OMFG: Manics make Richey record with Albini!

Ohmygodohmygodohmygod...

I remember reading about all those lyrics that Richey left behind shortly after the event. JDB said that they were even bleaker than The Holy Bible and were about cutting the feet off ballerinas etc.

I would be horrified if they produced a schmaltzy bloated fm friendly record of these lyrics - working with Steve Albini is probably the best way of avoiding this.

Just imagine a stripped down raw manics album with amazing lyrics - that could be amazing. Or it could be a compromised car-crash of a record full of lyrics that show nothing but how mentally unstable the guy was, sung by an overweight, middle aged soft rock fan.

won't even be as good as razorblade suitcase.

on faster in full albini analogue hissy production mode

at the very least it's the most interesting news to come out of camp Manics in years!

Sure, maybe now that sales have slowed to a trickle, it 'feels like the right time to use them'. This isn't quite as sickening as Nicky 'finally telling the truth about Richey' in a 6-page puff-piece in the NME last year, but the idea that Albini's involvement makes this any less of a desperate scrabble for a last shred of limelight is a pretty poor joke. Albini won't be at the helm of anything, he just operates the recording equipment. His uncompromising attitude to recording has often brought out the best in artists, but it always creeps me out to see his name wave around as a badge of authenticity.

Picture the scene, cigar-chomping record execs sitting around in piles of unsold Robbie Williams cds..

"What we gonna do with these Manics then, are they under contract?"

"Yeah, couple more records, but who gives a fuck? No-one's given a shit since they started losing their hair. Can't we get the drummer to do a dubstep album or something?"

"Nah, he's more of a gardener. What we need is Richey back. How's the impersonator search going?"

"His mother found out. Big hoo-ha. Threatened to go to the press. 'parently she's a bit touchy 'bout the whole thing."

"Jeeeez. That's that then. Let's just get Nicky to pretend he's found some of Richey's old lyrics, that'll get em drooling over their feather boas for a new record. We'll do a deluxe edition with a free razorblade"

"Errrr, see what you're saying, see what you're saying, but some of the fans might not go for it. Not 'authentic' enough, or some shite."

"Oh, send em to that miserable get who did that Nirvana album, they'll lap it up.."

should be an interesting listen and picking Albini is a genius move. Can't help feeling that the last 10 years of them being shit will be difficult to rescind.

Probably got sick of writing music for Nicky's increasingly worrying "poetry"... see Autumn Song "Oh baby what have to your hair / done to your hair" and Underdogs "This one's for the freaks..." and so on. There definitely won't be a Miss Europa Disco Dancer or Wattsville Blues on this one, that's for sure.

it better be good!

A record worth getting excited about.

as long as he's TAPPING HIS FOOT it'll all be ok

I agree with you!

what's going ON???!?!??!

because his lyrics really were great,weren't they??

is albini short of money? i'd happily start a collection for him not to record it....
how desperate must they be? flogging a dead horse.

teenage flashback!

cripes

And there's nothing any of you can do about it.

Albini doesn't even produce, just records songs as they are played, with the use of his preferred equipment set ups. He's not like most producers who polish turds with layers of guitars and keyboards and whatnot. The bands have got to supply the great songs, not leave it down to Albini.

all their albums are SHIT. and im old enough to know, thanks.
plus
" for a while they were the most exciting british band around"
WERE = then.
this album = dad rock NOW

is a million miles away from the pub-rock blandisms the Manics put on record nowadays, you clearly haven't listened to Generation Terrorists properly to dismiss it as 'SHIT'. What that album needs is a remastering. I cite it as the greatest debut album of all time. More passion, power, ideas and politics than most bands put out in a lifetime on one record. Even Gold Against the Soul is only their 3rd best album. Everything after Everything Must Go gets exponentially worse.

i that passing opinions on albums that aren't even finished yet is absurd. And opinions aren't facts.

Maybe Albini will iron out the dadrockisms? He may be a 'recorder' rather than a 'producer' but it's unlikely to come out sounding like Genesis I would say.

will produce anyone that asks. as he has the right to. as its his job.

yawn loud enough.

it's pretty good.