Manic Street Preachers - New Art Riot Lyrics
Vintage aromas and vintage ideals
Old men greying to a dying country's needs
Waiting for a knighthood to while away the hours
Listen and learn now it's time to kill your betters
Paint mass suicide on the aspiration diktat
Hospital closure kills more than car bombs ever will
But it saves money because people are expendable
You cold shoulder insurgents yet love arms dealers
Everybody's taking drugs as it makes governing easier
Museums are dead take a new art stance
Paint mass suicide on the aspiration diktat
Sell out the past and learn to obey
Revolution soon dies sold out for a pay rise
China, Russia, England, all washed up in power abuse
Terrorism is an excuse that the ruling class use
Wipe out aristocracy now kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
England makes judgements of old school propaganda
The only threat to heads is silenced by dumb pleasure
Museums are dead take a new art stance
Paint mass suicide on the aspiration diktat
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Manic Street Preachers New Art Riot Comments
dead snow
Just been given this EP signed by James, Nicky and Sean for Christmas....get in there.
To this day Sean has kept is tightness with his drum playing
How has Bradfield's voice got *less* hoarse over the decades?
DJ Newt Old and living in the past. you have become everything you hated!!!
Still have this on vinyl :D
the last great band.
No Surface All Feeling was actually written with Richey, and features his guitar... and this song kicks ass :P
Woah, the lyrics of this song are an ideological bomb!
So aggressive and ripe
true that, lost in the supermarket espec
Hospital closures kill more then car bombs ever will
re: The Holy Bible, Amen to that! Tbh I was being unnecessarily provocative. I prefer New Art Riot to anything on the first Clash album, which it most closely imitates in style, but Mick Jones in particular wrote some utterly sublime songs.
Its your taste I suppose, Imo they had some absolutely brilliant moments on their last three albums and I prefer almost anything on London Calling to this particular song. The Holy Bible however would get my vote for the best album ever made.
It was spelled both ways in the early days. And this pisses on anything The Clash did.
This is an incredible post punk track from The Manics, it totally was a hell of a first single to introduce themselves, perhaps this was them arguably at their most fierce.
@happyman64issocool who said this is better than design for life? i didn't, and no not every manics song has great lyrics
@fuckamericanidiot true but saying this is better than a design for life is stupid. Don't get me wrong I love Suicide Alley, Strip it Down and Dead Yankee Drawl, but this isn't a great song. And every manics song has good lyrics ;)
@happyman64issocool they were so young, cut them some slack, these are good lyrics too
@Bryanrobsonsliver , personally i think this is a little crap, and that songs like no surface all feeling are a million times better than this kinda faux clash sound. and its Richey not Richie
Haven't heard this in ages. Thanks!
@fromdespair2where Thanks for posting this mate. I've loved that Manics since Gold against the Soul ☺ I managed to get a copy of this on Vinyl. Only played it once!
"Hospital closures kill more than car bombs ever will"
To this day, it's my favourite line of theirs.
"hate is art and we steal cars" wins it for me! Strip It Down.
@Bryanrobsonsliver save it will ya.
@Bryanrobsonsliver
except it plainly isn't.
Can't believe this was nearly 20 years ago, makes me feel old!
that would be great thanks very much
can ye send it to me please?
this reminds me of jumping around my bedroom with my best mate thinking we were the female Nicky and Richey -17years ago!!!!!
so good.
This song has some of the most truth-filled lyrics the Manics have ever written. The fact that it's spelled out so plainly just makes it more in-your-face, which I appreciate.
same for me.....you can buy it on itunes i think
FUCK THE NEW WORLD ORDER
chinese mean 狂街傳教士 ... YA Rock on
Cheers for the video. Don't think this is a very good song to be honest, they had to grow up a lot even by the time of their first album by the sounds of it. The lyrics are fine but as others have said, James used to be shit at singing, and other than that it's just an average punk rock song.
Don't totally agree, the two tracks you mentioned are still angry tunes lyrically, just channeled in a different style. Also I think the ' know your enemy ' album had flashes of the old style manics as well. Don't get me wrong, love this era of their music too but I wouldn't say it's better. Of course, Holy Bible will always be tops for me!
can't help but love this goodness
He got a voice coach, he's mentioned somewhere in Everything (the book).
His voice really has matured, but it's worth noting that at this time he considered himself a guitarist who had to sing as there was no-one else!
Mmmhmm.. because Seanus (erm..Sean) is superior!!
lol, gotta love that adorable Sean <3
haha, yeah that wouldve been a good stunt if richey had committed self immolation and flung himself in the direction of prince philip!
Ceremonial Rape Machine, i love that title.
what you mean before nicky was likely to try and break in and start hoovering the miles and miles of carpets?