Manifest Destiny (The Dictators album)
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]
Manifest Destiny | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1977 | |||
Studio | Record Plant, New York | |||
Genre | 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] |
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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