Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This (Your Children will be Next)

If you haven’t read the story of the band’s disappearing guitarist, you should catch up. Manic Street Preachers have this habit of writing songs that at first seem inconsequential. You don’t care, because hey it’s catchy. But, at least for me, each listen makes me care more and more about whatever it is they’re talking about. And I think this is partly because I know we’re not talking about Spice Girls here. This band has known love and loss.

And on the street tonight an old man plays

with newspaper cuttings of his glory days. 

And if you tolerate this,