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Rating: - It's like 1977 Was Only Yesterday

This album is by no means perfect. However, the overall feeling you take away after listening to an album like this overcomes the odd song that isnt great.

For me, the great song of this record is "You Love Us". It condenses everything the Manics were saying in '92 into one song. Aimed at the music press, and there isnt a more deserving target for purest vitriol than the NME, this is more explosive than anything else Ive ever heard. It just takes the inflamatry, iconoclastic nature of "Motown Junk" ("I laughed when Lennon got shot") one step further.

Not to say that the rest of the album is filler. "Slash N Burn" does exactly that. "Motorcycle Emptiness" is one of the Manics truly great songs and "Little Baby Nothing" tackles the subject of prostitution (a subject that would be tackled 2 years later on the "Holy Bible" album in the shape of "Yes"). And as for Repeat, "God Save The Queen" for the 90s.

The album is very long, 18 tracks taking up around 70 minutes. You dont often get albums that long any more. The Manics have always wrote about things lesser bands will not touch. When Shed Seven were singing about love, the Manics were writing about anorexia. This is what sets them apart from all other bands, and long may they continue.

Rating: - Condemned to Rock 'N' Roll

Few bands have ever made such a powerful debut. The Manics are easily listed amonst those few. "Generation Terrorists" is an album of pure, honest and vibrant rock 'n' roll. The album explodes with raw and raunchy guitar with roots of its own that a whole few generation of artists have been inspired by. Significantly, the lyrics are simple, straightforward, and made forceful and meaningful with the music, capturing to the full the disillusionment, frustration and anger towards modern politics and society in true revolutionary spirit.

One of the best rock 'n' roll albums ever made.

Rating: - Possibly one of the best albums ever....

Possibly one of the best albums ever, I first felt this vibrating through my bed one morning during my student days and have been a confirmed Manics fan ever since. There's a good variety of manics on this, from the rather slow 'Little Baby Nothing' (my all time favourite) to the extremely noisy (don't listen to with a hangover) 'Repeat'. This is really RAW manics....

Rating: - Little Baby Everything

This is the best album i have ever bought. it combines the great voice of James with the amazing guitar work and lyrics of Nicky Wire and the late Richey Edwards. it gives you a feel of such compasission and meaning contrasting with the raw punk sound. one track, 'Little Baby Nothing' includes the voice of ex- american porn queen Traci Lords. this compliments the voice of james really well. the song is about prostitution and is one of the most amazing songs ever. also on the album are other famous Manics albums such as Slash n burn, You love us, motorcycle emptiness, Stay Beautiful and Methadone Pretty. it is a must buy for anyone who is thinking of buying an earlier punk album or if you want to get started on the Manic Street Preachers.

Rating: - Punk for my Generation

Looking back at the greatest albums of the punk revolution its easy to see where the inspiration for this album came. Just glance back to The Ramones or The Clash and there are obvious similarities to this debut for the Welsh (then) four-piece.

Generation Terrorists is in essence a punk album for the younger generation, it retains the snarling teenage angst of the genre's early offerings of the 1970s with that same boredom and political message of albums such as "Never Mind the Bollocks" or "London Calling". In its own right it is equally as important as any of the early punk albums. This kick-started the Manics career and propelled them onto a big label, giving one of the best bands of the 1990s their voice.

Having said that, there are only a limited number of excellent songs. Most of the 18-strong album is pretty standard rock n' roll stuff, though the lyrics are intelligent and typically Manics. Standout tracks include 'Slash n' Burn', 'Stay Beautiful' and 'Little Baby Nothing' - yet what makes the album so brilliant is just two songs, without which this record wouldn't get that fifth star. They are 'Motorcycle Emptiness'; a remarkably beautiful song which is virtually perfect as music goes; and 'You Love Us' - an acid-spitting, gun-waving, petrol bomb-throwing slice of vitriolic punk rock.

In all the album suffers from some major flaws, its too long by about four or five tracks and contains some pretty average material, as well as being 10 years too late for the punk wave. But its strange that these are the qualities that make it so awesome an album. Its snarling yet smart, brash, cocky and loud (effectively a definition of the genre). Its flaws actually galvanise the album and make it what it is.

All in all it is an incredible punk album that has a certain magic that puts it into the 5-star category, despite its flaws.

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