You Love Us
Manic Street Preachers, 1992, from Generation Terrorists. Solo by James Dean Bradfield.
Bradfield's hard-rock soloing gives the band's punk posturing real instrumental muscle.
You Love Us is all punk sneer on the surface, but James Dean Bradfield gives it real hard-rock muscle underneath. His solo is fast, tight and confident, drawing on the classic rock and metal players he grew up with rather than the deliberately rough style of punk. The contrast is part of the song's charm: a provocative, sloganeering band backed by genuine instrumental skill. Bradfield's playing here showed he could deliver the kind of lead work many of his peers avoided on principle. Listen for the precision of his phrasing, clipped and clean even at speed, which lets the solo cut through the dense, loud mix without losing clarity.
You Love Us by Manic Street Preachers is ranked #338 in our consensus of 79 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by James Dean Bradfield and the song was released in 1992. It appears on 1 lists, placing as high as #99 (Classic Rock (Louder)).
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Who played the guitar solo on You Love Us?
James Dean Bradfield played the solo on Manic Street Preachers's You Love Us (1992).
Where does You Love Us rank among the greatest guitar solos?
#338 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 79 published lists; it appears on 1 of them.