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Generation Terrorists by Manic Street Preachers
Generation Terrorists is an album by Manic Street Preachers, released in 1992. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Stay Beautiful”, on 1 list with a best position of #53.
Generation Terrorists, the debut from Manic Street Preachers, came out on Columbia on 10 February 1992, and it arrived with a mouth on it. Riding the press frenzy whipped up by "Motown Junk", the Welsh upstarts from Blackwood swore it would be the greatest rock album ever made and move sixteen million copies around the globe.
Recorded across the second half of 1991, it's a glam-punk blitz with hard-rock muscle: James Dean Bradfield hollering and firing off guitar heroics, his cousin Sean Moore on drums, Nicky Wire on bass and Richey Edwards on guitar, the whole thing dripping androgynous glam and lyrics steeped in alienation, boredom and despair. "Stay Beautiful" snarls, the choruses are built for terraces, and the ambition outstrips everything, which is exactly the point.
It never got near those boasts, but it went gold in the UK and made the Top 100 in Japan. Gold Against the Soul followed in 1993.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Generation Terrorists on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stay Beautiful | 1 | #53 | – | 1991 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.