Generation Terrorists (studio album)
by Manic Street Preachers
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Generation Terrorists is ranked 4th 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 475 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,627.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/08/2025 20:19 | BurndenAce | 1,006 | 77/100 |
| ! | 10/08/2025 19:02 | ShenBapiro | 358 | 80/100 |
| ! | 09/11/2025 02:46 | daCritic | 4,363 | 73/100 |
| ! | 06/17/2025 23:52 |  idiotican | 2,803 | 74/100 |
| ! | 06/11/2025 07:52 | Invader666 | 2,623 | 65/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.4/100, a mean average of 71.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.6.
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Just too long and too many filler tracks. Both the tracks named Repeat are the worst tracks on the album. But some of the guitar riffs are awesome and this as a debut album really showed what this band was capable of. Motorcycle Emptiness is a great anthem, also liked Slash N Burn and Condemned to Rock N Roll. The rest is pretty forgettable.
Larcx13 12/16/2023 21:46 | #300505
as usual i'm left disappointed by the rating of another good album. whatever. it's not their best but worth listening to regardless of its rating here.
Didn't appreciate this album at the time but I'm glad now they didn't stick to their promise to sell x million copies and quit. One of the best bands of the 90's and beyond
Graeme2 11/09/2020 09:30 | #260425
Avoid the bonus tracks edition as it contains one of the worst covers of all time in Wrote for Luck. Imagine early MSP covering Happy Mondays. Yep, it sounds exactly like you'd expect, a very bad idea, truly awful.
Great and refreshing hard rock album. Bradfields singing sometimes reminds me of Freddie Mercury.
Graeme2 05/26/2019 20:01 | #236755
Taking musical cues from the Clash, PE, GnR, McCarthy, New York Dolls amongst others, and lyrical inspiration from the world of politics, carving 4 real and telling people it would be the best rock album ever. Massive ambition and drive, with plenty of hype but over shooting the runway somewhat. As has been said, musically it's closest to the Motley Crue debut than GnR or the Clash and it's at least 20m too long. Cull the poorer tracks and it's a good record. It's still decent but I'd rather hear the Crue debut. It wouldn't be until album 3 that they matched their starry ambition musically and lyrically, to show that really they could make one of the great rock album statements after all, they just weren't ready in '92.
Goliath 11/06/2018 10:41 | #223967
30th best album of 1992? Way too low. Half this album is great, the rest good. This album should be in my top 100 and will be if I can be bothered to update my chart.
Great début, but it is a bit too long. As a whole, I preferred Gold Against The Soul and The Holy Bible.
Feckin' solid debut from one of the best British bands....ever.
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