THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
248-Manic Street Preachers-Motorcycle Emptiness.
1992-Number 17 single.
Best Bit-At 5.20.It might not be totally true but the bands founding member James Dean Bradfield relates that while busking one day in Cardiff he got in to an altercation with someone(sometimes said to be a homeless man) who asked him,’What are you,boyo,some kind of manic street preacher.’
‘The Manics'(see also best songs 901) formed in 1986 at Oakdale Comprehensive School,Blackwood,South Wales.The original lineup was James Dean Bradfield,Nicky Wire and Sean Moore,they were soon joined by Richey Edwards who was a band member until his mysterious disappearance in 1995,he has never been found and was declared dead in 2008.
Motorcycle Emptiness has been interpreted by the band as an attack on the hollowness of the consumer lifestyle offered by capitalism,describing how society expects young people to conform.
‘Each day living out a lie,life sold cheaply forever,ever,ever.’
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