Having signed off last week with a reference to anti-consumerism in a Janis Joplin song, here's another from 20 years later expressing the same sentiment.

According to the band, the lyrics are "an attack on the hollowness of a lifestyle centred around the consumerism which is offered by capitalism, describing how society expects young people to conform". 

30 years ago yesterday 'Generation Terrorists' was released on 10 Feb 1992. The 5th single taken off the album was 'Motorcycle Emptiness' which came out in June as a 3:35 minute edit. The album version was 6:09 long [and there was a short edit - official video, filmed in Japan at 5:06] - see today.  

At the time I had bought the 4-track CD digi pak [6:09 version] and I had a cassette recording of the album before later picking up the CD cheaply, plus I have the 5:06 take on a Greatest Hits CD. I guess you could say I well and truly consumed this track.   

Ironically the last line of the song is "Everlasting Nothingness" - quite the opposite I think !

Today's Star Track artists are the Manic Street Preachers >

This video has Richey Edwards in it, who mysteriously disappeared in 1995 [aged 27] - it's quite a story if you're interested - [finding a single link to this isn't easy, so I'll leave it you to look it up]. There's also a neat video, minus the band but plus the lyrics and is the [6:09] version. Sing along here

- NME listed 'Generation Terrorists' as the 18th greatest debut album from the last 50 years !