High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of Manic Street Preachers) is an album of various B-sides, rarities and cover versions by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers released in 2003. It is named after the Greil Marcus book Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century and shares its title with a bootleg album of Manics rarities (more simply titled "Lipstick Traces").