Motorcycle Emptiness

"Motorcycle Emptiness"
"Motorcycle Emptiness"
Single by Manic Street Preachers
from the album Generation Terrorists
Released	1 June 1992
Recorded	Late 1991
Genre	Alternative rock; soft rock; glam metal;
Length	6:09 (album version); 5:06 (edit); 3:35 (short edit);
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Sean Moore, Richey Edwards
Producer(s)	Steve Brown
Manic Street Preachers singles chronology
Music video
	"Motorcycle Emptiness" on YouTube

"Motorcycle Emptiness" is a 1992 song by Welsh band Manic Street Preachers and is the fifth single from their debut studio album Generation Terrorists. It went to number 17 in the United Kingdom, number 24 in the Netherlands and number 35 in New Zealand and Belgium. The music video was filmed in Japan.

Track listings

CD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Motorcycle Emptiness"	5:06
2.	"Bored Out of My Mind"	2:57
3.	"Crucifix Kiss" (live)	3:10
4.	"Under My Wheels" (live)	3:01

12-inch picture disc
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Motorcycle Emptiness"
2.	"Bored Out of My Mind"
3.	"Under My Wheels" (live)

7-inch and cassette
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Motorcycle Emptiness"
2.	"Bored Out of My Mind"

2003 reissue CD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Motorcycle Emptiness"	6:02
2.	"Forever Delayed"	3:38
3.	"Little Baby Nothing" (acoustic)	4:54

References

↑ Butler, Will. "Photos: Manic Street Preachers setting Latitude ablaze". Gigwise.com. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
↑ Scott, Paul (20 September 2006). "Manic Street Preachers: Condemned to Rock 'n Roll". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
↑ Burrows, Marc (25 October 2012). "Old music: Manic Street Preachers – Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
↑ Shepard, Sam (29 October 2011). "Manic Street Preachers – National Treasures". musicOMH. Retrieved 13 March 2016.

[1] Butler, Will. "Photos: Manic Street Preachers setting Latitude ablaze". Gigwise.com. Retrieved 30 December 2015.

[2] Scott, Paul (20 September 2006). "Manic Street Preachers: Condemned to Rock 'n Roll". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2015.

[3] Burrows, Marc (25 October 2012). "Old music: Manic Street Preachers – Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 December 2015.

[4] Shepard, Sam (29 October 2011). "Manic Street Preachers – National Treasures". musicOMH. Retrieved 13 March 2016.

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Manic Street Preachers
James Dean Bradfield Sean Moore Nicky Wire 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 Resistance Is Futile The Ultra Vivid Lament
Compilation albums	Forever Delayed Lipstick Traces National Treasures – The Complete Singles
EPs	New Art Riot Life Becoming a Landslide
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" "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" "Underdogs" "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" "Show Me the Wonder" "Anthem for a Lost Cause" "Walk Me to the Bridge" "Futurology" "Together Stronger (C'mon Wales)" "International Blue" "Distant Colours" "Dylan & Caitlin" "Liverpool Revisited" "Hold Me Like a Heaven" "People Give In" "Orwellian" "The Secret He Had Missed" "Rosebud"
Other songs	"4st 7lb" "Peeled Apples"
Video albums	Everything Live Leaving the 20th Century Louder Than War Forever Delayed
Related articles	Discography Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair I Killed the Zeitgeist