This came out at a point in time when Brit Pop was on its last legs. The Manic Street Preachers were coming back from their own personal tragedy and I was on the ropes myself following a particularly bad personal break up. Hearing this takes me back to that particular moment in time. I survived of course as you always do. So did they, going on to sell more records than they ever had before.The 'libraries gave us power. Then work came and make us free,' opening gambit resonates as a pair of lines, angry, somewhat resigned, but also defiant as a comment about the lives that people had made for themselves as a result of and also despite the machinations of British political decisions. It reached Number 2 in the UK but should have been Number 1.
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