Motown Junk

"Motown Junk" is a non-album single and the second single by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 21 January 1991.

Release

"Motown Junk" was released on 21 January 1991 by record label Heavenly, the band's first release on this label. It peaked at number 94 on the UK Singles Chart.^[1] Despite its relatively poor charting, the single gained the band much attention from the press.^[2]

In 2008, the band added a "Johnny Boy Anniversary Mix" free embedded version to their official website, which featured spoken dialogue by Richey Edwards.^[3]

In 2011, Heavenly re-released "Motown Junk" to sell at the Manic Street Preachers gig on 21 May 2011 and at the Berwick Independent Marker.^[4]

The track has long been a live favourite throughout their career.^[3]

Content

The title track shows the band during their pinnacle of iconoclastic attitude,^[5] such as in the lyric, "I laughed when Lennon got shot". The "Motown" in the title refers to famed 1960s and 1970s label Motown Records. The song also displayed their diverse cultural scope with a Public Enemy-sampling intro and an outro sample of The Skids.^[3]

Both B-sides featured on the single, "Sorrow 16" and "We Her Majesty's Prisoners", were on the later singles "Slash 'n' Burn" and "You Love Us", respectively, both from the band's debut album Generation Terrorists (1992). The single was the band's first from their then record label Heavenly Records.^[6]

The single's cover features a watch recovered from the Hiroshima bomb site depicting the exact moment of detonation.^[7]

Track listing

CD version

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Motown Junk"
2.	"Sorrow 16"
3.	"We Her Majesty's Prisoners"

12" vinyl version

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Motown Junk"

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sorrow 16"
2.	"We Her Majesty's Prisoners"

7" vinyl version

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Motown Junk"

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sorrow 16"

References

↑ "Chart Company".
↑ "Motown Junk". Select (IPC Media). January 1991.
1 2 3 Power, Martin (17 October 2010). Manic Street Preachers. Omnibus Press.
↑ "Manic Street Preachers".
↑ Price 1999.
↑ "Manic Street Preachers".
↑ Heatley 1997.

External links

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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