Send Away the Tigers [Import]

Manic Street Preachers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 15, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sony Bmg Europe
• ASIN: B000NJLQUQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #257,266 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

MANIC STREET PREACHERS Send Away The Tigers (2007 Taiwanese edition 10-track CD album produced by Dave Eringa and sees the boys return to an ambitious edgier and energetic rock sound [The Clash and The Sex Pistols are our biggest inspirations Nicky Wire] and includes the single Your Love Alone Is Not Enough which features Nina Persson of The Cardigans picture booklet + obi-strip - sealed)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Manics are truly back on top!, May 14, 2007

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H. Yu "smashnthrash" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Send Away the Tigers (Audio CD)

It's been only three years since their last release Lifeblood. Lifeblood, in my humble opinion was a decent album brimming with a big, bright sound production and great songs (some serious, fast-paced, and melancholy; others confident and poised). Unfortunately, the album debuted and peaked at #13 on the UK album chart, and fell off the chart two weeks later! This was the album that should've been the big comeback from the somewhat disappointing Know Your Enemy...

Well, now it's 2007. In a nutshell, SATT does remind me of their 1996 masterpiece Everything Must Go, which is not a bad thing at all! This time around, the Manics sound much more optimistic and confident than ever. Loud guitars, a backing string section, and James Dean Bradfield's soaring tenor voice are more than enough to keep my attention. Heck, even Nina Persson (lead singer of the Swedish band The Cardigans) and Nicky Wire contribute greatly to the vocals on "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough". Other highlights include the thumping bass on "The Second Great Depression", the sixteenth notes played in 4/4 time in the intro guitar riff for "Indian Summer", and the Guns N'Roses-like guitar riff for "Autumnsong". And did I forget to mention that the Manics go rockabilly on "Imperial Bodybags"?

It's a darn shame that this fine album is available only on import (for us North American fans anyway). It's a bigger shame that the Manics aren't that well known here in the States. Send Away The Tigers is already one of the best albums of the year!

By the way, in case you're wondering, Tigers recently debuted at #2 on the UK chart...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Return to form, May 28, 2007

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MORTEN AASTAD (Oslo Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Send Away the Tigers (Audio CD)

The Manics are back! Not that they had gone anywhere, they just, faultered, a little bit.

Their last two albums are not favorites of mine. Know your enemy was unfocused and for the first time, their views and oppinions felt like they weren't delivered, as much as rammed down my throat. As for their next effort, lifeblood, it just seemed so wishy washy. Squishy even.

This time they have gotten their house in order. The songs are delivered right away. You hardly get time to relax before one sharp hook is delivered after another. The lyrics are a lot more of everything this time as well. And when things might start to sound a bit too familliar, in comes 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough'. Bringing in a female voice, the wonderful Nina Persson of The Cardigans, ads another dimension, and lets you sing along to what should be deemed as the pop/rock singel of 2007.

I was a bit worried when I saw the cover. It looks like a Beautiful South album (not that I don't like that band, I do, and they will be sorely missed). I thought perhaps they had gone in some sort of nostalgic pop tune direction.

But, one song in and my worries were laid aside.

This is easily one of my top 5 albums for album of the year, so far, in 2007.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great return to form!, June 6, 2007

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Lovblad (Geneva, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Send Away the Tigers (Audio CD)

The manics never do things in a half-baked way. If it is good it is excellent and if it is not I am not that interested. After reaching their high point (OK the previous efforts were also great) with Everythinng must go, they had soemehow lost breath but now they seem to have bounced back with new energy. The first song "Send away the tigers"statrs of in their typical instantly recognizable rocking and epic way. there is no doubt that this is their nest record of the last 10 years.