Manifest Destiny (The Dictators album)
Manifest Destiny | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1977 | |||
Studio | Record Plant, New York | |||
Genre | Protopunk, punk rock | |||
Length | 37:50 | |||
Label | Asylum | |||
Producer | Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman | |||
The Dictators chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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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.
Categories:
- The Dictators albums
- 1977 albums
- Asylum Records albums
- Albums produced by Murray Krugman
- Albums produced by Sandy Pearlman
- Punk rock album stubs