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Generation Terrorists
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by Manic Street Preachers
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1. Slash N' Burn
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2. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds
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3. Born To End
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4. Motorcycle Emptiness
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5. You Love Us
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6. Love's Sweet Exile
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7. Little Baby Nothing
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8. Repeat Stars And Stripes
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9. Tennessee
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10. Another Invented Disease
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11. Stay Beautiful
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12. So Dead
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13. Repeat UK
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14. Spectators Of Suicide
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15. Damn Dog
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16. Crucifix Kiss
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17. Methadone Pretty
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18. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
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1991 debut album by the British rock outfit, unavailable in the U.S. 18 tracks, including the singles 'Slash 'N' Burn', 'Motorcycle Emptiness', 'You Love Us', 'Little Baby Nothing' and 'Stay Beautiful'. Features more tracks than the out of print U.S. version as well as different mixes of many of the tracks. Sony. 1992 release.
I remember this album like it came out yesterday. At its point of release, the Manic's had already gone over (at least according to the golden boys of fleet street), and world domination (or at least the U.S.) was not going to happen, even if it offered some of the greatest riffs ("You Love Us", "Stay Beautiful", "Love's Sweet Exile") known to man. Lyrically, it's a pastiche of Karl Marx, Public Enemy, and musically, Guns 'N' Roses, The Clash, The MC5, Queen, the Who, and the Sex Pistols. It isn't always comfortable, it's reasonably overproduced, but all through the material you get the impression that this is still a band that matters. Besides, I had an ongoing bet that this band was going somewhere, while some of my friends favoured Teenage Fanclub, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, and Mega City Four. Who'd have thought they'd have made it as far as they did? "Motorcycle Emptiness" gets my vote as the song of the decade (and of that year, particularly). Had they released it around the time of EMG, it would have been a huge number #1 hit, and it's easy to see why. The soaring Les Paul chorus, the Jimmy Page-ish flourishes in the last two minutes, the ludicrous lyrics that represented our generation better than the Kurt Cobains of the world ever could, and certainly the heroic vocals of Mr. James Dean Bradfield, the most underrated musician on the planet. It isn't perfect (many tunes could have been left off), and they would eventually perfect their chops on later albums, but at a time in the music industry when guitars were most definitely not 'in', this was a breath of fresh air. That they may not return to the guitars of yore doesn't matter. Because this album will always be there.
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