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Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness (Glastonbury 1999)

Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness (Glastonbury 1999)


Motorcycle Emptiness is a single by the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers, released on 1 June 1992. It was the fifth single to be lifted from their debut album Generation Terrorists. The track is slower paced than most others on the album. Its lyrics are inspired by SE Hinton's book Rumble Fish, about biker gang culture. The lyrics have been interpreted by the band as an attack on the hollowness of the consumer lifestyle offered by capitalism, describing how society expects young people to conform. The song reached number seventeen in the UK Singles Chart on 13 June 1992. It remained there for another week and spent a total of six weeks in the top 75, two weeks longer than any other Generation Terrorists single, and a record not surpassed by the Manics until 1996's "A Design for Life". Some of the lyrics are taken from the poem "Neon Loneliness" (the first line of the chorus, "Under neon loneliness," is a direct lift) by Welsh poet Patrick Jones, the brother of MSP bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire. "Motorcycle Emptiness" was also included on Forever Delayed, the Manics' greatest hits album, in October 2002, and released as a reissued single from the compilation in February 2003. The song was remixed by Apollo-440 under their alternative name Stealth Sonic Orchestra as a piece of classical-style music. This remix was available as a track on the single "Australia" (taken from their seminal 1996 album Everything Must Go); and was also used by T-Mobile for an advertising ...
RT @gnasherc86: How good is the #Manics version of The The's 'This is the Day'? They've truly done justice to this very wonderful song #nationaltreasures


@Hip_Priest_Kobe Are you going to be back home for the Manics one off at the O2 in Ldn? 17th Dec, every single live.


@NiallMDoherty hahaha.. Go Niall! #Manics


right, bath, make up then very long walk with remaining cigs and manics. go.


I played Manics' This Is Yesterday in assembly once. It was one of my first 'gigs'. Their reach is far and wide...


@mateybloke Is that the Manics cover version of This is the Day by The The?


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