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

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!!