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The glam-influenced Alternative-Rock outfit Manic Street Preachers was formed in Blackwood, WALES in the late '80s; their members then were vocalist + guitarist James Dean Bradfield, rhythm guitarist + lyricist Richey James, bassist Nicky Wire and drummer Sean Moore.

The band landed its first record deal in 1990, signing to the indie label, Damaged Goods who released their debut record, apart from there home pressed "Suicide Alley", a 12-inch 4-track EP entitled "New Art Riot".

Manic Street Preachers' first full-length disc, "Generation Terrorists", was released as a double album in England in February 1992; the band quickly became a favourite of the media and the album managed to crack the U.K. Top 20.

Taking the heavy-Rock inclinations of "Generation Terrorists" to an extreme, the Manics delivered a flawed but intriguing second album with "Gold Against The Soul"; despite somewhat mixed reviews, the disc hit the top 10 in U.K. upon its June 1993 release.

The Welsh quartet returned a year later with another British top 10 album, "The Holy Bible"; the record was the last to feature Richey James, the main songwriter was a very troubled young man, he was anorexic and had severe depression problems; in early 1995 James disappeared. His car was found in a parking lot near a bridge, his body was never found and no one saw him jump off the bridge, he simply vanished off the face of the earth.

In spite of James' absence, Manic Street Preachers continued as a trio, releasing 1996's "Everything Must Go", a huge commercial and critical success in the U.K. where it rose to #2 on the Official Albums chart spawning no less than four hit singles: "A Design For Life", the title-track, "Kevin Carter" and "Australia".

The follow-up album, "This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours", finds them putting the tragedy behind them and flourishing as a three-piece outfit; the disc, which was released in August 1998, shot to #1 on the U.K. Pop Albums chart highlighted by the monster hit "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next".

Manic Street Preachers didn't deliver its sixth studio album, "Know Your Enemy", until March 2001; it peaked at #2 in U.K. generating two top 10 hit singles with "So Why So Sad" and "Found That Soul". During their world tour in support of "Know Your Enemy", The Manics became the first major Rock band to play Cuba in over two decades.

"Lifeblood" arrived in late 2004, but the three-and-a-half year gap had seemingly lost the band a lot of fans as the album failed to match either the sales or chart success of the group's previous record. However, the two singles off the CD, "The Love Of Richard Nixon " and "Empty Souls" peaked at #2 on the U.K. Pop chart.

Manic Street Preachers returned in May 2007 with "Send Away The Tigers"; it included the single "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" featuring The Cardigans' Nina Persson which became the band's third consecutive #2 debut on the U.K. Top 40 Singles chart and helped the album make it to #2 as well.

Richey James was officially presumed dead in November 2008 and just months later, in May 2009, the Manics released "Journal For Plague Lovers". With a sleeve painted by artist Jenny Saville and words culled from the notebooks of the band's former lyricist, their ninth album consciously harks back to the group's excellently caustic 1994 album "The Holy Bible". "Journal For Plague Lovers" debuted at #3 on the British Albums chart.

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Generation Terrorists

(1992)

1. Slash N' Burn
2. Nat West-Barclays-Midland-Lloyds
3. Born To End
4. Motorcycle Emptiness
5. You Love Us
6. Love's Sweet Exile
7. Little Baby Nothing
8. Repeat (Star And Stripes)
9. Tennessee
10. Another Invented Disease
11. Stay Beautiful
12. So Dead
13. Repeat (UK)
14. Spectators Of Suicide
15. Damn Dog
16. Crucifix Kiss
17. Methadone Pretty
18. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

 

Gold Against The Soul

(1993)

1. Sleepflower
2. From Despair To Where
3. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
4. Yourself
5. Life Becoming A Landslide
6. Drug Drug Druggy
7. Roses In The Hospital
8. Nostalgic Pushead
9. Symphony Of Tourette
10. Gold Against The Soul

 

The Holy Bible

(1994)

1. Yes
2. Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart
3. Of Walking Abortion
4. She Is Suffering
5. Archives Of Pain
6. Revol
7. 4st 7lb
8. Mausoleum
9. Faster
10. This Is Yesterday
11. Die In The Summertime
12. The Intense Humming Of Evil
13. P.C.P.

 

Everything Must Go

(1996)

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

 

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

(1998)

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. I'm Not Working
8. You're Tender And You're Tired
9. Born A Girl
10. Be Natural
11. Black Dog On My Shoulder
12. Nobody Loved You
13. S.Y.M.M.

 

Know Your Enemy

(2001)

1. Found That Soul
2. Ocean Spray
3. Intravenous Agnostic
4. So Why So Sad
5. Let Robeson Sing
6. The Year Of Purification
7. Wattsville Blues
8. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
9. Dead Martyrs
10. His Last Painting
11. My Guernica
12. The Convalescent
13. Royal Correspondent
14. Epicentre
15. Baby Elian
16. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children
17. We Are All Bourgeois Now [hidden track]

 

Lifeblood

(2004)

1. 1985
2. The Love Of Richard Nixon
3. Empty Souls
4. A Song For Departure
5. I Live To Fall Asleep
6. To Repel Ghosts
7. Emily
8. Glasnost
9. Always / Never
10. Solitude Sometimes Is
11. Fragments
12. Cardiff Afterlife

 

Send Away The Tigers

(2007)

1. Send Away The Tigers
2. Underdogs
3. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
4. Indian Summer
5. The Second Great Depression
6. Rendition
7. Autumnsong
8. I'm Just A Patsy
9. Imperial Bodybags
10. Winterlovers

 

Journal For Plague Lovers

(2009)

1. Peeled Apples
2. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
3. Me And Stephen Hawking
4. This Joke Sport Severed
5. Journal For Plague Lovers
6. She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach
7. Facing Page: Top Left
8. Marlon J.D.
9. Doors Closing Slowly
10. All Is Vanity
11. Pretension / Repulsion
12. Virginia State Epileptic Colony
13. William's Last Words

 

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