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Manic Street Preachers is an alternative rock artist from Blackwood, Wales formed in 1986. 90 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
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This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
1998 · 15 tracks
National Treasures - The Complete Singles
2011
Resistance Is Futile
2018
Rewind the Film
2013
Gold Against the Soul
1993
Postcards From a Young Man
2010
Journal for Plague Lovers
2009
The Ultra Vivid Lament
2021
Lifeblood
2004
Critical Thinking
2025
Send Away the Tigers
2007
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers
2003
Know Your Enemy
2001
Generation Terrorists
1992
B-Sides, Volume 2
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Ultimate Collection
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B-Sides, Volume 1
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And Then There Were 3
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Best of 99
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Live in Manchester 1997
2025
Lifeblood 20
2024
Sleep Next to Plastic (Exclusives)
2022
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours: 20 Year Collectors' Edition (Remastered)
2018
Send Away the Tigers: 10 Year Collectors Edition
2017
Everything Must Go 20 (Remastered)
2016
Generation Terrorists (Legacy Edition) (Remastered)
2012
Original Album Classics
2011
Everything Must Go / This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
2011
Journal For Plague Lovers Remixes
2009
Everything Must Go 10th Anniversary Edition
2009
Manic Street Preachers × 2: Generation Terrorists / Gold Against the Soul
2007
Forever Delayed
2002
Forever Delayed: The Greatest Hits
2002
Know Our B-Sides
2001
Remixed
1999
Everything Must Go
1996
The Holy Bible 20 (Remastered)
1994
The Holy Bible
1994
Futurology
EP · 2014
Let the Light Return / Johatsu
Single · 2025
Brushstrokes of Reunion
Single · 2025
People Ruin Paintings
Single · 2025
Hiding in Plain Sight
Single · 2024
1985 (Steven Wilson's Extended Eighties Mix)
Single · 2024
Decline & Fall
Single · 2024
Studies in Paralysis (Remastered)
Single · 2022
Rosebud (Remastered)
Single · 2022
The Secret He Had Missed (feat. Cat Southall) (Piano Acoustic Version)
Single · 2021
Orwellian
Single · 2021
The Secret He Had Missed (feat. Julia Cumming)
Single · 2021
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Gold Against the Soul (House in the Woods Demo) [Remastered]
Single · 2020
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Roses in the Hospital (Impact Demo) [Remastered]
Single · 2020
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Drug Drug Druggy (House in the Woods Demo) [Remastered]
Single · 2020
Spectators of Suicide (feat. Gwenno)
Single · 2020
International Blue (The Bluer Skies Version)
Single · 2018
Hold Me Like a Heaven (Warm Digits Remix)
Single · 2018
Dylan & Caitlin (feat. The Anchoress)
Single · 2018
Liverpool Revisited
Single · 2018
Distant Colours
Single · 2018
Hold Me Like a Heaven (Public Service Broadcasting Remix)
Single · 2018
International Blue
Single · 2017
Together Stronger (C'mon Wales)
Single · 2016
Live EP - From The O2
EP · 2014
Europa Geht Durch Mich (feat. Nina Hoss)
Single · 2014
Walk Me to the Bridge
Single · 2014
New Art Riot
EP · 2013
Anthem for a Lost Cause
EP · 2013
Show Me the Wonder
Single · 2013
Rewind the Film (feat. Richard Hawley)
Single · 2013
This Is The Day
Single · 2011
Let Robeson Sing (feat. Gruff Rhys) (Live at the O2)
Single · 2011
(It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
Single · 2010
Some Kind Of Nothingness
Single · 2010
Bag Lady
Single · 2009
Journal For Plague Lovers Remixes E.P.
EP · 2009
Umbrella
Single · 2008
Your Love Alone
Single · 2007
Indian Summer (Demo Version)
Single · 2007
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (feat. Nina Persson) (Nina & James Acoustic)
Single · 2007
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (feat. Nina Persson)
Single · 2007
Indian Summer
Single · 2007
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (feat. Nina Persson) (James Solo Acoustic)
Single · 2007
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
Single · 2007
Autumnsong
Single · 2007
Indian Summer (Live at VMAs)
Single · 2007
God Save the Manics
EP · 2005
The Love Of Richard Nixon
Single · 2004
There By The Grace Of God
Single · 2002
Ocean Spray
Single · 2001
So Why So Sad
EP · 2001
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MOJO Awards
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Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band that was formed in 1986 in Blackwood, South Wales and consists of James Dean Bradfield (lead vocals and lead guitar), Nicky Wire (bass guitar and lyrics) and Sean Moore (drums and 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". Originally a quartet, the band became a trio when primary lyricist and rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards disappeared on 1 February 1995. In 1992, the Manics released their debut studio 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 …
