Album of the day (#3013): Send Away The Tigers

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Today's album of the day

Send Away The Tigers by Manic Street Preachers (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 2007.
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Overall rank: 2,658
Average rating: 73/100 (from 99 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Send Away The Tigers
2. Underdogs
3. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (Feat. Nina Persson)
4. Indian Summer
5. The Second Great Depression
6. Rendition
7. Autumnsong
8. I'm Just A Patsy
9. Imperial Bodybags
10. Winterlovers

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[mickilennial]

my first manics album, still holds up pretty damn well

[StreakyNuno]

I never gave importance to this band but I heard this whole album and I was really surprised because it's really nice. Which of the Manic should I hear next?

[mickilennial]

[CharlieBarley]

Great album. Love the Manics.

Your Love Alone is one of my favourite songs of all time and my fav song by them. Obvs they got help in the vocal department by the beautiful Nina Persson.

[mickilennial]

[StreakyNuno]

I really liked it a lot

[Mythtall]

Can I point out The Second Great Depression is one of the most underrated Manics songs of all time Definitely single quality.

[Graeme2]

Someone at work was on about this album the other day. I should check out this and more of their stuff because I saw them on their last tour and they were still good. I just like them as blokes which I guess endears me to them more. People can be quite sniffy about them unfortunately.

[AdrianHula]

Post Britpop Manic Street Preachers follow both Nicky Wire and James releasing solo albums that nobody bought. The lead single on 'Send Away The Tigers' in contrast sailed straight to number two on the UK singles charts. They proved they had a chemistry, even after all those years. Opening the album is the title track, a fine anthemic slice of rock music many a thirty-something will be happy to have blaring out of their car windows.

'Your Love Is Not Enough' is a duet with that woman from The Cardigans and it's patently clear why this has been released as a single. It's not only perhaps the best song here by some distance, but actually, one of the finest britpop singles not to be a britpop single, because britpop of course no longer exists. I mean, even Tony 'Britpop' Blair is no longer Prime Minister. I don't know what my thoughts or hopes for this album were. Nothing really. 'Lifeblood' hardly thrilled me and a song like 'The 2nd Great Depression' lacks both the fire and wit of prime Manics. 'The Second Great Depression' proves that this band have tried to go back to 'Everything Must Go'. So, we get string sections all over the place purely to boost the sound rather than need to be there. Everything is turned upto 11 and James Dean Bradfield shouts a good half of his lyrics even when they don't need to be. Still, repeated plays get the choruses into your brain anyway and it's thus for 'The Second Great Depression'. The production contains a confidence, 'Rendition' almost justifies such confidence. You can sing along to it, which is good.

Finding actively bad songs is a struggle actually. Fans can safely apply or re-apply to the Manic Street Preachers station and be sure to be satisfied. 'Indian Summer' for example sounds like it could be a single, and several other songs here do, although 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough' which was a single is ahead of all the other pretenders in the catchy stakes. 'Autumn Song' was released in the middle of Spring - that's just silly! It's also one of the finest James Dean Bradfield vocals here and one of the best songs. The epic sounding Queen-like production serves the band well.

I'll always have a soft spot for stuff like 'Know Your Enemy' and the under produced Manics myself. It's all very well-being in the studio and fiddling around with knobs (no Justin Hawkins jokes, please) to boost your sound. Actually using the studio creatively is another matter. Still, this remains a fine album. It's not an essential album by any means, but I can't not like it. There's nothing here not to like.