Manics Top 50s - 22nd August 2013

So, here we are with chart number 39 and I have to say, given my own chart, that I am absolutely in favour of the number 1 selection!!  Again, quite an even selection over the different albums and I'm still surprised by some of those songs that just consistently keep turning up in the high reaches.  Not really surprised as they're great songs, but it's great that there are some songs that absolutely everyone loves.  Might there be a chart coming that turns that on its head...?

Today we have a special guest chart, not part of the top 50 as it is only a top 3, but nevertheless an interesting peek into the mind of a name that will be familiar to any of us 90s kids!!  So, courtesy of our own recent contributor David Wells, I have the pleasure to announce the top 3 Manics songs of Les 'Fruitbat' Carter of top beat combo Carter USM!!  Oh, how we chuckle to ourselves at number 3....

1. Motorcycle Emptiness

2. Australia

3. Kevin Carter

So, as the final chart looms what are people's thoughts about how we do it?  My initial plans are two separate tweet-downs of 50-26 and 25-1 over a period of two days - can people wait until the weekend of the 7th and 8th of September?!  I think a weekend would mean more people are around to see it and also gives me a week to pull everything together.  What do you think?  Anyway, take it away Meg...

Meg Johnson @manicstreetmeg

1. Motown Junk

2. Faster

3. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

4. Yes

5. Motorcycle Emptiness

6. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

7. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever

8. A Design for Life

9. Marlon JD

10. Slash N' Burn

11. 1985

12. The Girl Who Wanted to be God

13. Judge Yr'self

14. Bag Lady

15. Sleepflower

16. Door to the River

17. Your Love Alone is not Enough

18. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love

19. Ocean Spray

20. The Love of Richard Nixon

21. Let Robeson Sing

22. Indian Summer

23. Kevin Carter

24. 4st 7lbs

25. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky

26. Empty Souls

27. William's Last Words

28. Little Baby Nothing

29. Some Kind of Nothingness

30. The Intense Humming of Evil

31. The Masses Against the Classes

32. Stay Beautiful

33. Nobody Loved You

34. Prologue to History

35. Send Away the Tigers

36. Removables

37. Life Becoming a Landslide

38. You Stole the Sun from my Heart

39. Suicide is Painless (Theme from MASH)

40. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

41. This Joke Sport Severed

42. The Everlasting

43. Revol

44. Show Me the Wonder

45. She is Suffering

46. Damn Dog

47. Golden Platitudes

48. All is Vanity

49. Australia

50. Die in the Summertime

By Era

Generation Terrorists 7

Gold Against the Soul 3

The Holy Bible 8

Everything Must Go 7

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 5

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 3

Send Away the Tigers 3

Journal for Plague Lovers 5

Postcards From a Young Man 4

Others 3

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 33)