Manifest Destiny (The Dictators album)

Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny
Studio album by The Dictators
Released	1977
Studio	Record Plant, New York
Genre	Protopunk, punk rock
Length	37:50
Label	Asylum
Producer	Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman
The Dictators chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B^[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	10/10^[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[4]

Manifest Destiny is the second album by The Dictators and their first after switching to the Asylum label. Trouser Press praised the album as "another helping of brilliant Shernoff originals".^[5]

Track listing[]

All songs written by Andy Shernoff except as indicated.

Side one

"Exposed" – 4:27
"Heartache" – 3:37
"Sleepin' with the TV On" – 4:16
"Disease" – 6:26

Side two

"Hey Boys" (Scott Kempner, Andy Shernoff) – 3:02
"Steppin' Out" – 5:47
"Science Gone Too Far" – 3:27
"Young, Fast, Scientific" – 3:22
"Search & Destroy" (James Williamson, J.J. Osterberg) – 3:26 (The Stooges cover)

Personnel[]

The Dictators

Handsome Dick Manitoba – lead vocals
Ross "The Boss" Friedman – lead guitar, 12-string guitar
Scott "Top Ten" Kempner – rhythm guitar
Andy Shernoff – keyboards, lead & background vocals
Mark "The Animal" Mendoza – bass guitar
Ritchie Teeter – drums, background vocals, lead vocals on "Sleeping with the TV On" and "Hey Boys"

Additional musicians

Petronius Wood – additional keyboards

Production

Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman – producers
John Jansen – engineer
Andy Abrams, Corky Stasiak, Gray Russell, Jay Krugman, Rod O'Brien, Thom Panunzio – assistant engineers
Steve L. Schenck – production coordinator

References[]

^ Deming, Mark. "Manifest Destiny – The Dictators". AllMusic. Retrieved July 21, 2012.
^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "D". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor and Fields. ISBN 0-89919-026-X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^ Popoff, Martin (2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal – Volume 1: The Seventies. Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 90–91. ISBN 978-1894959025.
^ Catucci, Nick (2004). "The Dictators". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 234. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
^ Robbins, Ira. "Dictators". Trouser Press. Retrieved April 18, 2019.

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[1] Deming, Mark. "Manifest Destiny – The Dictators". AllMusic. Retrieved July 21, 2012.

[2] Christgau, Robert (1981). "D". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor and Fields. ISBN 0-89919-026-X. Retrieved February 24, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.

[3] Popoff, Martin (2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal – Volume 1: The Seventies. Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 90–91. ISBN 978-1894959025.

[4] Catucci, Nick (2004). "The Dictators". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 234. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

[5] Robbins, Ira. "Dictators". Trouser Press. Retrieved April 18, 2019.

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