Now that I think about it more, I must have first heard the Manic Street Preachers around 2004. When I went looking for them after hearing There by the Grace of God, I immediately came across Lifeblood, which contains the track above — The Love of Richard Nixon.

I’ve always found this album to be remarkably cohesive, and my discovery of it and the band’s broader catalogue coincided with a darker period of my life. But as it was at the point of discovery, The Love of Richard Nixon was simply a catchy tune.

And it was true what they said. I didn’t know about Nixon’s National Cancer Act of 1971.