Manifest Destiny
Studio album by
Released1977
StudioRecord Plant, New York
GenreProtopunk, punk rock
Length37:50
LabelAsylum
ProducerMurray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman
The Dictators chronology
Go Girl Crazy!
(1975)
Manifest Destiny
(1977)
Bloodbrothers
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal10/10[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]

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]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Andy Shernoff except where indicated

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Exposed" 4:27
2."Heartache" 3:37
3."Sleepin' with the TV On" 4:16
4."Disease"Richard Blum, Andy Shernoff6:26
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."Hey Boys"Scott Kempner, Shernoff3:02
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. Osterberg3:26

Personnel

The Dictators
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

  1. Deming, Mark. "Manifest Destiny – The Dictators". AllMusic. Retrieved July 21, 2012.
  2. 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.
  3. Popoff, Martin (2003). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal – Volume 1: The Seventies. Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 90–91. ISBN 978-1894959025.
  4. 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.
  5. Robbins, Ira. "Dictators". Trouser Press. Retrieved April 18, 2019.


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