Forever Delayed

For the DVD of the same name that was released around the same time as this album, see Forever Delayed (DVD).

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Forever Delayed is a greatest hits album by the Manic Street Preachers, released in 2002.

The album included three singles which had never appeared on the earlier albums ("Motown Junk", "Suicide Is Painless" and "The Masses Against The Classes"), the latter being one of the band's two UK #1 hits, along with "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next". Several songs were edited for length ("Motorcycle Emptiness", "You Love Us", "Australia", "Everything Must Go" and "The Everlasting") so that more tracks could fit onto the CD. The album entered the UK Album Chart at #4.

The album featured two new songs; the single "There By The Grace Of God" and "Door To The River". "Door to the River" was originally recorded in the sessions for the Know Your Enemy album, but the band deemed the song to be too unfitting to the album's general style. "There By the Grace of God" can be seen as a foreshadowing of things to come, as it features a more electronic/keyboard-heavy style that would eventually be the main style of the band's next studio album, Lifeblood.

The tracklisting wasn't chronological; however it gave an excellent representation of the Manic's work so far and showed how far the band had progressed musically and lyrically since they formed.

The title of Forever Delayed for their greatest hits package had been planned for several years previous. Nicky Wire first mentions it in Everything - A Book About Manic Street Preachers published in 1998.

Playlist

1. "A Design for Life" (April 15 1996)
2. "Motorcycle Emptiness" (June 1 1992)
3. "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (August 24 1998)
4. "La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)" (July 26 1993)
5. "There by the Grace of God" (October 24 2002)
6. "You Love Us" (January 16 1992)
7. "Australia" (December 16 1996)
8. "You Stole the Sun from My Heart" (March 8 1999)
9. "Kevin Carter" (September 30 1996)
10. "Tsunami" (July 5 1999)
11. "The Masses Against the Classes" (January 10 2000)
12. "From Despair to Where" (June 7 1993)
13. "Door to the River"
14. "Everything Must Go" (July 29 1996)
15. "Faster" (June 6 1994)
16. "Little Baby Nothing" (November 15 1992)
17. "Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide is Painless)" (September 7 1992)
18. "So Why So Sad" (February 26 2001)
19. "The Everlasting" (November 30 1998)
20. "Motown Junk" (January 21 1991)

Ltd Edition CD2 (Remixes)

1. "La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)" (Chemical Brothers Mix)
2. "Faster (Chemical Brothers Mix)"
3. "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (Massive Attack Mix)
4. "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (David Holmes Mix)
5. "Tsunami" (Cornelius Mix)
6. "Tsunami" (Stereolab Mix)
7. "You Stole The Sun From My Heart" (Mogwai Mix)
8. "You Stole The Sun From My Heart" (David Holmes Mix)
9. "So Why So Sad" (The Avalanches Mix)
10. "Let Robeson Sing" (Ian Brown Mix)
11. "Kevin Carter" (Jon Carter Mix)
12. "A Design For Life" (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Mix)
13. "The Everlasting" (Stealth Sonic Orchestra Mix)