Manic Street Preachers(often known colloquially as "The Manics") are a Welsh rock band often associated with the Britpop scene, who gained mainstream popularity in the UK in the late 1990s. They are known for their intelligent and often political lyrics and have a dedicated cult following. Although during the early part of their career they were regarded as a punk rock band, their music is now often generally regarded as alternative rock, due to changes in their sound. Co-lyricist and guitarist Richey James Edwards (Richey James, as he preferred to be known) mysteriously disappeared in 1995; his whereabouts is unknown. Politically, the Manics appear as a socialist group — a stance inflected by their working class upbringing in Blackwood, south Wales (they grew up during the miners' strike of the 1980s) as evidenced by their often highly politicised lyrics and actions (they once dedicated an award to Arthur Scargill, leader of the National Union of Mineworkers and later the Socialist Labour Party).
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Manic Street Preachers
Bill and ted and waynes world drawl
Just another dull fucking bore
Vietnams cool now even supermans believed
Hussein still in power as the media war retreats
Suck your honey until you choke
You are a mechanism of social control
Multi-national aim of one world culture
Turning one dollar into another and another
Dead yankee drawl hey we got your beat
Dead yankee drawl hey we love oscar
Smothering injustice seen through starving eyes
Tearing down forests just to earn a buck
Killed off literature for sex and violence
Fed a generation the equivalent of silence
Dragged jack down to self same bigotry
Passive acceptance of a consumer society
Fake sentiments tying up contracts
Making idols of guitars and haircuts
Multi-national aim of one world culture
Turning one dollar into another and another
Dead yankee drawl hey we got your beat
Dead yankee drawl hey we love oscar
Smothering injustice seen through red indian eyes
Silent race war of sweet hollywood lies
Lets go down to greenwich village and desecrate
The noraid slogans that justify 6 countries hate
Lets go down redondo beach and wax body company
Cos reality for t.v. is disney, not king, rodney
Lets go down to indiana youth centre quickly
Tysons money aint as free as junior kennedys
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