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National Treasures - The Complete Singles

by Manic Street Preachers

National Treasures - The Complete Singles is a 2011 alternative rock album by Manic Street Preachers. It runs 79 tracks across 301 minutes on Columbia. Riffiter listeners rate it 5.0/5 from 1 rating.

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National Treasures - The Complete Singles album cover

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The National Treasures - The Complete Singles cover was designed by Nicky Wire and Steve Stacey and photographed by Alex Lake, Eleanor Hardrwick, Mitch Ikeda and Steve Double.

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Alex Lake, Eleanor Hardrwick, Mitch Ikeda, Steve Double

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Tracklist

79 tracks · 301 min

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  1. 01Motown Junk
  2. 01If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
  3. 01Motown Junk
  4. 02Stay Beautiful
  5. 02The Everlasting
  6. 02Stay Beautiful
  7. 03Love's Sweet Exile
  8. 03Love's Sweet Exile
  9. 03You Stole the Sun From My Heart
  10. 04Tsunami
  11. 04You Love Us
  12. 04You Love Us
  13. 05The Masses Against the Classes
  14. 05Slash 'n' Burn
  15. 05Slash 'n' Burn
  16. 06Motorcycle Emptiness
  17. 06So Why So Sad
  18. 06Motorcycle Emptyness
  19. 07Theme From M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)
  20. 07Found That Soul
  21. 07Theme From M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)
  22. 08Little Baby Nothing
  23. 08Little Baby Nothing
  24. 08Ocean SprayE
  25. 09From Despair to Where
  26. 09From Despair to Where
  27. 09Let Robeson Sing
  28. 10La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
  29. 10There by the Grace of God
  30. 10La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
  31. 11The Love of Richard Nixon
  32. 11Roses in the Hospital
  33. 11Roses in the Hospital
  34. 12Empty Souls
  35. 12Life Becoming a Landslide
  36. 12Life Becoming a Landslide
  37. 13Faster
  38. 13Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
  39. 13Faster
  40. 14Autumnsong
  41. 14Revol
  42. 14Revol
  43. 15Indian Summer
  44. 15She Is Suffering
  45. 15She Is Suffering
  46. 16(It's Not War) Just the End of Love
  47. 16A Design for Life
  48. 16A Design for Life
  49. 17Everything Must Go
  50. 17Some Kind of Nothingness
  51. 17Everything Must Go
  52. 18Kevin Carter
  53. 18Kevin Carter
  54. 18Postcards From a Young Man
  55. 19This Is the Day
  56. 19Australia
  57. 19Australia
  58. 20If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
  59. 21The Everlasting
  60. 22You Stole the Sun From My Heart
  61. 23Tsunami
  62. 24The Masses Against the Classes
  63. 25So Why So Sad
  64. 26Found That Soul
  65. 27Ocean SprayE
  66. 28Let Robeson Sing
  67. 29There by the Grace of God
  68. 30The Love of Richard Nixon
  69. 31Empty Souls
  70. 32Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
  71. 33Autumnsong
  72. 34Indian Summer
  73. 35(It's Not War) Just the End of Love
  74. 36Some Kind of Nothingness
  75. 37Postcards from a Young Man
  76. 38This Is the Day
  77. 39You Love Us
  78. 40Autumnsong
  79. 41Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

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National Treasures – The Complete Singles is a compilation album by the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, released on 28 October 2011. It is the band's third compilation album, after Forever Delayed: Manic Street Preachers, The Greatest Hits (2002), and the B-sides/rarities collection Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers) (2003). National Treasures includes most of the band's singles from 1991's "Motown Junk" to 2011's "This Is the Day". Despite the "complete singles" title, National Treasures does not contain every Manic Street Preachers single. Notable omissions are the band's very first single, "Suicide Alley" (1989), "Strip It Down" from the New Art Riot EP (1990), for which the band's first promotional video was made, and "You Love Us (Heavenly Version)" (1991). For singles originally released as double-A sides, only one song is included: therefore from "Love's Sweet Exile/Repeat" (1992) and "Faster/P.C.P." (1994), only "Love's Sweet Exile" and "Faster" are included.

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The collection also excludes singles that were not chart-eligible, such as the fanzine-only single "UK Channel Boredom" (1990), and singles released only as limited-edition vinyls/CDs/downloads (1991's "Feminine Is Beautiful", 2005's God Save the Manics EP, 2007's "Underdogs" and "The Ghosts of Christmas", and 2008's "Umbrella"). In addition, National Treasures contains nothing from the Manics' ninth studio album, Journal for Plague Lovers (2009) because officially, no singles were released from that album (although the track "Jackie Collins Existential Question Time" did receive airplay). For a feature article in the 4 October 2011 issue of the NME, to promote National Treasures, Manic Street Preachers James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, and Sean Moore were asked to rank a list of 40 of their singles: the 38 tracks from National Treasures plus "Suicide Alley" and the New Art Riot EP track, "Strip It Down". National Treasures was released in three formats: a standard 2CD edition, a deluxe 2CD/1DVD edition, and a Super Deluxe edition. The Super Deluxe edition contains 7" reproductions of each of these singles, as well as New Art Riot. A 14 track "Selected Singles" sampler was also released as a vinyl with Q Magazine containing an exclusive track, a cover of John Cale's "The Endless Plain of Fortune".

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Is National Treasures - The Complete Singles good?
Riffiter listeners rate National Treasures - The Complete Singles 5.0/5 from 1 rating.
When was National Treasures - The Complete Singles released?
National Treasures - The Complete Singles was released in 2011 on Columbia.
How many tracks are on National Treasures - The Complete Singles?
National Treasures - The Complete Singles has 79 tracks, with a runtime of 301 minutes.
What genre is National Treasures - The Complete Singles?
National Treasures - The Complete Singles is catalogued under Alternative Rock, Britpop, Rock.
What BPM is National Treasures - The Complete Singles?
National Treasures - The Complete Singles runs at a median tempo of 130 BPM across its tracks, most often in A major, measured from audio analysis.
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