Everything Must Go (Manic Street Preachers album)

Everything Must Go
Studio album by
Manic Street Preachers
Released20 May 1996
Recorded1995–1996
Studio
Genre
Length45:24
LabelEpic
ProducerMike Hedges
Manic Street Preachers chronology
The Holy Bible
(1994) 		Everything Must Go
(1996) 		This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
(1998)
Singles from Everything Must Go
  1. "A Design for Life"
    Released: 15 April 1996[1]
  2. "Everything Must Go"
    Released: 22 July 1996[2]
  3. "Kevin Carter"
    Released: 30 September 1996[3]
  4. "Further Away"
    Released: 16 October 1996 (Japan only)[4]
  5. "Australia"
    Released: 2 December 1996[5]

Everything Must Go is the fourth studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, released on 20 May 1996 by Epic Records. It was the first record released as a trio, following the disappearance of lyricist and rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards.

Released at the height of Britpop in the mid-1990s, the album was a commercial and critical success, it reached its peak in the UK on separate occasions, debuting and peaking at number 2 in the UK Albums Chart and earned the band accolades in the 1997 Brit Awards.[6] It represented a shift in the group's sound due to Edwards' departure. The album charted in mainland Europe, Asia and Australia, eventually selling over two million copies. Everything Must Go is frequently featured and voted highly in lists for one of the best albums of all time by many music publications such as NME[7] and Q.[8]

  1. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 13 April 1996. p. 27.
  2. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 20 July 1996. p. 46.
  3. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 28 September 1996. p. 57.
  4. ^ "ファーザー・アウェイ | マニック・ストリート・プリーチャーズ" [Further Away | Manic Street Preachers] (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  5. ^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. 30 November 1996. p. 45.
  6. ^ "Manic Street Preachers – BRITs Profile". brits.co.uk. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  7. ^ "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
  8. ^ "Q Magazine 250 Best Albums of Q's Lifetime".