Peeled Apples 2009. Peeled Apples "Peeled Apples" is a song by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It is the opening track of the band's ninth studio album, "Journal for Plague Lovers". Produced by Steve Albini, the song, along with the other tracks of the album, features posthumous lyrics by Richey Edwards, who disappeared on 1 February 1995, and was declared legally dead in 2008. The song debuted on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 program on 25 March 2009. The lyrics of the song is taken from the notebooks and the artwork which Richey Edwards left to the band members just
Anthem for a Lost Cause Anthem for a Lost Cause "Anthem for a Lost Cause" is a song by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It is the second single released from the band's eleventh studio album, "Rewind the Film". Both song and lyrics were written by singer James Dean Bradfield, in an interview he stated that the song was about the question of if lyrics today are as important as they were before. The song has one of the longest, if not the longest chorus of any song on the album. The music video features Tori Lyons, who previously starred in the video