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For the DVD of the same name that was released around the same time as this album, see Forever Delayed (DVD).
Forever Delayed 
Greatest hits album by Manic Street Preachers Released 28 October 2002 Recorded 1991-2002 Genre Alternative rock, post-punk, hard rock, glam punk Length 78:45
77:11 (bonus disc)Label Sony Producer Various (see track listing) Manic Street Preachers chronology Know Your Enemy
(2001)Forever Delayed
(2002)Lipstick Traces
(2003)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[1]NME (unfavourable) 2002 BBC (unfavourable) 2002 Rolling Stone 2002Yahoo! Music (8/10) 2002 entertainment.ie 2002Blender 2002Forever Delayed is a greatest hits album by the Manic Street Preachers, released in October 2002. The album included three singles which had never appeared on earlier albums ("Motown Junk," "Suicide Is Painless," and "The Masses Against the Classes"), the latter being one of the band's two UK #1 hits, along with "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next." Several songs were edited for length ("Motorcycle Emptiness," "You Love Us", "Australia," "Everything Must Go," "Little Baby Nothing," and "The Everlasting") so that more tracks could fit onto the CD (though not listed as edits in the liner notes). The album entered the UK Album Chart at #4.[1]
Contents
Background
The album featured two new songs: the single "There by the Grace of God" and "Door to the River." "Door to the River" was originally recorded in the sessions for the Know Your Enemy album, but the band deemed the song too unfitting to the album's general style. "There By the Grace of God" could be seen as a foreshadowing of what followed the hits compilation, as it features a more electronic/keyboard-heavy style that would eventually be the main style of the band's next studio album, Lifeblood.
The title of Forever Delayed is lifted from the lyrics of their song "Roses in the Hospital" (which does not feature on the CD album). A song called "4 Ever Delayed" was recorded for inclusion but ended up not being included. Plans of releasing it as part of a new 2 Disc edition of the compilation and as CD single were then toyed with but never surfaced. It eventually wound up on the band's following B-sides and rarities compilation Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers) in 2003. The title of the greatest hits package had also been planned for several years previous, Nicky Wire first mentioned it in Everything - A Book About Manic Street Preachers, published in 1998.
Track listing
# Song Title Length From Originally Released Producer 01 A Design for Life 4:20 Everything Must Go 15 April 1996 (No. 2) Mike Hedges 02 Motorcycle Emptiness (Edit) 5:06 Generation Terrorists 1 June 1992 (No. 17) Steve Brown 03 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 4:51 This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 24 August 1998 (No. 1) Dave Eringa 04 La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) 4:06 Gold Against the Soul 26 July 1993 (No. 22) Dave Eringa 05 There by the Grace of God 3:47 Previously unreleased 14 October 2002 (No. 6) Mike Hedges 06 You Love Us (Edit) 3:14 Generation Terrorists 16 January 1992 (No. 16) Steve Brown 07 Australia (Edit) 3:42 Everything Must Go 2 December 1996 (No. 7) Mike Hedges 08 You Stole the Sun from My Heart 4:21 This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 8 March 1999 (No. 5) Mike Hedges 09 Kevin Carter 3:24 Everything Must Go 30 September 1996 (No. 9) Mike Hedges 10 Tsunami 3:49 This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5 July 1999 (No. 11) Mike Hedges 11 The Masses Against the Classes 3:23 Non-album track 10 January 2000 (No. 1) Dave Eringa 12 From Despair to Where 3:21 Gold Against the Soul 7 June 1993 (No. 25) Dave Eringa 13 Door to the River 4:41 Previously unreleased Not Charted Mike Hedges 14 Everything Must Go 3:07 Everything Must Go 22 July 1996 (No. 5) Mike Hedges 15 Faster 3:53 The Holy Bible 6 June 1994 (No. 16) Manic Street Preachers and Steve Brown 16 Little Baby Nothing (featuring Traci Lords) (Edit) 4:12 Generation Terrorists 16 November 1992 (No. 29) Steve Brown 17 Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H) 3:28 Non-album track 7 September 1992 (No. 7) Manic Street Preachers and Steve Brown 18 So Why So Sad 3:45 Know Your Enemy 26 February 2001 (No. 8) Dave Eringa 19 The Everlasting (Edit) 4:07 This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 30 November 1998 (No. 11) Mike Hedges 20 Motown Junk 3:59 Non-album track 21 January 1991 (No. 94) Robin Wynn Evans The Remixes
- "La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)" (The Chemical Brothers Remix) – 6:32
- "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (David Holmes Remix) – 9:59
- "Tsunami" (Cornelius Remix) – 4:07
- "So Why So Sad" (The Avalanches Remix) – 4:59
- "Faster" (The Chemical Brothers Remix) – 5:46
- "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (Massive Attack Remix) – 4:55
- "Kevin Carter" (Jon Carter Remix) – 7:43
- "You Stole the Sun from My Heart" (David Holmes Remix) – 5:11
- "Tsunami" (Stereolab Remix) – 6:45
- "Let Robeson Sing" (Ian Brown Remix) – 5:01
- "The Everlasting" (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Vocal Remix) – 5:14
- "You Stole the Sun from My Heart" (Mogwai Remix) – 6:14
- "A Design for Life" (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Remix) – 4:50
Credits
- Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, and 19:
- Lyrics by Nicky Wire
- Music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore
- Tracks 2, 4, 6, 12, 15, 16, and 20:
- Lyrics by Nicky Wire and Richey James Edwards
- Music by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore
- Track 9:
- Lyrics by Richey James Edwards
- Music by James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore
- Track 17:
- Written by Mike Altman and Johnny Mandel
References
- ^ "Official album charts archive for 9th November 2002". http://www.theofficialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/3/2002-11-09/. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
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:- Manic Street Preachers albums
- 2002 greatest hits albums
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