Manic Street Preachers - Empty Souls (TOTP)

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Empty Souls is a song by Manic Street Preachers, and was the second (and last) single taken from their album Lifeblood.

The single edit features a lyric that was changed from the album version. The chorus line on the album version runs 'collapsing like the twin towers', but for the single it was changed to 'collapsing like dying flowers'. Interestingly, the backing vocals can still be heard to sing the original line, although this was most likely kept in by mistake.

The single reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart, missing out on becoming the 1,000th number 1 in UK chart history to the latest in a series of Elvis number 1 single re-issues making the top of the charts at the time. It is said to be the political response from the band in relation to the September 11 attacks. The music video sees the band separated throughout, only to meet up at the end after treks through various parts of Berlin. This is probably linked to the idea of where the "empty souls" mentioned in the song actually go.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• manic
• street
• preachers
• empty
• souls
• totp
• top
• of
• the
• pops
• lifeblood
• 2004
• james
• dean
• bradfield
• nicky
• wire

[jameyinegypt]

Check out 1:02 as James sing's Collapsing Sean's cymbal's in the background collapse!! no joke , have a look. Spooky or what?

[ziemanakts]

I thought it was allowed for the vocals to be live on TOTP

[scraftonthebadger]

Remember watching this at my nans house in Taunton, oh the nostalgia, cheers for the upload. :)

[KardiffFan99]

Best song off LifeBlood by a mile

[staybeautiful33]

@rc3a1 It's definitly playback. But The chorus line on the album version runs 'collapsing like the twin towers', but for the single it was changed to 'collapsing like dying flowers'.