elvis impersonator blackpool pier ^*

• everything must go'dan bir manic street preachers şarkısı, tam adı "elvis impersonator: blackpool pier"... su ve dalgamsı seslerle başlayarak albümün açılışını yapar.
  
  "20ft. high on blackpool promenade
  fake royalty second hand sequin facade
  limited face paint and dyed black quiff
  overweight and out of date
  
  american trilogy in lancashire pottery
  american trilogy in lancashire pottery
  is so fucking funny, don't you know
  is so fucking funny, don't you know
  
  all american trilogy in used up cars and bottled beer
  all american trilogy the futures dead, fundamentally
  it's so fucking funny, it's absurd
  it's so fucking funny, it's absurd
  
  20ft. high on blackpool promenade..."
• ilk iki misradan sonra vokalin ayni sekilde devam etmesini bekledigim ama oyle olmayarak hep kafami karistiran bi sarki.. sarki biterken su sesleri ustune, sozleri bi yerden bulunmasa anlasilmasi imkansiz gibi olan sunlar soylenmektedir:
  "i wish i was in dixie
  hooray.. hooray..
  in dixie land, i'll take my stand
  to live and die in dixie"
  (bkz: dixie)(bkz: dixieland)
• şarkıyla ilgili olarak haziran 1996 tarihli select dergisinden andrew male'in yorumu.
  
  starts with the sound of water lapping at a shoreline which is soon joined by a distant, disembodied voice and vini reilly-style acoustic intro before a slice of impassioned superrock bellows "overweight and out of date/american trilogy in lancashire pottery?/it's so fucking funny/it's absurd." a rough version of the song was completed prior to richey's disappearance.
  
  sözler nicky wire ve richey jamese aitir.
• sonundaki dixie bölümü 42 saniyelik bir uzatmalı versiyonu ile everything must go'nun 10. yıl sürümünde yer edinen şarkı.