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Album Description
Japanese exclusive EP featuring six B-sides, 'There By The Grace Of God', 'Automatik Teknicolour', 'It's All Gone', 'Unstoppable Salvation', 'Happy Ending', 'Forever Delayed', & two videos, 'There By The Grace Of God' & 'Greatest Hits Video Montage'. Epic. 2002.

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Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track

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4 ever delayed
The Single-Disc Version of Their Greatest Hits

Forever Delayed-Greatest Hits

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ASIN: B000076DO8
Release Date: 2002-10-31

Tracks:

A Design For Life
Motorcycle Emptiness
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
There By The Grace Of God
You Love Us
Australia
You Stole The Sun From My Heart
Kevin Carter
Tsunami
The Masses Against The Classes
From Despair To Where
Door To The River
Everything Must Go
Faster
Little Baby Nothing
Suicide Is Painless (Theme From Mash)
So Why So Sad
The Everlasting
Motown Junk

Album Description

From one of the UK's most popular and turbulent bands comes a 'Greatest Hits' compilation from The Manic Street Preachers. Forever Delayed covers material from the clash inspired punk of Generation Terrorists thru to the inspired pop of Everything Must Go & 2001's Know Your Enemy. Includes the singles 'Design for Life',' If You Tolerate This Your Children Will be Next' and 'You Love Us' plus 2 brand new songs, 'There By The Grace Of God' & 'Door To The River'. 20 tracks in all. Sony. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

4 ever delayed.......2005-02-18

An amazing greatest hits packed with stunning guitar solos,brilliant bass lines and drilling drum beats.If you are a manics fan this is really a must have!!!the for ever delayed dvd (There hits Vidios) is also a must have.I garrentee any manics fans wont regret buying any two amazing items!! Buy it you wont regret it!!

The Single-Disc Version of Their Greatest Hits.......2005-01-31

This does not include the remix disc, and it's better that way. Nothing to complain about! The 20 song selection is perfect with two exceptions - no room for Life Becoming a Landslide and Ocean Spray. There's only one selection from The Holy Bible, but that's as it should be - that album is a separate entity that needs to be listened to in its entirety! So this is the more pop/rock (not punk/metal) side of the MSPs - which is not a bad thing. The music and lyrics are terrific! And they've included the elusive Suicide is Painless and Motown Junk! A pretty much perfect collection of political rock n roll from the great Manics! You NEED this!

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Forever Delayed
Manic Street Preachers
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ASIN: B00007EHW9

Tracks:

A Design For Life
Motorcycle Emptiness
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
There By The Grace Of God
You Love Us
Australia
You Stole The Sun From My Heart
Kevin Carter
Tsunami
The Masses Against The Classes
From Despair To Where
Door To The River
Everything Must Go
Faster
Littlebaby Nothing
Suicide Is Painless (Theme From Mash)
So Why So Sad
The Everlasting
Motown Junk
La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) (The Chemical Brother
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (David Holme
Tsunami (Cornelius Remix)
So Why So Sad (Avalanches Remix)
Faster (The Chemical Brothers Remix)
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (Massive Att
Kevin Carter (Jon Carter Remix)
You Stole The Sun From My Heart (David Holmes Remix)
Tsunami (Stereolab Remix)
Let Robeson Sing (Ian Brown Remix)
The Everlasting (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Remix)
You Stole The Sun From My Heart (Mogwai Remix)
A Design For Life (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Remix)

Album Description

From one of the UK's most popular & turbulent bands comes a 'Best of' compilation. Forever Delayed covers material from the Clash inspired punk of Generation Terrorists thru to the inspired pop of Everything Must Go & 2001's Know Your Enemy. Includes the

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Forever Delayed
Manic Street Preachers
Manufacturer: Epic
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ASIN: B000LYRZV2

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Forever Delayed: The Greatest Hits
Manic Street Preachers
Manufacturer: Sony/Epic
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ASIN: B00007DXRI
Release Date: 2003-01-27

Tracks:

There By The Grace Of God
Automatik Teknicolour
Its All Gone
Unstoppable Salvation
Happy Ending
Forever Delayed

Album Description

Japanese exclusive EP featuring six B-sides, 'There By The Grace Of God', 'Automatik Teknicolour', 'It's All Gone', 'Unstoppable Salvation', 'Happy Ending', 'Forever Delayed', & two videos, 'There By The Grace Of God' & 'Greatest Hits Video Montage'. Epic. 2002.

Album Details

Japanese Hits Compilation Including the Video for 'there by the Grace of God Go I', and a Greatest Hits Video Montage.

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A fine intro for the novice fan, but this could and should be better
the new testiment?
Amazon mixed up the cd listings
A proper introduction to the Manics
Could have been better

Forever Delayed
Manic Street Preachers
Manufacturer: Sony
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ASIN: B00006SM6R
Release Date: 2002-10-29

Tracks:

A Design For Life
Motorcycle Emptiness
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
There By The Grace Of God
You Love Us
Australia
You Stole The Sun From My Heart
Kevin Carter
Tsunami
The Masses Against The Classes
From Despair To Where
Door To The River
Everything Must Go
Faster
Little Baby Nothing
Suicide Is Painless (Theme From Mash)
So Why So Sad
The Everlasting
Motown Junk

Customer Reviews:

A fine intro for the novice fan, but this could and should be better.......2006-05-29

Sure, there are a lot of great songs on this CD - MSP are extremely talented, one of the best British groups of the 90's. The casual fan just getting into MSP will love what they hear. Who could not love classics such as A Design For Life, If You Tolerate This, or Motorcycle Emptiness?

