This week we're featuring 2001 Manic Street Preachers album Know Your Enemy, which — fun fact… or, “fact” at least… — never got released here in the US. It was a strange release in a way, coming off the back of two mammoth commercial successes and finding the band wanting to reassert their brash rock credentials a bit, while still being caught up in the music machine, their own hype, and Nicky Wire being a somewhat labouring lyricist. Still, this record stands a test of time to me, and I keep finding something in it, so I'm going to share that with you.
Playlist
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Featured Found That Soul by Manic Street Preachers on Know Your Enemy (Epic) -
Folly by Sea Power on Folly (Golden Chariot) New -
Receiver by Johnny Marr on Fever Dreams, Pt. 1 (New Voodoo) New - Break
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Featured So Why So Sad by Manic Street Preachers on Know Your Enemy (Epic) -
Blue Heaven (feat. Andreya Casablanca) by Public Service Broadcasting on Bright Magic (Test Card) -
Cate le Bon by Running Away on Pompeii (Mexican Summer) New - Break
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Get Back by The Beatles on Let It Be (2021 Mix) (Universal) New -
Rock and Roll by The Velvet Underground on Loaded (Atlantic) -
My Baby's Taking Me Home by Sparks on The Sparks Brothers (Music from the Motion Picture) (Focus Features) - Break
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Featured The Convalescent by Manic Street Preachers on Know Your Enemy (Epic) -
Waterfall by The Stone Roses on The Stone Roses (Silvertone Records) -
Mary by Supergrass on Supergrass (EMI) - Break
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Featured Wattsville Blues by Manic Street Preachers on Know Your Enemy (Epic) -
Dry the Rain by The Beta Band on The Three EPs (Warner) - Break
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Cream Militia by Regressive Left on Cream Militia (Self Released) New -
Judge Yr'self by Manic Street Preachers on Lipstick Traces (Sony) - Break
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Royal Morning Blue by Damon Albarn on The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows (Transgressive) New -
D.O.A. by Baxter Dury on D.O.A. (Heavenly) New -
Refractions (In The Rain) by Clinic on Fantasy Island (Domino) New - Break
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Shut You Down (Mogwai Remix) (feat. Yair Elizar Glotman, Yamila) by Clark on Shut You Down (Mogwai Remix) (Deutsche Grammophon) New -
Music for Psychadelic Therapy — Excerpt by Jon Hopkins on Music for Psychadelic Therapy (Domino) New