This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours: 20 Year Collectors' Edition (Deluxe)

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Norwegian album certifications – Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours" (in Norwegian). IFPI Norway . Retrieved 16 July 2014.

NME also named "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" the fifth best single of the year. [42]

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Their truth was one of desolation, darkness and despair. A band still coming to terms with the loss of someone they'd known from their school days yet perversely now a bigger draw than they'd ever been. Danishcharts.dk – Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours". Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 November 2013. Then there are the news or history songs - even the album title is a quotation from their fellow-countryman, 40's and 50's Labour Party left-wing firebrand politician Nye Bevan - where the hope is that the listener will be encouraged to read up more on the Spanish Civil War after hearing out the magnificent "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next", the tragic tale of the Silent Twins in the musically superb "Tsunami" and the rather strangely structured "S .Y.M.M.", although as has been proven correct by subsequent events, containing an accurate and justified denunciation of the South Yorkshire police force over their handling of the Hillsborough football disaster of 1986. There's also "Born A Girl" which shows early sympathy with the transgender community slthough unfortunately it's served up in a rather tuneless dirge. a b " Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Think about it this way: since they have reappeared, the Manics have had hit singles with a song that surveyed the history of the British working class, another about the death of a traumatised war photographer, and two concerning the vexed fall-out from their own messy history. Today, meanwhile, the piercing mewls of teenage hysteria must be momentarily silenced for a song that says “If I can shoot rabbits, then I can shoot fascists.”New Zealand album certifications – Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours". Recorded Music NZ . Retrieved 28 April 2022. a b " Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next". ARIA Top 50 Singles.

Dear Quote Investigator: A U.K politician expressed a willingness to hear alternative viewpoints by using the following expression: After the huge commercial success of the "Everything Must Go" album and its attendant singles, the Manics waited two years before releasing their follow-up album. Their timing was perfect, both the album and its lead single "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" leaping straight to number one and for a brief period they seemed to be the most important band around. Of course not all of This Is My Truth is as political. As Zupko’s Pitchfork review of the time says: “Essentially, Wire paints with much smaller brushes, focusing on self, relationships and family while penning the Manics' most emotional and personal set of lyrics ever.” But crucially, as she continues, “the personal is still informed by the political.” There are many moments of reflection and introspection, but peppered amongst them are political statements as grand and wide-reaching as the Manics have ever made.

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This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours was certainly the least abrasive batch of tunes Manic Street Preachers had recorded up to that point. The walking pace of songs like “I’m Not Working” and “Be Natural” required patience to reward, and even some of the upbeat songs had weary titles like “You’re Tender And You’re Tired” and “You Stole The Sun From My Heart.” a b " The Irish Charts – Search Results – If You Tolerate This Your Children......". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 2 February 2019. What makes it more effective is that whilst Wire provides the lyrics, the song is sung by the very manly form of James Dean Bradfield. The contrast in the medium and the message suddenly becomes very clear. “Born a Girl” arrives as a crucial understanding of the Manic Street Preachers as a whole. The lyrical content was always provided by Wire and Richey Edwards and the vocal duties fell to Bradfield to communicate the ideas as a union. This had always been a successful mutual partnership. On “Born a Girl,” there is suddenly awareness to the listener that the Manics are individuals each contributing to the whole.

Listinn Topp 100 – Vinsælustu Lögin '98". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 2 January 1999. p.34 . Retrieved 8 February 2020. a b "Manic Street Preachers - Official Single Charts". Official Charts . Retrieved 1 September 2013.

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Winner Best Album And Best Band Brit Awards 1999 Includes The Hit Singles If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next, The Everlasting And You Stole The Sun From My Heart If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (UK CD2 liner notes). Manic Street Preachers. Epic Records. 1998. 666345 5. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)