Check out the rest of their stuff. You won't regret it!

@@ajmurtagh27 thanks for the tip!

A true Classic. Keep safe Dave in the UK, 😊

That first wow moment we all experienced with this band 👏

Conheci a banda faz 1/2 meses, tô viciado hahahaha

👋🏻

just finished playing disco elysium and it feels like I should listen to them again. TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD -- FOR NEW PEOPLE IT IS TOO LATE FOR US WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS

+Slyness69 Absolutely, never loses its impact, and I'll never forget hearing it for the first time, has everything

+Slyness69 One of the best of all time

If not THE greatest ...

the first time I heard it was yesterday…

forgot how wonderful this song was!

I hear "Leibniz gave us power", which would probably be more accurate! 😉

​@@markdowding1371, well monads are the basic life force/power ... 😁

@Vallonii vndergrvnd stable democracies and philanthropic bequeaths from the estates of those who had something to give back to the public.... Methinks🤔

@Vallonii vndergrvnd Yeah - Unions paid for the libraries where these lads were raised

Yeah and the Tories want to close them all

close between this and If You'll Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next. Both very worthy candidates

dont lie, your proud every day, all the time, especially when some one says yaki dah, and so you should be

Amazing band

A true masterpiece of a song. Dda Iawn

@@BillPiffy you're right. 😀

@@BillPiffy its iechyd da.

True a classic

Motorcycle emptiness is their best song!

Well, everything is a matter of preference and perception. Who can go against these variables?

This one and Mororcycle emptyness. masterpieces!

to sing it , is also difficult. His voice is so good!

+Michael Mitchell richey has gone,,James deaen bradley rocks on

+Michael Mitchell we all miss Richey... :(

Love from Scotland too :)

Michael Mitchell mickey is safe and sound living out life somewhere in Spain i hope! . I think we should be so grateful that he left behind a huge catalogue of unpublished music and songs for James and the band to use. In fact their brand new 2018 summer release album has loads of rickey's songs check it out. Have a good day

@fake name idea for a name cheerful chappie ! !

In fact it mirrors what David Icke is saying.

It might do but, i don't trust him. He's spreading disinformation imo. No offense

David Icke is a fucking reprobate......Plenty offence....

Icke has a bigger audience than you - just sayin'

David Icke is a great science fiction writer, smart bloke. I enjoy listening to him, I think I will right now.

@Zarquon Paul Atreides It is still popular here, at least by me!

I wish I had a bottle

This shows again and again what brilliant Music Talent Great Britain has produced over the years....long may it all continue Globally ❤❤

​@@janeyorke8684 There's fantastic people with Talented gifts everywhere its brilliant 👍👍

You're

@@glencollins2395 I love the idea that you had to correct his spelling on this . . .

People in countries like the UK erroneously conflate "stupidity" with a lack of access to quality education. They are not the same thing. But you don't want working-class people getting a university education, because then who would clean your houses and work in dangerous factories or construction sites? We couldn't have that now, could we.

@@iorekby I hear what you're saying

My favorite song of the 90s. I am crying 😭😭😭😭😭

Same. First heard it in 1996 when I was 15 and it gave me good music taste forever...along with several years of dressing like Nicky and Richey ☺️

Enjoy it :)

Check out… if you tolerate this.

Welcome

You're going to have a great time discovering their beautiful songs. And I'm jealous 😎 Enjoy 🙌

Have a listen to the whole of the holy bible.

Magnificent ain't the word. No, hang on - yes, it is.

Hello,how are you doing it's nice meeting you here..

Mr1979flapjack Yup !

Mr1979flapjack And now Wikipedia does.

+Mr1979flapjack "Then work came & made us free" also as great & a stern reminder of humanity's dark aspect

+Mr1979flapjack brilliant- librabries agaves us power

+Mr1979flapjack true

Agree, awesome song, still, after all these years

my fav line 💙

In my opinion the greatest combination of genius lyric and breath taking music of all time.

Richie is alive and well, I saw him in Costa Coffee last year...

@@taramilton8695 legit? Becuase he could be alive

@@achintobe5410 He is..

Correct.

janet t it’s a pure gem mate

i fell in love with this song in 1997 aged 17. i'm now 39 and still in love with it

33 here.. Was 10 when this came out. Great memories :)

It came out when I was 33, the year my children were born. They're now 23 and I'm 56. I still think this song is brilliant. I'm also amazed at the Manic's ability to churn out great melody after great melody.

