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Manic Street Preachers — Sleepflower
Album: Gold Against The Soul
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Released: 1993
Length: 4:50
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Morning always seems too stale to justify
Lament blossoms, hours, minutes of our minds
Broken thoughts run through your empty mind
At least a beaten dog knows how to lie

I feel like I'm missing pieces of sleep
A memory fades to a, a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety

Endless hours in bed, no peace, in this mind
No one knows the hell where innocence dies
Fragments crawling like cobwebs on stone
Blows away the safety only a sleeping pill knows

I feel like I'm missing pieces of sleep
A memory fades to a, a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety

I feel like I'm missing pieces of sleep
A memory fades to a, a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety
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So good to hear this track from Wales's finest on the Rock Mix. Picked me up on a wet weekend in Melbourne. More classic Manics please!
Posted 4 months ago by paj    [ Reply ]
YES! How totally sizzling! Love the rocking, slashing guitars and raw, hell-bent vocals... Kinda like The Cult!
Posted 1 year ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 passsion8 wrote:

Sounds like the vocalist from the Scorpions



yeah! you nailed that. that's wild! i never thought of it.
Posted 1 year ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
7 > 8.  That is solid rock and roll. 
Posted 1 year ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
Bump.  7 > 8.  That sounds like a lot of other bands.  Only, on this track, better.  Kickin ass. 
Posted 2 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
Bloody excellent. Very pleasantly surprised to hear this on RP!
Posted 2 years ago by libertinesupreme    [ Reply ]
 Jeffrey_Mishik wrote:

this is irritating



Inhale some ether, I've cranked the volume. 
Posted 2 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
this is irritating
Posted 2 years ago by Jeffrey_Mishik    [ Reply ]
Love songs that the rhythm guitar chords get my fingers making poses of the finger positions... 
Posted 2 years ago by xrdstv    [ Reply ]
 justDave wrote:

Ouch! Please make it go away. What's next Guns n Roses?


In the summer of 1987 no teenager could go anywhere without hearing "Appetite for Destruction." Thick in the middle of the exclusionary age of jocks, nerds, punks, motorheads, etc.,  "Appetite" was the one thing that all teenagers seemed to agree on. Good times for all, and what a summer it was. 
Posted 2 years ago by Kajukenbo    [ Reply ]
 dougnichols wrote:

Love the hard rock sound.  Yes, it reminds me of the Scorps.

liked Meine's vocals and Schenker's guitar better

Posted 2 years ago by xcranky_yankee    [ Reply ]
Decent album by MSP, to be fair - obviously not a patch on the follow up The Holy Bible, but songs like La Tristesse Durera and Roses in the Hospital - and not on the album but released just before it, Suicide is Painless - are great, to me đź‘Ť Just my two cents, as they say.
Posted 2 years ago by CCSandman    [ Reply ]
Love the hard rock sound.  Yes, it reminds me of the Scorps.
Posted 2 years ago by dougnichols    [ Reply ]
Good tune, but not great. I never heard of them before. Thankx RP! I will listen again, maybe it will grow on me.
Posted 2 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
 DaidyBoy wrote:

17 years between comments?  See you in 2037...



Unfortunately it’s not to be…. Back again and now in regular rotation it seems…. Was hoping for a longer respite 
Posted 3 years ago by ckcotton    [ Reply ]
 passsion8 wrote:

Sounds like the vocalist from the Scorpions



Ancient Latins would say "si parva licet componere magnis".
Posted 3 years ago by nicknt    [ Reply ]
I turned this on as I was washing dishes and couldn't hear it well - thought it was 'To Cry You Song' by Tull.
Posted 3 years ago by stevesaw    [ Reply ]
Coming from 1993, it's not as grundgy as I would like it, but my head is still banging.  Solid 7.
Posted 3 years ago by ksschapp    [ Reply ]
What's worse than George Orwell's dystopia "1984"? Having survived 1984 and all its shit music, only to see it come back into vogue... Maybe some Kings of Leon next for my 38 Special fix??
Posted 3 years ago by ShortSharpShock    [ Reply ]
Not one of the tracks I know of these guys, quite different actually, it rocks pretty hard. I give it props just for that.
Posted 3 years ago by bahalana    [ Reply ]
 passsion8 wrote:
Sounds like the vocalist from the Scorpions
 
Fortunately, the rest doesn't.
Posted 3 years ago by sunnyS    [ Reply ]
One of the most underrated post punk/new wave rock acts in the World. Brilliant live too
Posted 3 years ago by garydgould    [ Reply ]
Vocals remind me of Klaus Meine of Scorpions, no?
Posted 4 years ago by More_Cowbell    [ Reply ]
Punchy,gritty and full on✌️
Posted 4 years ago by Easyrider    [ Reply ]
Cool song! Rock and roll! 
Posted 4 years ago by wyrd    [ Reply ]
17 years between comments?  See you in 2037...
Posted 4 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
Posted 5 years ago by jelgator    [ Reply ]
Sounds like the vocalist from the Scorpions
Posted 5 years ago by passsion8    [ Reply ]
The RP rating says it all.
Posted 21 years ago by leathepea    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by justDave: Ouch! Please make it go away. What's next Guns n Roses?
I think they are on tour with Whitesnake and Dokken this summer. After this song, I may have to go raise my Luther Wright ratings.
Posted 21 years ago by rgio    [ Reply ]
Ouch! Please make it go away. What\'s next Guns n Roses?
Posted 21 years ago by justDave    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by trancefussion: less, less, less I know nothing about their music, but I hope this is just a weak showcase.
This is the sort of music that has kept the Preachers at their level of success. A degree of a "tin ear" involved if they can't hear how this sounds like a '90's version Spinal Tap doing 80's music. FWIW, I really LOVE, "If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next".
Posted 21 years ago by mperry    [ Reply ]
less, less, less I know nothing about their music, but I hope this is just a weak showcase.
Posted 21 years ago by trancefussion    [ Reply ]