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Track Listing
1. Slash N' Burn
2. Nat West-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds
3. Born to End
4. Motorcycle Emptiness
5. You Love Us
6. Love's Sweet Exile
7. Little Baby Nothing
8. Repeat (Stars and Stripes)
9. Tennessee
10. Another Invented Disease
11. Stay Beautiful
12. So Dead
13. Repeat (U.K.)
14. Spectators of Suicide
15. Damn Dog...
16. Crucifix Kiss
17. Methadone Pretty
18. Condemned to Rock 'N' Roll...
Album Notes
Manic Street Preachers: James Dean Bradfield (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar); Richey James (guitar); Nicky Wire (bass); Sean Moore (drums, percussion, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Traci Lords (vocals); Dave Eringa (piano, Hammond organ); Richard Cottle, Spike Edney (keyboards); May McKenna, Jackie Challenor, Lorenza Johnson (background vocals).
Recorded at Black Barn Studios, England.
Those fans that discovered this album when it was first released deserve to feel ever so slightly smug. It took most of the rest of the world until EVERYTHING MUST GO before this album was fully appreciated. Sounding like a cross between metal and punk, the energy and melody never lets up for one second. After the first three tracks are over, a quick lie-down is in order before you tackle the sentiment of "Motorcycle Emptiness." Lyrically, the Manics are giants; it is a great pity that their statements of ironic values of the 80s and 90s are not listened to more. Thank goodness this album was finally discovered.
Industry Reviews
Included in Q's list of the 50 Best Albums Of 1992.
Q (01/01/1993)
Included in Q Magazine's 90 Best Albums Of The 1990s.
Q (12/01/1999)
...Encompasses both the FM-rock paradigm...and state-of-the-art pop as enraged protest...with the lyrics suggesting some lunatic symposium....This album gave astonishing notice of a brilliant, hysterical sense of ambition.
Mojo (02/01/2002)
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