Know Your Enemy (Reissue)

Following the success of 1998’s’This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, Manic Street Preachers planned an ambitious follow-up to be released as two distinct albums: an aggressive, rapid-fire return to their roots called Solidarity and Door To The River, a more conciliatory, reflective collection. During the recording sessions, the band got cold feet and settled on a single album that forced often conflicting ideas to sit side by side on the same record.

Whilst going through the band’s archive to put together an anniversary version of Know Your Enemy, Nicky Wire found the original tapes of Solidarity and Door To The River that he’d made up in the studio during recording. When he put forward the idea of recreating those records, James Dean Bradfield agreed on the condition that he could remix the entire record with the band’s long-time studio partner Dave Eringa.

2CD Deluxe Edition features both albums in full, plus 2 previously unreleased gems in Rosebud and Studies in Paralysis, plus previously unseen photos from the recording sessions taken by regular collaborator Mitch Ikeda.

2LP Deluxe Edition presents ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Door To The River’ in the same order as originally planned in 2000, and includes 2 previously unreleased gems in Rosebud and Studies in Paralysis.

Tracklist

 [CD1 - Door To The River] 01. The Year of Purification / 02. Ocean Spray / 03. So Why So Sad (Avalanches Sean Penn Mix) / 04. Door To The River / 05. Rosebud / 06. Just a Kid / 07. His Last Painting / 08. Let Robeson Sing / 09. Groundhog Days / 10. Epicentre / 11. His Last Painting (LA Mix) / 12. Epicentre (TLA Mix) / 13. So Why So Sad (Original KYE Version) / 14. Royal Correspondent

[CD2 - Solidarity] 01. Intravenous Agnostic / 02. Found That Soul (TLA Mix) / 03. We Are All Bourgeois Now / 04. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children / 05. The Convalescent / 06. Baby Elian / 07. Masses Against The Classes / 08. My Guernica / 09. Studies In Paralysis / 10. Dead Martyrs / 11. Wattsville Blues / 12. Miss Europa Disco Dancer / 13. Fear Of Motion / 14. Pedestal / 15. Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel / 16. Locust Valley / 17. Masking Tape / 18. Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel
[2LP] A1. The Year of Purification / A2. Ocean Spray / A3. So Why So Sad (Avalanches Sean Penn Mix) / A4. Door To The River / A5. Rosebud / B1. Just a Kid / B2. His Last Painting / B3. Let Robeson Sing / B4. Groundhog Days / B5. Epicentre / C1. Intravenous Agnostic / C2. Found That Soul / C3. We Are All Bourgeois Now / C4. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children / C5. The Convalescent / C6. Baby Elian / D1. Masses Against The Classes / D2. My Guernica / D3. Studies In Paralysis / D4. Dead Martyrs / D5. Wattsville Blues / D6. Miss Europa Disco Dancer