Manic Street Preachers discography

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Manic Street Preachers discography
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Studio albums15
EPs8
Compilation albums4
Singles65
B-sides200
Video albums5
Music videos75
Box sets1
Deluxe reissues10
Other appearances21

Manic Street Preachers are an alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Blackwood, Wales, UK. Their discography consists of 15 studio albums, four compilation albums, one box set, 10 deluxe reissues, three UK chart-eligible EPs, five other EPs, 58 UK chart-eligible singles, seven other singles, 200 B-sides, five video albums, and 75 music videos, plus appearances on various artist compilations.

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For singles, the band has a record 34 consecutive UK Top 40 hits, including two number ones with 1998's "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" and 2000's "The Masses Against the Classes", with a total of 97 weeks in the Top 40. This run started with 1991's "Stay Beautiful", which peaked at number 40, and ended with 2010's "(It's Not War) Just the End of Love", which peaked at number 28. [1] In addition, all 19 singles from 1996's "A Design for Life" to 2007's "Indian Summer" made the Top 20 in the UK. [2] Overall, the band has spent 179 weeks in the UK Singles Chart, with the longest unbroken chart run being 17 weeks for "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next". [2]

For albums, the most successful is Everything Must Go (1996), which spent 104 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, with 102 of those in the Top 75. This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998) was the band's first number one album, enjoying 74 weeks in the chart. All 15 of the band's studio albums have charted within the Top 15, with the lowest being Generation Terrorists (1992) and Lifeblood (2004), both of which peaked at number 13. [2] All of the Manic Street Preachers' studio albums from Send Away The Tigers (2007) onwards have gone Top 5 in the UK, with The Ultra Vivid Lament (2021) becoming their first number one album in 23 years. The band has a record of 240 weeks in the UK Albums Chart, 145 of those spent in the Top 40. Outside the UK, the band has been most successful in Ireland and Finland, reaching number one in those countries, as well as in Sweden. [1]

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions
TitleDetailsPeak chart positions Certifications
UK
[2]
BEL
[3]
FIN
[4]
GER
[5]
IRL
[6]
JPN
[7]
NLD
[8]
NZL
[9]
SCO
[2]
SWI
[10]
Generation Terrorists
  • Released: 10 February 1992
  • Label: Columbia
136013
Gold Against the Soul
  • Released: 21 June 1993
  • Label: Columbia
895325
The Holy Bible
  • Released: 30 August 1994
  • Label: Epic
6489
Everything Must Go
  • Released: 20 May 1996
  • Label: Epic
229125063292
  • BPI: 3× Platinum [11]
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
  • Released: 14 September 1998
  • Label: Epic/Virgin
1321271272411147
Know Your Enemy
  • Released: 19 March 2001
  • Label: Epic
2193135263921240
Lifeblood
  • Released: 1 November 2004
  • Label: Epic
13721556154765881
Send Away the Tigers
  • Released: 7 May 2007
  • Label: Columbia
25710504393533243
Journal for Plague Lovers
  • Released: 18 May 2009
  • Label: Columbia
36923496248835330
Postcards from a Young Man
  • Released: 20 September 2010
  • Label: Columbia
3552065133662287
Rewind the Film
  • Released: 16 September 2013
  • Label: Columbia
474273157762451
Futurology
  • Released: 7 July 2014
  • Label: Columbia
257173383642551
Resistance Is Futile
  • Released: 13 April 2018
  • Label: Columbia
2452053973 [A] 118
The Ultra Vivid Lament
  • Released: 10 September 2021
  • Label: Columbia
1623912958146
Critical Thinking
  • Released: 14 February 2025
  • Label: Columbia
28041
[18]
2725
[19]
37118
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions
TitleDetailsPeak chart positions Certifications
UK
[2]
DEN
[20]
FIN
[4]
BEL
[3]
IRL
[6]
JPN
[7]
NLD
[8]
NOR
[21]
SCO
[2]
SPN
[22]
Forever Delayed
  • Released: 28 October 2002
  • Label: Sony
  • Available as a 1-CD standard edition and a 2-CD special edition
41473676867324
  • BPI: 2× Platinum [11]
Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers)
  • Released: 14 July 2003
  • Label: Sony
1128216
National Treasures – The Complete Singles
  • Released: 31 October 2011
  • Label: Columbia
1030125770
Sleep Next to Plastic
  • Released: 5 July 2022
  • Label: Sony
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Box sets

