Everything Must Go (studio album)
by Manic Street Preachers

Everything Must Go by Manic Street Preachers
Year: 1996
Overall rank: 661st   
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 522 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1996 (9th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (112th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (661st)

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Manic Street Preachers bestography

Everything Must Go is ranked 2nd best out of 18 albums by Manic Street Preachers on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Manic Street Preachers is The Holy Bible which is ranked number 474 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,632.

Manic Street Preachers album bestography « Higher ranked (474th)
The Holy Bible
This album (661st)
Everything Must Go
Lower ranked (1,676th) »
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours

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Everything Must Go track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Everything Must Go rankings

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Overall rank: 661st | 1990s rank: 112th | 1996 rank: 9th

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Everything Must Go ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 522 votes)
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12/05/2025 15:38 Araldo   1,46980/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.0/100, a mean average of 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.9.

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Everything Must Go comments

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70/100
From 11/22/2025 23:29 | #311790
The Manic's are one of these bands that have been given high accolades and fame status that I just don't get. I've got a few of their albums. They're good but none have massively resonated with me. This would be my favorite from them
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85/100
From 08/08/2023 21:57 | #298537
Um dos álbuns mais divertidos de 1996, fica entre os melhores da década pra mim também.
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90/100
From 03/19/2023 02:22 | #295162
Trades in the collapsing psychological claustrophobia and body horror of The Holy Bible for a lot of working day laments and somber character studies of doomed former dreamers, making it one of the more fascinating displays of shocked grief almost immediately put to record. Small Black Flowers really does feel like an eerie whisper from beyond the grave, despite how gentle it comes across throughout the recording.
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50/100
From 03/05/2023 19:54 | #294745
Very solid. First track is a dud, but it gets much better from there. Australia, A Design For Life and Kevin Carter are my favourites
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65/100
From 01/12/2023 01:45 | #292734
The big hits make the weaker tracks bearable on this album with the majority of the record being pretty average. There is so much repetitiveness on here that I almost feel like I'm losing my mind with the amount of times they repeat choruses. This leads to the songs being stuck in my head but not in a good way like a catchy track but more like an irritating feeling that I can't shake off. The main songs are great however and really carry this record with them being the only tracks I would choose to listen to again. Overall, a pretty average record which is given an edge by a few glimpses of greatness that save this album from mediocrity.
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85/100
From 03/16/2022 14:14 | #282900
This albums rocks, but also it sounds so good, guitars do more than just strum, they play them beautifully.
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From 07/20/2019 02:10 | #239951
Favorite Tracks:Elvis Impersonator Blackpool Pier, Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky, The Girl Who Wanted To Be God, Removables
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85/100
From 11/03/2018 10:03 | #223767
For me a big improvement on the nihilism of the Holy Bible (which I can't get on with). The stand out is obviously A Design For Life, but there are six other tracks I rate at 85.
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Rating:  
65/100
From 02/28/2018 10:06 | #209783
Released in 1996 at the zenith of Brit-Pop mania Manic Street Preachers were seemingly the ugly buck toothed cousins of the poster-boys Oasis and Blur . Everything Must Go whilst critically acclaimed never sold a fraction of Oasis and Blurs mega selling releases around that time & that's a shame because this is a cool album

As first release by the band post Richey Edwards disappearance there's plenty to like here with great lyrics , excellent riffs and drums front and center

Being Australian myself I had a real "Oh Yeah " moment when track 9 'Australia' came on as I recalled someone had played this track to me MANY years previous ( the track is actually about wanting to get as far away from Wales as possible to escape the pressures post RE disappearance , in actual fact New Zealand is further away from Wales so that should have been the song )

Brit-pop-tastic

65/100
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70/100
From 01/07/2018 19:32 | #204876
Nice.
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