Melody Maker also listed " If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" as the sixth best single of the year. [41]

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours holds a strange place in the Manics canon. It is their biggest album and also their most divisive. Although the group’s core followers are as dedicated as they come, This Is My Truth…’s shift towards the glossy, the poppy and the calculatedly anthemic was a test of their resolve as the band went full-on mainstream. The Manics were, for some, no longer theirs.Norwegian album certifications – Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours" (in Norwegian). IFPI Norway . Retrieved 16 July 2014. Manic Street Preachers: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 18 November 2013. Around the world the album was as successful as it was in the UK. In Sweden the album managed to remain in the chart for a total of 43 weeks, debuting at number 2, and peaking at number one in its second week. In Finland the album sold enough to stay in the charts for 32 weeks, peaking at number one, securing the top spot for two consecutive weeks. In Ireland the album also debuted at number one and charted within the top 20 in Norway, New Zealand, Denmark, Austria and Australia. It was the number one album in Europe's for two weeks, and it has been certified Platinum (one million copies) by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. The album's success ensured that by 1999 the band had sold more than three million albums worldwide. [19] To the present day This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours has sold more than five million copies since its release. [20] [21]

a b "British single certifications – Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 8 April 2022. Winner Best Album And Best Band Brit Awards 1999 Includes The Hit Singles If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next, The Everlasting And You Stole The Sun From My Heart In an interview Dave Eringa admitted that: "James was piling on the pressure at the time. He's got this idea that I work best under pressure; it's about putting me under as much as he can all the time!". After recording " If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next", he also said that the song went through a four-month gestation period. [11] There are two things I do not wish to do. One is to claim that Nye was always right and that anyone who disagreed with him was always wrong. In matters of great moment, right or wrong depends largely on the point of the political compass from which events are viewed. One of Nye’s favourite quotations was, ‘This is my truth; now tell me yours.’ IFPI Platinum Europe Awards – 1999". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 16 July 2014.Sullivan, Caroline (11 September 1998). "Manic Street Preachers: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (Epic)". The Guardian. p.24. In conclusion, in 1933 U.K. Labour politician John Strachey employed the expression “This then is my truth. Now, tell me yours”. However, he attributed the saying to Nietzsche’s version of Zarathustra. Nietzsche did write a somewhat similar German statement in “Also sprach Zarathustra”. Instances of the English expression were used by Hubert Griffith, Herbert L. Matthews, and others. The phrase was attributed to Aneurin Bevan by his biographer Michael Foot in 1973 and by his wife Jennie Lee in 1980. All absolutes belong to pathology,” Nietzsche tells us. He says it again when he says: “You have heard my truth, now tell me yours.”

Results: RPM Weekly – Manic Street Preachers". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. 17 July 2013 . Retrieved 2 February 2019. The other defining element of This Is My Truth is the use of space within the sound. This Is My Truth most often sounds like it's played in grand halls or churches, a giant sound reverberating within wide booming walls, each instrument and sound given a place to breathe despite the layers in arrangement. "I'm Not Working" takes this the most extreme, with the space being the defining element of the song as its sparse lead melodies float and echo into a forever, Bradfield's worn-out vocals existing for brief moments of time in the center of the universe the band are floating in. Most of the album doesn't quite go that far, but that vastness is used beautifully throughout: to create an intimate surrounding in the vulnerable and broken "Born a Girl" and the bitter and defeated "My Little Empire", to accentuate the majestic ascends of "Be Natural", or to twist the barely-in-control rage of "S.Y.M.M." into something otherworldly. This Is My Truth doesn't really show off with its production - despite the elements at play it's actually surprisingly down to earth in its fidelity - but its breathing space lends its melancholy a veneer of grace and beauty. Despite everything it's restful in its autumnal solitude, rather than dark and brooding. Apart from the lead single, the album presented another three singles, with the second one being " The Everlasting". " You Stole the Sun from My Heart" was released on March 1999 and was nominated for Best British Single at the 2000 BRIT Awards. The final single from the album was " Tsunami", which was inspired by The Silent Twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons, who gave up speaking when they were young, became involved in crime and ended up being sent to Broadmoor Hospital. Both singles "The Everlasting" and "Tsunami" peaked at number 11, while "You Stole the Sun from My Heart" ended up peaking at number 5 on the UK Singles Chart. [15] In Japan the band released "Nobody Loved You", replacing the UK single "The Everlasting". But he would also say, with Nietzsche, ‘this is my truth, now tell me yours’, thus invoking his special gift of imaginative tolerance. Imperious as The Holy Bible is, in the grounds of a beautiful castle on a sunny day, with ‘Manic Street Pizzas’ (‘Margherita Emptiness’, ‘Everything Must Goat’s Cheese’, ‘Tsalami’, etc.) on sale in the food court, the greatest hits show was better. There are many different sides to the Manic Street Preachers, and to an audience of thousands on a summer's day, it is the ‘mainstream’ side, the anthems and the singalongs that are the most successful.

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Occasionally the message can drag down the music but just as often they offer wonderful shiny melodies and productions to allow, at least aurally, some light into the room, best of all on the two hit singles "The Everlasting" and "You Stole The Sun From My Heart". Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours". entertainmentghana.mobi. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013 . Retrieved 6 January 2013. Everything else about this reissue is exactly the kind of treasure chest this record deserves, however.

a b Cameron, Keith (9 September 1998). "Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours". NME. Archived from the original on 17 October 2000 . Retrieved 9 January 2019. In a cover story on Manic Street Preachers for Select Magazine in November of 1998, John Harris, on the scene at a taping of Top Of The Pops in which the band were set to perform, wrote: If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (UK CD2 liner notes). Manic Street Preachers. Epic Records. 1998. 666345 5. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Manic Street Preachers | Biography". AllMusic . Retrieved 30 December 2014. a b Petridis, Alexis (8 May 2009). "Interview: 'This album could seriously damage us' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 January 2013.

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Over the next 50 years, Williams-Ellis worked on Portmeirion and constructed a fake "Italian village" amid the mountains of Snowdonia. This folly soon became a tourist attraction, particularly after it was used as the principle location in the TV series The Prisoner. This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (UK CD album booklet). Manic Street Preachers. Epic Records. 1998. 491703 2. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)