This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

Infobox Album |
Name = This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Type = Album
Artist = Manic Street Preachers


Released = August 25, 1998
Recorded = Chateau De La Rouge Motte, France; Mono Valley Studios, Monmouth, Wales; Rockfield Studios, Monmouth, Wales. 1997-1998
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 63:10
Label = Epic (UK), Virgin (US)
Producer = Mike Hedges
Dave Eringa
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Acnec97qakrdt link]
* "NME" (7/10) [http://www.nme.com/reviews/1495.htm link]
* Pitchfork (9.5/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/19679/Manic_Street_Preachers_This_is_My_Truth_Tell_Me_Yours link]
* "Q" Rating|4|5 [http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.review.redirect&fixture_review=118127&resource=118127&fixture_artist=145875 link]
Last album = "Everything Must Go"
(1996)
This album = "This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours"
(1998)
Next album = "Know Your Enemy"
(2001)

"This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours" is an album by the Manic Street Preachers. It was released in September 1998 on Epic Records and in the United States the following year on Virgin Records.

The title is a quotation taken from a speech given by Welsh British Labour Party politician Aneurin Bevan. The cover photograph was taken on Black Rock Sands near Porthmadog. It was the first Manics album to feature lyrics solely by Nicky Wire, while all the music was written by the habitual duo of James Dean Bradfield and cousin Sean Moore.

The album is a much more subdued affair compared to previous albums with many songs having a more acoustic feel. At the same time it shows the band experimenting with studio and production possibilities, as shown in the more spacey atmosphere of several tracks e.g. S.Y.M.M., I'm Not Working and Born a Girl. The album debuted at #1 on the UK Album Chart and spent three weeks at the top of the charts.

The album was preceded by the single If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next, which debuted at #1 on the UK Singles Chart, their first single to do so.

Hidden behind the disc's tray is a quotation from the 1995 book, "No Truce With The Furies" by R. S Thomas.

Track listing

#"The Everlasting" – 6:09
#"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" – 4:50
#"You Stole the Sun from My Heart" – 4:20
#"Ready for Drowning" – 4:31
#"Tsunami" – 3:50
#"My Little Empire" – 4:09
#"I'm Not Working" – 5:51
#"You're Tender and You're Tired" – 4:37
#"Born a Girl" – 4:12
#"Be Natural" – 5:12
#"Black Dog on My Shoulder" – 4:48
#"Nobody Loved You" – 4:44
#"S.Y.M.M. (South Yorkshire Mass Murderer)" – 5:57

Personnel

*James Dean Bradfield – vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar (tracks 2, 10, 12), sitar guitar (track 5, 7), omnichord (tracks 4, 5), melody horn (track 10)
*Sean Moore – drums, programming (tracks 1, 3, 5)
*Nicky Wire – bass, acoustic bass (tracks 6, 11), vocals (track 6)

Additional personnel

*Nick Nasmyth – wurlitzer (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 13), hammond (tracks 4, 10), mellotron (tracks 8, 13), keyboards (tracks 5, 7), piano (track 8), vox continental (track 11), accordion (track 9), yang-ching (track 7)
*Martin Ditchum - percussion (tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11)
*Andy Duncan - percussion (tracks 2, 6, 10, 12)
*Craig Pruess - sitar (track 5), tampura (track 5)
*Ken Barry - whistling (track 8)
*Sally Herbert - string arrangements (tracks 1, 5, 11), violin (tracks 1, 5, 11)
*Gini Ball, Anne Stephenson - violin (tracks 1, 11)
*Jos Pook, Claire Orsler - viola (tracks 1, 5, 11)
*Dinah Beamish - cello (tracks 1, 6)
*Fenella Barton, Nell Catchpole, Sue Dench, Margaret Roseberry, Sonia Slany, Jules Singleton, Ann Wood - additional string section (track 11)

Working title

This album's working title was simply 'Manic Street Preachers'.

succession box
before = "Talk on Corners" by The Corrs
title = UK number one album
years = September 26 1998 – October 16 1998
after = "Hits" by Phil Collins