Manics Top 50s 25th Oct 2021

Two charts today and first up a number 1 that takes 50 points despite only having had three previous picks so far, Tennessee.  RP McMurphy also achieves its highest placing to date at number 5 and So Dead continues its recent run of success since having no votes, being in 5 of the last 9 charts!

Unsurprisingly given the songs I've mentioned so far, Generation Terrorists (and the songs that came before) feature prominently with 15 places.  We also have another of our no-vote album tracks selected in the shape of The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever, bringing the total down to three!  And I've already been told by someone that one of the remaining three will be in their upcoming chart, so potentially only two up for grabs!

estee @pineyewoman666

1. Tennessee

2. Little Baby Nothing

3. This Is Yesterday

4. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

5. RP McMurphy

6. No Surface All Feeling

7. A Design For Life

8. From Despair To Where

9. Motown Junk

10. Nobody Loved You

11. Be Natural

12. Yes

13. Mausoleum

14. So Dead

15. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

16. Of Walking Abortion

17. Archives Of Pain

18. Motorcycle Emptiness

19. Hibernation

20. Further Away

21. Born A Girl

22. Bag Lady

23. Crucifix Kiss

24. Stay Beautiful

25. William's Last Words

26. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

27. Faster

28. You Love Us

29. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)

30. Rendition

31. Sleepflower

32. Bored Out Of My Mind

33. Just A Kid

34. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

35. Suicide Alley

36. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

37. New Art Riot

38. Tsunami

39. Peeled Apples

40. Love's Sweet Exile

41. Sorrow 16

42. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever

43. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

44. Me And Stephen Hawking

45. Imperial Bodybags

46. Distant Colours

47. Empty Souls

48. The Love Of Richard Nixon

49. PCP

50. Everything Must Go

By Era

Generation Terrorists 15

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 8

Everything Must Go 5

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 2

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From A Young Man 1

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 1

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 0

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The second chart has Tolerate in top spot, closely followed by fellow big guns A Design For Life, Motorcycle Emptiness and Faster.  The Holy Bible and This Is My Truth edge ahead in terms of the number of overall picks, David explains his truth below:

This was really hard to cut down, and just reminds me why the Manics remain my favourite band. It’s perhaps a cliche in terms of the top 2-3, but Design for Life introduced me to the band at 12 and became my gateway to intelligent, anthemic rock music. ‘Tolerate’ has just continued to resonate more over the past two decades; I cannot fathom how this was nearly relegated to a B-side (the horror…). It’s been refreshing to hear TUVL and have songs that my boys really enjoy like Orwellian which I’ll now treasure (proud parent moment when my youngest started singing along) but also to have a song like Diapause which makes my Top 10 at present and I’m willing to bet will still be riding high in 10 years’ time. To paraphrase the band themselves, God Bless the Manics.

David Gray @gunnerdave83

1. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

2. A Design For Life

3. Motorcycle Emptiness

4. Faster

5. From Despair To Where

6. Europa Geht Durch Mich

7. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

8. 30-Year War

9. No Surface All Feeling

10. Diapause

11. Peeled Apples

12. Ocean Spray

13. Let Robeson Sing

14. Door To The River

15. Yes

16. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

17. The Love Of Richard Nixon

18. Empty Souls

19. Motown Junk

20. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

21. Ready For Drowning

22. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

23. 1985

24. Walk Me To The Bridge

25. Slash N' Burn

26. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)

27. 4st 7lb

28. Orwellian

29. Still Snowing In Sapporo

30. This Joke Sport Severed

31. Cardiff Afterlife

32. Little Baby Nothing

33. Sepia

34. This Is Yesterday

35. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

36. Black Holes For The Young

37. 4 Ever Delayed

38. I Live To Fall Asleep

39. Enola/Alone

40. Prologue To History

41. Hold Me Like A Heaven

42. The Secret He Had Missed

43. Of Walking Abortion

44. Tsunami

45. You Love Us

46. Too Cold Here

47. The Masses Against The Classes

48. Black Dog On My Shoulder

49. Rewind The Film

50. Love Torn Us Under

By Era

Generation Terrorists 5

Gold Against The Soul 2

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 5

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6

Know Your Enemy 3

Lifeblood 5

Send Away The Tigers 1

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 0

Rewind The Film 2

Futurology 3

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 4

Others 3

Manics Top 50s 24th Oct 2021 part 2

Two charts today starting with another number 1 slot for Tolerate in a relatively even chart where no album era has more than six selections.  

Sepia has its highest finish so far in third and the Futurology pair of Between The Clock And The Bed and Black Square also take their highest placings to date.

Amina @10000_manics

1. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

2. A Design For Life

3. Sepia

4. No Surface All Feeling

5. Between The Clock And The Bed

6. Black Square

7. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

8. Prologue To History

9. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children

10. 30-Year War

11. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

12. International Blue

13. This Is Yesterday

14. Running Out Of Fantasy

15. Little Baby Nothing

16. Epicentre

17. Misguided Missile

18. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)

19. The Secret He Had Missed

20. Europa Geht Durch Mich

21. Still Snowing In Sapporo

22. Rewind The Film

23. Diapause

24. 1985

25. This Sullen Welsh Heart

26. Faster

27. 4st 7lb

28. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

29. Motorcycle Emptiness

30. Facing Page: Top Left

31. Ready For Drowning

32. Dylan & Caitlin

33. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

34. Ocean Spray

35. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

36. The Year Of Purification

37. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

38. Empty Motorcade

39. The Masses Against The Classes

40. The Descent (Pages 1 & 2)

41. Peeled Apples

42. I Know The Numbers

43. Some Kind Of Nothingness

44. Motown Junk

45. Intravenous Agnostic

46. This Joke Sport Severed

47. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

48. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

49. New Art Riot

50. Distant Colours

By Era

Generation Terrorists 5

Gold Against The Soul 1

The Holy Bible 4

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 6

Lifeblood 1

Send Away The Tigers 1

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 3

Rewind The Film 4

Futurology 6

Resistance Is Futile 3

The Ultra Vivid Lament 3

Others 1

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The second chart has Motorcycle Emptiness in top spot, with 11 picks for the Generation Terrorists era and before.  There are also five picks from The Ultra Vivid Lament, all in the top half and two in the top 10.

