Generation Terrorists

Debut albums rarely come as ambitious as the Manic Street Preachers' Generation Terrorists. Released in England as a double album (it was trimmed to the length of a single record in America), the album teemed with slogans, political rhetoric, and scarily inarticulate angst. Since the Manics deliver these charged lyrics as heavy guitar-rockers, the music doesn't always hit quite as forcefully as intended. The relatively polished production and big guitar sound occasionally sell the music short, especially the lesser songs, yet the Manics' passion is undeniable, even on the weaker cuts. While the album is loaded with a little bit too much unrealized material in retrospect, its best moments -- the fiery "Slash N' Burn," "Little Baby Nothing," the incendiary "Stay Beautiful," the sardonic "You Love Us," and the haunting "Motorcycle Emptiness" -- capture the Manics in all their raging glory.

Untrimmed, in-fact properly enhanced, from the Japanese 1992 edition to FLAC

The Manic Street Preachers; Generation Terrorists

1.      Slash’n’burn

2.      Nat West Barclays Midlands Lloyds

3.      Born To End

4.      Motorcycle Emptiness

5.      You Love Us

6.      Loves Sweet Exile

7.      Little Baby Nothing

8.      Repeat

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

19.   A Vision Of Dead Desire