35 brother, loving it. Stay safe

And drums 😊 I agree!

bitter sweet symphony is rubbish, dont put this song in the same class as that garbage.

@@malmaclachlan3088 I grew out of this song eventually. The Manics are rubbish.

@@alixfarron6730how can you call them rubbish when they made the holy bible lol?

@@noogeti they're just noisy

@@alixfarron6730 you’ve listened to The Holy Bible right?

Yes

Yeah this song is extraordinary. I love the way Nick Wire seems to not give a shit while James Bradfield sings his heart out.

Had the privilege of seeing them live twice. Very humble and amazing 😊what a band .

It's TRASH

Watch LADY SAW..

+MrPge1970 Here here. One of the best songs of the last 25 years.

1990s when good songs stopped being made, RIP MUSIC born whenever died AD 2000!

There is but that's purely opinion

@@Hellwyck You call it opinion, we call it taste.

@@michaeljames1044 lol sure

That's coz nowadays youth only like rap someone wants to imform them that rappers rap coz they don't think they can sing they maybe right but doubt young un would think it was so bad pretty good if it was given its old name poet's

@@grahampollock9835 Hate to sound like an old fart but they don't even rap properly or write proper lyrics. That mumble stuff PMSL and when they run out of rhymes they always fall back on rhyming na na na na with na na na na. And the kids go baa baa baa baa Only, why is it that all the kids have a Jamaican accent these days? But ask them who is their favourite toaster and they say Morphy Richards. Ask them if they have any roots and they run to the mirror examining their hair. Ask if they have ska, they show you a graze on their knee from falling off a skateboard. I asked for lovers rock, they thought it was what you buy at the seaside. I would not like to do their family trees because they think everyone is their relative. Ennit cuz? Blood? Bruv? Fam? I may be in the autumn of my years but I have seen the Manic Street Preachers on two occasions, in little sweaty venues, with a man called Richey in the band.

Could have* been 🙏

They are a great band. What makes you think they are underrated? Play stadiums and arena's get lots of press coverage awards etc. Chameleons, luke haines, Mccarthy (who the manics cover) Camper van beethoven (who they also cover) are truly underrated

What is the meaning behind the song ?

@@RR-hx7nj Every song is open to interpretation. And with the Manics, you really need to listen a few times. For me, this was always about class struggle, rich vs poor. They borrow heavily from others, as do all the greats. To me, it comes across as if they are annoyed at their impending success.

@@RivieraKid69 ‘every song is open to interpretation’. 👍🏽 Well said. But how? Answer: By contemplation. I have listened to this song countless times as it is on rotation on the factory radio. I do love the song and have history with the band. My best mate was a big fan years ago. He isn’t with us now, died from alcoholism 3 years back. Back in the day he was going through a troubled patch after his wife left him. He called me for company one evening. When I got there he was basically in a psychotic state. He had the manics playing on the stereo. I sat with him for a while, not knowing what to do. He pulled a stiletto knife out and stabbed right through his right forearm, there as he sat in the armchair. After this, the torment passed. He lived happily for a good few years after this. I think this incident was for a purging of the grief of his failed marriage. But he had damaged his organs by this time on the spirits, so even though he pulled through mentally, his body was damaged and he died in his mid 40s. All that to say, human angst is real, and respect to this band for speaking out. Loudly. With guitars and melody, and yes, art. I remember the Steve Lamaq nterview with the band after a gig- he asked them ‘are you for real?’. Richie cut ‘4 real’ in his arm with a blade. I came back here to honour my friend and thank the band and say, pain is real. My interpretation to this song comes after much contemplation over many years. One can contemplate alone, and you can get far along the path of love of the good, but this song begins with ‘libraries gave us power’. There are philosophers whose books are in those libraries who will help me get along better than I could alone. One such I found lately is known as the Lone Wolf of Canada, or the Owl of Minerva. His name is George P. Grant, and he went to town throughout his life to drill our modern angst, post two world wars, our ‘design for life’. He drilled our case by contemplation, thinking through how moderns got here. He acknowledges the basic complaint of this song (and blur’s Modern Life is Rubbish), and gives a way out! The way out is by way of contemplation of Plato’s Good, and reversing the modern’s reversal of the order of the vita contempletiva and the vita activa. ✌️(Thinking comes FIRST, then action afterwards) Free to read is Brad Jersak’s amazing introduction to Grant/Weil thought- his degree paper gained at Bangor University IN WALES. ! 👏😭😆✌️✌️✌️❤️ research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/we-are-not-our-own--the-platonic-christianity-of-george-p-grant-from-the-cave-to-the-cross-and-back-with-simone-weil(752431c4-2c75-4ccb-b3f6-ac2d1184e2fc).html RIP Philip Alston (Mr Figis) of Royton, near Manchester. See you in just a little while, brother ❤️❤️❤️

Credit where its due. Nice you got your talent from your Dad. My Dad taught be how to iron his shirts!😁🤣 He could sing though!!

