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Manic Street Preachers: Radiohead Ruining Music
Manic Street Preachers have controversially slammed Radiohead for “demeaning” the music by releasing their album ‘In Rainbows’ as a ‘pay what you want’ download.
The ever outspoken Nicky Wire from the Welsh trio believes that by allowing fans to decide their own price, such a move could have serious reverberations in the music industry.
Wire said: “Fair play to Radiohead for doing something different. It’s certainly great publicity but I think it kind of demeans music. “Music used to be a market, now it’s all gone digital. It’s worrying and it seems to be the way of the world at the moment. Sales are doing well everywhere else. Cinema is doing well, video games are doing well but music isn’t. The free download phenomenon is ruining the industry.”
Continuing his rant, and totally unrelated to Radiohead, Wire turned is attention the way in which reality TV is saturating society. He told the Daily Star: “I can’t bare the X Factor judges and the shit they put out every year. It’s just a load of untalented fuckwits that destroy the music industry.” [thx gigwise]
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49 Responses to “Manic Street Preachers: Radiohead Ruining Music”
Priya
December 7th, 2007
He is indeed right about the X factor and
and Idols programs…
spinningPlates
December 7th, 2007
Nicky wire is a washed up twat, he just
rants like that to get press,even
if he doesn’t believe it. It’s a shame
the manics have slid, so much. He just
sounds like an old bastard.
Adam
December 7th, 2007
ruined industry doesnt sound so bad.
worriedaboutnothing
December 7th, 2007
Aww..he’s just bitter because:
a. he didn’t do it first
b. he’s still under contract.
Shame.
insect in the Night
December 7th, 2007
these RH bashings are sounding all the same, and are getting pretty funny…i think it’s all just nonsense.
hpgirl
December 7th, 2007
The manics have gone wank.
huntaaar
December 7th, 2007
Jealousy.
Graham
December 7th, 2007
Who are Manic Street Preachers, again?
Ethan
December 7th, 2007
I saw them live in the summer and it’s their bassist that’s ruining music…look like some prat from a kiss cover band
Mark
December 7th, 2007
I think it’s the less established acts that are feeling insecure about the “pay what you want” model. I have never heard of this band before.
T
December 7th, 2007
Oh sure, RH are ruining music, some crap TV program is ruining music, who to blame next.
Perhaps he should just admit that the music industry has done its best to ruin music since the start of the 90s.
And it would help if he’d actually made some good music of late.
anodyne
December 7th, 2007
“you’re love alone is not enough!!!!!”
what was that about demeaning music?!?!
lol
“i am all the days that you choose to ignore.”
rob
December 7th, 2007
I’m sure a couple of years ago they released a free download single?? could be wrong.
Craig
December 7th, 2007
i don’t think people buy albums at random anymore, you have to be a fan to buy cds.. RH just made a move to attract non-fans/casual downloaders on their pages and got the chance to know something more about the “radiohead experience”.. Something you don’t get on rapidshare sites or p2p.. We download so much stuff we don’t even know how musicians look like, unless we see them in concerts.. they moved the “customer fidelity” from iTunes to themselves.. Does this demeans music?
ali
December 7th, 2007
Christ, I didn’t even like the Manics in the days they were supposed to be good. Shame he didn’t go and do what his best mate Richie did. Then he might’ve been considered more than the outspoken talentless one.
Oh and T, I think you can describe the Manics as establised. So much so they in now in U2 MOR territory.
Stevie K
December 7th, 2007
jesus, someone criticizes the band and, like always, everyone gets all pissy. dude didn’t come CLOSE to “slamming” the decision, he said “fair play” and was logical and not at all nasty about it. please guys, radiohead don’t need you to defend them, it’s pretty embarrassing
scott
December 7th, 2007
“The free download phenomenon is ruining the industry.”
WTF? Only a few days ago The Manics released a new holiday single on their website. Free of charge of course…
bearsmearsh
December 7th, 2007
what a fucktard.
the music industry shot ITSELF in the foot with the way it embraced ‘digital’, nobody else.
Radiohead are kings.
Rich Kerrigan
December 7th, 2007
“music used to be a market.” not THAT is demeaning to music.
sebimeyer
December 7th, 2007
anybody else feel that music isn’t about ‘industry’ but rather expression?
MilkMan
December 7th, 2007
Who?
This Guy
December 7th, 2007
Did they ever top to think that maybe the first album that was sold in this world is the reason music was “ruined”?
