Manics Fantasy Setlist - Final

The setlist below was compiled from 27 different setlists submitted by Manic Street Preachers fans during April and May 2014.  One point was awarded for each vote and the final tally for each song is shown after the name of each one.  Four songs tied on points for the last two places in the final setlist, so the position in the fans' top 50 was used as a tiebreaker.  So, apologies to 'Jackie Collins Existential Question Time' and '(It's Not War) Just the End of Love' which were unlucky to miss out!!  Thank you to all people who took part in, followed or promoted these setlists, it has been great fun!!!

Points to note as follows:

• Position was decided on average placing across the setlists, however 'This is Yesterday' had to be moved forward to fit in with the acoustic set.
• The three acoustic songs received more votes as acoustic songs compared to full band versions, hence their appearance here as acoustic.
• Kylie Minogue was the most popular choice of duet in 'Little Baby Nothing', therefore appears in the final set.
• There were more votes for 'This Sullen Welsh Heart' without a guest singer than with one, therefore it is here as Manics-only.
• More people omitted a 'Motown Junk' intro than included one, therefore it appears intro-less.

See the 'Fantasy Setlist' tab for the full voting list and sub-charts with all manner of Manics-related lists that came out of these selections!!

Final Fantasy Setlist

Found that Soul 11

Little Baby Nothing (with Kylie Minogue) 12

Faster 24

Peeled Apples 12

Motorcycle Emptiness 22

From Despair to Where 11

Sleepflower 19

La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) 14

Your Love Alone is not Enough 14

1985 10

The Masses Against the Classes 9

Stay Beautiful 17

Yes 17

You Stole the Sun from my Heart 11

PCP 8

This Sullen Welsh Heart (acoustic) 9

Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky (acoustic) 8

This is Yesterday (acoustic) 11

Revol 13

Show Me the Wonder 9

No Surface All Feeling 11

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 12

Motown Junk 16

You Love Us 17

A Design for Life 23

Fantasy Setlists - Late Addition

As everyone knows, voting for the fantasy setlists closed last Sunday but we had a late entry from a good friend of New Chart Riot this week.  So, while it won't count towards the voting, I've still put it on the blog to share with all you like-minded people!

Don't forget - final Manics Fantasy Setlist will be tweeted from 7pm Sunday 25th May, appearing here on the blog later on that evening, see you there!

AnnaA @annaalessandro

Found that Soul

Love's Sweet Exile

From Despair to Where 

Everything Must Go

The Girl Who Wanted to be God

No Surface All Feeling

Life Becoming a Landslide

Yes

This Joke Sport Severed 

Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky (acoustic)

This Sullen Welsh Heart ( acoustic)

Motorcycle Emptiness

Archives of Pain 

Revol

Dead Martyrs 

Marlon JD 

Kevin Carter

All is Vanity 

Judge Yr'self

Sepia

You Love Us 

Autumnsong

Faster

Motown Junk

A Design for Life 

"I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens" Spike Milligan

Fantasy Setlists 17th May - 18th May

Unless there's a late run of setlists this could well be the final batch of votes before the fans' setlist is compiled.  Some more interesting twists, with acoustic openings, a song that doesn't even include any of the Manics on it (!) and a rousing finale of '...Richard Nixon'.

The final fans' setlist will be compiled over the coming week and revealed on Twitter (and here afterwards) on the evening of Sunday 25th May.  Thanks again to everyone who voted!!!

clair horne @clairhorne

Little Baby Nothing (acoustic)

Black Dog on my Shoulder (acoustic)

4 Lonely Roads (acoustic with Cate Le Bon)

Break My Heart Slowly (acoustic)

The Endless Plain of Fortune (acoustic)

Born a Girl (acoustic)

It Will Take More Than a Grave to Bury You (acoustic)

A Design for Life (acoustic, Gruff Rhys only)

Found That Soul

A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun

Imperial Bodybags

Yes

Roses in the Hospital

Solitude Sometimes Is

This is Yesterday

Rewind the Film (with Richard Hawley)

