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Manifest Destiny (The Dictators album)

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Released
  
1977

Length
  
37:50

Artist
  
The Dictators

Producer
  
Sandy Pearlman

Genre
  
Punk rock

Recorded
  
Record Plant, New York

Manifest Destiny (1977)
  
Bloodbrothers (1978)

Release date
  
1977

Label
  
Asylum Records

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Similar
  
The Dictators albums, Punk rock albums

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". [1]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Andy Shernoff except as indicated.

Side one
  1. "Exposed" - 4:27
  2. "Heartache" - 3:37
  3. "Sleepin' with the TV On" - 4:16
  4. "Disease" - 6:26
Side two
  1. "Hey Boys" (Scott Kempner, Andy Shernoff) - 3:02
  2. "Steppin' Out" - 5:47
  3. "Science Gone Too Far" - 3:27
  4. "Young, Fast, Scientific" - 3:22
  5. "Search & Destroy" (James Williamson, J.J. Osterberg) - 3:26

Personnel

  • Handsome Dick Manitoba – lead vocals
  • Ross "The Boss" Friedman – lead guitar, 12-string guitar
  • "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"

    • Songs

    1Exposed4:28
    2Heartache3:37
    3Sleepin’ With the TV On4:17

    References

    Manifest Destiny (The Dictators album) Wikipedia
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