Which is the better edgy '94 album?

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The Downward Spiral easily.

Definitely The Holy Bible.

The Holy Bible

they're both great but they have interesting parallels:

>THB - Yes (first song on album)
Everyone I've loved or hated always seems to leave
>TDS - Hurt (Last song on album)
Everyone I know goes away in the end

both had edgy recording sessions (TDS at the site of the Manson killings and THB in Cardiff's red light district)

both have deliberately disgusting album art

and probably some other stuff too

The Holy Bible

TDS has potential but it has too much filler

TDS by a lot. THB is a great album, but it's not nearly as interesting as TDS.

De mysteriis dom Sathanas

>both have deliberately disgusting album art
Only THB has a remotely disgusting cover, unless you're into that kind of shit

What's on the cover for TDS anyways?

>plaster, acrylics, oils, rusted metals, insects, moths, blood (mine), wax, varnishes, and surgical bandaging on a wooden panel.

Not that disgusting. I thought ir was a shit and piss stained wall with bugs at first.

THB is better but TDS is edgier

Holy Bible

Either Total Destruction by Unsane or At Action Park by Shellac.

Holy bible

The Downward Spiral by a huge margin, both from musical and concept sense.

Moths are really cute

The Holy Bible has more interesting lyrics, The Downward Spiral has more interesting music

The one that got to be played @ Woodstock

Holy Bible
The lyrics felt much more real

Your comment works the other way around as well

Neither, Portrait of an American Family was best.

From the point of view of the lyrics, Holy Bible (Epic, 1994) is the most brutal of the three. Bradfield and his comrades are a super-glam played with feverish fury. If the intent was to overcome the Guns n 'Roses in the face of frustration, the group succeeds well. If the intent was also to compose music, Manic Street Preachers end up looking like a David Bowie even less creative. Their story is revolting, their music is asylum.

Immediately after the recording, Richey James, who had long been hospitalized for nervous disorders and detoxified by alcohol, suicides himself from a bridge.

Portrait wasn't that edgy.

don't you tell me my business again

>suicides himself from a bridge
Savage

This but the other way around

TDS is a better album as a whole but i prefer individual songs off of THB more
both amazing tho

>comparing them to David Bowie
even scaruffi can't help but compliment them

the stage is where I do my business, you come into the stage you gonna get hurt, I don't like people messing with my business