Everything Must Go (1996 album)
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This article is about the Manic Street Preachers album. For the Steely Dan album see Everything Must Go (2003 album)
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| LP by Manic Street Preachers | ||
| Released | May, 1996 | |
| Recorded | Chateau De La Rouge Motte, France; Big Noise Recorders, Cardiff; Real World Studios, Wiltshire; 1995-1996 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 45 min 26 sec | |
| Record label | Sony | |
| Producer | Mike Hedges | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Q | 4 stars out of 5 | March 2002 (http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.review.redirect&fixture_review=140298&resource=140298&fixture_artist=145875) |
| nudeasthenews.com | ”passionate and begs to be listened to over and over” | link (http://www.nudeasthenews.com/reviews/137) |
| Manic Street Preachers Chronology | ||
| The Holy Bible (1994) | Everything Must Go (1996) | This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998) |
Everything Must Go was the fourth album by the Manic Street Preachers. It contains five songs with lyrics by Richey James Edwards, and was released in 1996.
The album takes it name from a play by Patrick Jones, Nicky Wire's brother. It was originally going to be called Sounds In The Grass - a painting by Willem de Kooning, who is mentioned on track ten "Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)".
So far the album has gone double platinum in the UK. In 1998 Q magazine readers voted it the 11th greatest album of all time.
Track listing
- "Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier"
- "A Design for Life"
- "Kevin Carter"
- "Enola/Alone"
- "Everything Must Go"
- "Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky"
- "The Girl Who Wanted to Be God"
- "Removables"
- "Australia"
- "Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)"
- "Further Away"
- "No Surface All Feeling"