List of box sets
TitleDetails
Six Singles from Generation Terrorists
  • Released: 13 September 1997
  • Label: Epic

Deluxe reissues

List of deluxe reissues
TitleDetails
The Holy Bible (10th Anniversary Edition)
  • Released: 6 December 2004
  • Label: Epic
Everything Must Go (10th Anniversary Edition)
  • Released: 6 November 2006
  • Label: Sony
Generation Terrorists (20th Anniversary Edition)
  • Released: 5 November 2012
  • Label: Sony
The Holy Bible (20th Anniversary Edition)
  • Released: 8 December 2014
  • Label: Sony
Everything Must Go (20th Anniversary Edition)
  • Released: 20 May 2016
  • Label: Sony
Send Away the Tigers (10th Anniversary Edition)
  • Released: 12 May 2017
  • Label: Sony
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (20th Anniversary Edition)
  • Released: 7 December 2018
  • Label: Sony
Gold Against the Soul (Special Edition)
  • Released: 12 January 2020
  • Label: Sony
Know Your Enemy (Special Edition)
  • Released: 9 September 2022
  • Label: Sony
Lifeblood (20th Anniversary Edition)
  • Released: 12 April 2024
  • Label: Sony

UK chart-eligible singles and EPs

List of singles and EPs, with selected chart positions
TitleYearPeak chart positions Certifications Album
UK
[23]
AUS
[24] [25]
FIN
[26]
BEL
[27] [28]
IRE
[6] [29]
NLD
[30]
NOR
[31]
NZL
[32]
SCO SWE
[33]
"Suicide Alley" / "Tennessee (I Get Low)" (double A-side)1988Underground Rockers Volume 2(Various artists)
New Art Riot E.P. 1990Non-album tracks
"Motown Junk"199194
"You Love Us" (Heavenly version)62
"Stay Beautiful"4018651Generation Terrorists
"Love's Sweet Exile" / "Repeat" (double A-side)2656
"You Love Us"19921647
"Slash 'n' Burn"2015852
"Motorcycle Emptiness"1715135213539
"Theme From M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless)"7139124021 Ruby Trax (Various artists)
"Little Baby Nothing"2949Generation Terrorists
"From Despair to Where"199325Gold Against the Soul
"La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)"22
"Roses in the Hospital"15
Life Becoming a Landslide E.P. 199436
"Faster" / "P.C.P." (double A-side)1681The Holy Bible
"Revol"2225
"She Is Suffering"2533
"A Design for Life"199625017482Everything Must Go
"Everything Must Go"5185
"Kevin Carter"98
"Australia"71505
"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"1998149633621944321This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
"The Everlasting"1116022479
"You Stole the Sun from My Heart"199959720945
"Tsunami"11132412
"The Masses Against the Classes"2000147121Non-album track
"So Why So Sad" [A] 2001811341688726Know Your Enemy
"Found That Soul" [A] 9179
"Ocean Spray"152815
"Let Robeson Sing"1922
"There by the Grace of God"200269167Forever Delayed
"The Love of Richard Nixon"20042174Lifeblood
"Empty Souls"20052185
"Your Love Alone Is Not Enough"2007257778520148Send Away the Tigers
"Autumnsong"10433
"Indian Summer"226
Umbrella E.P. (unofficial release) [34] 200847
[35]
NME Awards 2008(Various artists)
"(It's Not War) Just the End of Love"2010288827Postcards from a Young Man
"Some Kind of Nothingness"4442
"Postcards from a Young Man"20115458
"This Is the Day"144National Treasures – The Complete Singles
"Show Me the Wonder"20137713279Rewind the Film
"Anthem for a Lost Cause"200
"Walk Me to the Bridge"2014Futurology
"Futurology"
"Together Stronger (C'mon Wales)"2016Non-album track
"International Blue"20179178Resistance Is Futile
"Distant Colours"201893
"Dylan & Caitlin"
"Liverpool Revisited"
"Hold Me Like a Heaven"
"People Give In"91
"Orwellian"2021The Ultra Vivid Lament
"The Secret He Had Missed"83
"Rosebud"2022Know Your Enemy (2022 Reissue)
"Studies in Paralysis"
"Decline & Fall"2024Critical Thinking
"Hiding in Plain Sight"
"People Ruin Paintings"2025
"Brushstrokes of Reunion"
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Other singles and EPs

