I was pretty excited when the Manics announced their sixth album Know Your Enemy. I'd been a fan for a few years and this was their first new album in that time. I remember mostly looking forward to being one of those people who rushes to the shop the day their favourite band's new album comes out, and then rushing home to listen to it. I was 16 and these things seemed important at the time.
The first two singles from the album were released the same week as each other in the hopes of "doing a Guns 'n' Roses" and getting the number one and number spot in the charts (although GNR did it with albums, not singles). The Manics only achieved nine and ten, which is far less cool. Found That Soul was one single and the other was the inexplicably bad So Why So Sad (at the O2 Arena show where they played all their singles, James Dean Bradfield said something along the lines of "so you still don't like that one, eh?" after playing it).
Found That Soul was a pretty good song and, for me, a great lead single. The b-side here is a live version of The Masses Against the Classes recorded live at their New Year's Eve show in Cardiff. I ended up watching the DVD of that show for the first time in ages the other day and really enjoying it. The two songs here pair nicely together - two heavy, loud Manics songs in an era where there'd be far fewer of those.
Format: 7", numbered (#5035)
Tracks: 2
Cost: £1.50 new
Bought: HMV, Southampton
When: 06/04/01
Colour: Black
Etching: none
mp3s: no
