Manic Street Preachers - National Treasures - The Complete Singles (2011)

Tracklist
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CD1
01. Motown Junk
02. Stay Beautiful
03. Love's Sweet Exile
04. You Love Us
05. Slash 'N' Burn
06. Motorcycle Emptiness
07. Theme From M.A.S.H (Suicide Is Painless)
08. Little Baby Nothing
09. From Despair To Where
10. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To Sigh)
11. Roses In The Hospital
12. Life Becoming A Landslide
13. Faster
14. Revol
15. She Is Suffering
16. A Design For Life
17. Everything Must Go
18. Kevin Carter
19. Australia

CD2
01. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
02. The Everlasting
03. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
04. Tsunami
05. The Masses Against The Classes
06. So Why So Sad
07. Found That Soul
08. Ocean Spray
09. Let Robeson Sing
10. There By The Grace Of God
11. The Love Around Richard Nixon
12. Empty Souls
13. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
14. Autumnsong
15. Indian Summer
16. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
17. Some Kind Of Nothingness
18. Postcards From A Young Man
19. This Is The Day


Arriving roughly ten years after their first hits compilation, 2002’s Forever Delayed, 2011’s National Treasures: The Complete Singles has another decade to cover so it’s perfectly sensible that the collection spans two discs as it diligently marches through almost every single Manic Street Preachers released during their first 20 years. The absences are the province of trainspotters: anything released on Heavenly Records prior to “Motown Junk,” for instance, along with other stray exclusives and fan club bonuses. What is here is everything from 1991’s “Motown Junk” through 2011’s “Postcards from a Young Man,” with a new cover of The The’s “This Is the Day” added at the end as fan bait. Through these two discs, the band’s highs, tragedies, slumps, and comebacks are all evident, the first disc devoted to 1992’s Generation Terrorists through 1996’s Everything Must Go, the second capturing the band’s evolution into respected rabble-rousers. The second disc has the chart-toppers and Top Ten hits -- as late as 2004 and 2005 the Manics were reaching number two with “The Love of Richard Nixon,” “Empty Souls,” and “Your Love Alone Is Not Enough” -- but it’s the first disc, containing the songs they recorded with Richey Edwards and the music they made immediately after his disappearance, that makes the strongest case for their legacy.

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