Good lord, what a boring, po-faced piss poor review. I imagine it took less time to write than it does to read.

First of all, twatboy, there is no song called "This One's For The Freaks". It's "Underdogs" - get it right.
Secondly, you are obviously a spotty student who loves The View and Franz Ferdinand and really wants to work for the NME but can't get a job there due to a complete lack of talent. Therefore you are trying to invent yourself as some kind of indie Simon Cowell who wouldn't know a good album if it hit him in the tiny testicles. SATT is great - suck ma boab.

but meh, each to their own...

I actually liked Everything Must Go, but This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, is indeed their worst album in my opinion...

Underdogs is embarrassing though I will give you that.

I agree about underdogs...to a degree, but it has some fine drums & geeetar. However as for the rest, you must have listened to a diferent album. I cannot relate your comments to the record I have. The band sound like they are having so much fun throughout, & I am at a loss to explain how anyone could miss that.

Fair dues you clearly don't like the band or the album, but i belive the score given is way off the mark. I belive the lyrics have improved since the last, rather dismal releases, and they don't stoop to take potshots at oh so typical targets or jump on any bandwagons.
Also you only mention the weaker tracks, songs like the second great depression and rendition are unequivically great songs. And I belive there is a great amount of passion on display, again far more so than the utterly lackluster lifeblood, or the flawed know your enemy.
Your comparisons also seem entirely off the mark, aside from the indian summer/design for life example. and you seem to have clearly missed the concept of many of the songs, and the album as a whole. The album, even to non-fans, is nowhere near as bad as a four, and it does seem drownedinsound are at the moment going out of there way to be overly harsh to the manic street preachers. And the lyrics refering to lennon to motown junk were never about 'lennon baiting', he was just a good example of a ridicously revered figure at the time.

i will conceed that i find underdogs, autumn song and your love alone.. (to an extent) and i'm just a patsy rather embaressing, even if they are partially tounge-in-cheek.

i don't think so. people do enjoy getting their knickers in a twist at the Manics continued existence don't they? so many approach them in a joyless, humourless way and then tell us that they hear joyless humourless music. so like, you really think they don't know how daft Autumn Song is? you really think they don't know the irony of covering Lennon? you really think Winterlovers- that for the love of God climaxes with 'The End' style bass, guitar and drum spotlights- is straightfaced? that they're going through the motions?

no. it's a unashamed pop record that they clearly had a lot of fun making, and you've been a right miserable git about it.

It's a strong 7. I wish people would stop being totally fucking obsessed with how MSP used to sound and take their current material at face value.

...this album is toss. I'm an "old manics" fan, but I love EMG, and I really liked Lifeblood and JDB's solo album, so I had really high hopes for Tigers. But, it really is shit, even taken as a stand-alone piece of work.

"I laughed when Lennon got shot..." - oh god, the IRONY.

Are you sure?! Or had you decided what score you were going to give the album before you'd written the review? (Like anyone EVER does that on DIS!). And who exactly had billed it as a return to form? The NME?!

Anyway, I think the album's good! It's probably the warmest thing they've ever done and it's a fun listen. Plus, they've finally learnt how to edit a record to a reasonable length. A bit more variation would've been nice mind.

Oh, and Know Your Enemy's under-rated! If only it had been 11 tracks and not 16. And hadn't had those 2 stupid lead singles. And, erm, they'd never let Nicky near a microphone. Ho-hum.

Why is DiS calling it a return to form when they gave the last Manics album 9/10?

when uptight fanboys/girls register on this/any site just to whine about a bad review some band has received. it's my all-time favourite internet thing.

The only thing old and tired about the manics is the laughable reviews they get from journos who are too fixated with motives and intentions.

We've seen it all before. Lazy hacks with a grudge not being able to see past their own bias, and the hardcore being OTT defending the band.

I'm happy to just enjoy another solid effort from the boys. Granted this record won't change my life, and it probably won't return to my CD player past 2007.

Fuck bowler hats, ties, haircuts and skinny jeans. JD Bradfield will blow your socks off live, without a hint of pretension. Roll on Astoria May 30th.

is that the manics have finally become the inevitable parody of themselves ... but on their own terms ... and certain myopic reviewers won't get the 'joke'. It's not a great record (not even a particularly good one) but it certainly exposes lazy music jounalism. That alone makes it worth more than four.

the cult of wire is out for blood!

srsly, this reallllllly isn't very good. the title track is decent, but the rest is poorly written and over produced. it's not terrible, it's just VERY VERY BLAND.

also:

"depressing ode to dressing differently that’s all plodding rhyming couplets and unintentionally hilarious crescendos of “what have you done to your hair, done to your hair, DONE TO YOUR HAIR?” Oh James, we thought you'd never ask."

that bit nearly made me openly weep the first time i hear it.

this is a lazy MSP review by the book. can we get someone else to review this record please? i was looking forward to some critical assessment rather than playground jibes.

the album is a 6. pretty much musically accomplished, lyrically redundant.

i've said before, having made 'the holy bible' and 'everything must go', we can forgive them for anything. even 'underdogs', no matter how terrible it is.

...lazy review. Nitpicking the odd lyric to make fun of does not a review make. And to seriously expect them to return to the days of the early 1990s as a music journalist, even thought this is written by a music journalist, is surely completely ignorant of any progression or maturity shown by any band, nevermind the Manics.

I think I'm just going to completely ignore reviews now that are eighty per cent pisstake to get a chuckle out of View fans, and twenty per cent minor musical content.

I'd give the album a seven, if anyone gives a hoot.

You are an idiot. It's writing like this that makes me winder why I'm bothering with this site anymore.

ps This album is great.

...at how the review is written? I think it's well written.

Disagree with what the words say, but not how they've been put together.

...is only harsh in its slagging off of Lifeblood and Know Your Enemy, which have their moments, but not far off being dead right about this album. 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough' aside, its almost entirely devoid of any merit, and I'm not far off heartbroken by it. Thank god for Nina Pearson.

I like the album a lot, but I'm not gonna slag off this review. From what I've seen so far SATT has has very glowing reviews and pretty vicious ones. I like the Manics best when they're splitting opinions right down the middle, and not giving a toss about it.

Anyway. I like it. So nyah.

Denney is still recovering from the heart attack he had when he heard an opening line as unforgivably shite as 'this ones for the freaks, this one's for...etc'

I know I fucking am and I used to LOVE the Manics, and even enjoyed JDB's solo effort.

that a lot of people seem to hate this review. i also notice that no-one has posted a review of their own.

so most of you like it enough to lay into the writer for having a different (although harsh) opinion to yours, but not enough to actually put on your thinking caps and give anyone an alternative read?

so it's a bit "the system is wrong.. but we won't do anything to change it!", and doesn't that just about sum up the Manics?

biggest problem with the record is the appalling sleeve. Two gimpy little twatoids noncing about in fairy wings.

Give it up, Wire.

I already know of two of your ilk who have been turned away from their Wire-worshipping courses by this album. I think the tacky, distateful cover might have been the final straw.

It's *okay*. This is the right time. You don't have to do this anymore. This is *right*. Come on, it's okay. Everything's going to be okay.

Let it all out. There we go.

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a very rushed one, but this is pretty much what i think to it all.

we should just review the sleeve instead, it'll be much more fun than listening to the entire record.

people still like te manics. hahaha.