Manic Street Preachers ‎– This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

Diese Platte braucht Zeit, viel Zeit. Nach dem ersten Hören gefielen mir eigentlich nur die ersten beiden Stücke, doch schon nach dem zweiten Hören bleiben auch die anderen Songs im Gehörgang kleben. Beim dritten Durchgang wußte ich dann, daß ich dieses Album behalten werde. Nur ist diese Platte bestimmt nicht partykompatibel, es sei denn es handelt sich um eine Kellerparty von Depressiven. Diese Platte ist traurig und macht depressiv. Schon allein die Stimme von James Dean Bradfield hört sich leidend an, was dieser Platte durchaus gut zu Gesicht steht. Hinzu kommt die gute Gitarren- und Drumarbeit. Ab und zu mal ein paar Streicher, die sich aber dezent im Hintergrund halten, wie in "The everlasting" und "Black dog on my shoulder", und auch die Sitar-Klänge in "Tsunami" passen perfekt. Selbst die Gitarrenbrecher in "You stole the sun from my heart" bleichen dezent im Hintergrund, was schon eine Kunst für sich ist. Ein Piano hat sich in "You´re tender and you´re tired" auch noch eingeschlichen. Negativ ist hier nur, das die Platte nach dem fünften Song, ich will nicht sagen langweilig wird, aber ins Belanglose abdriftet. Ab dem neunten Lied geht es dann aber wieder bergauf und endet in dem Song "S.Y.M.M.", welches ganz leichte Noise-Anleihen aufweist. Und selbst das passt irgendwie.
Eine durchwachsene Platte.

Beautiful sounding pressing, one of the best sounding records in my collection. Like others have said, disappointed that Nobody Loved You was replaced, it let's the overall package down when a band does this.

They did the same thing with Underdogs on Send Away The Tigers, absolutely pointless, surely they know completists like albums left as they are, I mean if putting a different track on an album means that much to a band, they could've added it as a bonus track.

Just here for my 2 cents on the SQ which on my pressing at least is nothing short of outstanding. In fact I'm putting it on now, cheers.

Removing "nobody loved you" in favor of "prologue to history" is a disgraceful act of revisionism. I stick to the MOV reissue from 2011.

Regarding the plastic sleeve, my copies of all in this reissue series, apart from EMG and THB, open at the top with an excess flap hanging down, and, from I've been told, do not have the standard Japanese mini LP wallet. EMG and THB open at the side with the seal towards the end of the flap.
Does anyone own a copy of this with the more standard plastic sleeve, opening at the side, with the seal close to the edge of he flap? Or does yours also open at the top?

Bought this without checking for feedback on the pressing and I got lucky. Sounds absolutely sublime! Very very happy as this album introduced me to the band and it's the one I'm most familiar with.

I don't usually like it when reviews on here get hopelessly carried away moaning about one specific, trivial observation as though it were the most significant thing that had ever happened in the history of recorded music. But hear me out. I'm a bit bemused that, just like Send Away the Tigers and those peculiar Morrissey reissues, this isn't actually a remaster of the original album but a revisionist new version with an altered tracklisting and zero acknowledgement of the fact. Whatever you think of Prologue to History (personally I can take or leave it), it's *not on* This Is My Truth any more than it's on The Holy Bible. And Nobody Loved You fits perfectly in its original place. Of course it's the Manics' work to do with as they please, but it's misleading to suggest this version (as they do in the promo materials on the website, on the sticker etc) is the original album 'cause it's just not!