Fantasy Setlists 23rd - 25th April

Two more setlists as they start to become a little more frequent now, one from our very own mastermind behind the video top 10, Mild Manics.  Maybe we're at that stage where people have thought about it a bit more and are ready to commit.  When I set out the rules, James and Nicky solo songs were permitted and it seems one in particular is proving quite popular!

A few more songs are starting to show themselves as potential contenders for the final set now that we're getting more contributions.  The acoustic sections in particular are throwing up quite a few repeats (pun intended).  Just over 3 weeks to get your own setlist in, so plenty of time to hone it to perfection.

Mild Manics @MildManics

Sleepflower

Stay Beautiful

Suicide is Painless (Theme from MASH)

Roses in the Hospital

La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

From Despair to Where

Drug Drug Druggy

Judge Yr'self

Faster

Yes

This Joke Sport Severed (acoustic)

Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky (acoustic)

Still a Long Way to Go (acoustic)

Found that Soul

You Stole the Sun From my Heart

Autumnsong

Me and Stephen Hawking

Empty Souls

Show Me the Wonder

PCP

Sculpture of Man

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

Tsunami

Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

A Design for Life

"A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: she changes it more often" Oliver Herford

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Jan R. @SirManic

Motorcycle Emptiness

Peeled Apples

4st 7lb

You Stole the Sun From my Heart

Some Kind of Nothingness

Anthem for a Lost Cause

Your Love Alone is not Enough

Stay Beautiful

Virginia State Epileptic Colony

Nostalgic Pushead

Ocean Spray

From Despair to Where

Die in the Summertime

Can't Take My Eyes Off You (acoustic)

Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky (acoustic)

This Joke Sport Severed (acoustic with string quartet)

Faster

Sleepflower

Prologue to History 

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

Autumnsong

Show Me the Wonder

Yes

William's Last Words (vocals by Nicky Wire)

A Design for Life

"The simplest answer to who or what I am is to point to my body, using my finger.  But clearly I cannot identify my self or my own ego with my body." - Arne Naess

Fantasy Setlists 17th - 22nd April

Four more setlists from the last few days including my own up first, as well as our very own author of the producer's chart from the top 50, JamGaw, and his wife Sarah.  Not forgetting our 'Nostalgic Pushead'-loving friend too, of course.

I said previously that I didn't think we'd get the same depth of selection with the live tracks as we did with the top 50s, but looks like I'm going to be proved wrong!!!  Loads of variation so far and still hopefully a lot more to come!  Everyone is welcome, so feel free to get recruiting, let's see if we can beat the number of top 50s!

Ian Lipthorpe @Pyfbrown

Motorcycle Emptiness Stealth Sonic Orchestra Soundtrack (intro)

Motown Junk

You Love Us

Sleepflower

Show Me the Wonder

Postcards From a Young Man

Tsunami

The Masses Against the Classes

Imperial Bodybags

The Everlasting

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

From Despair to Where

No Surface All Feeling

Condemned to Rock N Roll

RP McMurphy (acoustic)

Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky (acoustic)

The Girl Who Wanted to be God

Baby Elian

Yes

Underdogs

Found that Soul

Motorcycle Emptiness

Stay Beautiful

Faster

This is Yesterday

A Design for Life

(Askew Road PA outro)

"There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves" Kierkegaard

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JamGaw @starsfrighten

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Monkey Marl @MonkeyMarl

Sleepflower

Virginia State Epileptic Colony

Slash N' Burn

Postcards From a Young Man

Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)

Yes

She is Suffering

PCP

Intravenous Agnostic

Ready for Drowning

From Despair to Where

Tennessee

Donkeys (acoustic)

Too Cold Here (acoustic)

Dead Trees and Traffic Islands (acoustic)

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

Autumnsong

Rewind the Film (with Richard Hawley)

1985

Motorcycle Emptiness

The Masses Against the Classes

No Surface All Feeling

Nostalgic Pushead

A Design for Life

You Love Us

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Sarah E @starkitten8

Fantasy Setlists 12th - 16th April

Three more setlists for your viewing pleasure, this time with one presented so well I just had to include it in its original form!!!  Still loads more songs coming out of the woodwork that haven't been selected yet and I certainly haven't picked out many clear contenders for the final setlist yet.  After all the talk of openers and closers on the recent gigs, I'm finding it really interesting to keep an eye on these too!

