The Masses Against the Classes: Manic Street Preachers Comp Coming This Fall

Specs for National Treasures, the latest compilation by Manic Street Preachers, have been announced.

The new double-disc set, to be released in the U.K. October 31, presents all of the Welsh alt-rock band’s U.K. singles for Columbia Records, along with one of the band’s early, self-released singles (“Motown Junk”) and a new cover of The The’s “This is the Day,” which will be released as a single later this month.

A host of special packages will be made available from the group’s native country. In addition to the standard double-disc edition and standard deluxe edition, which adds a DVD of music videos and bonus video content, pre-orders from HMV will offer a bonus CD single of “This is the Day” with what looks like a previously unreleased track. Play.com buyers, meanwhile, will have their copies autographed by the band. An as-yet un-orderable deluxe box set will include an “38 x vinyl finish CD Singles, a poster, a DVD of all the videos, 7″ vinyl of ‘New Art Riot,’ ‘Suicide Alley,’ ‘Jackie Collins Existential Question Time,’ Manics lipstick and vanity mirror and a limited number will also contain a 7″ of ‘Motown Junk.'”

The band will commemorate the release – as well as the band’s 25 years together – with a one-off show at London’s O2 Arena in December. Hit the jump for the full track list for the standard compilation.

National Treasures (Columbia 88697 94616-2, 2011)

Disc 1

Motown Junk
Stay Beautiful
Love’s Sweet Exile
You Love Us
Slash ‘N’ Burn
Motorcycle Emptiness
Suicide is Painless (Theme from “M*A*S*H”
Little Baby Nothing
From Despair to Where
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
Roses in the Hospital
Life Becoming a Landslide
Faster
Revol
She is Suffering
A Design for Life
Everything Must Go
Kevin Carter
Australia

Disc 2

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
The Everlasting
You Stole the Sun from My Heart
Tsunami
The Masses Against the Classes
So Why So Sad
Found That Soul
Ocean Spray
Let Robeson Sing
There by the Grace of God
The Love of Richard Nixon
Empty Souls
Your Love Alone is Not Enough
Autumnsong
Indian Summer
(It’s Not War) Just the End of Love
Some Kind of Nothingness
Postcards from a Young Man
This is the Day

Deluxe Edition (Columbia 88697 94615-2) features DVD with music videos of above tracks

Disc 1, Track 1 from Heavenly single HVN-8, 1991
Disc 1, Tracks 2-6 and 8 from Generational Terrorists (Columbia, 1992)
Disc 1, Track 7 from Ruby Trax (New Musical Express, 1992)
Disc 1, Tracks 9-12 from Gold Against the Soul (Columbia, 1993)
Disc 1, Tracks 13-15 from The Holy Bible (Epic, 1994)
Disc 1, Tracks 16-19 from Everything Must Go (Epic, 1996)
Disc 2, Tracks 1-4 from This is My Truth Tell Me Yours (Epic, 1998)
Disc 2, Tracks 5 from Epic single 668530 2, 2000
Disc 2, Tracks 6-9 from Know Your Enemy (Epic, 2001)
Disc 2, Track 10 from Forever Delayed: Greatest Hits (Epic, 2002)
Disc 2, Tracks 11-12 from Lifeblood (Epic, 2004)
Disc 2, Tracks 13-15 from Send Away the Tigers (Epic, 2007)
Disc 2, Tracks 16-18 from Postcards from a Young Man (Epic, 2010)
Disc 2, Track 19 is a new track

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