Visit the official Doctor Who website

Visit the official Doctor Who website
Look to the future

Asylum seekers...

Asylum seekers...
Refuge of the Daleks

Doctor Who picture resource

Doctor Who picture resource
Roam the space lanes!

Explore the Doctor Who classic series website

Explore the Doctor Who classic series website
Step back in time

Infiltrate The Hub of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood

Infiltrate The Hub of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood
Armed and extremely dangerous

Investigate The Sarah Jane Adventures

Investigate The Sarah Jane Adventures
Fearless in the face of adversity

Call on Dani’s House

Call on Dani’s House
Harmer’s a charmer

Intercept the UFO fabsite

Intercept the UFO fabsite
Defending the Earth against alien invaders!

Uncover the secrets of the Dollhouse

Uncover the secrets of the Dollhouse
Programmable agent Echo exposed!

Hell’s belles

Hell’s belles
Naughty but nice

Love Exposure

Love Exposure
Flash photography!

Primeval portal

Primeval portal
Dressed to kill or damsels in distress?

Charmed, to be sure!

Charmed, to be sure!
The witches of San Francisco

Take on t.A.T.u.

Take on t.A.T.u.
All the way from Moscow

Proceed to the Luther website

Proceed to the Luther website
John and Jenny discuss their next move

DCI Banks is on the case

DCI Banks is on the case
You can bet on it!

On The Grid with Spooks

On The Grid with Spooks
Secret agents of Section D

Bridge to Hustle

Bridge to Hustle
Shady characters

Life on Ashes To Ashes

Life on Ashes To Ashes
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Claire’s no Exile

Claire’s no Exile
Goose steps

Vexed is back on the beat!

Vexed is back on the beat!
Mismatched DI Armstrong and bright fast-tracker Georgina Dixon

Medium, both super and natural

Medium, both super and natural
Open the door to your dreams

Who’s that girl? (350-picture Slideshow)

Wednesday 16 May 2007

Manic Street Preachers ft Nina Persson - Your Love Alone is Not Enough



I’ve never been a fan of the Manic Street Preachers but, much like U2, I don’t dislike them either! I think it’s because I’m attracted more to pop songs with unusual chord progressions rather than the usual bog-standard three or four. But, it hasn’t stopped Bob Dylan from being a revered songwriter and, like Mr Zimmerman, I think the point of the Manics is their politics. I presume the song that springs to most people’s minds, that best represents their ideology, is “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next”.

Having long been a fan of The Cardigans, however, I was curious to discover how the duet turned out between their lead singer Nina Persson and James Dean Bradfield, lead singer of the Manics. There’s some dodgy word setting but the English language is notoriously difficult to set to music. German is much easier! But Nina’s looking good, not that that has anything to do with how it sounds, and it’s a fun video, in which the two stages are joined together in a show of unity, so I’ve posted “Your Love Alone is Not Enough”, the first single from the Manic Street Preachers’ new album “Send Away the Tigers”, for you to make up your own minds!


Your love alone – is not enough, not enough, not enough
When times get tough – they get tough, they get tough, they get tough

Trade all your heroes in for ghosts, in for ghosts, in for ghosts
They’re always the one’s that love you most, love you most, love you most

Your love alone – is not enough, not enough, not enough
It’s what you felt – it’s what you said, what you said, what you said

You said the sky would fall on you, fall on you, fall on you
Through all the pain your eyes stayed blue – they stayed blue, baby blue

But your love alone won’t save the world
You knew the secret of the universe
Despite it all, you made it worse
It left you lonely, it left you cursed

You stole the sun – straight from my heart, from my heart, from my heart
With no excuses – just fell apart, fell apart, fell apart

No, you won’t make a mess of me, mess of me, mess of me
For you’re as blind as a man can be, man can be, man can be

I could have seen for miles and miles
I could have made you feel alive
I could have placed us in exile
– I could have written all your lines –
I could have shown you – I could have shown you – how to cry

Your love alone is not enough
Your love alone is not enough

La, la, la, la – la, la, la, la–a–a
I could have shown you, shown you how to cry

Your love alone is not enough
Your love alone

3 comments:

Karen said...

I used to like the manic street preachers. I think it was back in high school and it was just the one album I liked. After that all their songs tended to be a little dull or sound the same to me. I do like this one though and have always like the Cardigans.

Steve said...

Hmm. Interesting. I haven't listened to the Manics for years. I agree their last album seemed to bland out a little and they kind of lost their intrigue for me... but this has piqued it once more.

TimeWarden said...

Glad you both enjoyed it! I thought the song a bit ordinary to begin with but it’s grown on me and I like the fact that the duet actually requires three singers!!