I remember the Manic Street Preachers. They used to be good once, when I was young, when they had melody lines that burnt into your brain like “Motorcycle Emptiness” and “A Design For Life”. Now it seems the band has inadvertantly caused controversy with its new album sleeve.
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Journal for Plague Lovers (Art by Jenny Saville)
Apparently, the powers-that-be at Sainsburys will be selling this CD in a plain sleeve just in case the artwork might cause offence. I balk at this, I really do. Obviously, some sensitive soul sees blood and gore instead of having any appreciaton for artistic technique or the education to understand the art in front of them. They obviously have no experience of art and I wonder what they’d make of some of Lucien Freud’s darker pieces. Meanwhile, the hypocrisy continues as they will probably be selling copies of Nuts and Zoo with boobs, bums and wobbly bits on show, and copies of women’s weekly shlock mags that have headlines like “Boyfriend raped my baby” and appear to the rubbernecker instinct in us.
It is plain to me that we live in a childish, stupid society with no common sense or ability to process visual information at a higher level. Arsehats!

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