Manic Street Preachers – Lifeblood 20 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Manic Street Preachers – Lifeblood 20 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:59:47 minutes | 2,10 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock
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Deluxe three CD edition. 20th Anniversary Edition of Manic Street Preachers’ seventh studio album ‘Lifeblood’. Features many remastered tracks, b-sides, demos and outtakes, new liner notes by John Harris and unseen pictures by Mitch Ikeda. Also included is two brand new remixes of the lead track ‘1985’ by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) and sometime collaborator Welsh artist Gwenno. Described by Nicky Wire as “our most estranged album of all” the record came at a time when the band were reflecting on what they had become and what they could be. The band looked to the music they had liked when they were young for inspiration, New Order circa ‘Low Life’, Prefab Sprout ‘Steve McQueen’, Thomas Dolby ‘The Flat Earth’, early Simple Minds, and the kind of cerebral electronic pop that dominated the early-to-mid 1980s. Wire said at the time “The main lyrical themes are death and solitude and ghosts. Being haunted by history and being haunted by your own past.” James Dean Bradfield commented “I loved making Lifeblood, because it was interesting. I loved chasing these other versions of what we were trying to do.”

Tracklist:
1-01. Manic Street Preachers – 1985 (Remastered) (04:07)
1-02. Manic Street Preachers – The Love of Richard Nixon (Remastered) (03:38)
1-03. Manic Street Preachers – Empty Souls (Remastered) (04:04)
1-04. Manic Street Preachers – A Song for Departure (Remastered) (04:18)
1-05. Manic Street Preachers – I Live to Fall Asleep (Remastered) (03:55)
1-06. Manic Street Preachers – To Repel Ghosts (Remastered) (03:57)
1-07. Manic Street Preachers – Emily (Remastered) (03:33)
1-08. Manic Street Preachers – Glasnost (Remastered) (03:12)
1-09. Manic Street Preachers – Always / Never (Remastered) (03:40)
1-10. Manic Street Preachers – Solitude Sometimes Is (Remastered) (03:20)
1-11. Manic Street Preachers – Fragments (Remastered) (04:01)
1-12. Manic Street Preachers – Cardiff Afterlife (Remastered) (03:28)
2-01. Manic Street Preachers – Askew Road (B-Side) (02:58)
2-02. Manic Street Preachers – Everything Will Be (B-Side) (05:10)
2-03. Manic Street Preachers – Everyone Knows / Nobody Cares (B-Side) (04:13)
2-04. Manic Street Preachers – Voodoo Polaroids (B-Side) (03:56)
2-05. Manic Street Preachers – Quarantine (In My Place Of) (B-Side) (03:49)
2-06. Manic Street Preachers – All Alone Here (B-Side) (03:20)
2-07. Manic Street Preachers – Dying Breeds (B-Side) (04:06)
2-08. Manic Street Preachers – Litany (B-Side) (03:33)
2-09. Manic Street Preachers – Failure Bound (B-Side) (02:58)
2-10. Manic Street Preachers – No Jubilees (B-Side) (03:47)
2-11. Manic Street Preachers – Antarctic (B-Side) (03:06)
2-12. Manic Street Preachers – The Soulmates (Remastered) (03:45)
2-13. Manic Street Preachers – 1985 (Steve Wilson’s Mix) (08:27)
2-14. Manic Street Preachers – 1985 (Gwenno Mix) (04:33)
3-01. Manic Street Preachers – 1985 (Alternate Version) (03:22)
3-02. Manic Street Preachers – 1985 (Demo) (03:50)
3-03. Manic Street Preachers – The Love of Richard Nixon (Drum Machine Demo) (03:55)
3-04. Manic Street Preachers – The Love of Richard Nixon (Live Rehearsal Demo) (03:58)
3-05. Manic Street Preachers – A Song for Departure (Demo) (04:17)
3-06. Manic Street Preachers – I Live to Fall Asleep (Cassette) (03:04)
3-07. Manic Street Preachers – To Repel Ghosts (Demo) (03:38)
3-08. Manic Street Preachers – Emily (Demo) (03:34)
3-09. Manic Street Preachers – Solitude Sometimes Is (Demo) (03:07)
3-10. Manic Street Preachers – Fragments (Demo) (04:32)
3-11. Manic Street Preachers – Cardiff Afterlife (Cassette) (04:03)
3-12. Manic Street Preachers – Cardiff Afterlife (Demo) (03:54)
3-13. Manic Street Preachers – Solitude Sometimes Is (Tony Visconti Mix) (03:30)
3-14. Manic Street Preachers – Emily (Tony Visconti Mix) (03:39)
3-15. Manic Street Preachers – Cardiff Afterlife (Tony Visconti Mix) (03:45)
3-16. Manic Street Preachers – Empty Souls (Live at BBC Maida Vale) (04:15)
3-17. Manic Street Preachers – The Love of Richard Nixon (Live at BBC Maida Vale) (03:47)
3-18. Manic Street Preachers – I Live to Fall Asleep (Live at BBC Maida Vale) (04:08)
3-19. Manic Street Preachers – A Song for Departure (Live at BBC Maida Vale) (04:20)
3-20. Manic Street Preachers – Fragments (Live at BBC Maida Vale) (04:15)

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