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This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours by Manic Street Preachers
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours is an album by Manic Street Preachers, released in 1998. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 20 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next”, on 18 lists with a best position of #3.
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, the Manic Street Preachers' fifth studio album, came out on Epic on 14 September 1998 and went straight in at number one in Britain. It's the second record the Welsh band made as a three-piece after Richey Edwards vanished in 1995, and the first where Nicky Wire wrote every lyric himself, with nothing left over from Edwards.
Where the old Manics spat fire, this one aches. Dave Eringa's production gives James Dean Bradfield's voice room to soar over lush, rueful arrangements, while Wire's bass and Sean Moore's drums keep things stately rather than frantic. "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" became their first UK number one single, and "You Stole the Sun From My Heart" followed it into the top 10. By March 1999 the album had gone triple platinum at home, and it has since sold more than five million copies worldwide.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next | 18 | #3 | – | 1998–2026 | |
| 2 | You Stole the Sun From My Heart | 2 | #5 | – | 1999–2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.