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'This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours' by Manic Street Preachers. How do you get a better grade on your next release when your previous album was graded an 'A'? Answer class, 'A+'.

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours is the fifth studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 14 September 1998 by record label Epic.

Like its 1996 predecessor Everything Must Go, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours was a commercial and critical success. The album debuted at number 1 in the UK Albums Chart, selling 136,000 copies, going Gold in the first week. It sold well in the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia, and represented a change in the sound from the furious alternative rock sound to a more melodic and tender approach. By March 1999 the album was Triple Platinum in the UK alone and since its release it has sold more than five million copies worldwide. It earned the band further nominations and accolades at the BRIT Awards in 1999.

Sarah Zupko, writing for Pitchfork, said that the album was her "album of the year so far", stating that "The Manic Street Preachers are also one of the few groups capable of integrating orchestral instruments in a way that still produces great rock music (check out the cello in "My Little Empire"), always avoiding the schmaltzy elevator music that can result when some rock musos get a hold of an orchestra. Meanwhile, they manage to infuse some quite dour lyrics with some of the most haunting melodies in rock this side of Radiohead. Bradfield and Moore seldom choose the obvious chords, arrangements and melodies, resulting in music that is heads- and- tails above almost any band on the planet."

The Independent gave the album a positive review, saying that: "In their first album as a true trio, the Manics deliver another slab of anthemic rock that manages to be gloomy yet uplifting. Their recent hit single is one of the more joyous moments here, but they also offer class introspection."

AllMusic praised the album, calling it "a strangely effective fusion of string-drenched, sweeping arena rock and impassioned, brutally honest punk", noting that it contains "a searing passion and intelligence that is unmatched among their peers on either side of the ocean – and, in doing so, it emphasizes the Manics' uniqueness as one of the few bands of the '90s that can deliver albums as bracing intellectually as they are sonically."

The album won Best British Album, and the band Best British Group, at the 1999 BRIT Awards. The album was nominated for the 1999 Mercury Prize, but just like the previous album it failed to win the award. In the NME Awards in 1999, the band won every single big prize, Best Band, Best Album, Best Live Act, Best Single and Best Video. WOW!


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dswann01 said:
Picked up this used CD today. Was taped shut with a printed label, from a vendor selling only LP’s and CD’s.

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Got home ready to rock, but when I cut the tape and opened it this is what I found

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Got in a hurry and did not check the media. I know better.

Maybe I’ll enjoy some Van Morrison . . .
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Odd, I picked up a Metallica Ride the Lightning cassette today and the cassette that was in it was Justice for All... lol
 
Johnno_Oz said:
I haven't gone the premium speaker cable route.....yet. I do have some half decent interconnects on everything made by FosPower, good quality and reasonably priced. Added some clarity, eliminated TT hum and took away a bit of muddiness.

Recommended by a no BS member I interact with now and then on forum.
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I went to FosPower web site and checked out their RCA interconnects. Look like good cables at a very reasonable price. Reminds me of my favorite rat shack premium cables that used to buy. I may get a few of the FosPower cables.
 
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