I think as blogger-in-chief I reserve the right to say mine will be coming on Saturday and having had a listen through already it's the best gig ever!  Manics are you reading?

Claire @clarahopscotch

Faster

Prologue to History

This Joke Sport Severed

Dead Martyrs

Solitude Sometimes Is

Your Love Alone is not Enough

Motorcycle Emptiness

Anthem for a Lost Cause

Freedom of Speech Won't Feed my Children

Yes

30 Year War

This Sullen Welsh Heart (acoustic)

4 Ever Delayed (acoustic)

Me and Stephen Hawking

Kevin Carter

My Little Empire

PCP

Peeled Apples

Still a Long Way to Go

From Despair to Where

Everything Must Go

Golden Platitudes

A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun (with Duff McKagan)

Suicide Alley

Revol

"Rise up with me against the organisation of misery" - Pablo Neruda

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Paul Fiander-Turner @havinaradox

Stay Beautiful

Sleepflower

Motorcycle Emptiness

Imperial Bodybags

Everything Must Go

Found that Soul

No Surface All Feeling

Glasnost

Enola/Alone

Marlon JD

La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

Ready for Drowning

Yes

Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky (acoustic)

This is Yesterday (acoustic)

As Holy as the Soil (That Buries Your Skin)

Dead Martyrs

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

Revol

Nobody Loved You

Bag Lady

Faster

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

You Love Us

A Design for Life

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Old Noshie @oldnoshie

Fantasy Setlists 6th - 11th April

Two more excellent setlists to add to the ones we've had so far, I'm currently taking a short break from shortlisting mine to type this and I can tell you it's not easy!!  But obviously worth it in the end.....

I make it 81 songs selected in only 6 lists so far, so we're already getting a wide selection of songs!!!  And, unlike the top 50s, early on we have no song which has been selected in every set.  Which proves that some people might occasionally want a break from the big guns, even though we know that is extremely unlikely to happen in real life.  Keep them coming!!

Nostalgic Pushead @NostalgicPus

Yes

You Stole the Sun from my Heart

Motorcycle Emptiness

Roses in the Hospital 

Patrick Bateman

Little Baby Nothing (with Molly Yarde)

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

From Despair to Where

Everything Must Go

La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

Suicide is Painless (Theme From MASH)

This Sullen Welsh Heart (acoustic)

Rewind the Film (with Richard Hawley acoustic)

This Joke Sport Severed (acoustic)

Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (with NP herself!)

Sleepflower

Methadone Pretty

Tsunami

Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

Postcards From a Young Man

You Love Us

Motown Junk (Sloop John B intro)

Some Kind of Nothingness

Show Me the Wonder

Nostalgic Pushead

"I am woman. I am strong" - Miss Piggy

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Nick Tait @ApolloScream

Motorcycle Emptiness

Your Love Alone is Not Enough

All We Make is Entertainment

Show Me the Wonder

30 Year War

Die in the Summertime

Faster

The Masses Against the Classes

First Republic

Imperial Bodybags

Postcards From a Young Man

So Dead

Revol

Yes

You're Tender and You're Tired (acoustic)

I Think I Found It (acoustic)

Autumnsong

Suicide Alley

Nobody Loved You

As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)

Underdogs

Stay Beautiful

Motown Junk

You Love Us

A Design for Life

"Be pure, be vigilant, behave"

Fantasy Setlists - 1st - 5th April

So, New Chart Riot is back with the first batch of fantasy setlists and so far we've had a mixture.  Generally speaking, however, the first few have gone how I expected - a combination of the tried and tested live staples mixed in with those that have either long since retired from the live arena or barely made their mark, if at all.  It's going to be interesting to see if that's how it remains given the more relaxed rules this time around!!  Loads of time to get your own entry in so get your thinking caps on!!

