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 | Protopunk, punk rock | |||
| Length | 37:50 | |||
| Label | Asylum | |||
| Producer | Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman | |||
| The Dictators chronology | ||||
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| 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] |
Track listing
All tracks are written by Andy Shernoff except where indicated
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Exposed" | 4:27 | |
| 2. | "Heartache" | 3:37 | |
| 3. | "Sleepin' with the TV On" | 4:16 | |
| 4. | "Disease" | Richard Blum, Andy Shernoff | 6:26 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5. | "Hey Boys" | Scott Kempner, Shernoff | 3:02 |
| 6. | "Steppin' Out" | 5:47 | |
| 7. | "Science Gone Too Far" | 3:27 | |
| 8. | "Young, Fast, Scientific" | 3:22 | |
| 9. | "Search & Destroy" (The Stooges cover) | James Williamson, J.J. Osterberg | 3:26 |
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 and backing vocals
- Mark "The Animal" Mendoza – bass guitar
- Richie Teeter – drums, backing 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
- Anne Garner, Roni Hoffman, Veronica Drew Ink - art direction, design
- Eric Meola - photography
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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