Editing Generation Terrorists (section)

{{Short description|1992 album by Manic Street Preachers}}
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{{Infobox album
| name       = Generation Terrorists
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Manic Street Preachers]]
| cover      = Generation_Terrorists.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 10 February 1992
| recorded   = July–December 1991
| venue      =
| studio     = Black Barn Studios in [[London]], England
| genre      = {{flatlist|
*[[Glam rock]]
*[[hard rock]]
*[[punk rock]]
*[[glam punk]]
*[[glam metal]]
*[[alternative rock]]
}}
| length     = 73:00
| label      = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| producer   = Steve Brown, [[The Bomb Squad]] <small>(track 8)</small>
| prev_title = [[New Art Riot|New Art Riot E.P.]]
| prev_year  = 1990
| next_title = [[Gold Against the Soul]]
| next_year  = 1993
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Generation Terrorists
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[Stay Beautiful (Manic Street Preachers song)|Stay Beautiful]]
 | single1date = 29 July 1991
 | single2     = [[Love's Sweet Exile]]
 | single2date = 28 October 1991
 | single3     = [[You Love Us]]
 | single3date = 16 January 1992
 | single4     = [[Slash 'n' Burn]]
 | single4date = 16 March 1992
 | single5     = [[Motorcycle Emptiness]]
 | single5date = 1 June 1992
 | single6     = [[Little Baby Nothing]]
 | single6date = 16 November 1992
}}
}}

'''''Generation Terrorists''''' is the debut studio album by Welsh [[alternative rock]] band [[Manic Street Preachers]], released on 10 February 1992 by [[Columbia Records]].

On the back of significant media attention and a "disproportionately high press profile" generated by the band's previously released single "[[Motown Junk]]" from 1991,{{sfn|Price|1999|p=61}} ''Generation Terrorists'' was long-awaited by critics{{sfn|Price|1999|p=74}} thanks to the members' proclamation that their debut would be the "greatest rock album ever"<ref name="Pitchfork">{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5073-lipstick-traces-a-secret-history-of-manic-street-preachers/ |title=Manic Street Preachers: ''Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers'' <nowiki>| Album Review |</nowiki> Pitchfork |last=Tangari |first=Joe |date=23 February 2004 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|access-date=30 December 2014}}</ref> and sell around sixteen million copies around the world, "from [[Bangkok]] to [[Senegal]]".{{sfn|Price|1999|p=36}} Recorded between July and December 1991 and released in February 1992, the album did not meet these sales figures but it was nonetheless ultimately certified [[Music recording sales certification|Gold]] in the United Kingdom{{sfn|Price|1999|p=79}} and also charted within the Top 100 in [[Japan]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/w/%7B%7B%7Bdate%7D%7D%7D/ |title=Japanese Chart Positions |work=[[Oricon]] |access-date=4 January 2013 |archive-date=7 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207092905/http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/w/%7B%7B%7Bdate%7D%7D%7D/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>