Life Becoming a Landslide

EP by Manic Street Preachers

Released

7 February 1994

Recorded

Outside Studios, Checkendon, Oxfordshire, England, January–March, 1993

Genre = Alternative rock

Label

Epic

Producer

Dave Eringa

Manic Street Preachers chronology

"Roses in the Hospital"
(1993)

Life Becoming a Landslide
(1993)

"Faster"
(1994)

Life Becoming a Landslide E.P. is an EP by the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. The title track is taken from their second album Gold Against the Soul. It was released through Epic on 7 February 1994.

It reached number 36 in the UK Singles Chart.^[1]

Background

It remains an important insight into the mindset of the band's lyricist/guitarist Richey Edwards, and a poignant exploration of the metamorphosis of child and adult roles. Certain lines in the song, such as My idea of love comes from a childhood glimpse of pornography, exemplify this.^[2] It could also be seen as a precursor to the fully orchestrated, epic sound the band would adopt after Edwards' disappearance, ironically precluded by the aggressive guitar sound of the seminal The Holy Bible album.^[3]

Release

The EP is noted for its b-side Comfort Comes: the first Manics track to explore the raw, claustrophobic, cold yet impassioned aesthetic which would be illustrated on The Holy Bible. The release reached #36 in the UK charts in February 1994.^[1]

Track listing

CD

"Life Becoming a Landslide" – 3:58
"Comfort Comes" – 3:29
"Are Mothers Saints" – 3:20
"Charles Windsor" (McCarthy cover) – 1:39

12"

"Life Becoming a Landslide"
"Comfort Comes"
"Are Mothers Saints"

MC

"Life Becoming a Landslide"
"Comfort Comes"

Charts

Chart (1994)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart^[4]	36

UK Top 40
Week	01
Position	36

References

1 2 "Manic Street Preachers | Official Charts Company". Official Charts. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
↑ Power, Martin (17 October 2010). Manic Street Preachers. Omnibus Press.
↑ Martin Clarke, Manic Street Preachers: Sweet Venom (Plexus, 2009).
↑ "Manic Street Preachers - Official Single Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 1 September 2013.

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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