Forever Delayed: The Greatest Hits

Initial pressings of FOREVER DELAYED are packaged with a bonus CD of Manic Street Preachers remixes by Chemical Brothers, David Holmes, Cornelius, Avalanches, Massive Attack, Jon Carter, Stereolab, Ian Brown, Stealthsonic Orchestra and Mogwai.Manic Street Preachers: Nicky Wire (vocals, acoustic guitar, bass); James Dean Bradfield (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Sean Moore (trumpet, drums, programming); Nick Naysmith (keyboards, background vocals); Jagz Kooner (programming).Manic Street Preachers have always been a band of very specific charms, something that has not translated outside of the U.K. particularly well. Although it boasts a generous 20 tracks, the 2002 compilation Forever Delayed isn't likely to change that situation, even if it has the lion's share of their big singles, since a band devoted to sloganeering doesn't play outside of their province, or era, without some knowledge of their context. Plus, it's bewilderingly sequenced -- not chronologically, not as a set list, not w