This is the second in a series of career spanning Spotify playlists specially curated by the band. Sleep Next To Plastic focuses on the cover versions Manic Street Preachers have performed over the years. It includes new/lost recordings, B-sides and album tracks. Fifteen of the covers have previously been unavailable officially through streaming services; the version of Madonna’s Borderline was recorded in the band’s Door To The River especially for this playlist.
Covers have away been central to Manic Street Preachers ethos, whether playing raw versions of Happy Mondays or Clash songs at early gigs or adding inspirational classics written by Guns N’Roses or Echo and the Bunnymen to recent live shows.
Manic Street Preachers on Sleep Next To Plastic: “Cover version have always offered us a chance to pay direct, public tribute to records we grew up obsessing over, be that C86 bands or artists as diverse as Madonna, John Cale and Paul Robeson. Collectively, these covers are a heartfelt musical tribute to our formative influences.”
Sleep Next To Plastic Tracklisting:
1. Borderline (Madonna, new recording)
2. Take The Skinheads Bowling (Camper Van Beethoven)
3. Red Sleeping Beauty (McCarthy)
4. Jean’s Not Happening [featuring Finlay George] (The Pale Fountains, lost recording)
5. The Endless Plain of Fortune (John Cale - new to Spotify)
6. Feels Like Heaven (Fiction Factory - new to Spotify)
7. Umbrella (Rihanna)
8. Out Of Time (The Rolling Stones)
9. Train in Vain (The Clash)
10. Pennyroyal Tea (Nirvana, recorded live at the BBC - new to Spotify)
11. Let’s Stay Together (Al Green, recorded live at the BBC - new to Spotify)
12. Theme From M*A*S*H [Suicide Is Painless] (Johnny Mandel/Michael Altman/The Ron Hicklin Singers)
13. Vision Blurred (The Horrors - new to Spotify)
14. Working Class Hero (John Lennon)
15. Wake Up Alone (Amy Winehouse - new to Spotify)
16. Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel, previously unreleased full band version)
17. Been A Son (Nirvana)
18. Foggy Eyes (Beat Happening)
19. This Is The Day (The The)
20. Inbetween Days (The Cure, recorded live at the BBC - new to Spotify)
21. Sweet Child O’ Mine (Guns N’Roses, live recording - new to Spotify)
22. All Or Nothing (The Small Faces recorded live at the BBC - new to Spotify)
23. Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel (Paul Robeson)
24. Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (Andy Williams)
25. Bring On The Dancing Horses (Echo & the Bunnymen, recorded live at the BBC - new to Spotify)
26. Wrote For Luck (Happy Mondays)
27. What’s My Name (The Clash)
28. We Are All Bourgeois Now (McCarthy)
29. Under My Wheels (Alice Cooper, recorded live at the BBC - new to Spotify)
30. Rock’n’Roll Music (Chuck Berry)
31. Damn Dog (Sleaze Sisters)
32. Velocity Girl (Primal Scream)
33. The Instrumental (The June Brides - new to Spotify)
34. Summer Wind (Frank Sinatra - new to Spotify)
35. Last Christmas (Wham!)
36. Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head (B.J. Thomas)
37. Primitive Painters (Felt - new to Spotify)
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