This album is nice
This album is nice
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Yeah, I was crazy about this album when I was 18.
I appreciated it later because at 18 I was still in my edgy The Holy Bible phase
AND ON THE STREET TONIGHT AN OLD MAN PLAYS
There's something about SYMM but in general it's one of my favourite Manic albums. If there's something that truly bothers me is the selection of singles, they're very good song but I think they only tell half of the story apart from If You Tolerate This.
Something about SYMM that doesn't click with me like Nobody Loved You*/ does*
Tolerate is a great choice for the single, but I think commercially You Stole the Sun from My Heart was also an excellent choice, even if its not one of my favourite tracks. The Everlasting and Tsunami I have doubts about, mainly the latter.
The lyrics to SYMM are pseudo-philosophical pretentious wank. Shame because the music (and especially production) are great and musically its one of my favs on the album
Tsunami is too slow and too much of an outcast commercially to be a single in my opinion, it's not very easy to digest even though I like it. I'm still perplexed as to how The Everlasting didn't chart any higher though since it has that similar pop vibe Tolerate has.
I think that's it, the bittersweet melodrama of Nobody Loved You's lyrics fit way better as a closer than SYMM specially because they leave that sourly sad taste in your mouth at the end that in my opinion is great at delivering the final motif of grief that the rest of the album has, SYMM seems to resolve that taste and leaves me confused at the end.
>AND NOT THIS MESS OF A MAN