Dr Modernist wrote:K wrote::x
Anyway, Richard III is playing now - it's a fucking great track. It is everything a good rock track should be. I feel like I could climb Mount Everest at the moment, listing to this.
See that's the difference for me. You can find lots of heavy riffing in Manics tracks, but have they ever done anything as exciting as that? I don't think so.
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Tish and tosh, what rot.
Richard III is a good song on a good album, Sun Hits the Sky is even better on the cusp of their change from novelty punk/pop to rock tedium, but the MSP have a dozen or more better songs and Supergrass' lack of imagination and ambition is deeply depressing.
A song like 4st 7lbs is more interesting, on its own, than Supergrass' entire career.
You know that is true.
Supergrass is alright (!) for people who like bland chirpy rock music, for people who value lack of ambition and never taking a risk. I imagine they attract the same sort of people who like the Stereophonics and Cast - competent, sometimes inpired, but usually dull, safety first, rock music. that is their natural peer group.
The Manics are in a different class; musically, lyrically and rocktastically they are the better band.