Motorcycle Emptiness (track)
by Manic Street Preachers
Year: 1992
From the album Generation Terrorists (track #4)
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Motorcycle Emptiness appears on the following album(s) by Manic Street Preachers:
- Generation Terrorists (track #4) (this album) (1992)
- Forever Delayed (The Greatest Hits) (track #2) (compilation) (2002)
- National Treasures – The Complete Singles (track #6) (compilation) (2011)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 11/29/2025 18:32 | dukeboxkool | 6,833 | 75/100 |
| ! | 11/27/2025 02:57 |  imacgill | 30,031 | 81/100 |
| ! | 10/08/2025 20:12 | BurndenAce | 4,348 | 79/100 |
| ! | 08/18/2025 16:12 | ShenBapiro | 6,173 | 77/100 |
| ! | 07/14/2025 23:06 | daCritic | 34,118 | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 89.7/100, a mean average of 89.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 90.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.7.
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One of the greatest guitar songs ever. The final two or so minutes has some of the best soloing I've ever heard and combined with the lovely strings makes it one of the gorgeous two or so minutes in music history. This song is like heaven trapped inside an amplifier.
Goliath 11/06/2018 10:35 | #223966
The best moan about consumerism ever written.
NoeSSS 07/17/2016 01:04 | #171419
Find more riffs like this, can you bea?
SingingPeasant96 02/05/2014 12:45 | #102268
This song is fucking gorgeous, it's like best song I ever heard, no kidding. If Manics made 10 more songs that's as great as this song, They'd be my favourite band
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