ShandyH
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Manic Street Preachers in front of a Soviet flag. Is that supposed to reflect their love of communism? It looks utterly idiotic now.
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[Politics] Totp 1992
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clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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I wouldn't overthink what a record company marketing executive thought was "edgy" in the 1990s. I also recall there was a perceived "coolness" about Soviet art in the 90s and the Manic Street Preachers weren't the only ones using it.
As for their love of communism:
Cuba was what I expected. Communism is a failure – I’m fully aware of that. I just wanted to see the one place it still operates. People go on about the poverty in Cuba, but the life expectancy is 79.4 years. That’s not poverty. Africa is poverty. And the education – everyone I met spoke English. I was impressed by certain parts, but the reality of a communist state was… a reality. There were elements of it that were absolutely shit.
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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I'm always incredibly uncomfortable when I see that iconography, for one reason and one reason only. I've had a few friends who grew up under that regime and they haven't become screaming right wing nationalists either or fans of the "Imperialist West".
It really pains them to see it as "cool" in the West.
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92 is a memorable year personally, TOTP is not on the list, utter gash.
- Oct 17, 2008
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He's quite good in the Evita movie, though
Some good songs in that year, TOTP 1992 spectacularly (yet again) went for a stack of cheesy or the editors pet favourites.
Which has just reminded me of my favourite drunken debate in a while, from a friend's 50th in December just gone - "Was Jimmy Nail Balearic?".
Lower West Stander
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I watched too and it was terrible.
Apart from Bobby Gillespie, it was just faceless, production belt shite.
There was was some great stuff being done in the early 90s but precisely none of it seemed to be on TOTP
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boik
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I enjoyed seeing TWP and Carter USM.
London Irish
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Because everything has gone swimmingly in Russia since 1992 after its rejection of Communism and embrace of huge privatisation and capitalism?
Another corker single from 92. Don't remember it on TOTP. The wimps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWjBPIbJMzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWjBPIbJMzY
Randy McNob
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- Jun 13, 2020
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amazed how many big songs that year produced. For me, that period was the Zenith of music eras; Heavy metal was at it's best, Metallica and Iron Maiden led the way, Grunge emerged, Nirvana released Nevermind, House music, Drum and Bass, and rave culture was exploding. Was a great time to be a teenager
Ooh it’s a corner
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I give in - I’m playing too