List of singles and EPs, with selected chart positions
TitleYearNotesPeak chart positionsAlbum
JPN
[7]
"UK Channel Boredom"1990Free record with the March 1990 issues of Hopelessly Devoted and Goldmining fanzinesNon-album tracks
Feminine Is Beautiful1991Mail-order only
Stars and Stripes - Generation Terrorists US Mix1992Japan-only releasesGeneration Terrorists (US mix)
"Further Away"1996Everything Must Go
"Nobody Loved You"1998This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Know Our B-Sides2001Non-album tracks
Forever Delayed E.P.2002Forever Delayed
"Motorcycle Emptiness"2003Germany-only reissue with newly-recorded B-sides
God Save the Manics2005Given away free at the last show of the Lifeblood tour at Hammersmith Odeon on 19 April 2005Non-album tracks
"Underdogs"2007Free downloads from the band's websiteSend Away the Tigers
"The Ghosts of Christmas"Non-album track
Journal for Plague Lovers Remixes 2009 iTunes-exclusive download46Journal for Plague Lovers (remixes)
"Let the Light Return"2025Sold exclusively on the band's websiteNon-album track
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

B-sides

TitleA-side
"1404""Autumnsong"
"4 Ever Delayed""Motorcycle Emptiness" (2003 Germany-only reissue)
"A Vision of Dead Desire""You Love Us"
"A Design for Life" (Live)"Australia"
"A Design for Life" (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Instrumental)"A Design for Life"
"A Design for Life" (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Vocal)"A Design for Life"
"Ain't Going Down""Slash 'n' Burn"
"All Alone Here""Empty Souls"
"Anorexic Rodin""Indian Summer"
"Anti Social Manifesto""Futurology"
"Are Mothers Saints""Life Becoming a Landslide"
"Askew Road""The Love of Richard Nixon"
"Australia" (Lionrock Remix)"Australia"
"Automatik Teknicolour""There by the Grace of God"
"Autumnsong" (Acoustic)"Autumnsong"
"Autumnsong" (Live)"Autumnsong"
"Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel""Found That Soul"
"Black Garden""Everything Must Go"
"Black Holes for the Young" (ft. Sophie Ellis-Bextor)"The Everlasting"
"Bored Out of My Mind""Motorcycle Emptiness"
"Boxes & Lists""Your Love Alone Is Not Enough"
"Bright Eyes" (orig. by Art Garfunkel)"A Design for Life"
"Broken Up Again""Some Kind of Nothingness"
"Buildings for Dead People""Tsunami"
"Caldey""Walk Me to the Bridge"
"Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (orig. by Frankie Valli)"Australia"
"Charles Windsor" (orig. by McCarthy)"Life Becoming a Landslide"
"Close My Eyes""The Masses Against the Classes"
"Comfort Comes""Life Becoming a Landslide"
"Crucifix Kiss" (Live)"Motorcycle Emptiness"
"Dead Passive""A Design for Life"
"Dead Trees and Traffic Islands""A Design for Life"
"Dead Yankee Drawl""Little Baby Nothing"
"Death of a Digital Ghost""Anthem for a Lost Cause"
"Democracy Coma" "Love's Sweet Exile"/"Repeat"
"Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel" (Traditional)"Let Robeson Sing"
"Distractions""(It's Not War) Just the End of Love"
"Donkeys""Roses in the Hospital"
"Drug Drug Druggy" (Live)"Revol"
"Dying Breeds""Empty Souls"
"Engage with Your Shadow""Postcards from a Young Man"
"Europa Geht Durch Mich" (Erol Alkan's Mesmerise Eins Rework)"Walk Me to the Bridge"
"Europa Geht Durch Mich" (Erol Alkan's Mesmerise Zwei Rework)"Walk Me to the Bridge"
"Everything Must Go" (Acoustic Version)"Kevin Carter"
"Everything Must Go" (The Chemical Brothers Remix)"Everything Must Go"
"Everything Must Go" (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Remix)"Everything Must Go"
"Everything Must Go" (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Soundtrack)"Everything Must Go"
"Everything Will Be""The Love of Richard Nixon"
"Everyone Knows/Nobody Cares""The Love of Richard Nixon"
"Evidence Against Myself""Some Kind of Nothingness"
"Failure Bound""Empty Souls"
"Faster" (Chemical Brothers Dub Mix)"She Is Suffering"
"Faster" (Chemical Brothers Vocal Mix)"A Design for Life"
"Fear of Motion""Let Robeson Sing"
"Fearless Punk Ballad""Your Love Alone Is Not Enough"
