Manics Top 50s - 28th February 2015

It's great to see that, apart from the last chart, all of the contributors so far (including a couple not yet blogged) are new participants, it bodes well for increasing our overall total!

Today's chart sees a number one that hasn't yet had that particular accolade as yet and as mentioned in the first 'additional comments by the author' section below it's quite evenly spread across the albums.

Today's blog feels like an opportune moment to mention my own chart endeavours.  I will of course be submitting my own top 50 in due course, but I'm not stopping there.  I'm extending my chart to include ALL of the eligible songs, yes, all 307 of them.  Only the top 50 will get a score for the overall chart of course, but it will definitely be interesting attempting to rank all of the songs!!  I can't say yet when my chart will be complete but rest assured there will be a full Twitter countdown in chunks of 25!  If any of you stay awake that long, that is.......

Stunned Fox (via email)

"This has ended up rather more evenly spread between eras than I anticipated... I first came across "New Chart Riot" about a week after the first chart was compiled, so I'm glad to have the opportunity to contribute this time around. Hopefully "Epicentre" can, if nothing else, crack the top 100 - criminally underrated track and definitely my favourite Manics tune."

Stunned Fox Top 50

1. Epicentre

2. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

3. Motown Junk

4. Faster

5. Some Kind of Nothingness

6. I Live To Fall Asleep

7. Ready For Drowning

8. Mausoleum

9. Little Baby Nothing

10. You're Tender and You're Tired 

11. Solitude Sometimes Is

12. This is Yesterday

13. Door to the River

14. PCP

15. Doors Closing Slowly

16. Golden Platitudes

17. Roses in the Hospital

18. Black Dog on my Shoulder

19. Archives of Pain

20. Sepia

21. This Sullen Welsh Heart

22. All is Vanity

23. Broken Up Again

24. Let Robeson Sing

25. Dreaming a City (Hughesovka)

26. Kevin Carter

27. Walk Me to the Bridge

28. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

29. Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)

30. The Year of Purification

31. A Design for Life

32. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

33. Rewind the Film

34. 1985

35. Australia

36. Of Walking Abortion

37. Running Out of Fantasy

38. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

39. Imperial Bodybags

40. Empty Motorcade

41. A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun

42. A Song For Departure

43. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children

44. Nobody Loved You

45. Misguided Missile

46. Life Becoming a Landslide

47. The Everlasting

48. Let's Go To War

49. Motorcycle Emptiness

50. To Repel Ghosts

By Era

Generation Terrorists 3

Gold Against the Soul 3

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 5

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 6

Know Your Enemy 4

Lifeblood 5

Send Away the Tigers 1

Journal for Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From a Young Man 4

Rewind the Film 3

Futurology 5

Others 1