Gold Against The Soul (studio album) by Manic Street Preachers

Gold Against The Soul by Manic Street Preachers
Year: 1993
Overall rank: 2,269th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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74/100 (from 159 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1993 (36th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (402nd)
Award Best albums of all time (2,269th)
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Gold Against The Soul is ranked 5th best out of 18 albums by Manic Street Preachers on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Manic Street Preachers is The Holy Bible which is ranked number 474 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,676.

Manic Street Preachers album bestography « Higher ranked (2,064th) This album (2,269th) Lower ranked (2,658th) »
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 73.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.0.

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From 05/01/2020 14:57
My favourite MSP album, I like its punky energy, played this one to death when it first came out.
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From 01/12/2018 14:36
Distinctly average in places but it has its moments. There are some catchy and uplifting tunes like From Despair to Winere and Roses in the Hospital. Some fairly meat and potatoes stadium rock as well. They did this sort of thing more consistently well on Everything Must Go.
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Great album for running. I get a lot of energy from it.
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From 10/03/2014 16:21
The lyrics are amazing, the work of Richey is more obvious than on Generation Terrorists. This album in particular seems to go unnoticed by some MSP fans, which is a bit unfair in my eyes, because I think it's one of their best, second only to The Holy Bible.
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