You Love Us

"You Love Us" is a song by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was initially released as a single on 7 May 1991 by record label Heavenly. The song was re-recorded and released on 16 January 1992 by record label Columbia as the third single from their debut studio album Generation Terrorists.

Release

"You Love Us" was originally released as a single on 7 May 1991 by record label Heavenly. This version of the song begins with a sample of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima" and ends with a coda which includes a drum sample from Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life".^[1]

The song was re-recorded and released again on 16 January 1992 as the third single from their debut studio album Generation Terrorists. The new version had a much heavier rock sound and the "Lust for Life" coda was replaced, on the album version of the track, by an extended guitar solo. This version of the song reached number 16 in the UK charts on 1 February 1992. It was the most successful single released from the album.^[2] It also made an appearance as track number six on the 2002 greatest hits compilation, Forever Delayed.

The CD included the B-sides "A Vision of Dead Desire", "We Her Majesty's Prisoners" and a live cover of Guns N' Roses' "It's So Easy". The 12" featured "A Vision of Dead Desire" and "It's So Easy" and the 7" and cassette just "A Vision of Dead Desire".

Live performances

The song was the last ever performed live with missing guitarist and lyricist Richey James Edwards. As a foursome the band played the song as set-closer for their sell-out final gig at the London Astoria just five weeks before Edwards vanished.^[3]

Track listing

Heavenly Version

CD and 12" version

No.	Title	Length
1.	"You Love Us (Heavenly Version)"
2.	"Spectators of Suicide (Heavenly Version)"
3.	"Starlover (Heavenly Version)"
4.	"Strip It Down (Live at Bath Moles)"

7" version

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"You Love Us (Heavenly Version)"

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Spectators of Suicide (Heavenly Version)"

Album version

CD version

No.	Title	Length
1.	"You Love Us"
2.	"A Vision of Dead Desire"
3.	"We Her Majesty's Prisoners"
4.	"It's So Easy"

12" version

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"You Love Us"

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"A Vision of Dead Desire"
2.	"It's So Easy" (live Guns N' Roses cover at London Marquee, 4 September 1991)

7" version

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"You Love Us"

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"A Vision of Dead Desire"

Charts

Chart (1992)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	16^[2]

UK chart performance

UK Top 40
Week	01	02	03
Position	27	16	33

References

↑ Power, Martin (17 October 2010). Manic Street Preachers. Omnibus Press.
1 2 "Manic Street Preachers". Official Charts. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
↑ Price 1999.

External links

"You Love Us" 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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