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Nearly every Manics fan I know says; "JFPL was their last truly great album."

Honestly, not a bad shout. And I was enjoying the fuck out of Critical Thinking today, for example.

What's yr opinions??

The thing I love about Manics is how they make you think. But back in the day, they used to get their points across with arrogant declarations and actions. Did anyone here get annoyed by these things? I have mates who call them 'pretentious' which I find difficult to refute tbh, because of their perceived way of intellectually looking down on others. But it never stopped me listening to them!

Is the remastered version of Generation Terrorists very different from the original?

I'm in the process of updating my entire library to lossless and recently I listened to Generation Terrorists again. Where it used to sound perfectly good years ago on the discman or as a 192kb file on the iPod; it unfortunately doesn't sound so good on a modern, quite resolving, system.

So to those that have heard both, how does the remaster sound as opposed to the original?

I was watching Linkin Park and, even though it's due to tragic circumstances, I think Emily Armstrong has rejuvenated the band, and her vocals give the older material a new perspective.

Some of the Manics best songs recently have been duets with female singers such as the anchoress, and I think a frontwoman would give the band an interesting new dynamic. Plus it would give James's voice a rest and he could concentrate on riffs.