JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD Manic Street Preachers
“I have really good memories of it. I was listening to alongside by Public Enemy. I didn’t see the tension between them. But when the Black Album came out, it was that thing where there hadn’t been a riff song out for a while. There’d been – which is one of the ultimate riff songs, but is kind of a ballad – and , but that just starts with the riff. But when came out I thought, ‘Fuck me, the riff never stops.’ It’s always present in the song. That really turned me on: ‘Does that mean the riff is back?’
