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Old 27-03-2024, 08:12
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Not that I've seen, he must have forgotten as he did an interview on the song on Saturday and never mentioned it. It does irk me how the band lift lines and verses wholesale without giving due credit.
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Old 27-03-2024, 08:18
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Old 27-03-2024, 16:47
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Well we haven't read the booklet yet. So fingers crossed! It's still not a deal breaker for me. I still know of a non-Manics fan who hates them and thinks they are hypocrites for the "Drop your bombs on all I see". And I gave up arguing with them ages ago.
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Old 27-03-2024, 17:52
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Der-er-der-er-did-der-er remastered video tomorrow. See them bored in a shopping mall in HD!
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Old 28-03-2024, 15:46
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Der-er-der-er-did-der-er remastered video tomorrow. See them bored in a shopping mall in HD!
I didn't realise anyone could look as disinterested as James does at the beginning of the video!
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Old 28-03-2024, 21:57
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I didn't realise anyone could look as disinterested as James does at the beginning of the video!
There's some good shots. I like the floating camera walking out of the rehearsal room at the start. Of course the camera should have floated more but I'm not a Video Director.
But I still make "James Taxi expressive hands" gestures when out on public transport thanks to this video ages ago.
So do you think we'll have their Top of the Pops performances uploaded next? I remember them making two appearances.
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Old 28-03-2024, 22:53
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This is actually a great video. They look fantastic in the moody leather. It makes me think that they should have done a Empty Souls piano riffing type of moody Berlin album rather than the sheen of elegiac pop. Good times.
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Old 29-03-2024, 09:37
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Am I only one who remembers a competition to be dressed by the stylist of this video?

The biggest controversy still is that Nicky would just lay there and leave someone else do the hoovering.
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Old 29-03-2024, 12:27
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Have they changed the line back to "Collapsing like the Twin Towers" in the 4K video? I swear it was "Collapsing like dying flowers" in the original video, but it's been missing from YouTube for years so I can't check it.
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Old 29-03-2024, 12:40
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Have they changed the line back to "Collapsing like the Twin Towers" in the 4K video? I swear it was "Collapsing like dying flowers" in the original video, but it's been missing from YouTube for years so I can't check it.
They have indeed! https://twitter.com/FDForum/status/1294992785368588288
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Old 30-03-2024, 09:15
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It’s only just occurred to me that I haven’t watched that in absolutely years. I had forgotten what it even looked like.
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Old 30-03-2024, 20:11
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It's promo, obviously, but that quote from Nicky is actually probably more positive than anything said about TIMT or KYE, so I'd like to think that there's some truth in it at least.
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Old 31-03-2024, 15:13
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That Empty Souls video is gorgeous, always loved it. The woman in the jewellery shop, the white V-shaped guitar. Great aesthetics. Just not a good PR combination right after TLORN -- they probably should have kept the Twin Towers line and drawn some ire, would have worked better than without it. Dying flowers just turns it into a fully defeatist sigh of fuck-off, which is nice too. But it has more fire in it with that line, the way it is now in the video (cool to see and hear it that way at last!) -- you can better understand where they're coming from and why they're going.

Should have been: TLORN, 1985, Empty Souls.

Aesthetically beautiful, though, that video and pretty emotional too -- especially that Potstdamplatz. Who doesn't have eerie sad memories about Berlin? It's a city that seems to be made of them.
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Old 03-04-2024, 16:04
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10am tomorrow! A video visualiser of Steve Wilson's 1985 remix. 10am? Bit early for a rave, isn't it? Nevertheless I'll start chewing my face off in anticipation.
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Old 04-04-2024, 09:13
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One of my hearing aids is fucked so it sounds like a steel girder being banged. Your own hearing might be able to make out different textures.

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