"First Republic""Kevin Carter"
"Foggy Eyes" (orig. by Beat Happening)"Indian Summer"
"Futurology" (R Seiliog Remix)"Futurology"
"Groundhog Days""Ocean Spray"
"Hanging On""Everything Must Go"
"Happy Ending""There by the Grace of God"
"Heyday of the Blood""Indian Summer"
"Hibernation""From Despair to Where"
"Holding Patterns""International Blue"
"Hold Me Like A Heaven" (Public Broadcasting Remix)"Hold Me Like A Heaven"
"Hold Me Like A Heaven" (Warm Digits Remix)"Hold Me Like A Heaven"
"Horses Under Starlight""Kevin Carter"
"I Know the Numbers""(It's Not War) Just the End of Love"
"I'm Leaving You for Solitude""(It's Not War) Just the End of Love"
"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (David Holmes Remix)"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"
"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (Live)"You Stole the Sun from My Heart"
"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (Massive Attack Remix)"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"
"Indian Summer" (Demo Version)"Indian Summer"
"Inky Fingers""Postcards from a Young Man"
"International Blue" (Bluer Skies Version)"International Blue"
"It's All Gone""There by the Grace of God"
"It's So Easy" (Live) (orig. by Guns N' Roses)"You Love Us"
"Johatsu""Let the Light Return"
"Just a Kid""Ocean Spray"
"Kevin Carter" (Busts Loose)"Kevin Carter"
"Kevin Carter" (Live)"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"
"Kevin Carter" (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Remix)"Kevin Carter"
"Kevin Carter" (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Soundtrack)"Kevin Carter"
"Kiss My Eyes for Eternity""Postcards from a Young Man"
"Kodawari""Futurology"
"La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)" (The Chemical Brothers Vocal Mix)"She Is Suffering"
"La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)" (The Chemical Brothers Dub Mix)"She Is Suffering"
"Lady Lazarus""Indian Summer"
"Last Exit on Yesterday""New Art Riot"
"Let Robeson Sing" (Felix da Housecat Mix)"Let Robeson Sing"
"Let Robeson Sing" (Ian Brown Mix)"Let Robeson Sing"
"Let Robeson Sing" (Live)"Let Robeson Sing"
"Life Becoming a Landslide" (Live)"Revol"
"Litany""Empty Souls"
"Little Baby Nothing" (Acoustic)"Motorcycle Emptiness" (2003 Germany-only reissue)
"Little Girl Lost""Your Love Alone Is Not Enough"
"Little Trolls""Ocean Spray"
"Locust Valley""Found That Soul"
"Lost Voices""(It's Not War) Just the End of Love"
"Love Letter to the Future""Your Love Alone Is Not Enough"
"Love Torn Us Under""She Is Suffering"
"Love's Sweet Exile" (Live)"Revol"
"Masking Tape""Let Robeson Sing"
"Melancholyme""Show Me the Wonder"
"Midnight Sun""Postcards from a Young Man"
"Montana/Autumn/78""If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"
"Morning Comrades""Autumnsong"
"Motorcycle Emptiness" (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Remix)"Australia"
"Motorcycle Emptiness" (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Soundtrack)"Australia"
"Motown Junk" (Live Medley)"Tsunami"
"Mr Carbohydrate""A Design for Life"
"Never Want Again""Little Baby Nothing"
"New Art Riot (In E Minor)" (Live) "Faster"/"P.C.P."
"No Jubilees""Empty Souls"
"No One Knows What It's Like to Be Me""Everything Must Go"
"Ocean Spray" (Ellis Island Sound Remix)"Ocean Spray"
"Ocean Spray" (Kinobe Remix)"Ocean Spray"
"Ocean Spray" (Live)"Ocean Spray"
"Ocean Spray" (Medicine Remix)"Ocean Spray"
"Orwellian" (Gwenno Remix)"Orwellian"
"Ostpolitik""(It's Not War) Just the End of Love"
"Patrick Bateman""La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)"
"Pedestal""So Why So Sad"
"Prologue to History""If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"
"Quarantine (In My Place Of)""The Love of Richard Nixon"
"R.P. McMurphy""Stay Beautiful"
"R.P. McMurphy" (Live)"Little Baby Nothing"
"Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (orig. by Burt Bacharach)"Everything Must Go"
"Red Rubber""Some Kind of Nothingness"
"Red Sleeping Beauty" (orig. by McCarthy)"Autumnsong"