Europa Geht Durch Mich

This Joke Sport Severed

Bag Lady

To Repel Ghosts

Underdogs

Suicide Alley

Stay Beautiful

Sleepflower

You Love Us

"You gave me nothing. And you can take it all away" - James Dean Bradfield

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Damon Corless @DamonCorless
Ostpolitik
Peeled Apples
Faster
Stay Beautiful
Revol
Yes
Everything Must Go
Underdogs
Judge Yr'self
Motorcycle Emptiness
From Despair to Where
Automatik Teknicolour
Little Baby Nothing (with Kylie Minogue)
This Sullen Welsh Heart (acoustic with Kylie Minogue)
This is Yesterday (acoustic)
This Joke Sport Severed
Enola/Alone
Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
4 Ever Delayed
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
No Surface All Feeling
Nobody Loved You
You Love Us
Motown Junk (She Sells Sanctuary intro)
A Design for Life

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Jennifer - Mother of @Pyfbrown
Motorcycle Emptiness
From Despair to Where
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
Faster
Enola/Alone
Little Baby Nothing 
You Stole the Sun from my Heart
Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
The Girl Who Wanted to be God
Your Love Alone is not Enough
A Design for Life
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
I Live to Fall Asleep
The Everlasting
Be Natural
Life Becoming a Landslide
Everything Must Go
Suicide is Painless (Theme from MASH)
Drug Drug Druggy
1985
Australia
Sepia
Kevin Carter
Further Away
The Love of Richard Nixon

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Phil John @PhilJohn4
1985
Slash and Burn
Motorcycle Emptiness
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
Found That Soul
PCP
Ready For Drowning
Dead Martyrs
Solitude Sometimes Is
Postcards From A Young Man
Pretension/Repulsion
Facing Page: Top Left (acoustic)
Sleepflower (acoustic)
No Surface All Feeling (acoustic)
(It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
Rewind The Film (with Richard Hawley).
Love Letter to The Future
Motown Junk
Virginia State Epileptic Colony
Nobody Loved You
The Masses Against The Classes
You Love Us
Peeled Apples
Faster
A Design For Life

Fantasy Setlists 15th May - 16th May

Another three setlists as we rush headlong to the deadline, one from friend of New Chart Riot Keith Cameron, who incidentally has already heard 'Futurology' and approves!  Given that I don't think we've had a quote repeated yet I think Keith's is a contender for the best so far!  Thanks to JamGaw for liaising with Keith.

Our other contributors have some very interesting guest appearances and song selections and even a closing acoustic set, which makes a change!!  Still plenty of new songs arriving and lots of fresh ideas, so keep your votes coming until the end of Sunday 18th!!!

Keith Cameron @KeithCameron2

INTRO: The Teachers Are Afraid Of The Pupils (Morrissey)

The Masses Against The Classes

Faster

La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

(It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love

Little Baby Nothing (with Kylie Minogue)

Yes

Send Away The Tigers

The Love Of Richard Nixon

Prologue To History

Marlon JD

Europa Geht Durch Mich (with Claudia Brucken)

This Sullen Welsh Heart (Acoustic)

Bright Eyes (Acoustic)

Motorcycle Emptiness

Mausoleum

1985

The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

Archives Of Pain

Some Kind Of Nothingness (with Ian McCulloch)

Revol

A Design For Life

Motown Junk

No Surface All Feeling

“I’ve met the man in the street. He’s a cunt.” - Sid Vicious

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Richard Mills @CymruBoyo

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Gem @pluralistbaby

Tsunami

Europa Geht Durch Mich

Anthem for a Lost Cause

Intravenous Agnostic

Kevin Carter

Yourself

Firefight

Door to the River

You Stole the Sun from my Heart

This is the Day

She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach

Faster

Sleepflower

Life Becoming a Landslide

Repeat

Condemned to Rock 'n' Roll

Motorcycle Emptiness

A Design for Life

Everything Must Go

Stay Beautiful

Motown Junk

William's Last Words

You Love Us

Baby Elian (acoustic)

This is Yesterday (acoustic)

"In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name"

Fantasy Setlists 8th May - 14th May

Another two setlists as tomorrow's deadline looms and one definite interesting choice of cover too!!!  I have another three just waiting to go on the blog too, so still more to come, including a special guest who also contributed to the top 50s.

