for a Rick remix... NOT ENOUGH farm sounds!

New internet meme: MORE FARM SOUNDS!!!

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haven't really bothered yet !!!

ITunes........................
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

maybe later tonight..

be seeing you
+1

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This track is gorgeous! Maybe more of a cover than a remix, eh?
Honestly they could play this live as a 1st encore and I wouldn't mind a bit.

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ok, got it now..

it's really mellow up until the end...couldn't really tell if the 'underworld' production
values were in it or not..

rather generic i think..

be seeing you
+1

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At first I didn't know what to think of this. But now I've listened to it a couple of times it kinda grows on me. Its mellow sound in combination with Karl's vocals work quite good actually. This remix is way better then the original track IMO. Great work R&K :)

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Its amazing, premiere here:

http://www.spinner.com/2009/09/15/ma...erworld-remix/

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pretty cheesy.

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I like it.

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Me likey. Listened 3 times.

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shame i was looking forward to this but its not that exciting or innovative

if the vocoder is the weapon of choice why not remix Cher's Believe....

looking forward to some better UW own brand stuff ;)

btw... was thinking that the Diamond Jigsaw would benefit from a Fake Blood remix.... i know they've remixed Ring Road, but the FB team's sound would work so well with the stabbing synths of Diamond Jigsaw... just a thought....

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Question for all the collector types... is there a CD version of this, or is it digital download only?

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I absolutely love this track. It took a week or so for it to hit but now I can't stop playing it. Incredibly moving lyrics (which I initially hated, i'm an idiot), gorgeous ambience and an improved vocal sound from the original. It's rare that a remix betters the original but in this case, it's true.

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Fake Blood is just one guy - Theo Keating, aka Touché of the Wiseguys, aka one half of The Black Ghosts. Just FYI.

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yeah thanks i found this out recently... still i love him ;)

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this mix is beautiful. i wish the intro was longer before the vocals start and i wish the chorus didn't repeat so many times at the end. other than that, it's great.

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There is a new Manics album coming, and there is apparently an unreleased Underworld remix of something, which might be released as a freebie with the new record.