"Repeat" (Live)"La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)"
"Rock and Roll Music" (orig. by Chuck Berry)"The Masses Against the Classes"
"Roses in the Hospital" (51 Funk Salute mix)"Roses in the Hospital"
"Roses in the Hospital" (ECG mix)"Roses in the Hospital"
"Roses in the Hospital" (Filet-o-Gang mix)"Roses in the Hospital"
"Roses in the Hospital" (Live)"Revol"
"Roses in the Hospital" (O G Psychomental mix)"Roses in the Hospital"
"Roses in the Hospital" (O G Psychovocal mix)"Roses in the Hospital"
"Sculpture of Man" "Faster"/"P.C.P."
"See It Like Sutherland""Anthem for a Lost Cause"
"Sepia""Kevin Carter"
"She Is Suffering" (Live at the O2)"Anthem for a Lost Cause"
"Slash 'n' Burn" (Live)"La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)"
"Sleeping with the NME""Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)"
"Slow Reflections/Strange Delays""Some Kind of Nothingness"
"Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky" (Live)"The Everlasting"
"So Why So Sad" (The Avalanches remix)"So Why So Sad"
"Socialist Serenade""You Stole the Sun from My Heart"
"Sorrow 16""Motown Junk"
"Slash 'n' Burn"
"Soul Contamination""Stay Beautiful"
"Spectators of Suicide" (Heavenly Version)"You Love Us" (Heavenly Version)
"From Despair to Where"
"Star Lover""You Love Us" (Heavenly Version)
"Stay Beautiful" (Live) "Love's Sweet Exile"/"Repeat"
"Stay with Me" (Live ft. Bernard Butler) (orig. by Faces)"She Is Suffering"
"Strip It Down""New Art Riot"
"Strip It Down" (Live)"You Love Us" (Heavenly Version)
"Take the Skinheads Bowling" (orig. by Camper van Beethoven)"Australia"
"T.E. Lawrence on a Bike""Show Me the Wonder"
"Teenage 20/20""New Art Riot"
"Tennessee" (Live)"Little Baby Nothing"
"The Drowners" (Live ft. Bernard Butler) (orig. by Suede)"She Is Suffering"
"The Everlasting" (Deadly Avenger Mix)"The Everlasting"
"The Everlasting" (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Remix)"The Everlasting"
"The Long Goodbye""Autumnsong"
"The Masses Against the Classes" (Live)"Found That Soul"
"The Passing Show""Postcards from a Young Man"
"The Secret He Had Missed" (Piano Acoustic)"The Secret He Had Missed"
"The Sound of Detachment""Walk Me to the Bridge"
"The Vorticists""Autumnsong"
"There by the Grace of God" (Saint Etienne Mix)"There by the Grace of God"
"There by the Grace of God" (Starecase Mix)"There by the Grace of God"
"Time Ain't Nothing" (orig. by Green on Red)"Some Kind of Nothingness"
"Too Cold Here""Revol"
"Train in Vain" (Live) (orig. by The Clash)"You Stole the Sun from My Heart"
"Tsunami" (Cornelius Remix)"Tsunami"
"Tsunami" (Stereolab's Electron Ray Tube Mix)"Tsunami"
"Tsunami" (Live at the O2)"Show Me the Wonder"
"Under My Wheels" (Live) (orig. by Alice Cooper)"Motorcycle Emptiness"
"Umbrella" (Acoustic)"Umbrella"
"Umbrella" (Grand Slam Mix)"Umbrella"
"Unstoppable Salvation""There by the Grace of God"
"Us Against You""Roses in the Hospital"
"Valley Boy""The Everlasting"
"Velocity Girl" (orig. by Primal Scream)"Australia"
"Voodoo Polaroids""The Love of Richard Nixon"
"Walk Me to the Bridge" (Live from Ancienne Belgique, Brussels)"Walk Me to the Bridge"
"We Her Majesty's Prisoners""Motown Junk"
"You Love Us"
"We Were Never Told""This Is the Day"
"Welcome to the Dead Zone""Your Love Alone Is Not Enough"
What Happened to the Blue Generation"Show Me the Wonder"
"What's My Name" (Live) (orig. by The Clash)"La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)"
"Wrote for Luck" (orig. by Happy Mondays)"Roses in the Hospital"
"You Know It's Going to Hurt""Indian Summer"
"You Love Us" (Live 1994)"Revol"
"You Love Us" (Live 1992)"Little Baby Nothing"
"You Stole the Sun from My Heart" (David Holmes Remix)"You Stole the Sun from My Heart"
"You Stole the Sun from My Heart" (Live)"So Why So Sad"
"You Stole the Sun from My Heart" (Mogwai Remix)"You Stole the Sun from My Heart"
"Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" (James Solo Acoustic)"Your Love Alone Is Not Enough"
"Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" (Nina Solo Acoustic)"Your Love Alone Is Not Enough"

