***TRIGGER WARNING - this week’s show includes discussion on mental health issues including depression, self-harm and suicide. PLEASE make sure you’re in the right frame of mind to hear about those subjects, and talk to someone if you are feeling vulnerable. In the UK, the number for the Samaritans is 116 123. Take care of yourselves.***
The final clash in our Britpop season sees two of Britain’s most enduring bands go head-to-head, as we pit Manic Street Preachers’ ‘Everything Must Go’ against The Charlatans’ ‘Tellin’ Stories’. Two groups who both overcame tragedy to achieve phenomenal commercial and critical acclaim, and who used that success to outlast all of their contemporaries.
This week the Manics are up first, as Tim takes us back to 1996 to learn how the band coped with the loss of Richie Edwards and recorded one of the defining albums of the 90s. Along the way we hear about how a Phil Spector inspired indie anthem inspired the band to get back in the studio, and talk about the huge risk the band took in deciding a new musical direction. We also find out what (the oft outspoken) Nicky Wire thinks of Pulp and Blur, and we discover which classic Britpop album influenced the album’s sound. We also have A LOT to say about ‘Manics fans’ - feather boas, tiny backpacks and all…
In our latest ‘can’t get you out of my head’ Kev speaks of the trauma of having to listen to a 90s sub-disco pop atrocity, and Tim discusses his latest act of masochism in recalling one of Britpop’s less memorable artists…
This. Is. ALBUM CLASH!
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