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Originally Posted by Rik  I agree, I hadn't listened to it, or the Manics, for ages before I found myself playing Small Black Flowers on my guitar the other week, it's a great album and because of the circumstances regarding the writing and recording in the months following Richey's disappearance (I refuse to believe suicide), it's a triumph for the band 
It certainly is a massive change in sound and direction compared to the bleakness and harsh sounding Holy Bible from two years earlier! |
I always felt that Holy Bible was their creative pinnacle and I never really liked the change in direction after Richey.