So Why So Sad

Single infobox
Name = So Why So Sad


Artist = Manic Street Preachers
from Album = Know Your Enemy
Released = February 26, 2001
Format = CD, cassette
Recorded = 2000
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:02
Label = Epic
Producer = Dave Eringa
Chart position =

• #8 (UK)

Reviews =
Last single = "Found That Soul" (2001)
This single = "So Why So Sad" (2001)
Next single = "Ocean Spray" (2001) |

"So Why So Sad" was released by Manic Street Preachers in 2001 (see 2001 in music) and was jointly the first single to be released from the "Know Your Enemy" album. All three members of the band - James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore and Nicky Wire - share the writing credits.

Surprisingly launched on the same day as "Found That Soul" this was the first sign of the "Manics" since the surprise number 1 hit "The Masses Against The Classes" thirteen months earlier.

It reached a highest UK chart position of number 8 on March 10 2001, while "Found That Soul" reached number 9.

The CD also included versions of "Pedestal" and a remix of "So Why So Sad" by Australian outfit The Avalanches whereas the 7" included a live version of "You Stole the Sun from My Heart".

Less than 200 copies separated So Why So Sad from Found That Soul placing it 1 place higher at number 8, because the overwhelming majority of the sales that week were by the fans buying both.

Track listing

CD

# "So Why So Sad" - 4:02
# "So Why So Sad (The Avalanches remix)"
# "Pedestal" - 4:52

MC

# "So Why So Sad" - 4:02
# "You Stole The Sun From My Heart" (live at Millennium Stadium 31st December 1999)