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New Art Riot 
EP by Manic Street Preachers Released June 22, 1990 Recorded Early 1990 Genre Alternative rock, glam punk, indie rock Label Damaged Goods Records YUBB 4 Producer Robin Wynn Evans Manic Street Preachers chronology "UK Channel Boredom"
(1989)New Art Riot
(1990)"Motown Junk"
(1991)New Art Riot is an EP released in 1990 by Manic Street Preachers, and it was the first release from the band to feature the four-piece line-up (of James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey James Edwards and Sean Moore).
"New Art Riot" features short, fast-paced hard rock songs. It was influenced by favourites of the group such as The Clash. The EP provides a musical template for what was to come afterwards.
It is produced by Robin Wynn Evans of the View, Sam Brown and Dodgy fame. When Edwards asked for the sound of a guitar smashing to be added to one of the tracks, Evans replied "smash your guitar then!" The dismembered neck of said guitar was then signed by the band and Evans, and is currently used as a doorstop at his Perthshire T Pot studio.[citation needed]
A live version of "New Art Riot" (titled "New Art Riot in E Minor") featured as a B-side on The Holy Bible single "Faster/P.C.P.".
The EP was originally issued as a limited edition 12" with only 1,000 copies but it has been repressed and reissued many times on CD and vinyl, as well as being made available digitally.
A promotional video for the song "Strip It Down" was made. It featured the band wearing spray-stencil slogans on their shirts, with Bradfield sporting bleached blonde hair, and performing in front of a psychedelic fractal backdrop.[1]
Track listing
CD / 12"
- "New Art Riot" – 3:10
- "Strip It Down" – 2:26
- "Last Exit on Yesterday" – 2:41
- "Teenage 20/20" – 3:01
References
- ^ S. Price, Everything (A Book about Manic Street Preachers), Virgin Books, 1999, p.29
Manic Street Preachers James Dean Bradfield · Sean Moore · Nicky Wire
Richey EdwardsStudio albums Generation Terrorists (1992) · Gold Against the Soul (1993) · The Holy Bible (1994) · Everything Must Go (1996) · This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998) · Know Your Enemy (2001) · Lifeblood (2004) · Send Away the Tigers (2007) · Journal for Plague Lovers (2009) · Postcards from a Young Man (2010)Compilation albums EPs New Art Riot (1990) · Stars and Stripes (1992) · Life Becoming a Landslide EP (1994) · Know Our B-Sides (2001) · God Save the Manics (2005) · Journal for Plague Lovers Remixes E.P. (2009)Singles "Suicide Alley" (1988) · "UK Channel Boredom" (1990) · "Motown Junk" (1991) · "You Love Us (Heavenly Version)" (1991) · "Feminine Is Beautiful" (1991) · "Stay Beautiful" (1991) · "Love's Sweet Exile/Repeat" (1991) · "You Love Us" (1991) · "Slash 'n' Burn" (1992) · "Motorcycle Emptiness" (1992) · "Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H)" (1992) · "Little Baby Nothing" (1992) · "From Despair to Where" (1993) · "La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)" (1993) · "Roses in the Hospital" (1993) · "Faster/P.C.P." (1994) · "Revol" (1994) · "She Is Suffering" (1994) · "A Design for Life" (1996) · "Everything Must Go" (1996) · "Kevin Carter" (1996) · "Further Away" (1996) · "Australia" (1996) · "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (1998) · "The Everlasting" (1998) · "You Stole the Sun from My Heart" (1999) · "Tsunami" (1999) · "The Masses Against the Classes" (2000) · "Found That Soul" (2001) · "So Why So Sad" (2001) · "Ocean Spray" (2001) · "Let Robeson Sing" (2001) · "There by the Grace of God" (2002) · "The Love of Richard Nixon" (2004) · "Empty Souls" (2005) · "Underdogs" (2007) · "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" (2007) · "Autumnsong" (2007) · "Indian Summer" (2007) · "The Ghosts of Christmas" (2007) · "(It's Not War) Just the End of Love" (2010) · "Some Kind of Nothingness" (2010) · "Postcards from a Young Man" (2011) · "This Is the Day" (2011)Box sets Video Albums Everything Live (1997) · Leaving the 20th Century (2000) · Louder Than War (2001) · Forever Delayed (2002)Other appearances "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (1995) · "Leviathan" (2005) · "The Instrumental" (2006) · "Umbrella" (2008)Related articles Categories:- 1990 EPs
- Manic Street Preachers songs
- Songs written by James Dean Bradfield
- Songs written by Sean Moore
- Songs written by Nicky Wire
- Songs written by Richey Edwards
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