Generation Terrorists

Generation Terrorists is the debut album by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers released in 1992. It was released in two different versions with different tracklists.

All lyrics were written by by Nicky Wire and Richey James, all music was written by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore (except Damn Dog, which is a cover version of a song by The Sleeve Sisters from the movie Time Square).

The front cover of the album was a picture of Richey's right arm and chest. The arm had a tatoo of a rose with the words "USELESS GENERATION" underneath, which was changed to read "GENERATION TERRORISTS". The back featured a burning EC flag.

Table of contents

1 Quotations 2 Tracklist (UK version) 3 Tracklist (USA version)

Quotations

The album sleve featured quotes from various literary figures that were considered relevant to particular songs.

Tracklist (UK version)

1. Slash 'N' Burn Album sleeve features a quotation from E. E. Cummings.
2. Nat West-Barclays-Midlands-Llyods Album sleeve features a quotation from Philip Larkin.
3. Born To End Album sleeve features a quotation from Rimbaud.
4. Motorcycle Emptiness Album sleeve features a quotation from Sylvia Plath.
5. You Love Us Album sleeve features a quotation from Manifesto of the Futurists.
6. Love's Sweet Exhile Album sleeve features a quotation from Kotanyi,Vaneigem (IS no.6, 1961).
7. Little Baby Nothing Album sleeve features a quotation from Valerie Solanas.
8. Repeat (Stars And Stripes) Album sleeve features a quotation from Chuck D.
9. Tennesse Album sleeve features a quotation from Ten Bears For the Comanche at the Council of Medicine, Lodge Creek, 1867.
10. Another Invented Disease Album sleeve features a quotation from Albert Camus.
11. Stay Beautiful Album sleeve features a quotation from Confucius.
12. So Dead Album sleeve features a quotation from Ibsen.
13. Repeat (UK) Album sleeve features a quotation from George Orwell.
14. Spectators Of Suicide Album sleeve features a quotation from Henry Miller.
15. Damn Dog Album sleeve features a quotation from Sleaze Sisters.
16. Crucifix Kiss Album sleeve features a quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche.
17. Methadone Pretty Album sleeve features a quotation from William Burroughs.
18. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll Album sleeve features a quotation from Nik Cohn.

Tracklist (USA version)

1. Slash 'N Burn
2. Natwest-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds
3. Love's Sweet Exile
4. Little Baby Nothing
5. Another Invented Disease
6. Stay Beautiful
7. Repeat (U.K.)
8. You Love Us
9. Democracy Coma
10. Crucifix Kiss
11. Motorcycle Emptiness
12. Tennessee
13. Repeat (Stars And Stripes)
14. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll