Slash 'n' Burn

For the agricultural technique, see slash and burn.
"Slash 'n' Burn"
Single by Manic Street Preachers
from the album Generation Terrorists
Released March 16, 1992
Format CD, vinyl record (7"/12"), cassette
Recorded Mid 1991
Genre Alternative, glam punk, hard rock
Length 3:59
Label Columbia
Manic Street Preachers singles chronology
"You Love Us"
(1992)		 "Slash 'n' Burn"
(1992)		 "Motorcycle Emptiness"
(1992)

"Slash 'n' Burn" was released by the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers on March 16, 1992 and was the fourth single to be released from the band's debut album, Generation Terrorists.

The songs title takes its inspiration from U.S. Army policy during the Vietnam War.

The song reached number 20 in the UK charts on March 28, 1992. "Motown Junk" and "Sorrow 16" were previously available on the "Motown Junk" single, released by the band's previous label.

Contents

Track listing

CD

  1. "Slash 'n' Burn"
  2. "Motown Junk"
  3. "Sorrow 16"
  4. "Ain't Going Down"

12"

  1. "Slash 'n' Burn"
  2. "Motown Junk"
  3. "Ain't Going Down"

7" / MC

  1. "Slash 'n' Burn"
  2. "Motown Junk"
Manic Street Preachers
Studio albums
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Singles
"Suicide Alley" (1988) · "UK Channel Boredom" (1990) · "Motown Junk" (1991) · "You Love Us (Heavenly Version)" (1991) · "Feminine Is Beautiful" (1991) · "Stay Beautiful" (1991) · "Love's Sweet Exile/Repeat" (1991) · "You Love Us" (1991) · "Slash 'n' Burn" (1992) · "Motorcycle Emptiness" (1992) · "Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H)" (1992) · "Little Baby Nothing" (1992) · "From Despair to Where" (1993) · "La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)" (1993) · "Roses in the Hospital" (1993) · "Faster/P.C.P." (1994) · "Revol" (1994) · "She Is Suffering" (1994) · "A Design for Life" (1996) · "Everything Must Go" (1996) · "Kevin Carter" (1996) · "Further Away" (1996) · "Australia" (1996) · "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" (1998) · "The Everlasting" (1998) · "You Stole the Sun from My Heart" (1999) · "Tsunami" (1999) · "The Masses Against the Classes" (2000) · "Found That Soul" (2001) · "So Why So Sad" (2001) · "Ocean Spray" (2001) · "Let Robeson Sing" (2001) · "There by the Grace of God" (2002) · "The Love of Richard Nixon" (2004) · "Empty Souls" (2005) · "Underdogs" (2007) · "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" (2007) · "Autumnsong" (2007) · "Indian Summer" (2007) · "The Ghosts of Christmas" (2007) · "(It's Not War) Just the End of Love" (2010) · "Some Kind of Nothingness" (2010) · "Postcards from a Young Man" (2011) · "This Is the Day" (2011)
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"Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (1995)  · "Leviathan" (2005)  · "The Instrumental" (2006) · "Umbrella" (2008)
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