Found That Soul
{{short description|2001 single by Manic Street Preachers}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2012}}
{{Infobox song
| name = Found That Soul
| cover = Found That Soul.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Manic Street Preachers
| album = Know Your Enemy
| released = {{start date|2001|2|26|df=y}}{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/2001/Music-Week-2001-02-24.pdf|title=New Releases – For Week Starting February 26, 2001: Singles|magazine=Music Week|page=27|date=24 February 2001|access-date=9 August 2021}}
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = {{flatlist|
}}
| length = 3:05
| label = Epic
| writer =
| producer = Dave Eringa
| prev_title = So Why So Sad
| prev_year = 2001
| next_title = Ocean Spray
| next_year = 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.{{cite web | publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | title = 'Found That Soul' at APRA search engine | url = https://www.apra.com.au/cms/worksearch/worksearch.srvlt?action=workSearch#axd?q=Found%20That%20Soul | access-date = 25 January 2015 }} Note: User may have to click 'Search again' and provide details at 'Enter a title:' e.g. Found That Soul; or at 'Performer:' Manic Street Preachers The song reached number 9 in the UK Singles Chart.{{cite web|url=http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/manic%20street%20preachers|title=Official Charts Company|date=5 May 2013|publisher=Official Charts Company}}
Launch
Launched on the same day as "So Why So Sad",{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/4093|title=Manic Street Preachers : So Why So Sad / Found That Soul|work=NME|date=12 September 2005|last=Martin|first=Piers|access-date=23 January 2015}} 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,{{cite web|url=https://manicsdiscog.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/a122-found-that-soul/|title=[A122] 'Found That Soul'|last=Johnson|first=Andy|date=12 June 2013|publisher=Manic Street Preachers : A Critical Discography|access-date=23 January 2015}} in the same week that "So Why So Sad" reached number 8.{{cite web|url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/staff_top_10/top-ten-reasons-why-britains-music-critics-needed-the-strokes.htm|title=Top Ten Reasons why Britain's Music Critics needed The Strokes|publisher=Stylus Magazine|date=15 December 2006|last=Scott|first=Paul|access-date=23 January 2015}} Fewer than 200 copies separated "Found That Soul" from "So Why So Sad", placing it one place lower at number 9.{{cite web|url=http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/manic%20street%20preachers|title=Official Charts Company|date=5 May 2013|publisher=Official Charts Company}} 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."{{cite news | archive-url = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20010704140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/14067/20010705-0000/www.theblurb.com.au/Issue05/ManicStreetPreachers.htm | url = http://www.theblurb.com.au/Issue05/ManicStreetPreachers.htm | title = Manic Street Preachers: Dating the Enemy | last = Millar | first = Benjamin | work = The Blurb | date = May 2001 | issue = 5 | access-date = 25 January 2015 | archive-date = 4 July 2001 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
Track listing
All tracks written and composed by Nick Jones, James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore.
;CD (UK)
- "Found That Soul" – 3:05
- "Locust Valley" – 4:09
- "Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel" – 2:36
;CD (AUS)
- "Found That Soul" – 3:05
- "So Why So Sad" – 3:55
- "Locust Valley" – 4:09
- "Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel" – 2:36
;7"
- "Found That Soul" – 3:05
- "The Masses Against the Classes" (live at Millennium Stadium, 31 December 1999) – 3:00
Charts
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Manic Street Preachers}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:Manic Street Preachers songs
Category:Songs written by James Dean Bradfield
Category:Songs written by Sean Moore (musician)
Category:Songs written by Nicky Wire