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''Send Away the Tigers'' is the eighth studio album from the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 7 May 2007 and made it to number 2 on the UK Albums Chart. The album was due to hit number 1 on Sunday but at the end of the week 690 copies separated the Manics from the Arctic Monkeys on the top spot. == Background == The album is named after a phrase the English comedian Tony Hancock used to refer to "battling one's inner demons by getting drunk". The album is widely seen as a return to the hard-edged, more guitar-driven sound of their earlier releases, being described as a hard rock album by AllMusic and Sputnikmusic,〔〔 as well as glam rock by ''Uncut'' and ''Reno Gazette-Journal''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CD reviews: Prince; Satellite Party; Manic Street Preachers; Pharaoh's Daughter )〕 The band itself has described it as a mixture of ''Generation Terrorists'' and ''Everything Must Go''. The album was mixed by Chris Lord-Alge, whose brother Tom provided the US mix of ''The Holy Bible''. The album sleeve features a quotation from Wyndham Lewis (there misspelled as "Wyndam Lewis"): "When a man is young, he is usually a revolutionary of some kind. So here I am, speaking of my revolution". "I'm Just a Patsy" is a direct quotation from Lee Harvey Oswald - who is referenced in the song - upon his public denial of the murder of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Nina Persson from The Cardigans shares vocals on "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough", the first single from the album. The song "Rendition" concerns the act of extraordinary rendition, which has been described as a global system of human rights violations.〔 〕 The song is partly inspired by the Academy Award-winning 1982 film ''Missing'' starring Jack Lemmon. The photographs used as the album artwork are taken from the book ''Monika Monster Future First Woman on Mars'' by Valerie Phillips. In September 2008 the band embedded three songs on their website, named "Donkeys (Acoustic)", "Untitled Instrumental" and "Motown Junk (The Johnny Boy Anniversary Mix)". They were replaced by songs from their next album in April 2009. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Send Away the Tigers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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