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Lipstick Traces, the Manic Street Preachers' unexpected collection of B-sides, rarities and covers, proves that in some cases you can judge a book by its cover. In this case, that cover is a gaudy leopard skin print with lipstick red titles--it surely couldn't be anybody else. It's almost a defiant (if overdue) gesture to critics and fans alike, as if attempting to compensate for the soulless hits collection that Forever Delayed brought. Here is the other side of that schizophrenic Manics beast--the urgent Bradfield delivery and razor-sharp lyrics. Here's what made everyone love them in the first place.
Tracklist
Disc: 1
1 Prologue To History
2 4 Ever Delayed
3 Sorrow 16
4 Judge Yr'self
5 Socialist Serenade
6 Donkeys
7 Comfort Comes
8 Mr Carbohydrate
9 Dead Trees And Traffic Islands
10 Horses Under Starlight
11 Sepia
12 Sculpture Of Man
13 Spectators Of Suicide
14 Democracy Coma
15 Strip It Down Live
16 Bored Out Of My Mind
17 Just A Kid
18 Close My Eyes
19 Valley Boy
20 We Her Majesty's Prisoners
Disc: 2
1 We Are All Bourgeois Now
2 Rock And Roll Music
3 It's So Easy (Live)
4 Take The Skinheads Bowling
5 Been A Son
6 Out Of Time
7 Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (Warchild Version)
8 Bright Eyes (Live)
9 Train In Vain (Live)
10 Wrote For Luck
11 What's My Name (Live)
12 Velocity Girl
13 Can't Take My Eyes Off You
14 Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
15 Last Christmas (TFI Friday Performance)