Manic Street Preachers – Know Your Enemy 2LP

Manic Street Preachers – Know Your Enemy

‘KNOW YOUR ENEMY’ REMIXED, RECONSTRUCTED AND RE-ISSUED AS TWO SEPARATE ALBUMS AS ORIGINALLY INTENDED: ‘SOLIDARITY’ AND ‘DOOR TO THE RIVER’

Following the success of 1998’s’ This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours’, Manic Street Preachers planned an ambitious follow-up to be released as two distinct albums: an aggressive, rapid fire return to their roots called ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Door To The River’, a more conciliatory, reflective collection. During the recording sessions, the band got cold feet and settled on a single album that forced often conflicting ideas to sit side by side on the same record.

Whilst going through the band’s archive to put together an anniversary version of ‘Know Your Enemy’, Nicky Wire found the original tapes of ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Door To The River’ that he’d made up in the studio during recording. When he put forward the idea of recreating those records, James Dean Bradfield agreed on the condition that he could remix the entire record with the band’s longtime studio partner Dave Eringa.

Author and long-term band collaborator Robin Turner explains in his expansive sleeve notes that this release is “the Director’s Cut of ‘Know Your Enemy’. The picture has been painstakingly restored, cleaned up, brightened. Although it doesn’t aim to replace the original, it most certainly enhances it.”

This vinyl edition ‘Know Your Enemy’ Deluxe Edition, presents ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Door To The River’ in the same order as originally planned in 2000, and includes 2 previously unreleased gems in Rosebud and Studies in Paralysis

Tracklist:
Door To The River
A1 The Year Of Purification
A2 Ocean Spray
A3 So Why So Sad (Avalanches Sean Penn Mix)
A4 Door To The River
A5 Rosebud

B6 Just A Kid
B7 His Last Painting
B8 Let Robeson Sing
B9 Groundhog Days
B10 Epicentre

Solidarity
C1 Intravenous Agnostic
C2 Found That Soul
C3 We Are All Bourgeois Now
C4 Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children
C5 The Convalescent
C6 Baby Elian

D7 Masses Against The Classes
D8 My Guernica
D9 Studies In Paralysis
D10 Dead Martyrs
D11 Wattsville Blues
D12 Miss Europa Disco Dancer

Label: Columbia
Released: 2001/2022