Manic Street Preachers
Forever Delayed: Greatest Hits/Limited Edition
Label:  Epic 
Date:  10/28/2002
Length:  0:00
Format:  2CD
Genre:  Rock; Alternative
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 A Design For Life    
      2.  
      		 Motorcycle Emptiness    
      3.  
      		 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next    
      4.  
      		 La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)    
      5.  
      		 There By The Grace Of God    
      6.  
      		 You Love Us    
      7.  
      		 Australia    
      8.  
      		 You Stole The Sun From My Heart    
      9.  
      		 Kevin Carter    
      10.  
      		 Tsunami    
      11.  
      		 The Masses Against The Classes    
      12.  
      		 From Dispair To Where    
      13.  
      		 Door To The River    
      14.  
      		 Everything Must Go    
      15.  
      		 Faster    
      16.  
      		 Little Baby Nothing    
      17.  
      		 Theme From M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless)    
      18.  
      		 So Why So Sad    
      19.  
      		 The Everlasting    
      20.  
      		 Motown Junk    
      21.  
      		 La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) (Chemical Brothers Mix)    
      22.  
      		 Faster (Chemical Brothers Mix)    
      23.  
      		 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (Massive Attack Mix)    
      24.  
      		 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (David Holmes Mix)    
      25.  
      		 Tsunami (Cornelius Mix)    
      26.  
      		 Tsunami (Stereolab Mix)    
      27.  
      		 You Stole The Sun (Mogwai Mix)    
      28.  
      		 You Stole The Sun From My Heart (David Holmes Mix)    
      29.  
      		 So Why So Sad (Avalanches Mix)    
      30.  
      		 Let Robeson Sing (Ian Brown Mix)    
      31.  
      		 Kevin Carter (Jon Carter Mix)    
      32.  
      		 A Design For Life (Stealthsonic Orchestra Mix)    
      33.  
      		 The Everlasting (Stealthsonic Orchestra Mix)    
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      It's been a long, hard career for the Manic Street Preachers, from busking in Cardiff to losing a guitarist (Richey Edwards) and winning awards; but somehow the band survived. Forever Delayed is the long-overdue collection of their best songs, spanning the course of their turbulent career. This was always going to be a weak collection--not because of any shortcomings in their singles material, but because they've always been about something bigger than mere singles. They produced not so much concept albums, but albums of concept, presented as completed works of art. As such, removing any songs from their original context is to immediately weaken them. It shows their career progression clearly--from the dark places of avant-garde The Holy Bible (the Richey album) to the critical and commercial high point of the era-defining Everything Must Go (the without Richey album) and the ensuing struggle with how to proceed musically. The loss of Edwards had an obvious effect, but wasn't immediately indicative of an artistic decline. Only when they tried to revert to their roots did they come unstuck without him (2001's Know Your Enemy). Their commercial and artistic high points rarely combined, but to produce a collection from this period is to do the Manics a great injustice--even if it does have "Motown Junk" on it. --Ben Johncock