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From the Album
1. The Everlasting
2. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
3. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
4. Ready For Drowning
5. Tsunami
6. My Little Empire
7. Im Not Working
8. Youre Tender And Youre Tired
9. Born A Girl
10. Be Natural
11. Black Dog On My Shoulder
12. Nobody Loved You
13. S.Y.M.M.
From the Album 1. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier 2. A Design For Life 3. Kevin Carter 4. Enola / Alone 5. Everything Must Go 6. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky 7. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God 8. Removables 9. Australia 10. Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning) 11. Further Away 12. No Surface All Feeling
Other Songs 1985 3 Ways to See Despair 4 Ever Delayed 4 Lonely Roads 4st 7lb 4st. 7lbs. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun A Song For Departure A Song for the Sadness A Vision of Dead Desire Aint Goin Down All Is Vanity All We Make Is Entertainment Always / Never Always / Never Always/Never Another Invented Disease Anthem for a Lost Cause Archives Of Pain Are Mothers Saints Askew Road Auto Intoxication Auto-Intoxication Automatik Teknicolour Autumn Song Autumnsong Baby Elian Bag Lady Been A Son Behave Yourself Baby Black Garden Black Holes for the Young Borderline Bored Out Of My Mind Born To End Bright Eyes Broken Algorithms Builder of Routines Buildings for Dead People Cant Take My Eyes Off You Cardiff Afterlife Charles Windsor Close My Eyes Comfort Comes Condemned To Rock N Roll Crucifix Kiss Damn Dog Dead Martyrs Dead Passive Dead Trees And Traffic Islands Dead Yankee Drawl Decline & Fall Democracy Coma Didnt My Lord Deliver Daniel Die In The Summertime Distant Colours Dixie Donkeys Dont Be Evil Door to the River Doors Closing Slowly Drug Drug Druggy Dylan & Caitlin Emily Empty Souls Enola / Alone Epicentre Everlasting [Stealth Sonic Orchestra Remix] Everything Will Be Faceless Sense Of Void Facing Page: Top Left Faster Firefight First Republic Found That Soul Fragments Freedom Of Speech Wont Feed My Children From Despair To Where Generation Terrorists Ghost Of Christmas Glasnost Gold Against The Soul Golden Platitudes Hanging On Happy Ending Hazelton Avenue Hibernation His Last Painting Hold Me Like a Heaven I Live To Fall Asleep (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline I Think I Found It IfwhiteAmericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart Im Just A Patsy Imperial Bodybags In Eternity Indian Summer Interiors International Blue Intravenous Agnostic It's All Gone (Its Not War) Just The End Of Love Its So Easy Jackie Collins Existential Question Time Journal For Plague Lovers Judge Yourself Judge Yrself Just A Kid Just Cant Be Happy La Tristesse Durera La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) Last Christmas Last Exit On Yesterday Let Robeson Sing Let’s Stay Together Leviathan Life Becoming A Landslide Little Baby Nothing Liverpool Revisited Love Torn Us Under Loves Sweet Exile Marlon J.D. Masses Against the Classes Mausoleum Me And Stephen Hawking Methadone Pretty Miss Europa Disco Dancer Montana/Autumn/78 Motorcycle Emptiness Motown Junk Mr Carbohydrate My Guernica Nat West-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds Natwest-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds Never Want Again New Art Riot No One Knows What It's Like to Be Me No-One Knows What Its Like To Be Me Nostalgic Pushead Ocean Spray Of Walking Abortion Orwellian Out Of Time Patrick Bateman P.C.P. Peeled Apples People Give In Picturesque Postcards From A Young Man Pretension / Repulsion Prologue To History Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head Razorblade Beat Rendition Repeat Repeat (Stars and Stripes) Repeat (UK) Revol Rewind the Film Rock and Roll Music Rock N Roll Music Rock & Roll Music Roses In The Hospital Royal Correspondent Rp Mcmurphy Running Out of Fantasy Scream to a Sigh (La Tristesse Durera) Sculpture Of Man Send Away The Tigers Sepia Sequels Of Forgotten Wars She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach She Is Suffering Show Me the Wonder Slash N Burn Sleepflower So Dead So Why So Sad Socalist Serenade Socialist Serenade Solitude Sometimes Is Some Kind Of Nothingness Sorrow 16 Soul Contamination Spectators Of Suicide Starlover Stay Beautiful Stay With Me Strip It Down Suicide Alley Symphony Of Tourette Take The Skinheads Bowling Teenage 20/20 Tennessee The Convalescent The Descent The Drowners The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever The Intense Humming Of Evil The Left Behind The Love Of Richard Nixon The Masses Against The Classes The Second Great Depression The Year Of Purification Theme from Mash Theme from M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless) There by the Grace of God This Girls Got Nothing This Is Yesterday This Joke Sport Severed This Sullen Welsh Heart To Repel Ghosts Together Stronger (C'mon Wales) Too Cold Here Train In Vain Under My Wheels Underdogs Unstoppable Salvation Us Against You Valley Boy Velocity Girl Virginia State Epileptic Colony Vivian Voodoo Polaroids Walk Me To The Bridge Wattsville Blues We Are All Bourgeois Now We Her Majestys Prisoners Whats My Name Williams Last Words Winterlovers Winterlovers/Working Class Hero [Bonus Track] Working Class Hero Wrote For Luck Yes You Love Us Your Love Alone Is Not Enough Yourself
From the Album 1. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier 2. A Design For Life 3. Kevin Carter 4. Enola / Alone 5. Everything Must Go 6. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky 7. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God 8. Removables 9. Australia 10. Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning) 11. Further Away 12. No Surface All Feeling
Other Songs 1985 3 Ways to See Despair 4 Ever Delayed 4 Lonely Roads 4st 7lb 4st. 7lbs. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun A Song For Departure A Song for the Sadness A Vision of Dead Desire Aint Goin Down All Is Vanity All We Make Is Entertainment Always / Never Always / Never Always/Never Another Invented Disease Anthem for a Lost Cause Archives Of Pain Are Mothers Saints Askew Road Auto Intoxication Auto-Intoxication Automatik Teknicolour Autumn Song Autumnsong Baby Elian Bag Lady Been A Son Behave Yourself Baby Black Garden Black Holes for the Young Borderline Bored Out Of My Mind Born To End Bright Eyes Broken Algorithms Builder of Routines Buildings for Dead People Cant Take My Eyes Off You Cardiff Afterlife Charles Windsor Close My Eyes Comfort Comes Condemned To Rock N Roll Crucifix Kiss Damn Dog Dead Martyrs Dead Passive Dead Trees And Traffic Islands Dead Yankee Drawl Decline & Fall Democracy Coma Didnt My Lord Deliver Daniel Die In The Summertime Distant Colours Dixie Donkeys Dont Be Evil Door to the River Doors Closing Slowly Drug Drug Druggy Dylan & Caitlin Emily Empty Souls Enola / Alone Epicentre Everlasting [Stealth Sonic Orchestra Remix] Everything Will Be Faceless Sense Of Void Facing Page: Top Left Faster Firefight First Republic Found That Soul Fragments Freedom Of Speech Wont Feed My Children From Despair To Where Generation Terrorists Ghost Of Christmas Glasnost Gold Against The Soul Golden Platitudes Hanging On Happy Ending Hazelton Avenue Hibernation His Last Painting Hold Me Like a Heaven I Live To Fall Asleep (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline I Think I Found It IfwhiteAmericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart Im Just A Patsy Imperial Bodybags In Eternity Indian Summer Interiors International Blue Intravenous Agnostic It's All Gone (Its Not War) Just The End Of Love Its So Easy Jackie Collins Existential Question Time Journal For Plague Lovers Judge Yourself Judge Yrself Just A Kid Just Cant Be Happy La Tristesse Durera La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) Last Christmas Last Exit On Yesterday Let Robeson Sing Let’s Stay Together Leviathan Life Becoming A Landslide Little Baby Nothing Liverpool Revisited Love Torn Us Under Loves Sweet Exile Marlon J.D. Masses Against the Classes Mausoleum Me And Stephen Hawking Methadone Pretty Miss Europa Disco Dancer Montana/Autumn/78 Motorcycle Emptiness Motown Junk Mr Carbohydrate My Guernica Nat West-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds Natwest-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds Never Want Again New Art Riot No One Knows What It's Like to Be Me No-One Knows What Its Like To Be Me Nostalgic Pushead Ocean Spray Of Walking Abortion Orwellian Out Of Time Patrick Bateman P.C.P. Peeled Apples People Give In Picturesque Postcards From A Young Man Pretension / Repulsion Prologue To History Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head Razorblade Beat Rendition Repeat Repeat (Stars and Stripes) Repeat (UK) Revol Rewind the Film Rock and Roll Music Rock N Roll Music Rock & Roll Music Roses In The Hospital Royal Correspondent Rp Mcmurphy Running Out of Fantasy Scream to a Sigh (La Tristesse Durera) Sculpture Of Man Send Away The Tigers Sepia Sequels Of Forgotten Wars She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach She Is Suffering Show Me the Wonder Slash N Burn Sleepflower So Dead So Why So Sad Socalist Serenade Socialist Serenade Solitude Sometimes Is Some Kind Of Nothingness Sorrow 16 Soul Contamination Spectators Of Suicide Starlover Stay Beautiful Stay With Me Strip It Down Suicide Alley Symphony Of Tourette Take The Skinheads Bowling Teenage 20/20 Tennessee The Convalescent The Descent The Drowners The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever The Intense Humming Of Evil The Left Behind The Love Of Richard Nixon The Masses Against The Classes The Second Great Depression The Year Of Purification Theme from Mash Theme from M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless) There by the Grace of God This Girls Got Nothing This Is Yesterday This Joke Sport Severed This Sullen Welsh Heart To Repel Ghosts Together Stronger (C'mon Wales) Too Cold Here Train In Vain Under My Wheels Underdogs Unstoppable Salvation Us Against You Valley Boy Velocity Girl Virginia State Epileptic Colony Vivian Voodoo Polaroids Walk Me To The Bridge Wattsville Blues We Are All Bourgeois Now We Her Majestys Prisoners Whats My Name Williams Last Words Winterlovers Winterlovers/Working Class Hero [Bonus Track] Working Class Hero Wrote For Luck Yes You Love Us Your Love Alone Is Not Enough Yourself
Manic Street Preachers, also known simply as the Manics, are a Welsh rock band formed in Blackwood, Caerphilly, in 1986. The band consists of Nicky Wire (bass guitar, lyrics) and cousins James Dean Bradfield (lead vocals, lead guitar) and Sean Moore (drums, percussion, soundscapes). They form a key part of the 1990s Welsh Cool Cymru cultural movement.
