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"Autumnsong" is a song by Manic Street Preachers and was the third single taken from the album Send Away the Tigers. It was released on 23 July 2007. It was released on 23 July 2007. It peaked and debuted at number #10 in the UK Singles Chart .
The song takes its name from a Republican propaganda poster of the time written in English and displaying a photograph of a child killed by the Nationalists, under a sky filled with bomber aircraft, with the song's titular warning written at the bottom. [3] Nicky Wire wrote the song's lyrics in Barcelona. He felt especially proud of coming up ...
Autumn Song (Mose Allison album), released in 1959 "Autumnsong", a song by Manic Street Preachers from their 2007 album Send Away the Tigers; Autumn Song (character), a fictional character in the 2007 Image Universe comic book series Proof "Autumn Song", a song by God Is an Astronaut from the 2013 album Origins
Manic Street Preachers are an alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Blackwood, Wales, UK. Their discography consists of 14 studio albums , three compilation albums, four video albums, 71 music videos, six extended plays, 57 singles, 208 B-sides, plus appearances on various artist compilations.
Its working title was simply Manic Street Preachers. [7] The cover photograph was taken on Black Rock Sands near Porthmadog, Wales. [8] It was the first Manics album to feature lyrics solely by Nicky Wire, while all the music was written by the duo of James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore.
1. “autumn Leaves” By Nat King Cole (1955) This track—originally sung in French—has been covered countless times (by icons like Bing Crosby, Doris Day and Frank Sinatra, to name a few).
In 2011, NME ranked the song number three on their list of the 10 greatest Manic Street Preachers songs, [9] and in 2022, The Guardian ranked the song number 12 on their list of the 30 greatest Manic Street Preachers songs. [10]
By contrast to several previous Manic Street Preachers singles, the drums are not "compressed", but are more open and free, giving a sense of disorder in the song. [2] The song features a prominent string section that commentators such as Q magazine's Tom Doyle have compared to the songs of Phil Spector and his Wall of Sound. [3]