Anthem for a Lost Cause

"Anthem for a Lost Cause" is a song by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It is the second single released from the band's eleventh studio album, Rewind the Film.^[1]

Background

Both song and lyrics were written by singer James Dean Bradfield, in an interview he stated that the song was about the question of if lyrics today are as important as they were before. The song as one of the longest, if not the longest chorus of any song in the album. The music video features Tori Lyons, who previously starred in the video for "Show Me the Wonder", reprising her role as a miner's wife in the 1984 miners' strike.^[2] The band stated that Kieran Evans was important for this video, because not only he did the band's last video, but because they wanted to capture the feeling of the 80´s and how women dealt with the big miners' strike, in the video we see a woman that is trying to survive without her husband that has left her because of the conditions that they were living in. The video shows many realities of the consequences of that 80's strike.^[3]

Release

The song was made available by digital download on the 25th November 2013, backed up by two songs Death of a Digital Ghost and See It Like Sutherland. A live version of She Is Suffering at the O₂ Arena in 2011 was also in the single digital download. It peaked on number 200 in the UK Singles Chart.^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Anthem for a Lost Cause"	3:52
2.	"Death of a Digital Ghost"	3:33
3.	"See It Like Sutherland"	3:56
4.	"She Is Suffering" (live at The O2)	5:01

Personnel

Manic Street Preachers

James Dean Bradfield – lead vocals, guitar
Nicky Wire – bass guitar
Sean Moore – drums

Other personnel

Loz Williams - production, keyboards
Gavin Fitzjohn - horn arrangement, trumpets
Sean Read - horn arrangement, trumpets

Charts

Chart (2013)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart^[5]	200

References

External links

Manic Street Preachers

James Dean Bradfield Sean Moore Nicky Wire Miles Woodward Richey Edwards

Studio albums	Generation Terrorists Gold Against the Soul The Holy Bible Everything Must Go This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours Know Your Enemy Lifeblood Send Away the Tigers Journal for Plague Lovers Postcards from a Young Man Rewind the Film Futurology

Compilation albums	Forever Delayed Lipstick Traces National Treasures – The Complete Singles

EPs	New Art Riot E.P. Life Becoming a Landslide E.P.

Singles	"Suicide Alley" "Motown Junk" "You Love Us (Heavenly Version)" "Stay Beautiful" "Love's Sweet Exile"/"Repeat" "You Love Us" "Slash 'n' Burn" "Motorcycle Emptiness" "Theme from M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless)" "Little Baby Nothing" "From Despair to Where" "La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)" "Roses in the Hospital" "Faster" "Revol" "She Is Suffering" "A Design for Life" "Everything Must Go" "Kevin Carter" "Further Away" "Australia" "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" "The Everlasting" "You Stole the Sun from My Heart" "Tsunami" "The Masses Against the Classes" "Found That Soul" "So Why So Sad" "Ocean Spray" "Let Robeson Sing" "There by the Grace of God" "The Love of Richard Nixon" "Empty Souls" "Underdogs" "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" "Indian Summer" "(It's Not War) Just the End of Love" "Some Kind of Nothingness" "Postcards from a Young Man" "This Is the Day" "Show Me the Wonder" "Anthem for a Lost Cause" "Walk Me to the Bridge" "Futurology"

Other songs	"4st 7lb" "Peeled Apples"

Video albums	Everything Live Leaving the 20th Century Louder Than War Forever Delayed

Related articles	Discography Music of Cardiff Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair

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