Following the release of their debut single "Suicide Alley" in 1988, Manic Street Preachers became a quartet with the addition of Richey Edwards as co-lyricist and rhythm guitarist. The band's early albums were in a punk vein, eventually broadening to a greater alternative rock sound, whilst retaining a leftist political outlook. Their early combination of androgynous glam imagery and lyrics about "culture, alienation, boredom and despair" gained them a loyal following.
Manic Street Preachers' first charting single was "Motown Junk" in 1991, followed by their debut album, Generation Terrorists, in February 1992. The band's next two albums were Gold Against the Soul in 1993 and The Holy Bible in 1994, the latter being the last album with Edwards, who disappeared in February 1995 and was legally presumed dead in 2008. The band continued as a trio, and achieved commercial success with the albums Everything Must Go (1996) and This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998).
The Manics have headlined festivals including Glastonbury, T in the Park, V Festival and Reading, winning eleven NME Awards, eight Q Awards and four BRIT Awards. They were nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1996 and 1999, and have had one nomination for the MTV Europe Music Awards. The band has sold more than ten million albums worldwide.
The Manics have two number-one singles in the UK charts: "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (1998) and "The Masses Against the Classes" (2000), as well as two number-one albums: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours and The Ultra Vivid Lament (2021). From 1991 to 2010, the band recorded 33 consecutive top 40 singles in the UK.
Also Known As: The ManicsFollowing the release of their debut single "Suicide Alley" in 1988, Manic Street Preachers became a quartet with the addition of Richey Edwards as co-lyricist and rhythm guitarist. The band's early albums were in a punk vein, eventually broadening to a greater alternative rock sound, whilst retaining a leftist political outlook. Their early combination of androgynous glam imagery and lyrics about "culture, alienation, boredom and despair" gained them a loyal following.
Manic Street Preachers' first charting single was "Motown Junk" in 1991, followed by their debut album, Generation Terrorists, in February 1992. The band's next two albums were Gold Against the Soul in 1993 and The Holy Bible in 1994, the latter being the last album with Edwards, who disappeared in February 1995 and was legally presumed dead in 2008. The band continued as a trio, and achieved commercial success with the albums Everything Must Go (1996) and This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998).
The Manics have headlined festivals including Glastonbury, T in the Park, V Festival and Reading, winning eleven NME Awards, eight Q Awards and four BRIT Awards. They were nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1996 and 1999, and have had one nomination for the MTV Europe Music Awards. The band has sold more than ten million albums worldwide.
The Manics have two number-one singles in the UK charts: "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (1998) and "The Masses Against the Classes" (2000), as well as two number-one albums: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours and The Ultra Vivid Lament (2021). From 1991 to 2010, the band recorded 33 consecutive top 40 singles in the UK.
Members:
James Dean Bradfield - lead and backing vocals, lead guitar, piano, keyboards (1986-present), rhythm guitar (1988-1989, 1995-present)
Sean Moore - drums, percussion, trumpet, backing vocals (1986-present)
Nicky Wire - bass, keyboards, backing and lead vocals (1988-present), rhythm guitar (1986-1988)
Former members:
Miles "Flicker" Woodward - bass (1986-1988)
Richey Edwards - rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1989-1995; disappeared in 1995; declared dead in absentia in 2008)
Genre(s): Alternative rock, Britpop, punk rock, glam rock
Active From: 1986-present