Sony
2004
The Holy Bible [us Mix]
About This Album
It's with no small sense of irony that the Manic Street Preachers' riveting, galvanizing classic third album, The Holy Bible, gets its first American release in 2005 as a lavish triple-disc set commemorating the tenth anniversary of its 1994 release. An album that was considered too difficult of a sell in 1994 is now given a deluxe treatment similar to Epic/Legacy's triple-disc 25th anniversary set of the Clash's London Calling -- an implicit acknowledgement that the Manics' high-water mark can sit comfortably next to an album considered one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded. To those who know The Holy Bible -- and it's a small, dedicated group of partisans, since it not only didn't see American shores, but didn't sell as well as previous or subsequent albums in the U.K. -- it's a comfortable comparison, but it's not quite an accurate one, no matter how much inspiration the Manics drew from the Clash. London Calling is a sprawling, exuberant celebration, so generous and big-hearted it can't be contained to a single album, whereas The Holy Bible is a bleak, introspective, insular album that's bracing in its darkness. It's not that The Holy Bible deliberately alienates listeners, but that it wears its pain too openly and presents it too vividly to be an easy listen.
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