Manic Street Preachers – 'Motown Junk'
'Motown Junk' is Manic Street Preachers' second single.
A while back I read 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure, a song on every Manics song that's been released since their start. James Dean Bradfield—singer, guitarist, composer—still thinks it's their best song.
Bradfield is such an underestimated guitarist.
I think there's something about the song that only fervour and youth can mix and capture. On the other hand, lyrics like these can only be written by thoughtful, inventive, explosive, and young provocateurs:
Never ever wanted to be with you The only thing you gave me was the boredom I suffocate in Adrift in cheap dreams don't stop the rain Numbed out in piss towns just want to dig their graves
Motown, Motown junk I laughed when Lennon got shot 21 years of living and nothing means anything to me
Motown junk a lifetime of slavery Songs of love echo underclass betrayal Stops your heart beating for 168 seconds