We've had 23 contributors so far, less than half of our top 50 contributions, so what are you waiting for?!  You didn't have any plans for today or tomorrow did you?!

Tranmere Steve @Tranmeresteve

Walk Me to the Bridge

Stay Beautiful

Faster

Peeled Apples

Solitude Sometimes Is

Suicide is Painless (Theme From MASH)

The Masses Against the Classes

Imperial Bodybags

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

Some Kind of Nothingness

Archives of Pain

Die in the Summertime

This is Yesterday (acoustic)

Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head (acoustic)

Little Baby Nothing (acoustic with Traci Lords)

As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)

Sleepflower

Futurology

La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

1985

30 Year War

Motown Junk

A Design for Life

Your Love Alone is not Enough

Motorcycle Emptiness

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RMcNamara @RorsDM

Faster

Stay Beautiful

Revol

The Intense Humming of Evil

Indian Summer

Harvester of Sorrow

Yourself

PCP

Removables

All is Vanity

Bag Lady

Slash N' Burn

Everything Fades

A Design for Life

Motorcycle Emptiness

Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

Mr Carbohydrate

Love's Sweet Exile

Yes

La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

Found That Soul

Life Becoming a Landslide

Motown Junk

You Love Us

Sleepflower

Fantasy Setlists 3rd May - 7th May

So, only one solitary chart this time, but some excellent selections and even more songs getting their first vote!!  We're fast running out of time to get entries in, so if you're thinking about it remember to get them in by 18th May!

The blog will be going quiet for a week while I'm away, but keep them coming in as I'll still be watching and will catch up with the blog later.  Don't forget to let me know if you're announcing via Twitter so I can keep track of who has voted, alternatively ask me for my email and you can submit that way.

Lisa @Sparklyl

Motorcycle Emptiness

Motown Junk (Baby Love intro)

Born to End

Mausoleum

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

Anthem For a Lost Cause

Revol

Tsunami

Found that Soul

The Masses Against the Classes

Archives of Pain

Stay Beautiful

This is Yesterday (acoustic)

The Everlasting (acoustic)

Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky (acoustic)

This Sullen Welsh Heart (acoustic)

Faster

Peeled Apples

You Love Us

All is Vanity

All We Make is Entertainment

Judge Yr'self

La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

All Surface No Feeling

A Design for Life

Fantasy Setlists 26th April - 2nd May

Setlists number 16 and 17 here, and as usual some great selections in amongst them.  Just over two weeks now to submit your own selections, it doesn't look like we'll manage to hit the heights of the top 50s but you never know, so get recruiting!

The big reveal of the final fans' setlist will be the weekend following the deadline so make sure your calendar is free!

David Morton @Abertawe62

Send Away the Tigers

Sleepflower

1985

Peeled Apples

Yes

Underdogs

No Surface All Feeling

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

Your Love Alone is Not Enough

La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

Leviathan

Me and Stephen Hawking

You Stole the Sun From My Heart

Motorcycle Emptiness

Ready for Drowning

You Love Us

Faster

Revol

Tsunami

Love's Sweet Exile

To Repel Ghosts

Little Baby Nothing

A Design For Life

"At every moment one must confront what one is saying and doing with what one is thinking, with what one is." Michel Foucault

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andy @citymanblue

Found that Soul

You Love Us

The Masses Against the Classes

Motorcycle Emptiness

Little Baby Nothing 

Sleepflower

La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

Roses in the Hospital

Faster

1985

Virginia State Epileptic Colony

Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

Black Dog on my Shoulder

Baby Elian (acoustic)

This Sullen Welsh Heart (acoustic)

You Stole the Sun from my Heart

Revol

Prologue to History

4 Ever Delayed

Your Love Alone is not Enough

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

Empty Souls 

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

Motown Junk

A Design for Life