But it's too incomplete. There's just too many songs left out that are essential listening to getting the full picture of the band. It's OK to emphasize the commercial aspects of the band to hook in new fans, but there's no reason not to have more from Gold Against The Soul and Know Your Enemy, both very underappreciated CDs with plenty of very good songs. Also, it's kind of annoying to have single edits - usually it subtracts from the songs (as in the shortened The Everlasting, for example, not having the great acoustic intro)

But more importantly it is CRIMINAL that there is only one song from The Holy Bible. I disagree that it can't fit with the rest of the catalog - precisely the reason it is a masterpiece is the ability to combine dark, nihilistic lyrics with great hooks. In my mind, Richey disappearing is the defining event in the history of MSP - you have to have at least five or so songs from The Holy Bible to truly appreciate the despair that Richey was going through and how it defined the band's sound. Novice fans who only have Forever Delayed are missing this important piece.

To be honest, this really needs to be a 2-CD set. There are about 30 or so equally worthy and essential songs in the MSP catalog, so to have to cut out any 10-12 to fit it all in and include a few songs is a lose-lose task. No matter what get booted, it's not going to be the right call. Doing it my way, you can put in all the essential songs (in their proper original lengths), and have the obligatory new songs and non album songs.

I would suggest that they break it into a "Richey days" CD and a "post-Richey days" CD. As much as possible, songs should be chronologically arranged. My "wish list" would be:

Richey Days

Slash And Burn, Motorcycle Emptiness, You Love Us, Love's Sweet Exile, Little Baby Nothing, Stay Beautiful, From Despair To Where, La Tristesse Durera, Roses In The Hospital, Life Becoming a Landslide, Yes, Ifonlywhiteamerica..., She Is Suffering, Archives Of Pain, Revol, 4st 7lb, Faster, and This Is Yesterday

Post Richey Days

A Design For Life, Kevin Carter, Everything Must Go, Removables, Australia, The Everlasting, If You Tolerate This, You Stole The Sun From My Heart, Ready For Drowning, Tsunami, Found That Soul, Ocean Spray, So Why So Sad, Miss Europa Disco Dancer, The Convalescent, Suicide Is Painless, The Door To The River, and There By The Grace Of God (the last two are the new songs)

Notice I dropped The Masses Aginast The Classes and Motown Junk, two songs which I feel are OK, but not essential listening. So overall, a generous collection - two CDs with 18 songs apiece.

I'm sure this would never happen, as you still want people to buy all the albums. And I'm sure some reviewers will debate my song list. But to be a true MSP fan, all of these songs need to be at your disposal. But until that point, Forever Delayed does its job reasonably well.

the new testiment?.......2006-02-11

i love the manic street preachers first few albums were they had that guns and roses[they were big fans]being molested by punk
"the holy bible" "generation terroist" "gold against soul"
three amazing classics with not a single dud on each
these albums i must add have the depressiant genius of richie edwards whom mysterially disappeared in 1995 and has never been
found yeah he never played Rhythm Guitar but he wrote some of yrics with nicky wire and artwork he also contributed too some of the darkness that the manic's have been missing for nearly ten years

this greatest hits collection focuses on the career
that the manics forged for themselves with the radio friendly
album after the event they could of broke the band
"this is my truth tell me yours" is not a bad album is just isn't energntic and challenging that you would expect from the manics
then came "everything must go" getting back to the early days
but still on the verge of radio friendly
then came "know your enemy"
some reviewers and fans state as their worst album far from it
it's there best since the days of "the holy bible"
it has "found that soul" which doesn't feature on this album and it disapponits me
"ocean spray" again doesn't appear yet being a classic soundin' track
this complitation is just a cash in done by the record company and the manics because they haven't made a classic album in years
and felt it was time to cement their pop career in a dismal
album that should of been a double disc
take it or leave it? i think i'll stick with the holy bible thankyou

Amazon mixed up the cd listings.......2005-01-31

This cd doesn't contain the second cd. The limited edition does. The limited edition doesn't list the second cd.

A proper introduction to the Manics.......2004-10-18

Forever Delayed ain't no Best Of as the listing on amazon leads us to believe, but rather a Greatest Hits. If you simply want an introduction to the band, than this CD serves its purpose perfectly.

Of course, more hardcore fans will criticize the exclusion of some tracks. IMHO, I would have liked it to be more something like this:

1. A Design for Life
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
4. Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
5. There by the Grace of God
6. You Love Us (US mix version) (*)
7. Australia
8. 4st 7 lbs (*)
9. Kevin Carter
10. Roses in the Hospital (*)
11. Masses Against the Classes
12. From Despair to Where
13. Stay Beautiful (*)
14. Everything Must Go
15. Faster
16. Little Baby Nothing
17. Suicide Is Painless {Theme from Mash}
18. Life Becoming a Landslide (*)
19. The Everlasting
20. Motown Junk