Video albums

YearTitleVenueFormat Certifications
(sales thresholds)
1997 Everything Live NYNEX Arena, Manchester, England VHS BPI: Gold [11]
2000 Leaving the 20th Century Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales VHS and DVD BPI: Gold [11]
2001 Louder Than War Karl Marx Theatre, Havana, Cuba DVD
2002 Forever Delayed DVDBPI: Gold [11]
2015No ManifestodocumentaryDVD and Blu-ray

Music videos

YearTitleDirector [36] Album/EP
1990Strip It Downunknown New Art Riot E.P.
1991 Motown Junk (footage from Snub TV used as official music video)Snub TVNon-album singles
You Love Us (Heavenly version)Tony van den Ende
Stay Beautiful Walter Stern Generation Terrorists
Love's Sweet Exile W.I.Z
You Love Us
1992 Slash n' Burn Tony van den Ende
Motorcycle Emptiness Martin Hall
Theme from M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless) Matthew Amos Ruby Trax (Various Artists)
Little Baby Nothing Small & B SwellGeneration Terrorists
1993 From Despair to Where Peter Scammel Gold Against the Soul
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) Josh Taft
Roses in the Hospital Erik Zimmerman
1994 Life Becoming a Landslide Martin Hall
Faster Tony van den Ende The Holy Bible
Revol Chris D'Adda
She Is Suffering Adolfo Doring
1996 A Design for Life Pedro Romhanyi Everything Must Go
Everything Must Go W.I.Z.
Kevin Carter John Hillcoat
Australia
1998 If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next W.I.Z This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
The Everlasting Mike Lipscombe
1999 You Stole the Sun from My Heart Sophie Muller
Tsunami Pedro Romhanyi
2000 The Masses Against the Classes Chris D'AddaNon-album single
2001 So Why So Sad Jamie Thraves Know Your Enemy
Found That Soul Jeremy Deller & Nick Abrahams
Ocean Spray James Frost & Alex Smith
Let Robeson Sing Andrew Dosunmu
2002 There by the Grace of God John Hillcoat Forever Delayed
2003Judge Yr'self Patrick Jones Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers)
2004 The Love of Richard Nixon Lifeblood
Quarantine (In My Place of)B-side of "The Love of Richard Nixon"
YesThe Holy Bible(10th Anniversary Edition)
2005 Empty Souls Alex SmithLifeblood
Dying BreedsPatrick JonesB-side of "Empty Souls"
1985Lifeblood
A Song for Departure
Cardiff Afterlife
Emily
Fragments
Solitude Sometimes Is
FirefightGod Save the Manics E.P.
2006Further AwayEverything Must Go(10th Anniversary Edition)
2007 Your Love Alone Is Not Enough John Hardwick Send Away the Tigers
Autumnsong (TV Version)Indica/PTE
Autumnsong (Alternative Version)Valerie Philips
Indian Summer Patrick Jones
Send Away the Tigers
2008 Umbrella Dave Eringa NME Awards 2008(Various Artists)
2009Jackie Collins Existential Question Time Douglas Hart Journal for Plague Lovers
2010 (It's Not War) Just the End of Love Alex Smith [37] Postcards from a Young Man
Some Kind of Nothingness Doulas Hart
Some Kind of Nothingness (Alternative Version) Nicky Wire & Patrick Jones
2011 Postcards from a Young Man James Russell
This Is the Day Jamie Roberts National Treasures – The Complete Singles
2013Rewind the Film Kieran Evans Rewind the Film
Show Me the Wonder
Anthem for a Lost Cause
Manorbier
2014 Walk Me to the Bridge Futurology
Futurology
2016 Together Stronger (C'mon Wales) Non-album single
2017 International Blue Resistance Is Futile
2018 Distant Colours
Dylan & Caitlin Evan Jones
Liverpool Revisited Kieran Evans
Hold Me Like A Heaven
People Give In
2021 Orwellian The Ultra Vivid Lament
The Secret He Had Missed
2022 Rosebud Know Your Enemy(2022 Reissue)
2024Hiding in Plain Sight Critical Thinking
2025Brushstrokes of Reunion