Khristopher
December 7th, 2007
tbh the industry has ruined music already by commercialising everything too much, radiohead are jsut taking an original idea and seeing what happens. they can do what they bloody want theyr just getting their art to as many people as possible as quickly and easy as possible
J
December 7th, 2007
and i totally agree with milkman a few above
J
December 7th, 2007
waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!
dseidman
December 7th, 2007
The music industry needs ruining. He fails to see this. And, once again, Radiohead has no responsibility to other musicians or the industry. Who’s fault is it if you lose out? Only yours.
j
December 7th, 2007
the only way for bands/artists to survive in the age of free music download is to create a loyal fanbase who will buy their albums, and to constantly put out great music, of course. when you start producing unlistenable shite - good riddance, get a day job. simple as that.
Sunny
December 7th, 2007
They just released a Christmas single as a free download. It’s quite good, I’ve always liked the Manics. Nicky obviously hasn’t bothered to look into the In Rainbows download situation enough to realise that all RH were doing is putting a leak out themselves.
performingmonkey
December 7th, 2007
He’s an idiot. The only reason free downloads are ruining the industry is because people are stealing music they’d otherwise buy, which decreases profits for record companies and bands. But if a band doesn’t have a record label and chooses to give their music away, what difference does it make? It only effects Radiohead financially.
starrybloke
December 8th, 2007
Film is NOT running well.
Jelle
December 8th, 2007
Oh shut up and stop preaching.
stu
December 8th, 2007
as if like the music industry was all fine before in rainbows
quit bitching about it, its been happening for years
imatumbler
December 8th, 2007
“Music used to be a market… ”
Uh, music used to not not be a market.
“… now it’s all gone digital.”
Music hasn’t ‘gone’ anything. Digital is a medium, not music. Music exists in my shower, for bleep-sake (and that is a bit demeaning to be sure).
Yickth Woovle
December 8th, 2007
what is the opinion of a manic street preachers member worth?
…BALLS BALLS BALLS BALLS BALLS BALLS BALLS BALLS BALLS BALLS BALLS BALLS.
to be fair, all of my experience with them has been seeing their shitty cover art in my store and thinking “wow. what an unanswered call for my attention that’ll turn out to be.” and i was right.
indigae
December 8th, 2007
also, since when is “market” a valuable term in music? sure, digital compression has given us hundreds of thousands of shitty myspace bands that should never be heard by anyone, but it also gives us an edge around the market that wire is for some odd fucking reason lamenting here. in rainbows is the top release of the year in my ears, and its debut was not “in the market.” that is a GOOD thing.
who’s going to pay for a manic street preachers album these days, anyway? cock.
*end bitchfest*
indigae
December 8th, 2007
People always talking about this “market”, this “industry”?! Whatever happen to ART?!
Waynoid
December 8th, 2007
Go suck a dong Nicky,
This is just the shake up the music industry needs. Keep up with progressive bands or get the fuck out of the way!
Your Mom
December 8th, 2007
Is this the same twat who famously said he hoped Michael Stipe would die of AIDS?
Nuff said.
Cunt.
Massive_Bereavement
December 8th, 2007
Peek-a-boo!!
You’re the reason I disappeared you annoying cunt.
Richey Edwards
December 8th, 2007
Umm, this from the “subversive” Manics? I wonder what Nicky Wire of 15 years ago would have to say to someone who said that “music is a market.”
Jerad
December 8th, 2007
music wasn’t an industry; technology made the industry possible; now tech makes the industry redundant… so what!?
svart
December 8th, 2007
i thought you were meant to be a communist nicky wire? fuck off you clown
eraserhead
December 9th, 2007
Twat. Get a clue - and some decent tunes. Hardl;y surprising it’s all sour grapes, when they’re falling off the map.
Manic Street Who?
hedmekanik
December 10th, 2007
You are all ignoring the fact Nicky Wire said “Fair play to Radiohead…” How can Nicky Wire be jealous of Radiohead when Radiohead were not the first band to make their album available for free download? And Nicky Wire isn’t Communist… at least get your facts correct before commenting.
Yep.
December 10th, 2007
hmm maybe not, he is a fucking clown though. big clown tosser who cant write songs, or for that matter, actually play an instrument, hed be better off in a circus, id happily through a peanut.
eraserhead
December 11th, 2007
sorry i meant ‘throw’. throw a peanut at the silly clown.
eraserhead
December 11th, 2007
scott and Yep are pretty much the only
two people who have made sensible
comments here. Shame on atease for its
shit-stirring tabloid-style headline:
it’s not the “Manics slamming” Radiohead,
it’s ONE of them saying fair enough they’ve
done something different, but he’s not
sure he likes the direction music downloads
are going in. That’s all… but of course
the whingers here go into a juvenile
lather about it, as usual.
The Suburbanite
December 13th, 2007
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he makes a valid point towards the end. hope he’s not on drugs again is he?