Found That Soul

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"Found That Soul"
Found That Soul.jpg
Single by Manic Street Preachers
from the album Know Your Enemy
Released26 February 2001 (2001-02-26) [1]
Genre
Length3:05
Label Epic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Dave Eringa
Manic Street Preachers singles chronology
"So Why So Sad"
(2001)
"Found That Soul"
(2001)
"Ocean Spray"
(2001)

"Found That Soul" is a single by the Manic Street Preachers, released on 26 February 2001 from the Know Your Enemy album. Writing credit was shared by all three members of the band, James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore and Nicky Wire. [2] The song reached number 9 in the UK Singles Chart. [3]

Contents

Launch

Launched on the same day as "So Why So Sad", [4] this was the first release by the Manics since the number one hit "The Masses Against the Classes" thirteen months earlier. It reached a UK chart position of number 9 on 10 March 2001, [5] in the same week that "So Why So Sad" reached number 8. [6] Fewer than 200 copies separated "Found That Soul" from "So Why So Sad", placing it one place lower at number 9. [7] Despite making the top ten it wasn't included on the band's greatest hits album, Forever Delayed , making it the band's only top ten single at the time of the compilation's release not to appear.

The CD also included versions of "Locust Valley" and "Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel," whereas the 7" included a live version of "The Masses Against the Classes". "Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel" is entirely sung by Nicky Wire. In Benjamin Millar's review of Know Your Enemy for The Blurb, he described "Found That Soul" which "gets us off to a manic and electric start, a sonic attack that makes a huge noise for a three-piece." [8]

Track listing

All tracks written and composed by Nick Jones, James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore.

CD (UK)
  1. "Found That Soul" – 3:05
  2. "Locust Valley" – 4:09
  3. "Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel" – 2:36
CD (AUS)
  1. "Found That Soul" – 3:05
  2. "So Why So Sad" – 3:55
  3. "Locust Valley" – 4:09
  4. "Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel" – 2:36
7"
  1. "Found That Soul" – 3:05
  2. "The Masses Against the Classes" (live at Millennium Stadium, 31 December 1999) – 3:00

Charts

Chart (2001)Peak
position
UK Singles Chart [9] 9

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