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Track Listing: Suicide Alley/Tennesse (I Get Low)
Label/Catalogue Number: South Bank Studios/SBS 002
Comments: UK 7". 300 pressed - 200 with picture sleeves .
Apparently a half dozen plain sleeves had newspaper cuttings glued to outer sleeve.
Just about anybody could have guessed that this recording would have been at no.1 - this recording is one of the most-sought after independent releases that has been released in the past 10-15 years. Selling from anywhere up to £800, the UK based "Record Collector" , in 1998, included it as the 70th most collectable release of all time. The price dropped slightly in the late 90's due to a few copies surfacing from people "cashing" in on their popularity but will probably still cost you a week or two hard-earned wages!
Most articles will state that the record was released in August 1989 (the month that the review of the single finally surfaced in the N.M.E.) however as you can see from the scanned cover, the single was pressed in the preceding year. Indeed, the first review of the 7" appeared in a magazine called "Beat of the Street" and was written by Mark Brennan, who was also the person responsible for putting out the A & B sides on a compilation album called "Underground Rockers Volume 2" through his record label "Link Records".
"Manic Street Preachers is a great name for a band and this is a more than worthy piece of vinyl. Both tracks suffer from poor mixing but that can't help the fact that M.S.P. write catchy powerful punk pop songs in the vein of Mega City Four and early Undertones. Makes a pleasant change from the usual glue bag dirge that's passed as punk for
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