Hear you ❤

Me too. I remember Euro '96 and a hot summer where it seemed hope was in the air. The post Cold War nineties were the calm before the storm.

I wake up with this song far too many times...... It's frigging awesome

Really weird. Me too. I'm not even a Manics fan

Still 😢

....you are right Tim, big time

Tears me up every time

Nope. Just because youare to young to have heard it before you thing itsin any way underrated? Sweet summer child. This is was a massive hit on a massive album. This had so much airtime. It was up there with Bitter Sweet Symphony.

​@jamesmaybrick2001 Yep. It's just cool to say everything is overrated. Everyone who was around in the 90's will know this song.

i thought it was just me

Hello,how are you doing it's nice meeting you here..

dave oconnor Many libraries were gifted by Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnet (over 600), so councils may have a duty, if it is a Carnegie library.

@@mtsenskmtsensk5113 I live in Wales pretty sure miners contributed a great deal setting up libraries but I could be wrong.👍

@@daffydad Yes you are correct, in Wales, but Mainly in England and Scotland Carnegies libraries were funded. See 68th IFLA Council and General Conference August 18-24, 2002 In the Aberdare Leader newspaper for 21st February 1903 it was reported that the small South Wales mining township of Penrhiwceiber had turned down an offer of £700 from Andrew Carnegie to help establish a public library in the area. This was not a unique occurrence, although generally Carnegie’s offers had the opposite effect of concentrating local minds, overcoming any opposition and leading to the provision of a public library service. But then, as the report makes abundantly clear, Penrhiwceiber was not interested in the local authority funded model of public library development either, which the community also dismissed as ‘municipal doles’. Why such strong feelings and such strong language? Was the local community implacably opposed to the concept of a library service for the locality? The answer is no, quite the reverse. The main reason for Penrhiwceiber’s decision was that the township already enjoyed a library service from a local Miners’ Institute and had done so for some years. The community did not see why it should forfeit its ‘independence’ and pay twice for a library facility via their own contributions and local rates, or be beholden to a wealthy American philanthropist, whose handouts were frequently seen as ‘blood money’. Beginning in the late 1860s and early 1870s, i.e. when public library enabling legislation was already firmly in place in the British Isles, many South Wales coal-mining communities had looked to themselves to provide for the growing reading needs of their inhabitants. Libraries and reading rooms could meet these needs, whether they were educational, cultural or recreational, but in the newly emerging mining communities of South Wales, where there was little or no tradition of municipal governance, their answer was formed by entirely different traditions. Whereas the older, more established towns around the fringes of the coalfield, such as Pontypridd, Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare did adopt the Public Library Acts between 1887 and 1901, smaller townships and villages all across the coal-mining region of Monmouthshire, Glamorgan and parts of Carmarthenshire and Brecon established well over 100 libraries and reading rooms in the five decades before 1914, generally as a major, if not the most important feature

That's not cringy, that's lovely!

Their absolute best 🙌

Hell yes, a classic for sure.

It is quite fucking delicious.

Imo, not their best, the holy bible and this is my truth do have more powerful lyrics, but is an absolute masterpiece. Maybe its because im a manics superfan that I think there are better songs.

do it like they do on the discovery channel

Antonio Gaudi

@@danielthompson4463 thank god for google

@@johnthegodfatherslack I remembered it from being a Manics obsessive in the 90s

I do. It blew my mind!

was my first minidisc!

My first was Mr Blobby

@@NotQuiteFirst another classic artist 😂

Slainte from Ireland 🇮🇪 🤘🇳🇿

Love this band. One of the best ever ❤️ love this song.

3:56

a song for the soul my never met friend :)

​@@aelfredhauscarl 😊

I've got 18 per cent welsh in me, but a proud Englishman.

I'm Welsh but 25 percent English

Up the Celts❤

Beautiful voice you have Nicol’e Bradley...

@Thorheim LARPersson you’re most welcome 🙏

Only way to sing it! 🤙

Guilty! But hey thank you so much!

Thank you for the great words 💕