Manic Street Preachers – Know Your Enemy 3CD Deluxe Edition

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 3CD Bookset features both intended records in full, plus demos, outtakes, unused mixes by Tom Lord-Alge and tracks featured on the original ‘Know Your Enemy’, plus previously unseen photos from the recording sessions taken by regular collaborator Mitch Ikeda.

Tracklist:
Door To The River
1-1 The Year Of Purification
1-2 Ocean Spray
1-3 So Why So Sad (Avalanches Sean Penn Mix)
1-4 Door To The River
1-5 Rosebud
1-6 Just A Kid
1-7 His Last Painting
1-8 Let Robeson Sing
1-9 Groundhog Days
1-10 Epicentre

Solidarity
2-1 Intravenous Agnostic
2-2 Found That Soul (TLA Mix)
2-3 We Are All Bourgeois Now
2-4 Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children
2-5 The Convalescent
2-6 Baby Elian
2-7 Masses Against The Classes
2-8 My Guernica
2-9 Studies In Paralysis
2-10 Dead Martyrs
2-11 Wattsville Blues
2-12 Miss Europa Disco Dancer

Demos
3-1 Ocean Spray (Studio Demo) 2:56
3-2 So Why So Sad (Cassette Demo) 3:36
3-3 Door To The River (Cassette Demo) 4:53
3-4 His Last Painting (Air Version Home Cassette Demo) 4:05
3-5 Let Robeson Sing (Home Cassette Demo) 2:37
3-6 Groundhog Days (Home Cassette Demo) 3:01
3-7 Epicentre (Cassette Demo) 4:01
3-8 Intravenous Agnostic (Home Cassette Demo) 2:26
3-9 Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children (Studio Demo) 2:57
3-10 The Convalescent (Studio Rehearsal Demo) 5:29
3-11 His Last Elian (Studio Demo) 3:23
3-12 Masses Against The Classes (Studio Demo) 2:25
3-13 My Guernica No 1 (Home Acoustic Demo) 4:25
3-14 My Guernica (Studio Demo) 4:10
3-15 Dead Martyrs (Home Cassette Demo) 3:28
3-16 Wattsville Blues (Home Cassette Demo) 2:44

Label: Columbia
Released: 2001/2022