Time to bring this back to life (again)..
Manic Street Preachers - Demo Recordings & Rare Stuff 1985-1990
1. Faceless Sense Of Void
(Early version of Love's Sweet Exile)
2. Go Buzz Baby Go
(Early Version of Motorcycle Emptiness)
3. Just Can't Be Happy
4. R.P. McMurphy
5. Suicide Alley
(Self released debut single 1989)
6. New Art Riot
7. England Is A Bitch
8. This Girl Got Nothing
9. Love In A Make-Up Bag
10. Generation Terrorists
(Early version of Stay Beautiful)
11. UK Channel Boredom
(Released as a split flexi single 1990)
12. Sunglass Asthetic
13. You Love Us
14. Methadone Pretty
15. Dying A Thousand Deaths
16. Eating Myself From The Inside
17. Democracy Coma
18. Repeat
19. Behave Yourself Baby
20. Repeat
21. Razorblade Beat
22. Where Have All The Good Things Gone
23. Whiskey Psychosis
24. Soul Contamination
25. Tennessee (I Get Low)
(Suicide Alley B Side, Early version of Tennessee)
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If like me you look at what the Manic Street Preachers have become and silently weep to yourself let me take you back to a time when they were young, dangerous & full of attitude.
This is a selection of stuff recorded between 1985 & 1990 in a lot of cases recorded before Richey Edwards even joined the band. Both their debut single and it's B side are here, as is a song they put out as a really limited edition flexidisc. A fair chunk of this stuff was refined and came out on their debut album a few ended up as B sides to the early singles, quite a few songs have never been released.
So download, listen & go back to a time when the Manic Street Preachers meant something slightly more than the sad middle aged men they became and the middle of the road dross they've been churning out for well over a decade.