I found a list of Manic Street Preachers shirt slogans, but it was incomplete, so here it is again with my own additions at the end.

“CLASSIFIED MACHINE” Richey 89

“TV OVERDOSE” Sean 89

“SUICIDE BEAT” Nicky 89

“NEW ART RIOT” James 89

“YOU LOVE US” James 91

“BOMB THE PAST” Richey 91

“LONESOME AESTHETIC” Richey 91

“I’M YOUR BABY DOLL” Nicky 91

“KILL YOURSELF” Richey 91

“LONDON - DEATH SENTENCE HERITAGE” Richey 91

“CULTURE OF DESTRUCTION” James 91

“GENERATION TERRORISTS” Nicky 91

“1990” James 91

“CULTURE SLUT” Nicky 91

“SPECTATORS OF SUICIDE” Richey 91

“RIOT STAR” Nicky 91

“SENSITIVE” Richey 91

“ROCK N’ ROLL OBJECT OF DESIRE” Nicky 91

“JOE BLOGGS FUCK OFF” Sean 91

“I LOVE SLASH, WE HATE DANCE” James 91

“ROCK N’ ROLL SUICIDE” Nicky 91

“NE TRAVAILLE JAMAIS” Richey 91

“DESTROY WORK” Nicky 91

“SUICIDE BABY” Nicky 91

“ALL ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IS HOMOSEXUAL” Richey 92

“BORED OUT OF MY MIND” Richey 92

“I’M TOO DEAD” Richey 92

“SCARS - DEAD - HATE – VOID - RIOT” Richey 92

“DEAD FLOWERS” Nicky 92

“NO MORE STATE” Nicky 92

“CONDEMNED TO ROCK ‘N’ ROLL” James

“FUCK ME AND LEAVE” Richey 93

“I’M SO MODERN THAT EVERYTHING IS POINTLESS” Nicky 94

“PCP” Richey 94

“IF YOU POSSESS VIRTURE YOU ARE IT’S VICTIM” James 94

“THERE IS NO CHOICE” Richey 94

“I LOVE HOOVERING” Nicky 97

“FAIRY” Richey 94

“THERE ARE NO OPPOSITES JUST [Angles?? Unreadable]” Nicky 94

“BIG FLAME” Richey 94

“TERMINAL YOUNG THING” Nicky 91

“FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU” Sean 91

“MEDIOCRE LAB” [Trouser leg] Richey 94

“Even rats know where their tails are” [Trouser leg] Richey 94

“They could only beat me up but they could not do me any real harm.” [Trouser leg] Richey 94

“When I die I’ll go to heaven because I’ve spent my time in hell” James 91

“We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems – WS Burroughs” Richey 94

“Marijuana will save world capitalism”  Richey 93

“RETALIATE FIRST” Richey 91

“LAST HATE THING” Nicky 91

“STRAIGHTJACKET STATE” Sean 91

“Once I remember well, my life was a feast where all hearts opened and all wine flowed… Alas the gospel has gone by! Suppose damnation were eternal! Then a man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn’t he?” Richey 94

“They fuck you up your mum and dad, they may not mean to but they do” Richey 94

“DON’T GET OUT OF THE BOAT” Richey 94

“ANTI-LOVE” Sean 91

“NEED TO FEEL” Nicky 93

“BIG MAC PHOENIX, R SMILE Y'ALL” Richey 94

“ALL SENSATIONS ARE FAILURE” Richey 94

“MY MIND IS A LETHAL WEAPON” Nicky 94

“GROUPIE” Richey 93

“EXQUISITE SULPHURIC LONESOME SEDUCTIVE” Sean 92

“Born to be picturesque ruins” Richey 92

“HEY ASSHOLE” Nicky 94

“YEAH I DO” Richey 91

“WE ARE NOT YOUR SINNERS” Sean 92

“HOLOCAUST” Richey 91

“KILL ‘EM ALL, LET GOD SORT ‘EM OUT” James 94

The Momus Questionnaire was created by musician Nick Currie, and is designed to identify the aspects of the subject’s personality which give them a posiive self-image, or ‘subcultural capital’.

Have you rebelled against someone else’s dreary expectations of your life, and become something more unexpected?

What in your life can you point to and say, like Frankie, ‘I Did It My Way’?

What creative achievements are you most proud of?

If there was one event in your life which really shaped you, made you the person you are today, what would it be?

If you had to make a song or rap boasting about your irresistible charm and sexiness, how would you describe yourself?

Have you ever made material sacrifices because of your integrity?

Describe a public personality who exemplifies everything you’d like to be yourself, then another public personality who incarnates everything you’d least like to be.

If you were an Egyptian pharaoh and had to be buried with a few key objects to take to the next world, what would they be?

Do you have a favourite joke, quotation or proverb?

What’s your favourite portrait (it can be a song, a painting, a film, anything)?

Tender Pervert Momus 1988, Creation

Momus appears on the cover of his best-known album Tender Pervert somewhat effetely flaunting a pair of devil horns, an apt set-up for the record’s contents. His persona hearkens back to a time when the most satanic thing polite society could imagine was a flamboyant man of aristocratic bearing making cutting remarks in a drawing room with a harpsicord in it, and at the microphone he fairly oozes amoral sensuality. Though he declares himself to be straight with the frequency of someone who gets asked a lot, much of Tender Pervert pokes at the world’s discomfort with homosexuality: his characters are raised to be gay and feel they’ve lost face when they turn out hetero; use the intimate access purchased by their superficial effeminacy to bed married women; endure childhood abuse by male priests only to become themselves lifelong “appreciators” of youth. It’s often difficult to pin down Momus’s own moral and political values, whether he takes pleasure in real transgression or merely the delicious discomfort that singing about it brings to a square audience.

Tender Pervert makes a few overtures to the synth pop of its day (e.g. “A Complete History of Sexual Jealousy [Parts 17–24]”), but more often than not the songs are little more than a baroque-style keyboard line and a drum machine, a sophisticated but minimalist backdrop for the featured wordplay. Like his acolyte Jarvis Cocker (Pulp), Momus is louche, actorly in his phrasing, creeping along the bars like a cat stretching its back and flexing its claws. He seems unwilling to write or uninterested in writing a song where the melody looms larger than the lyrics, though the few tunes that threaten to (such as “Ice King”) suggest he could’ve paid the bills with some truly immaculate pop songs if he’d so chosen. His albums might go down a little sweeter with more of that sort of thing, but you can find good pop anywhere. Where else will you find a record that opens with a song that describes God getting a hardon from watching human depravity, and closes with His angels ejaculating new Milky Ways?