Pearls of Wisdom @Ddraig76

Judge Yr'self

Imperial Bodybags

Peeled Apples

From Despair to Where

Crucifix Kiss

Stay Beautiful

Faster

Revol

Be Natural

Roses in the Hospital

She is Suffering

Sleepflower

4 Ever Delayed

You Love Us

Australia

Tsunami

A Design for Life

The Masses Against the Classes

You Stole the Sun from my Heart

Slash N' Burn

There by the Grace of God

Indian Summer

Postcards From a Young Man

Love's Sweet Exile

This is Yesterday

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Adam Marshall @MarshFactor

Welcome To The Jungle > Motown Junk

Sleepflower

Yes

Send Away The Tigers

La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

1985

Little Baby Nothing (with Kylie Minogue)

Archives Of Pain

Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

4st 7lb

Marlon JD

Faster

Roses In The Hospital

This Sullen Welsh Heart (with Lucy Rose, acoustic) 

Still A Long Way To Go (acoustic)

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

Die In The Summertime

Rewind The Film (with Richard Hawley)

All Is Vanity

Motorcycle Emptiness

Solitude Sometimes Is

This Is Yesterday

No Surface All Feeling

Condemned To Rock 'N Roll

A Design For Life

"Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life" — Guy Debord

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KB2X @KB2X

Peeled Apples

Found That Soul

1985

Drug Drug Druggy

Golden Platitudes

Emigre

3 Ways to See Despair

Faster

Show Me the Wonder

Can't Take My Eyes Off You

4st 7lbs

Everything Must Go

Slash N' Burn

Stay Beautiful

Revol

Journal for Plague Lovers

Yes

Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky

Sleepflower

Firefight

There by the Grace of God

Anorexic Rodin

Motown Junk

Miss Europa Disco Dancer

Suicide Alley

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Molly Yarde @4ever_delayed
The Masses Against the Classes
Faster
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
Stay Beautiful
Europa Geht Durch Mich
All is Vanity
Sleepflower
Some Kind of Nothingness (with Ian McCulloch)
Anthem for a Lost Cause
Motorcycle Emptiness
Prologue to History
Still a Long Way to Go
Marlon JD
Little Baby Nothing (with Molly!)
The Everlasting (acoustic)
Can't Take My Eyes Off You (acoustic)
Send Away the Tigers
You Stole the Sun from my Heart
Solitude Sometimes Is
Revol
Yes
30 Year War
You Love Us
PCP
A Design for Life

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way" - Juan Ramón Jiménez

Fantasy Setlist - The Rules!!!

After last year's chart action, New Chart Riot is back with a vengeance......with a new twist!!

So, what if you were in charge of the setlist for a Manic Street Preachers gig?  Which songs would you pick?  A greatest hits set maybe, a whole set of songs they never play live, covers, B-sides, all of the above?  For this "chart" of sorts YOU are in charge!!

The Rules!

• Select 25 different songs of your choice. This may contain ANY song the Manics have ever recorded or played live.
• If you wish to select a fantasy cover that they have never ever played in any form but you would like them to, you may (however bear in mind this is highly unlikely to be selected by anyone else!).
• With the above in mind, James or Nicky solo songs are valid entries if you would like to see the full band play them.
• It doesn't HAVE to be your favourite 25 songs.  Some may not work as well live or you may just want to see certain songs played more than others, the choice is yours.
• The order of the songs ideally will be how you want your gig to flow, however the order may not be important to you (see scoring for the effect of ordering).
• You may specify that a song is included in a solo/acoustic section if you wish (see scoring for the effects of this).
• As an additional option, in true Manics style, you may add your own setlist quote (thanks JamGaw for this suggestion!).

Scoring

• No weighting will be applied to songs, each selection will count as 1 vote.
• If you specified a song as solo/acoustic this counts against all votes for that song (i.e. there aren't separate entries for full band/solo songs).
• For the 25 songs with the most votes, an average placing in the set will be calculated based on the order of your selections so that the final 25 is in the optimal order as decided by you.
• If any of the top 25 entries has more votes as a solo/acoustic song than with the full band it will appear in the final set as solo/acoustic.

Submitting your Entry

Once you have your 25 selections, participants are encouraged to share their setlist (like with the top 50s) on Twitter for a lively debate with your followers!!  If you do this, put your own personal hashtag against each entry (e.g. #ManicsSetlistIanL) and let me know @Pyfbrown so that I can register your votes.  Each entry will go up on this blog with your Twitter name for anyone that may miss it to study and critique!!  Note: if you came across this blog through a site other than Twitter I will include another name as appropriate.

However, if you would rather blog your own setlist or just send it by email without counting down on Twitter in this way that's fine too, contact me to arrange this at the time.

The deadline for entries to be considered for the overall fans' setlist is Sunday May 18th 2014. Happy setlisting!!