Generation Terrorists
by Manic Street Preachers

Generation Terrorists by Manic Street Preachers
Year: 1992
Release date: 1992-02-10
Overall rank: 2,066th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 252 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1992 (37th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (362nd)
Award Best albums of all time (2,066th)

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Manic Street Preachers bestography

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 506 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,424.

Manic Street Preachers album bestography « Higher ranked (1,673rd)
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
This album (2,066th)
Generation Terrorists
Lower ranked (2,357th) »
Gold Against The Soul

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Generation Terrorists track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Generation Terrorists rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,066th | 1990s rank: 362nd | 1992 rank: 37th

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Generation Terrorists ratings

Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 252 votes)
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70/100
 
02/28/2026 16:15 DaveH68  Ratings distribution  1,36376/100
 
85/100
 
12/28/2025 10:22 Milhaud  Ratings distribution  1,86570/100
 
75/100
 
12/05/2025 15:38 Araldo  Ratings distribution  1,47180/100
 
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10/08/2025 20:19 BurndenAce  Ratings distribution  1,13376/100
 
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10/08/2025 19:02 ShenBapiro  Ratings distribution  36380/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, 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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Rating:  
35/100
From 11/18/2024 19:38 | #306109
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.
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Rating:  
85/100
From 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.
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Rating:  
85/100
From 03/13/2023 06:55 | #294974
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
Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
Rating:  
75/100
From 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.
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Rating:  
75/100
From 07/08/2020 13:05 | #255240
Great and refreshing hard rock album. Bradfields singing sometimes reminds me of Freddie Mercury.
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Rating:  
75/100
From 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.
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Rating:  
85/100
From 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.
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From 11/08/2014 11:34 | #126483
Great début, but it is a bit too long. As a whole, I preferred Gold Against The Soul and The Holy Bible.
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80/100
From 07/12/2014 21:18 | #116535
Feckin' solid debut from one of the best British bands....ever.
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50/100
From 02/10/2014 11:56 | #102748
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