Editing Forever Delayed (section)

== Content ==

The album featured two new songs: the single "[[There by the Grace of God]]" and "Door to the River". "Door to the River" was originally recorded in the sessions for the ''[[Know Your Enemy (Manic Street Preachers album)|Know Your Enemy]]'' album, but the band deemed the song too unfitting to the album's general style. "There by the Grace of God" could be seen as a foreshadowing of what followed the hits compilation, as it features a more electronic/keyboard-heavy style that would eventually be the main style of the band's next studio album, ''[[Lifeblood (album)|Lifeblood]]''.

Several songs were edited for length ("[[Motorcycle Emptiness]]", "[[La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)]]", "[[You Love Us]]", "[[Australia (Manic Street Preachers song)|Australia]]", "[[From Despair to Where]]", "[[Everything Must Go (song)|Everything Must Go]]", "[[Little Baby Nothing]]" and "[[The Everlasting (song)|The Everlasting]]") so that more tracks could fit onto the CD (though not listed as edits in the liner notes).

The title of ''Forever Delayed'' is lifted from the lyrics of their song "[[Roses in the Hospital]]" (which does not feature on the CD album). A song called "4 Ever Delayed" was recorded for inclusion but ended up not being included. Plans of releasing it as part of a new two-disc edition of the compilation and as CD single were then toyed with but never surfaced. It eventually wound up on the band's following [[A-side and B-side|B-sides]] and rarities compilation ''[[Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers)]]'' in 2003. The title of the greatest hits package had also been planned for several years previous; band member [[Nicky Wire]] first mentioned it in [[Simon Price]]'s biography ''Everything – A Book About Manic Street Preachers'', published in 1998.