10 Manic Street Preachers Hidden Gem Songs

10. Black Holes For The Young

A B-side to 1998 single The Everlasting, Black Holes For The Young features Sophie Ellis-Bextor on co-lead vocals and is one of those songs that makes you wonder what the band were thinking keeping it off This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours. It would have been a fine addition to the record.

The song swirls like the '60s throwback it is intended to be. It was the '90s after all, we were all pretending to be back in the Summer of Love. Ellis-Bextor herself was a member of indie band theaudience, a group that could very well have been the next big britpop band had the Spice Girls not ushered in the renewed mainstream interest in cheesy pop, thereby killing the britpop scene's UK chart dominance for good.

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours was much darker and introspective than its predecessor, 1996's Everything Must Go, so perhaps that might explain why this relatively jaunty number was excised. It wasn't included on the band's B-side compilation, Lipstick Traces, either.