Manic Street Preachers discography

Manic Street Preachers discography
Studio albums14
EPs6
Compilation albums3
Singles57
B-sides208
Video albums4
Music videos71
Other appearances19

Manic Street Preachers are an alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Blackwood, Wales, UK. Their discography consists of 14 studio albums, three compilation albums, four video albums, 71 music videos, six extended plays, 57 singles, 208 B-sides, plus appearances on various artist compilations.

For singles releases, the band has a record 34 UK Top 40 hits (two of which reached number 1), with a total of 97 weeks in the Top 40. The band has spent 179 weeks in the UK Singles Chart, with the longest unbroken chart run being "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" with 17 weeks.[1] Between 1996 and 2007, all of the band's singles charted in the Top 20 in the UK, starting with 1996's "A Design for Life" and ending with 2007's "Indian Summer".[1] The band also holds the record for most consecutive Top 40 hits between 1991 and 2010, starting with "Stay Beautiful" which peaked at number 40, and ending with "(It's Not War) Just the End of Love", the band's last Top 40 hit, charting at number 28 in the UK Singles Chart.[2]

Of albums, the most successful is Everything Must Go (1996), which spent 102 weeks in the top 75. This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998) was the band's first number 1 album, having enjoyed 74 weeks in the chart. The band has released 14 studio albums, all of which charted within the Top 15, with the lowest being Generation Terrorists (1992) and Lifeblood (2004) which peaked at number 13.[1] The band has a record of 240 weeks in the UK Albums Chart, 145 of those spent in the Top 40 in the UK. After the UK, the band has been most successful in Ireland and Finland, reaching number one in those countries, as well as in Sweden.[2] Since Send Away The Tigers (2007), the Manic Street Preachers have achieved consistent top-five placements in the UK. Futurology (2014) and Resistance Is Futile (2018) both reached number two and The Ultra Vivid Lament (2021) was the band's first number-one album in 23 years.

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions
Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1] 		BEL
[3] 		FIN
[4] 		GER
[5] 		IRL
[6] 		JPN
[7] 		NLD
[8] 		NZL
[9] 		SCO
[10] 		SWI
[11]
Generation Terrorists
  • Released: 10 February 1992
  • Label: Columbia
 13 — — — — 60 — — 49 —
Gold Against the Soul
  • Released: 21 June 1993
  • Label: Columbia
 8 — — 95 — 32 — — 5 —
The Holy Bible
  • Released: 30 August 1994
  • Label: Epic
 6 — — — — 50 — — 9 —
Everything Must Go
  • Released: 20 May 1996
  • Label: Epic
 2 — 29 — 12 48 63 29 2 —
  • BPI: 3× Platinum[12]
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
  • Released: 14 September 1998
  • Label: Epic/Virgin
 1 32 1 27 1 27 24 11 1 47
Know Your Enemy
  • Released: 19 March 2001
  • Label: Epic
 2 19 3 13 5 26 39 21 2 40
Lifeblood
  • Released: 1 November 2004
  • Label: Epic
 13 72 15 56 15 47 65 — 8 81
Send Away the Tigers
  • Released: 7 May 2007
  • Label: Columbia
 2 57 10 50 4 39 35 33 2 43
Journal for Plague Lovers
  • Released: 18 May 2009
  • Label: Columbia
 3 69 23 49 6 24 88 35 3 30
Postcards from a Young Man
  • Released: 20 September 2010
  • Label: Columbia
 3 55 20 65 13 36 62 — 2 87
Rewind the Film
  • Release: 16 September 2013
  • Label: Columbia
 4 74 27 31 5 77 62 — 4 51
Futurology
  • Release: 7 July 2014
  • Label: Columbia
 2 57 17 33 8 36 42 — 5 51
Resistance Is Futile
  • Release: 13 April 2018
  • Label: Columbia
 2 45 — 20 5 39 73 —[A] 1 18
The Ultra Vivid Lament
  • Release: 10 September 2021
  • Label: Columbia
 1 62 39 12 9 58 — — 1 46
Critical Thinking
  • Release: 31 January 2025
  • Label: Columbia
 - - - - - - — — - -
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

List of compilation albums, with selected chart positions
Title Details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1] 		DEN
[19] 		FIN
[4] 		BEL
[3] 		IRL
[6] 		JPN
[7] 		NLD
[8] 		NOR
[20] 		SCO
[1] 		SPN
[21]
Forever Delayed
  • Released: 28 October 2002
  • Label: Sony
 4 14 7 36 7 68 67 32 4 —
  • BPI: 2× Platinum[12]
Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers)
  • Released: 14 July 2003
  • Label: Sony
 11 — 28 — 21 243 — — 6 —
National Treasures – The Complete Singles
  • Released: 31 October 2011
  • Label: Columbia
 10 — — — 30 125 — — 7 70
Sleep Next to Plastic — — — — — — — — — —
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Extended plays

