“You Stole the Sun From My Heart” by Manic Street Preachers

"You Stole the Sun From My Heart" came off This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, the Manic Street Preachers' fifth album, from 1998, and went out as its third single on 8 March 1999, climbing to number five in the UK. Nicky Wire wrote the words about the part of band life he can't stand: not the gigs, which he loves, but everything wrapped around them, the soundchecks, the hotel rooms, the homesickness.

James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore built the music, which Wire likened to New Order crossed with Nirvana, and Moore sampled its drum loop from a pinball machine, of all things. Bradfield sings and plays the electric guitar, Nick Nasmyth adds Wurlitzer and Martin Ditcham percussion, and Mike Hedges produced. Marc Burrows of Drowned in Sound reckoned it the album's most straightforward rocker, and catchy enough to get on your nerves.

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