You Love Us

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You Love Us, along with the much later Design For Life, is the song which catapulted the Manics into the music magazine glamour, into the hears and more importantly the minds of disaffected nineties youth, screaming for new heroes. Here was a band, a British band, with the wit of Wilde, the ferocious intellect of a thousand misunderstood literary icons, and the bombastic, flame-throwing music of bands we thought had ceased to exist. You Love Us exploded onto the charts with sharp, ironic lyrics, a song of self-defiance to what some fools nowadays call haters. You may have not seen or heard anything like them, you may have wanted to hurl abuse at them from behind middle class automatic gates, you may have been shocked at the clothes and the things they said and played- but you couldn't look away. You Loved Them. And as for the rest of us- hmm, well?

You Love Us, with it's furious drumming and lightening fast'n'short solos is the punk song G'n'R could never write. In turn it is clearly influenced by Axl, Slash and co, with it's Paradise City style beat down ending. Amidst the noise though is a song not only taking pot-shots at the press...  Read full review »