Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (4:49)
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About This Track
“If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next” is a song by the Manic Street Preachers, released as the first single from their fifth studio album, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, with lyrics written by Nicky Wire (credited as Nick Jones), and music written by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore. It was released on August 24, 1998 and became the first of the band’s two number one singles in the United Kingdom to date.
The song is in the Guinness World Records as the number one single with the longest title without brackets. It is the only Manic Street Preachers track ever to be released as a single in the United States, where it was a minor hit on Modern Rock radio.
The song was about the Spanish Civil War, and the idealism of volunteers from around the world who joined the International Brigade fighting Franco’s military rebels against the Spanish Republic.
The song takes its name from a Republican poster of the time. A photograph of a young child killed by Nationalist bombs is shown under a sky of bombers with the stark warning “If you tolerate this, your children will be next” written at the bottom.
The song was about the Spanish Civil War, and the idealism of volunteers from around the world who joined the International Brigade fighting Franco’s military rebels against the Spanish Republic.
The song takes its name from a Republican poster of the time. A photograph of a young child killed by Nationalist bombs is shown under a sky of bombers with the stark warning “If you tolerate this, your children will be next” written at the bottom.
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dabnotu wrote:
like U2's "Walk On" or vice versa?
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elliedimmesdale wrote:
i love that band so much.
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KeithJones wrote:
Brilliant! [2]
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r0cksteady1 wrote:
*****
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gutlesswonder wrote:
Still my fave song EVER!!! Live version of it from the O2 gig (which sadly I was unable to attend! :( ) sounded fab on the youtube vid of it!
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ladycaroledowns wrote:
Brilliant!
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ilo-anglomanic wrote:
one of my fave song(((((((
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tru_dude wrote:
one of the most beautiful songs ever sang
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Leskaaraujo wrote:
Demais
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jobbyfingers wrote:
pass the cheesy wotsits please
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MrPaddy wrote:
Amazing song.
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innerspeaker wrote:
Fuck yes this is awesome.
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sneggyuser wrote:
Great keyboards on this track!
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sneggyuser wrote:
Amazing track, Dai Iawn Lads!
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f_k_o_s wrote:
Never gets old.
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bingbongbilly wrote:
Yes indeed!
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northbohemian wrote:
1998
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madrfadr wrote:
...then I can shoot fascists
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charlesnadeau wrote:
SO "anthemic"!
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DmayFearless13 wrote:
If I can shoot rabbits, then I can shoot fascists
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