Official book

YearTitleFormat
2002Forever DelayedOfficial photo book by Mitch Ikeda, with an introduction by Jon Savage.

Other appearances

YearTitleAlbum
1994"P.C.P." (Live)Volume Eleven
Various artists
1995"Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" The Help Album
Various artists; charity album
1996"You Love Us" (Live)Radio One Sound City Leeds 1996
Various artists; compilation of BBC Radio 1 sessions
"Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky" (Live)Later Volume One: Brit Beat
Various artists
"Pennyroyal Tea" (orig. by Nirvana)Evening Session: Priority Tunes
Various artists; compilation of BBC Radio 1 sessions
1998"This Is Yesterday" (Live Cardiff International Arena 20.12.1998)NME Annual Probe
Various artists; NME freebie
2002"Out of Time" (orig. by The Rolling Stones) NME In Association With War Child Presents 1 Love
Various artists; charity album
2005"Leviathan" Help!: A Day In the Life
Various artists; charity album
2006"The Instrumental" (orig. by The June Brides) Still Unravished: A Tribute to the June Brides
Various artists
2007"Motorcycle Emptiness" (Live)The Saturday Sessions: The Dermot O'Leary Show
Various artists
2008"Umbrella" (orig. by Rihanna) NME Awards 2008
Various artists; free CD with NME magazine
Also available as purchasable three-track EP download including Acoustic version and Grand Slam mix.
2009"Jackie Collins Existential Question Time" (Live)Later... with Jools Holland Live 2
Various artists
"Vision Blurred" (orig. by The Horrors)NME Download
NME blog
2011"The Masses Against the Classes" (Live) Dermot O'Leary Presents The Saturday Sessions 2011
Various artists
2012"Wake Up Alone" (orig. by Amy Winehouse)Back to Back to Black
Various artists; free CD with Q magazine, August 2012
"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (Live)This Is BBC Radio 6 Music Live
Various artists
2013"Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" (Live)Dermot O'Leary Presents The Saturday Sessions 2013
Various artists
2014"Let Robeson Sing" (Live)The Saturday Sessions From The Dermot O'Leary Show
Various artists
"Start Me Up" (orig. by The Rolling Stones)BBC Radio 2's Sounds of the 80s
Various artists
2016"(Feels Like) Heaven" (orig. by Fiction Factory)BBC Radio 2's Sounds of the 80s, Vol. 2
Various artists
2020"Spectators of Suicide" (feat. Gwenno)
"Spectators of Suicide" (Welsh Version)
Spectators of Suicide
Various artists
Charity release via Bandcamp.
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Notes

  1. Resistance Is Futile did not enter the NZ Top 40 Albums Chart, but peaked at number one on the NZ Heatseeker Albums Chart. [17]

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