Album of the day (#1343): Journal For Plague Lovers

[albummaster]

Today's album of the day

Journal For Plague Lovers by Manic Street Preachers (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 2009.
Country:
Overall rank: 1,250
Average rating: 76/100 (from 86 votes).

Tracks:
1. Peeled Apples
2. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
3. Me And Stephen Hawking
4. This Joke Sport Severed
5. Journal For Plague Lovers
6. She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach
7. Facing Page: Top Left
8. Marlon J.D.
9. Doors Closing Slowly
10. All Is Vanity
11. Pretension/Repulsion
12. Virginia State Epileptic Colony
13. William's Last Words

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[Skinny]

Easily the best Manics albums of the new millennium, but admittedly that isn't saying an awful lot (although I do have a soft spot for Send Away the Tigers, if only because it's actually fun). Seen as the "spiritual sequel to The Holy Bible" that this was advertised as, it comes up short, but taken on its own merits it's a damn fine album from a band who had all but forgotten how to make good albums. I still think the production is a little tame and radio-friendly given the themes and content here, but it still rocks compared to some of their other limp efforts. It's cool, the only Manics album outside of the first three (well, the first one and the third one) that I ever revisit.
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[SuedeSwede]

"The Journal for Plague Lovers album cover is ugly af"
-thejoj96
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[DanielNunes93]

One of the best albums I ever heard! Probably the pop album more dark I know, that songs have a emotional side so deep!