Shane’s Rock Challenge: MANIC STREET PREACHERS – 1998 – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

Shane’s Rock Challenge: MANIC STREET PREACHERS – 1998 – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
By Shane Pinnegar
7.5/10

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours features Manic Street Preachers first UK #1 with the wordy If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next. It’s a classy song – more pop than ever before from the formerly abrasive punk band, but also retaining a very clear personal identity.

The album also went to the top of the UK charts on the strength of songs like the magnificent You Stole The Sun From My Heart (surely a just-got-dumped favourite for many), Tsunami and My Little Empire.

This Is My Truth… won a stack of awards, including Best Album at the Brits, and has sold over 4 million copies worldwide to date, testament that snotty nosed self-harmers with a penchant for sarcasm and unruly behaviour can make the transition to arena favourites with the right songs – even if they had to lose their former leader in order to do so.

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