List of extended plays, with selected chart positions
Title Details Peak chart positions
UK
[22] 		JPN
[7]
New Art Riot E.P. 136 —
Stars and Stripes - Generation Terrorists US Mix [A]
  • Released: 21 August 1992
  • Label: Epic
 — 72
Life Becoming a Landslide E.P.
  • Released: 31 January 1994
  • Label: Epic
 36 —
Know Our B-Sides [A]
  • Released: 18 July 2001
 — —
Forever Delayed EP [A]
  • Released: 16 Jan 2003
 — —
God Save the Manics
  • Released: 2005
 — —
Journal for Plague Lovers Remixes
  • Released: 15 June 2009
  • Format: Digital download
 — 46
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
  • A ^ Japanese-only release.

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions
Title Year Peak 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" 1988 — — — — — — — — — — Non-album singles
"UK Channel Boredom" 1990 — — — — — — — — — —
"Motown Junk" 1991 94 — — — — — — — — —
"You Love Us" (Heavenly version) 62 — — — — — — — — —
"Feminine Is Beautiful" — — — — — — — — — —
"Stay Beautiful" 40 186 — — — — — — 51 — Generation Terrorists
"Love's Sweet Exile" 26 — — — — — — — 56 —
"You Love Us" (Re-recorded version) 16 — — — — — — — 47 —
"Slash 'n' Burn" 1992 20 158 — — — — — — 52 —
"Motorcycle Emptiness" 17 151 — 35 — 21 — 35 39 —
"Theme From M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless)" 7 139 — — 12 — — 40 — 21 Ruby Trax
"Little Baby Nothing" 29 — — — — — — — 49 — Generation Terrorists
"From Despair to Where" 1993 25 — — — — — — — — — Gold Against the Soul
"La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)" 22 — — — — — — — — —
"Roses in the Hospital" 15 — — — — — — — — —
"Faster" 1994 16 — — — — — — — 81 — The Holy Bible
"Revol" 22 — — — — — — — 25 —
"She Is Suffering" 25 — — — — — — — 33 —
"A Design for Life" 1996 2 50 — — 17 — — 48 2 — Everything Must Go
"Everything Must Go" 5 — 18 — — — — — 5 —
"Kevin Carter" 9 — — — — — — — 8 —
"Further Away" [A] — — — — — — — — — —
"Australia" 7 150 — — — — — — 5 —
"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" 1998 1 49 — 63 3 62 19 44 3 21 This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
"The Everlasting" 11 160 — — 22 47 — — 9 —
"Nobody Loved You" [A] — — — — — — — — — —
"You Stole the Sun from My Heart" 1999 5 97 — — 20 94 — — 5 —
"Tsunami" 11 — 13 — 24 — — — 12 —
"The Masses Against the Classes" 2000 1 — 4 — 7 — 12 — 1 — Non-album single
"So Why So Sad" 2001 8 113 4 — 16 88 — — 7 26 Know Your Enemy
"Found That Soul" 9 — — — 17 — — — 9 —
"Ocean Spray" 15 — — — 28 — — — 15 —
"Let Robeson Sing" 19 — — — — — — — 22 —
"There by the Grace of God" 2002 6 — 9 — 16 — — — 7 — Forever Delayed
"The Love of Richard Nixon" 2004 2 — — — 17 — — — 4 — Lifeblood
"Empty Souls" 2005 2 — — — 18 — — — 5 —
"Underdogs" 2007 — — — — — — — — — — Send Away the Tigers
"Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" 2 — — 57 7 78 5 20 1 48
"Autumnsong" 10 — — — 43 — — — 3 —
"Indian Summer" 22 — — — — — — — 6 —
"The Ghosts of Christmas" — — — — — — — — — — Non-album single
"(It's Not War) Just the End of Love" 2010 28 — — 88 — — — — 27 — Postcards from a Young Man
"Some Kind of Nothingness" 44 — — — — — — — 42 —
"Postcards from a Young Man" 2011 54 — — — — — — — 58 —
"This Is the Day" 144 — — — — — — — — — National Treasures – The Complete Singles
"Show Me the Wonder" 2013 77 — — 132 — — — — 79 — Rewind the Film
"Anthem for a Lost Cause" 200 — — — — — — — — —
"Walk Me to the Bridge" 2014 — — — — — — — — — — Futurology
"Futurology" — — — — — — — — — —
"Together Stronger (C'mon Wales)" 2016 — — — — — — — — — — Non-album single
"International Blue" 2017 — — — 91 — — — — 78 — Resistance Is Futile
"Distant Colours" 2018 — — — — — — — — 93 —
"Dylan & Caitlin" — — — — — — — — — —
"Liverpool Revisited" — — — — — — — — — —
"Hold Me Like a Heaven" — — — — — — — — — —
"People Give In" — — — — — — — — 91 —
"Orwellian" 2021 — — — — — — — — — — The Ultra Vivid Lament
"The Secret He Had Missed" 83 — — — — — — — — —
"Rosebud" 2022 — — — — — — — — — — Know Your Enemy (2022 Remastered)
"Studies in Paralysis" — — — — — — — — — —
"Decline & Fall" 2024 — — — — — — — — — — Critical Thinking
"Hiding in Plain Sight" — — — — — — — — — —
"Let The Light Return" 2025 — — — — — — — — — — Non-album single
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
  • A ^Japanese-only release.

