Thursday 30 September 2021

Manics Top 50s - 29th Sep 2021

Three more charts arrived yesterday with some strong number 1 choices that you'd probably expect to make the final 50, but maybe sit outside the upper echelons.

First up is Adam, who many of you will know from his position as host of the excellent What Is Music? podcast.  And if you don't, it started life as a podcast doing a deep dive into the Manics back catalogue, album by album, track by track....oh he knows the lines better than I do, but give it a listen if you haven't already.  There are some cracking interviews too!  With his musician hat on he's also recently covered Know Your Enemy in its entirety, so seek that out if that's an album that makes an appearance in your own chart.

Adam is the first person to include a song from the new album in the top 10, earning Diapause a whopping 42 points in the process.  The Holy Bible, Know Your Enemy, Lifeblood and Futurology are the eras that appear most, which probably comes as no surprise to anyone that listened to the Manics season of the podcast.

Next up we have Marc, who has a huge selection from the GT era and before (In the By Era charts, like it or not I count the pre-GT songs in with GT and its B-sides).  There's then a good spread across the other albums as far as Journal For Plague Lovers, with only a couple of songs after that featuring.  However, one of those was number 11, so plenty of points on the board for International Blue.

The third chart today comes from Emily, another Manics fan many of you will know through Manics queues, fanzines, the Secret 7"s and many more (that's my blog cop-out for lack of research).  There are songs from almost every era here (Lifeblood, take a bow) and lots of diversions into the less wandered paths of the Manics back catalogue.  Emily also manages to get points on the board for two songs that received no votes last time out - Black Garden and Wake Up Alone.  We don't like songs feeling lonely, so let's see if we can end up with fewer songs left pointless at the end of this run.

There's already a queue of other charts waiting to get on tomorrow's blog, so keep the conveyor belt rolling!

Adam Scott Glasspool @adamglasspool
1. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
2. Faster
3. Motorcycle Emptiness
4. Hold Me Like A Heaven
5. No Surface All Feeling
6. I Live To Fall Asleep
7. Epicentre
8. Yes
9. Diapause
10. Little Baby Nothing
11. Europa Geht Durch Mich
12. Archives Of Pain
13. A Design For Life
14. My Guernica
15. This Joke Sport Severed
16. So Why So Sad
17. Ready For Drowning
18. International Blue
19. Black Square
20. Peeled Apples
21. A Song For Departure
22. This Sullen Welsh Heart
23. Door To The River
24. 4st 7lb
25. Sleepflower
26. Golden Platitudes
27. The Everlasting
28. 1985
29. Be Natural
30. Ocean Spray
31. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow
32. The Masses Against The Classes
33. To Repel Ghosts
34. Born A Girl
35. Of Walking Abortion
36. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)
37. Still Snowing In Sapporo
38. William's Last Words
39. Sepia
40. Empty Souls
41. The View From Stow Hill
42. Cardiff Afterlife
43. The Convalescent
44. Everything Must Go
45. This Is Yesterday
46. Slash N' Burn
47. 30-Year War
48. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children
49. The Intense Humming Of Evil
50. Enola/Alone

By Era
Generation Terrorists 3
Gold Against The Soul 1
The Holy Bible 7
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5
Know Your Enemy 6
Lifeblood 6
Send Away The Tigers 0
Journal For Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From A Young Man 1
Rewind The Film 2
Futurology 5
Resistance Is Futile 2
The Ultra Vivid Lament 2
Others 2

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Marc Edison @marcsedison
1. This Is Yesterday
2. Slash N' Burn
3. Life Becoming A Landslide
4. Donkeys
5. Sleepflower
6. Born To End
7. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
8. Democracy Coma
9. Tennessee
10. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds
11. International Blue
12. All Is Vanity
13. From Despair To Where
14. Faster
15. Little Baby Nothing
16. Love's Sweet Exile
17. Motown Junk
18. Autumnsong
19. Motorcycle Emptiness
20. You Love Us
21. A Design For Life
22. Kevin Carter
23. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
24. 1985
25. 4st 7lb
26. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God
27. Strip It Down
28. Mausoleum
29. Peeled Apples
30. Underdogs
31. Baby Elian
32. Walk Me To The Bridge
33. Removables
34. Another Invented Disease
35. Archives Of Pain
36. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
37. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
38. Epicentre
39. We Her Majesty's Prisoners
40. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
41. Glasnost
42. Of Walking Abortion
43. Roses In The Hospital
44. Dead Martyrs
45. Bored Out Of My Mind
46. The Second Great Depression
47. New Art Riot
48. Teenage 20/20
49. To Repel Ghosts
50. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

By Era
Generation Terrorists 17
Gold Against The Soul 6
The Holy Bible 6
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 1
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 3
Send Away The Tigers 4
Journal For Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From A Young Man 0
Rewind The Film 0
Futurology 1
Resistance Is Futile 1
The Ultra Vivid Lament 0
Others 0

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Emily @emilymjhyatt
1. No Surface All Feeling
2. Faster
3. Show Me The Wonder
4. Hold Me Like A Heaven
5. Tsunami
6. Patrick Bateman
7. Nobody Loved You
8. Wake Up Alone
9. Sleepflower
10. Removables
11. Be Natural
12. Umbrella
13. She Is Suffering
14. A Design For Life
15. Donkeys
16. Prologue To History
17. Born A Girl
18. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
19. Red Rubber
20. Sex, Power, Love & Money
21. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
22. Winterlovers
23. Gold Against The Soul
24. Let's Go To War
25. People Give In
26. Die In The Summertime
27. Rewind The Film
28. Autumnsong
29. Complicated Illusions
30. Life Becoming A Landslide
31. Of Walking Abortion
32. Black Square
33. Divine Youth
34. Postcards From A Young Man
35. Working Class Hero
36. William's Last Words
37. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children
38. Misguided Missile
39. Firefight
40. PCP
41. Distant Colours
42. Bag Lady
43. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
44. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
45. Hibernation
46. Virginia State Epileptic Colony
47. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow
48. The Masses Against The Classes
49. Black Garden
50. Judge Yr'self

By Era
Generation Terrorists 1
Gold Against The Soul 6
The Holy Bible 7
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5
Know Your Enemy 2
Lifeblood 0
Send Away The Tigers 3
Journal For Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From A Young Man 2
Rewind The Film 2
Futurology 6
Resistance Is Futile 3
The Ultra Vivid Lament 1
Others 4

No comments:

Post a Comment