Manifest Destiny (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Manifest Destiny
Type = studio
Artist = The Dictators


Released = 1977
Recorded = Record Plant, New York
Genre = Rock, proto-punk
Length =
Label = Asylum
Producer = Murray Krugman
Sandy Pearlman
Reviews =
Last album = "The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!"
(1975)
This album = "Manifest Destiny"
(1977)
Next album = "Bloodbrothers"
(1978)

"Manifest Destiny" is the second album by the Dictators and their first after switching to the Asylum label. Trouser Press praised the album as "another helping of brilliant Shernoff originals". [http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=dictators]

Track listing

All songs written by Adny Shernoff except as indicated.

ide one

#"Exposed"
#"Heartache"
#"Sleepin' with the TV On"
#"Disease" (intro by Adny Shernoff, Richard Manitoba; lyrics by Adny Shernoff)

ide two

#"Hey Boys" (Scott Kempner, Adny Shernoff, Dick Destiny)
#"Steppin' Out"
#"Science Gone Too Far"
#"Young, Fast, Scientific"
#"Search & Destroy" (James Williamson, J.J. Osterberg)

Personnel

*Handsome Dick Manitoba – lead vocals
*Ross "The Boss" Friedman – lead guitar, 12-string guitar
*"Top Ten" Kempner – rhythm guitar
*Adny Shernoff – keyboards, lead & background vocals
*Ritchie Teeter – drums, lead & background vocals
*Mark "The Animal" Mendoza – bass guitar