B-sides

Title A-side
1404 Autumnsong
4 Ever Delayed Motorcycle Emptiness
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
A Design for Life (Video) Tsunami
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
Autumnsong (Video) 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
Empty Souls (Video) 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 (Dub Mix) Chemical Brothers 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 (Vocal Mix) The Chemical Brothers She Is Suffering
La Tristesse Durera (Dub Mix) The Chemical Brothers 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
Let Robeson Sing (Music Video Clip) Let Robeson Sing
Let Robeson Sing (Live Video from Cuba) Let Robeson Sing
Life Becoming a Landslide (Live) Revol
Litany Empty Souls
Little Baby Nothing (Acoustic) Motorcycle Emptiness
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 Slash 'n' Burn
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
Ocean Spray (Music Video Clip) Ocean Spray
Ocean Spray (Live Video from Cuba) 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)
Suicide Alley Little Baby Nothing
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 Little Baby Nothing
Tennessee (I Get Low) Suicide Alley
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
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 Love of Richard Nixon (Video) The Love of Richard Nixon
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
There by the Grace of God (Video) 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 (Heavenly Version) Revol
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

Box set

Year Title
1997 Six Singles from Generation Terrorists

Video albums

Year Title Venue Format Certifications
(sales thresholds)
1997 Everything Live NYNEX Arena, Manchester, England VHS BPI: Gold[12]
2000 Leaving the 20th Century Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales VHS and DVD BPI: Gold[12]
2001 Louder Than War Karl Marx Theatre, Havana, Cuba DVD
2002 Forever Delayed — DVD BPI: Gold[12]

Music videos

Year Title Director[34] Album/EP
1990 Strip It Down - New Art Riot EP
1991 Motown Junk [citation needed] Snub TV
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
Little Baby Nothing Small & B Swell
Theme from M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless) Matthew Amos
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'Adda
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
2003 Judge Yr'self Patrick Jones Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers)
2004 Yes (New Film) The Holy Bible (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
The Love of Richard Nixon Patrick Jones Lifeblood
Quarantine (In My Place of) Patrick Jones B-side of "The Love of Richard Nixon"
2005 Empty Souls Alex Smith Lifeblood
Dying Breeds Patrick Jones B-side of "Empty Souls"
1985 Lifeblood
A Song for Departure
Cardiff Afterlife
Emily
Fragments
Solitude Sometimes Is
Firefight God Save the Manics EP
2006 Further Away (New Film) Everything Must Go (Tenth 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/Umbrella EP
2009 Jackie Collins Existential Question Time Douglas Hart Journal for Plague Lovers
2010 (It's Not War) Just the End of Love Alex Smith[35] Postcards from a Young Man
Some Kind of Nothingness
Some Kind of Nothingness (Alternate Version) Nicky Wire & Patrick Jones
2011 Postcards from a Young Man James Russell
This Is the Day Jamie Roberts National Treasures – The Complete Singles
2013 Rewind 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)
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 Remastered)

Official book

Year Title Format
2002 Forever Delayed Official photo book by Mitch Ikeda, with an introduction by Jon Savage.

Documentary

Year Title Format
2015 No Manifesto – A Film About Manic Street Preachers Documentary feature film on DVD/Blu-ray
Includes exclusive 4-song concert video and band interviews

Other appearances

Year Title Album UK Chart
Position
1989 "Suicide Alley" and "Tennessee (I Get Low)" Underground Rockers Volume 2
Various artists		 —
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.		 47
[36]
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		 —
"She Is Suffering" (live) Britpop At The BBC
Various artists
Previously available on The Holy Bible 10th Anniversary Edition bonus disc.		 —
"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
Various artists
Charity release via. Bandcamp. Comes with Spectators of Suicide (Welsh version)		 [37]

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.[18]

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