Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
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Release date: 21 April 1992
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Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists: Wikipedia Album Entry
Generation Terrorists is the debut album by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers, released on 10 February 1992, and produced by Steve Brown.
It was recorded by tracking (the band recorded each instrument separately rather than playing it as a live band and then adding the overdubs later) over a period of 23 weeks at Blackbarn Studios, near Guildford, England. Despite the whole band being credited in the album notes, vocalist James Dean Bradfield played all guitars and bass on the album.
To avoid controversy in the U.S., the track list was changed and some of the more "difficult" tracks were dropped. The album was released in its full, uncensored form everywhere else.
All lyrics were written by Nicky Wire (real name Nicholas Jones) and Richey James Edwards. All music was written by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore (except "Damn Dog", which is a cover version of a song by the Sleez Sisters from the 1980 movie Times Square).
The album's lyrics are politicised like that of The Clash and Public Enemy. Wire and Edwards' love of poetry is also evident in their lyrics. The track "Repeat (Stars And Stripes)" is a remix of the band's own anti-monarchy tirade by Public Enemy production team The Bomb Squad of whom Bradfield and Edwards were big fans.
The cover was originally intended to be Andres Serrano's Pisschrist, a Jesus figure inside a tank of blood and urine, but Sony wanted to avoid any religious controversy; also, the royalty demanded for the piece was deemed excessive. Other ideas were the Bert Stern Marilyn Monroe photographs, a sandpaper sleeve that would scratch the album itself as well as anything else that it was shelved by (an old Situationist prank, this idea was used by Guy Debord for his first book Memoires and by The Durutti Column for their first album The Return of the Durutti Column), as well as several other famous religious paintings.
The final front cover of the album was a picture of Edwards' left arm and chest. The arm had a tattoo of a rose with the words "USELESS GENERATION" underneath, which was changed to "GENERATION TERRORISTS". This was not without problems, as the original pressing had made Edwards' flesh to be bright pink as opposed to the intended mustard. The back featured a design similar to their earlier New Art Riot EP cover, an EC Flag, though this time it was crumpled and in flames.
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Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists Lyrics
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Drugs come out of boredom, babe
U.N. exports it everyday
Their armies feed the ghetto lame
Government approve it just the same
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Manic Street Preachers - So Dead Lyrics
Learn to sleep through misery
Never gonna wake feeling free
No one fucks as good as Marilyn
Plastic surgery sure cures your sins
Manic Street Preachers - Natwest-barclays-midlands-lloyds Lyrics
(Words: Nicky Wire/Richey James; Music: James Dean Bradfield/Sean Moore)
Economic forecast soothe our dereliction
Words of euthanasia, apathy of sick routine
Carried away with useless advertising dreams
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Manic Street Preachers - Repeat (stars And Stripes) Lyrics
I've seen this happen before
This is a message from occupied England
British adults expect a nuclear war in our lifetime
From earliest human existence there proved to be
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Manic Street Preachers - Methadone Pretty Lyrics
I am nothing and should be everything
You're methadone pretty, surrender in pity
Intentional destruction germ
Eats your thoughts and makes you happy
Manic Street Preachers - Little Baby Nothing (with Traci Lords) Lyrics
(Words: Nicky Wire/Richey James; Music: James Dean Bradfield/Sean Moore)
No one likes looking at you
Your lack of ego offends male mentality
They need your innocence
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Manic Street Preachers - Damn Dog Lyrics
This is Damn Dog
By the Manic Street Preachers
Take one, two, three, four
Manic Street Preachers - Born To End Lyrics
Get some pain and I feel alive
(Born to end)
Close my eyes overdose on hell
(Born to end)
Manic Street Preachers - Tennessee Lyrics
Your dream can never earn enough
Ultimate nihilistic love
Tennessee nights just zip-code love
Manic Street Preachers - Slash N' Burn Lyrics
You need your stars, even killers have prestige
Access to a living you will not see
24 boredom, I'm convicted instantly
Gorgeous poverty of created needs
Manic Street Preachers - Stay Beautiful Lyrics
Find your faith in your security
All broken up at seventeen
Jam your brain with broken heroes
Love your masks and adore your failure
Manic Street Preachers - Condemned To Rock 'n' Roll Lyrics
Always feeling torn and slow
Love song cull destroy poem
Misery and trauma making love
Best go shoot the fucking doves
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Manic Street Preachers - Repeat (u K ) Lyrics
I've seen this happen before
This is a message from occupied England
British adults expect a nuclear war in our lifetime
From earliest human existence there proved to be
Manic Street Preachers - Love's Sweet Exile Lyrics
Between the billboard masturbation
Across highways of metallic isolation
There lies the deafenin' screamin'
Of the millions wipin' out the diseased pages
Manic Street Preachers - Crucifix Kiss Lyrics
So mighty, so hegemonic, so hating, so desecrating
So there, so nowhere, so hurting
We fall between indifference rejection
And the whole fucking wall, we fall
Manic Street Preachers - Repeat Lyrics
I've seen this happen before
This is a message from occupied England
British adults expect a nuclear war in our lifetime
From earliest human existence there proved to be
