Manic Street Preachers

Surge Tracks

• (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
• A Design for Life
• Australia
• Black Dog On My Shoulder
• Empty Souls
• Enola Alone
• Everything Must Go
• Faster
• Found That Soul
• If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
• La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
• Motorcycle Emptiness
• Ocean Spray
• So Why So Sad
• You Love Us
• You Stole The Sun From My Heart
• Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

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Artist Biography

Manic Street Preachers are an alternative rock band from Blackwood, Wales, formed in 1986. Often referred to as "the Manics", they are James Dean Bradfield (vocals, guitars), Nicky Wire (bass, occasional vocals) and Sean Moore (drums, backing vocals, occasional trumpet). The band were originally a quartet: lyricist and rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards mysteriously vanished on 1 February 1995. He was declared presumed deceased in November 2008.

The Manics released their debut album Generation Terrorists in 1992. Their combination of androgynous glam punk imagery, outspoken invective and songs about "culture, alienation, boredom and despair" soon gained them a loyal following and cult status. The band's later albums retained a politicized and intellectual lyrical style, while adopting a broader alternative rock sound. Enigmatic lyricist Richey Edwards gained early notoriety by carving the words "4 REAL" into his arm with a razor blade (narrowly missing an artery and requiring seventeen stitches) in response to the suggestion that the band were less than authentic. The dark nature of 1994's The Holy Bible reflected the culmination of Edwards' instability.

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Artist Discography

Albums

Everything Must Go (6 November 2006)
Generation Terrorists (10 February 1992)
Gold Against the Soul (June 1993)
Journal for Plague Lovers (18 May 2009)
Know Your Enemy (19 March 2001)
Lifeblood (1 November 2004)
Postcards From a Young Man (20 September 2010)
Send Away the Tigers (7 May 2007)
The Holy Bible (29 August 1994)
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (14 September 1998)

EPs

Forever Delayed EP (16 January 2003)
God Save the Manics (20 April 2005)
Life Becoming a Landslide EP (7 February 1994)
New Art Riot EP (16 January 1992)
Stars and Stripes (21 August 1992)
Umbrella EP

Singles

A Design for Life (1996)
Australia (2 December 1996)
Autumnsong (23 July 2007)
Empty Souls (10 January 2005)
Everything Must Go (29 July 1996)
Faster / P.C.P. (6 June 1994)
Found That Soul (26 February 2001)
From Despair to Where (7 June 1993)
Further Away (16 October 1996)
Ghost of Christmas (30 November 2007)
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (1998)
Indian Summer (1 October 2007)
Just the End of Love (13 September 2010)
Kevin Carter (30 September 1996)
La Tristesse Durera (26 July 1993)
Let Robeson Sing (10 September 2001)
Little Baby Nothing (September 1997)
Love's Sweet Exile (September 1997)
Motorcycle Emptiness (1 June 1992)
Motown Junk (21 January 1991)
Nobody Loved You (9 December 1998)
Ocean Spray (4 June 2001)
Revol (1 August 1994)
Roses in the Hospital (20 September 1993)
She Is Suffering (10 October 1994)
Slash 'n' Burn (September 1997)
Some Kind of Nothingness (6 December 2010)
So Why So Sad (26 February 2001)
Stay Beautiful (September 1997)
The Everlasting (30 November 1998)
The Love of Richard Nixon (18 October 2004)
The Masses Against the Classes (10 January 2000)
Theme From M.A.S.H. (7 September 1992)
Theme from M*A*S*H: Suicide is Painless (1992)
There by the Grace of God (14 October 2002)
This Is the Day (16 September 2011)
Tsunami (5 July 1999)
Underdogs (19 March 2007)
You Love Us (16 January 1992)
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (30 April 2007)
You Stole the Sun From My Heart (3 January 1999)

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