tam adı "lipstick traces - a secret history of
manic street preachers" olan, 2003 çıkışlı msp albümü. kendisinden bir sene önce çıkan
forever delayed gibi bir toplama albümdür. ilk diskte single'lardan toplanan b-side'lar, ikinci diskte ise cover versiyonlar bulunmaktadır. genel olarak forever delayed'den daha fazla beğenilmiştir (özellikle fanlar tarafından). tracklist ve şarkıların geldikleri single'lar şöyle:
cd 1 (b-side'lar)
01. "
prologue to history" - 4:47 (
if you tolerate this your children will be next)
02. "
4 ever delayed" - 3:38 (yeni materyal)
03. "
sorrow 16" - 3:46 (motown junk)
04. "
judge yr'self" - 3:03 (yeni materyal)
05. "
socialist serenade" - 4:15 (
you stole the sun from my heart)
06. "
donkeys" - 3:13 (roses in the hospital)
07. "
comfort comes" - 3:29 (life becoming a landslide)
08. "
mr carbohydrate" - 4:16 (
a design for life)
09. "
dead trees and traffic islands" - 3:45 (a design for life)
10. "
horses under starlight" - 3:10 (
kevin carter)
11. "
sepia" - 3:56 (kevin carter)
12. "
sculpture of man" - 1:55 (faster/p.c.p.)
13. "
spectators of suicide (heavenly recordings version)" - 5:06 (you love us (heavenly))
14. "
democracy coma" - 3:45 (love's sweet exile/repeat)
15. "
strip it down (live)" - 2:42 (you love us (heavenly))
16. "
bored out of my mind" - 2:57 (
motorcycle emptiness)
17. "
just a kid" - 3:36 (
ocean spray)
18. "
close my eyes" - 4:29 (the masses against the classes)
19. "
valley boy" - 5:10 (
the everlasting)
20. "
we her majesty's prisoners" - 5:22 (motown junk)
cd 2 (coverlar, parantez içindekiler şarkının orjinal sahiplerini belirtiyor)
01. "we are all bourgeois now" (
mccarthy) - 4:35
02. "rock 'n' roll music" (
chuck berry) - 2:55
03. "it's so easy (live)" (
guns n' roses) - 2:54
04. "take the skinheads bowling" (
camper van beethoven) - 2:30
05. "been a son" (
nirvana) - 2:28
06. "out of time" (
the rolling stones) - 3:34
07. "raindrops keep falling on my head" (
b. j. thomas) - 2:58
08. "bright eyes (live)" (
art garfunkel) - 3:14
09. "train in vain (live)" (
the clash) - 3:16
10. "wrote for luck" (
happy mondays) - 2:43
11. "what's my name (live)" (
the clash) - 1:45
12. "velocity girl" (
primal scream) - 1:41
13. "can't take my eyes off you" (
andy williams) - 3:13
14. "didn't my lord deliver daniel" (
paul robeson) - 2:07
15. "last christmas (live)" (
wham!) - 2:05
