Vinyl Record
Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours on 2LP vinyl. A 1998 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
2LP ยท 1998
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 1998 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours is the 1998 album where Manic Street Preachers fully entered the national bloodstream while making one of their most inward and conflicted records. Coming after Everything Must Go had transformed them into a huge post-Richey Edwards rock band, it softens the attack but deepens the ache. The title, drawn from Aneurin Bevan, gives the album a Welsh political undertow, while Nicky Wire's lyrics move through international history, personal disillusion and civic grief. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next turns the Spanish Civil War into a number one single; The Everlasting opens with exhausted grandeur; Tsunami, You Stole the Sun from My Heart and Ready for Drowning show how far the band could push melancholy into anthemic form. It is stately, wounded and unmistakably late-1990s: a guitar band discovering that mass acceptance can feel lonely.
The album matters because it made the Manics a defining British band of 1998 without stripping away their political memory. Its success proved that historical reference, grief and polished widescreen songwriting could reach the centre of mainstream guitar culture.
For collectors, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours is one of the essential Manics records because it captures their imperial commercial moment. It pairs naturally with Everything Must Go, but its mood is more autumnal: less rebirth, more responsibility, and a stronger sense of fame turning into burden.
Widescreen alternative rock with polished guitars, strings, stately tempos, political lyrics, melancholy choruses and a softer but emotionally heavy post-Britpop atmosphere.
Recommended for: Collectors building the core Manic Street Preachers run; Listeners who want political 1990s guitar music at arena scale; Fans of melancholy British rock with big choruses and historical weight.
What year did This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours come out? It was released in 1998, two years after Everything Must Go. What is the album's best-known single? If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next is the defining single from the album and became one of the band's signature songs. Is This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours a heavy Manics album? It is not heavy in the early-Manics sense; its force comes from polished arrangements, sadness, political memory and large-scale melodies.