Sunday 1 September 2013

Manics Top 50s - 31st August 2013 part 3

And so to part 3 of the charts on the final day of Manics Top 50 voting, we started the day with the nice round number of 50, but after 12 late entries we ended up with 62, which is amazing so thanks for all your efforts!!!  Anyone that has been following this blog for a while will know that I have been mentally ticking off songs that have previously received no votes when they turn up in a chart, and I am proud to say that our last chart (submitted 10 minutes before the deadline!) managed to include the last remaining no-vote album track!!!  Given the number of songs to choose from I think it's great that there is someone out there that has a place for each one and, yes, there may still be some no-vote B-sides and compilation tracks, but some people may not have actually heard them to include them.

I'm not going to comment on each chart individually (you're probably fed up with seeing me saying the same things all the time!), but it is interesting that these four charts don't have the usual albums coming out on top, with good showings from 'Know Your Enemy', 'This is My Truth...' and 'Everything Must Go'.  And I know we have had at least one before, but the two closing charts come from the Irish wing of the Manics family, meaning we have had charts from England, Scotland, Wales, N.Ireland, Ireland, USA, Canada, Spain, Norway, Finland and South Korea (hope I haven't missed anyone out!).

So, after two months of re-visiting the Manics back catalogue, tearing your hair out trying to whittle the songs down into only 50 choices, the gnashing of teeth as you try and work out if you like 'Faster' better than 'Yes', the "damn-it-I-forgot-to-include-Masses-Against-the-Classes" feeling, Twitter countdowns and blog posts, we are finally close to the end result - the definitive unofficial Manics Fans Top 50.  Shortly I'll be totalling up the columns on my spreadsheet, so I'll be in on the secret, but you'll have to wait until the weekend of the 7th and 8th September before you find out!!!  What's your money on for number 1?  I have a top 5 in my head, in order, so I'm intrigued as to whether I got it right!!  Thanks again to everyone who voted, followed and commented on other people's charts, recruited other people or re-tweeted to get the message out there, see you next weekend.....

Steve Laithwaite @sglaithwaite
1. Your Love Alone is Not Enough
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Little Baby Nothing
4. A Design for Life
5. Prologue to History
6. Stay Beautiful
7. Solitude Sometimes Is
8. Autumnsong
9. You're Tender and You're Tired
10. Ready for Drowning
11. You Stole the Sun from my Heart
12. Some Kind of Nothingness
13. Faster
14. From Despair to Where
15. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
16. 1985
17. My Guernica
18. She is Suffering
19. Golden Platitudes
20. Rewind the Film
21. Kevin Carter
22. Baby Elian
23. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach
24. This is Yesterday
25. Peeled Apples
26. Valley Boy
27. Nobody Loved You
28. Roses in the Hospital 
29. You Love Us
30. Die in the Summertime
31. Yes
32. Everything Must Go
33. Me and Stephen Hawking
34. Archives of Pain
35. Life Becoming a Landslide
36. Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head
37. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
38. No Surface All Feeling
39. Revol
40. 4 Ever Delayed
41. Tsunami
42. Spectators of Suicide
43. Send Away the Tigers
44. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
45. William's Last Words
46. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
47. Wattsville Blues
48. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever
49. Emily
50. Motown Junk

By Era
Generation Terrorists 6
Gold Against the Soul 4
The Holy Bible 7
Everything Must Go 6
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 8
Know Your Enemy 4
Lifeblood 3
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 4
Postcards From a Young Man 3
Others 2

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 31)


