Love's Sweet Exile

"Love's Sweet Exile" is a song by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 28 October 1991 by record label Columbia as the second single from their debut album Generation Terrorists (1992). The B-side, "Repeat (UK)", appears on the same album.

Content

The track "Love's Sweet Exile" was originally called "Faceless Sense of Void". The principal difference between the two is that the original version does not have the chorus of the recorded version. The melody for the chorus was taken from another unreleased Manic Street Preachers song, "Just Can't Be Happy Without You". The band – James Dean Bradfield in particular – have said that they dislike the version recorded for Generation Terrorists^[3]

Release

"Love's Sweet Exile" was released on 28 October 1991 by record label Columbia. The single reached number 26 in the UK Singles Chart on 9 November 1991,^[4] making it the band's highest charting single at that point.

The CD and standard 12" included "Democracy Coma" (which was an album track on the U.S. version of the debut album). There was also a limited gatefold 12" with a bonus live version of "Stay Beautiful".

Music video

The video for the song directed by W.I.Z. is notorious for its homoerotic imagery.^[5] Band members and lyricists Nicky Wire and Richey James Edwards are apparently naked while in close contact with each other, while Bradfield is also apparently naked, with an archery-like target drawn on his chest.

Track listing

7"

All lyrics written by Richey Edwards and Nicky Wire, all music composed by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore.

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Love's Sweet Exile"	3:12

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Repeat (UK)"	3:08

CD and 12"

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Love's Sweet Exile"	3:12
2.	"Repeat (UK)"	3:08
3.	"Democracy Coma"	3:44

Limited edition gatefold 12"

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Love's Sweet Exile"	3:12
2.	"Repeat (UK)"	3:08
3.	"Democracy Coma"	3:44
4.	"Stay Beautiful" (live)"	2:52

Charts

Chart (1991)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	26^[4]

UK chart performance

UK Top 40
Week	01	02
Position	29	26

References

↑ Shepard, Sam (29 October 2011). "Manic Street Preachers – National Treasures". musicOMH. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
↑ "Manics Monday: Rain Down Alienation - Generation Terrorists’ key tracks". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
↑ Power, Martin (17 October 2010). Manic Street Preachers. Omnibus Press.
1 2 "Manic Street Preachers". Official Charts. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
↑ Price 1999.

External links

"Love's Sweet Exile" at Discogs (list of releases)

Manic Street Preachers

James Dean Bradfield Sean Moore Nicky Wire Miles Woodward Richey Edwards

Studio albums	Generation Terrorists Gold Against the Soul The Holy Bible Everything Must Go This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours Know Your Enemy Lifeblood Send Away the Tigers Journal for Plague Lovers Postcards from a Young Man Rewind the Film Futurology

Compilation albums	Forever Delayed Lipstick Traces National Treasures – The Complete Singles

EPs	New Art Riot E.P. Life Becoming a Landslide E.P.

Singles	"Suicide Alley" "Motown Junk" "You Love Us (Heavenly Version)" "Stay Beautiful" "Love's Sweet Exile"/"Repeat" "You Love Us" "Slash 'n' Burn" "Motorcycle Emptiness" "Theme from M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless)" "Little Baby Nothing" "From Despair to Where" "La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)" "Roses in the Hospital" "Faster" "Revol" "She Is Suffering" "A Design for Life" "Everything Must Go" "Kevin Carter" "Further Away" "Australia" "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" "The Everlasting" "You Stole the Sun from My Heart" "Tsunami" "The Masses Against the Classes" "Found That Soul" "So Why So Sad" "Ocean Spray" "Let Robeson Sing" "There by the Grace of God" "The Love of Richard Nixon" "Empty Souls" "Underdogs" "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" "Indian Summer" "(It's Not War) Just the End of Love" "Some Kind of Nothingness" "Postcards from a Young Man" "This Is the Day" "Show Me the Wonder" "Anthem for a Lost Cause" "Walk Me to the Bridge" "Futurology"

Other songs	"4st 7lb" "Peeled Apples"

Video albums	Everything Live Leaving the 20th Century Louder Than War Forever Delayed

Related articles	Discography Music of Cardiff Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair

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