God Bless Miss Black America is a studio album released on by alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Miss Black America

Miss Black America (band)

Miss Black America were a punk-influenced rock band based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Its original line-up consisted of Seymour Glass , Mike Smith and Neil Baldwin .-History:...

 on Integrity Records

Integrity Records

Integrity Records is an independent record label based in Bedford, England. The label was founded in the early 1990s and specialised in discovering new bands in the rock/indie/punk genres....

. It was Miss Black America's debut album.

Tracklisting

#	Title	Length
1	Human Punk	2:40
2	Strobe	2:50
3	Car Crash For A Soul	3:19
4	Infinite Chinese Box	3:12
5	Roadkill	3:56
6	Personal Politics	4:13
7	Talk Hard	3:36
8	Scream For Me	3:04
9	Don't Speak My Mind	4:29
10	Miss Black America	4:43
11	Montana	8:10

Production

The album was recorded between and at The Magic Garden in Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...

. All lyrics were written by Seymour Glass (with the exception of "Scream For Me", which also features vocals from Mike Smith) and all music was written by Miss Black America. It was produced by Gavin Monaghan. It was engineered by Andy Taylor. It was mastered by Ian Shepherd at SRT. Photography for the artwork was produced by Julia Kidd and Daisy Metz.

Personnel

• Seymour Glass - vocals, additional guitars
• Mickey Smith - bass, extra vocals on Scream For Me
• Neil D. Baldwin - drums
• Gish - guitar

Singles

Five tracks from the album were released as single, they were;

• Don't Speak My Mind
• Infinite Chinese Box
• Talk Hard
• Miss Black America
• Human Punk (included on the "Adrenaline Junkie Class-A Mentalist" E.P.)

All five were included in two of John Peel

John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...

's Festive Fifty

Festive Fifty

The Festive Fifty was originally an annual list of the year's fifty best songs compiled at the end of the year and voted for by listeners to John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show...

s. "Don't Speak My Mind" and "Human Punk" were included in the 2001 list, placed at number 42 and number 14 respectively, while "Infinite Chinese Box", "Miss Black America" and "Talk Hard" were placed at 45, 11 and 3 respectively in the 2002 list.

Reception

The album has been described as a "fast 'n' hard sonic pummelling", and that "much of God Bless sounds like the more mature Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...

 playing U2

U2

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's Boy

Boy (album)

Boy is the debut album from Irish rock band U2, released October 20, 1980. Produced by Steve Lillywhite, the album received generally positive reviews. Common themes among the album's songs are the thoughts and frustrations of adolescence. The album included the band's first United Kingdom hit...

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