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2lp
Celebrating 20 years of Manic Street Preachers' critically acclaimed Seventh studio album, “Lifeblood”; the 2LP anniversary editions feature remastered audio of the original 12 album tracks, overseen by James Dean Bradfield
SIDE A
- 1985
- The Love of Richard Nixon
- Empty souls
SIDE B
- A Song for Departure
- I live to Fall Asleep
- To Repel Ghosts
SIDE C
- Emily
- Glasnost
- Always/Never
SIDE D
- Solitude Sometimes is
- Fragments
- Cardiff Afterlife
3CD
Celebrating 20 years of Manic Street Preachers' critically acclaimed Seventh studio album “Lifeblood”; the 3CD anniversary bookset edition features remastered audio of the original 12 album tracks, overseen by James Dean Bradfield on disc 1, while discs 2 & 3 comprise B-sides, Demos, Outtakes and two brand new remixes of ‘1985’ by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) and Gwenno. The 3CD bookset also includes brand new liner notes by John Harris and previously unseen photographs by Mitch Ikeda.
CD 1
- 1985
- The Love of Richard Nixon
- Empty souls
- A Song for Departure
- I live to Fall Asleep
- To Repel Ghosts
- Emily
- Glasnost
- Always/Never
- Solitude Sometimes is
- Fragments
- Cardiff Afterlife
CD 2
- Askew Road (B-Side)
- Everything Will Be (B-Side)
- Everyone Knows/Nobody Cares (B-Side)
- Voodoo Polaroids (B-Side)
- Quarantine (In My Place Of) (B-Side)
- All Alone Here (B-Side)
- Dying Breeds (B-Side)
- Litany (B-Side)
- Failure Bound (B-Side)
- Solitude Sometimes Is (Demo)
- Antarctic (B-Side)
- The Soulmates (B-Side)
- 1985 (Steven Wilson’s Extended Eighties Mix)
- 1985 (Gwenno Mix)
CD 3
- 1985 (Alternate version)
- 1985 (Demo)
- The Love Of Richard Nixon (Drum machine demo)
- The Love Of Richard Nixon (Live Rehearsal Demo)
- A Song For Departure (Demo)
- I Live To Fall Asleep (Cassette)
- To Repel Ghosts (Demo)
- Emily (Demo)
- No Jubilees (B-Side)
- Fragments (Demo)
- Cardiff Afterlife (Cassette)
- Cardiff Afterlife (Demo)
- Solitude Sometimes Is (Tony Visconti Mix)
- Emily (Tony Visconti Mix)
- Cardiff Afterlife (Tony Visconti Mix)
- Empty Souls (Live At BBC Maida Vale)
- The Love of Richard Nixon (Live At BBC Maida Vale)
- I Live to Fall Asleep (Live At BBC Maida Vale)
- A Song for Departure (Live At BBC Maida Vale)
- Fragments (Live At BBC Maida Vale)
CD
Celebrating 20 years of Manic Street Preachers' critically acclaimed Seventh studio album, “Lifeblood”; the 1CD anniversary edition features remastered audio of the original 12 album tracks, overseen by James Dean Bradfield, and two brand new remixes of ‘1985’ by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) and Gwenno
- 1985
- The Love of Richard Nixon
- Empty souls
- A Song for Departure
- I live to Fall Asleep
- To Repel Ghosts
- Emily
- Glasnost
- Always/Never
- Solitude Sometimes is
- Fragments
- Cardiff Afterlife
- 1985 (Steven Wilson’s Extended Eighties Mix)
- 1985 (Gwenno Mix)
Manic Street Preachers
Lifeblood (20th Anniversary Edition)
sony music
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.”