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Lizzy Halpin @lizzyhalpin
1. Stay Beautiful
2. A Design For Life
3. From Despair To Where
4. Life Becoming A Landslide
5. Motorcycle Emptiness
6. Roses In The Hospital
7. Marlon JD
8. Enola/Alone
9. Always/Never
10. You Love Us
11. This Is The Day
12. No Surface All Feeling
13. William's Last Words
14. Golden Platitudes
15. Autumnsong
16. My Little Empire
17. Little Baby Nothing
18. Underdogs
19. Judge Yr'self
20. Revol
21. Faster
22. A Song For Departure
23. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
24. Emily
25. Postcards From A Young Man
26. Umbrella
27. 4st 7lb
28. Of Walking Abortion
29. Found That Soul
30. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
31. Further Away
32. The Masses Against The Classes
33. No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me
34. Hanging On
35. Sepia
36. Glasnost
37. Repeat
38. Leviathan
39. Out Of Time
40. Yes
41. Suicide Is Painless (Theme from MASH)
42. Tsunami
43. Sleepflower
44. Motown Junk
45. Die in the Summertime
46. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
47. Everything Must Go
48. Australia
49. Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)
50. Hazelton Avenue

By Era
Generation Terrorists 7
Gold Against the Soul 5
The Holy Bible 7
Everything Must Go 11
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 2
Know Your Enemy 1
Lifeblood 4
Send Away the Tigers 2
Journal for Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From a Young Man 3
Others 5

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 30)


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DavyFlats @DavyFlats
1. No Surface All Feeling
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Further Away
4. Motown Junk
5. Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning]
6. Roses in the Hospital
7. Stay Beautiful
8. Of Walking Abortion
9. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
10. Automatik Teknicolour
11. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
12. Solitude Sometimes Is
13. A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun
14. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever
15. Ready for Drowning
16. From Despair to Where
17. Faster
18. PCP
19. Let Robeson Sing
20. Marlon JD
21. Archives of Pain
22. Close My Eyes
23. Yes
24. I Live to Fall Asleep
25. Life Becoming a Landslide
26. Found that Soul
27. We Are All Bourgeois Now
28. My Little Empire
29. Enola/Alone
30. Glasnost
31. This Is Yesterday
32. Mausoleum
33. Sleepflower
34. Door to the River
35. Removables
36. Dead Martyrs
37. Intravenous Agnostic
38. William's Last Words
39. My Guernica
40. It's All Gone
41. Facing Page: Top Left
42. His Last Painting
43. Don't Be Evil
44. The Convalescent
45. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach
46. This is the Day
47. The Year of Purification
48. A Design For Life
49. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
50. Your Love Alone is Not Enough

By Era
Generation Terrorists 3
Gold Against the Soul 5
The Holy Bible 7
Everything Must Go 7
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3
Know Your Enemy 9
Lifeblood 3
Send Away the Tigers 1
Journal for Plague Lovers 4
Postcards From a Young Man 3
Others 5

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 24)


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Ricky Crean @RickyCrean
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. She is Suffering 
3. No Surface All Feeling
4. Kevin Carter
5. Enola/Alone
6. Nobody Loved You
7. From Despair to Where
8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
9. Glasnost
10. Your Love Alone is not Enough
11. A Design for Life
12. Yes 
13. Little Baby Nothing
14. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
15. Faster
16. We Are All Bourgeois Now
17. 1985
18. Door to the River
19. Close my Eyes
20. Let Robeson Sing
21. Everything Must Go
22. Born to End
23. Royal Correspondent
24. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
25. S.Y.M.M.
26. So Why So Sad
27. Rewind the Film
28. The Everlasting 
29. The Love of Richard Nixon
30. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
31. Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)
32. This Joke Sport Severed
33. Spectators of Suicide
34. Montana/Autumn/78
35. Yourself
36. Further Away
37. Motown Junk
38. I Live to Fall Asleep
39. Autumnsong
40. I'm Not Working
41. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love
42. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children
43. Dead Martyrs
44. You Love Us
45. Prologue to History
46. Life Becoming a Landslide
47. Send Away the Tigers
48. To Repel Ghosts
49. Slash N' Burn
50. Black Dog on my Shoulder

By Era
Generation Terrorists 7
Gold Against the Soul 4
The Holy Bible 3
Everything Must Go 8
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 8
Know Your Enemy 7
Lifeblood 5
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 1
Postcards From a Young Man 1
Others 3

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 25)


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