Delivering a timely blend of biting punk, alt, and glam rock, the group’s much anticipated 1992 debut-members had promised the public the “greatest rock album ever”-was released to favorable reviews, introducing Manic Street Preachers to a wider audience. Not since The Smiths dropped The Queen is Dead in 1986 had a musical group conveyed the excessive, borderline literate bedroom anguish and adolescent radicalism that Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers did in their time, lending a fresh voice to the vacuous realm of high school alienation. ![]() Despite the tendency of age to reveal those memories of disillusioned youth as the romantically futile shams they happen to be, something about feeling young and clever retains its appeal far beyond the realization that no one ever really is.
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