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"Motown Junk" Single by Manic Street Preachers Released January 21, 1991, Re-issue May 21st, 2011 Format CD, vinyl record (12", 7") Recorded Late 1990 Genre Alternative, glam punk, hard rock, indie rock Length 3:59 Label Heavenly HVN8 12 Producer Robin Wynn Evans Manic Street Preachers singles chronology "New Art Riot"
(1990)"Motown Junk"
(1991)"You Love Us"
(1991)"Motown Junk" is an early stand alone single from the rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on January 21, 1991, and peaked at #94 on the UK Singles Chart. The track has long been a live favourite from the earlier part of their career to the present day. The title track shows the band during their pinnacle of iconoclastic attitude, such as in the lyric, "I laughed when Lennon got shot". The Motown in the title refers to famed 60s and 70s label Motown Records. The song also displayed their diverse cultural scope with a Public Enemy-sampling intro and an outro sample of The Skids.
Both B-sides featured on the single ("Sorrow 16" and "We Her Majesty's Prisoners") were on the later singles "Slash 'n' Burn" - "You Love Us" respectively - from the band's debut album, Generation Terrorists. The single was the band's first from their then record label, Heavenly Records. Despite its relatively poor charting, the single gained the band much attention from the press.
The single's cover features a watch recovered from the Hiroshima bomb site depicting the exact moment of detonation.
In 2008, the band added a Johnny Boy Anniversary Mix free embedded version to their official website, which featured spoken dialogue by Richey Edwards.
In 2011, Heavenly Records re-released Motown Junk to sell at the Manic Street Preachers gig on the 21st of May 2011 and at the Berwick Independent Marker.
Contents
Track listing
CD / 12"
- "Motown Junk"
- "Sorrow 16"
- "We Her Majesty's Prisoners"
Track listing
7"
- "Side A: Motown Junk"
- "Side B: Sorrow 16"
Manic Street Preachers Studio albums Generation Terrorists (1992) · Gold Against the Soul (1993) · The Holy Bible (1994) · Everything Must Go (1996) · This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998) · Know Your Enemy (2001) · Lifeblood (2004) · Send Away the Tigers (2007) · Journal for Plague Lovers (2009) · Postcards from a Young Man (2010)Compilation albums EPs New Art Riot (1990) · Stars and Stripes (1992) · Life Becoming a Landslide EP (1994) · Know Our B-Sides (2001) · God Save the Manics (2005) · Journal for Plague Lovers Remixes E.P. (2009)Singles "Suicide Alley" (1988) · "UK Channel Boredom" (1990) · "Motown Junk" (1991) · "You Love Us (Heavenly Version)" (1991) · "Feminine Is Beautiful" (1991) · "Stay Beautiful" (1991) · "Love's Sweet Exile/Repeat" (1991) · "You Love Us" (1991) · "Slash 'n' Burn" (1992) · "Motorcycle Emptiness" (1992) · "Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H)" (1992) · "Little Baby Nothing" (1992) · "From Despair to Where" (1993) · "La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)" (1993) · "Roses in the Hospital" (1993) · "Faster/P.C.P." (1994) · "Revol" (1994) · "She Is Suffering" (1994) · "A Design for Life" (1996) · "Everything Must Go" (1996) · "Kevin Carter" (1996) · "Further Away" (1996) · "Australia" (1996) · "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (1998) · "The Everlasting" (1998) · "You Stole the Sun from My Heart" (1999) · "Tsunami" (1999) · "The Masses Against the Classes" (2000) · "Found That Soul" (2001) · "So Why So Sad" (2001) · "Ocean Spray" (2001) · "Let Robeson Sing" (2001) · "There by the Grace of God" (2002) · "The Love of Richard Nixon" (2004) · "Empty Souls" (2005) · "Underdogs" (2007) · "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" (2007) · "Autumnsong" (2007) · "Indian Summer" (2007) · "The Ghosts of Christmas" (2007) · "(It's Not War) Just the End of Love" (2010) · "Some Kind of Nothingness" (2010) · "Postcards from a Young Man" (2011) · "This Is the Day" (2011)Box sets Video Albums Everything Live (1997) · Leaving the 20th Century (2000) · Louder Than War (2001) · Forever Delayed (2002)Other appearances "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (1995) · "Leviathan" (2005) · "The Instrumental" (2006) · "Umbrella" (2008)Related articles Categories:- 1991 singles
- Manic Street Preachers songs
- 1990 songs
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