Manic Street Preachers - National Treasures - 2CD+DVD 2011

Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band formed in 1986 consisting of James Dean Bradfield (lead vocals, lead guitar), Nicky Wire (bass, lyrics), and Sean Moore (drums, percussion). The band is part of the Cardiff music scene and were at their most prominent during the 1990s. They are colloquially known as 'The Manics' or simply 'Manics'. Manic Street Preachers were originally a quartet but primary lyricist and rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards vanished on 1 February 1995.

In 1992, the Manics released their debut album, Generation Terrorists. Their combination of androgynous glam punk imagery and critical social lyrics about 'culture, alienation, boredom, and despair' soon gained them a loyal following and cult status. The band's later albums retained a leftist politicisation and intellectual lyrical style while adopting a broader alternative rock sound.

Following Edwards' disappearance, Bradfield, Moore, and Wire persisted with Manic Street Preachers and went on to gain critical and commercial success, becoming one of Britain's premier rock bands. Altogether, they have garnered eight Top 10 albums, fifteen Top 10 singles, and have reached number one three times with their 1998 This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours album, the 1998 'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next' single, and the 2000 'The Masses Against the Classes' single. (wikipedia)

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To celebrate the 21st anniversary of their first single release, National Treasures - The Complete Singles gathers 38 songs from the band's rich history, starting with initial Heavenly Records release 'Motown Junk' (1990) to tracks taken from last year's Postcards From A Young Man.

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Manic Street Preachers - National Treasures- the Complete Singles 1990-2011
(2CD+DVD Sony Music Columbia 2011)

CD

1. Motown junk
2. Stay beautiful
3. Love's sweet exile
4. You love us
5. Slash 'n' burn
6. Motorcycle emptiness
7. Suicide is painless
8. Little baby nothing
9. From despair to where
10. La tristesse durera (scream to a sigh)
11. Roses in the hospital
12. Life becoming a landslide
13. Faster
14. Revol
15. She is suffering
16. A design for life
17. Everything must go
18. Kevin Carter
19. Australia
20. If you tolerate this your children will be next
21. The everlasting
22. You stole the sun from my heart
23. Tsunami
24. The masses against the classes
25. So why so sad
26. Found that soul
27. Ocean spray
28. Let robeson sing
29. There by the grace of god
30. The love of Richard Nixon
31. Empty souls
32. Your love alone is not enough
33. Autumnsong
34. Indian summer
35. It's not war just the end of love
36. Some kind of nothingness
37. Postcards from a young man
38. This is the day

DVD

Same titles as CD +
39. You love us (alternate version)
40. Autumnsong (alternate version)
41. Jackie Collins existential question time