Manics Top 50s - 15th Sep 2021

To mark the opening of the third edition of the Manics Top 50s, it seemed fitting to give the first chart to a well-loved member of the Manics Family who is sadly no longer with us after passing away last year.

Many of you will have known Andy through Twitter, having conversations about Manics songs and collectables as well as music in general or his beloved Manchester City.  Many of you will also have met him at Manics gigs.

Through both previous editions of the Manics Top 50s and the Manics Fantasy Setlists, Andy was a regular contributor and so I have no doubt that he would have been springing into action like the rest of us to get his chart prepared and his choices included.  

So while he didn't get the opportunity to enjoy The Ultra Vivid Lament as we're all doing now, we can still include his voice here by taking his chart from 2015 and making sure he has as much a say in the outcome of this as we all do.

andy @citymanblue

1. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

2. Little Baby Nothing

3. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

4. Revol

5. 1985

6. Faster

7. Motorcycle Emptiness

8. A Design For Life

9. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

10. Stay Beautiful

11. Walk Me to the Bridge

12. Black Dog on my Shoulder

13. Enola/Alone

14. Europa Geht Durch Mich

15. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

16. The Masses Against the Classes

17. Sleepflower

18. From Despair to Where

19. Die in the Summertime

20. Roses in the Hospital

21. Yes

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

23. Prologue to History

24. Mausoleum

25. Show Me the Wonder

26. Motown Junk

27. 4 Ever Delayed

28. Empty Souls

29. You Love Us

30. Virginia State Epileptic Colony

31. Dead Trees and Traffic Islands

32. This Sullen Welsh Heart

33. To Repel Ghosts

34. Peeled Apples

35. Mr Carbohydrate

36. Emily

37. Futurology

38. Ready For Drowning

39. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

40. Baby Elian

41. Sepia

42. Removables

43. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)

44. Ocean Spray

45. Firefight

46. Further Away

47. Rewind the Film

48. Autumnsong

49. (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline

50. Found That Soul

By Era

Generation Terrorists 5

Gold Against the Soul 4

The Holy Bible 5

Everything Must Go 8

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 4

Lifeblood 4

Send Away the Tigers 2

Journal for Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From a Young Man 1

Rewind the Film 4

Futurology 3

Resistance Is Futile n/a

The Ultra Vivid Lament n/a

Others 3