Perhaps surprisingly, Suicide Alley grabs its first points so far, it seems to have taken quite a while for the single that started it all to have got on the scoreboard!

molly @w_onderwalls

1. Motorcycle Emptiness

2. Roses In The Hospital

3. 4st 7lb

4. She Is Suffering

5. No Surface All Feeling

6. 4 Ever Delayed

7. A Design For Life

8. Still Snowing In Sapporo

9. Complicated Illusions

10. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

11. Faster

12. Motown Junk

13. Of Walking Abortion

14. The Second Great Depression

15. Love's Sweet Exile

16. The Secret He Had Missed

17. Don't Let The Night Divide Us

18. From Despair To Where

19. Further Away

20. You Stole The Sun From My Heart

21. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

22. Postcards From A Young Man

23. There By The Grace Of God

24. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love

25. Orwellian

26. Judge Yr'self

27. Little Baby Nothing

28. Spectators Of Suicide

29. Crucifix Kiss

30. Tsunami

31. Indian Summer

32. Found That Soul

33. Methadone Pretty

34. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

35. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

36. International Blue

37. Marlon JD

38. This Is The Day

39. Removables

40. This Joke Sport Severed

41. Hold Me Like A Heaven

42. Donkeys

43. Together Stronger (C'mon Wales)

44. Empty Souls

45. Strip It Down

46. Suicide Alley

47. Are Mothers Saints

48. (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline

49. New Art Riot

50. Democracy Coma

By Era

Generation Terrorists 11

Gold Against The Soul 5

The Holy Bible 5

Everything Must Go 4

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 1

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 2

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 0

Resistance Is Futile 2

The Ultra Vivid Lament 5

Others 4

Manics Top 50s - 24th Oct 2021

It's a trio of top 50s today, with a number one each for the hot favourites for the overall top spot.  First up we have a pretty unique chart with an entire Generation Terrorists top 10 and an overall 20 songs from the GT era and before.  Last Christmas also takes its first points so far.  In Mark's own words:

Like many, I came across the Manics during the height of Britpop and ended the 90s at the Millennium Stadium singing along to the songs from those first 5 albums; what had by then become the soundtrack to my teenage years.

Generation Terrorists is the album I've always loved the most; the timeless politics, the glamour, the cheesy bits, the piano, the synthetic drums. JDB's vocals sound just old enough to be wise but just young enough to be foolish. GT-era Manics understood the iconography of music more than any other British band.

MARK YEAH? @mark_ness

1. Motorcycle Emptiness

2. Little Baby Nothing

3. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

4. Stay Beautiful

5. Love's Sweet Exile

6. Slash N' Burn

7. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds

8. Born To End

9. Methadone Pretty

10. Crucifix Kiss

11. Nostalgic Pushead

12. Gold Against The Soul

13. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

14. Sleepflower

15. Archives Of Pain

16. Dead Yankee Drawl

17. Tennessee

18. So Dead

19. Another Invented Disease

20. You Love Us

21. Roses In The Hospital

22. Patrick Bateman

23. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

24. A Design For Life

25. RP McMurphy

26. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

27. PCP

28. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

29. Send Away The Tigers

30. Autumnsong

31. No Surface All Feeling

32. Tsunami

33. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

34. The Masses Against The Classes

35. 1985

36. I Live To Fall Asleep

37. Divine Youth

38. Out Of Time

39. We Her Majesty's Prisoners

40. Mausoleum

41. Faster

42. Motown Junk

43. Take The Skinheads Bowling

44. William's Last Words

45. Me And Stephen Hawking

46. Democracy Coma

47. Last Christmas

48. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children

49. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

50. I Think I Found It

By Era

Generation Terrorists 20

Gold Against The Soul 6

The Holy Bible 5

Everything Must Go 5

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 1

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 2

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From A Young Man 1

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 1

Resistance Is Futile 0

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 3

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The second chart today has Design For Life in top spot and another where TUVL has had a big initial impact with Still Snowing In Sapporo crashing in at number 6.

The Holy Bible and This Is My Truth eras feature the most with 9 and 7 respectively, while I'm Not Working and The Left Behind as two of the less-picked album tracks manage to get their fourth and third selections respectively.

Cameron Sinclair Harris @cam_sh

1. A Design For Life

2. Motorcycle Emptiness

3. Archives Of Pain

4. Faster

5. The Everlasting

6. Still Snowing In Sapporo

7. Everything Must Go

8. People Give In

9. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

10. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

11. Little Baby Nothing

12. You Love Us

13. Europa Geht Durch Mich

14. 1985

15. 4st 7lb

16. Life Becoming A Landslide

17. Revol

18. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

19. Ready For Drowning

20. No Surface All Feeling

21. Autumnsong

22. Born A Girl

23. Hold Me Like A Heaven

24. Motown Junk

25. PCP

26. Sleepflower

27. Love's Sweet Exile

28. 30-Year War

29. Prologue To History

30. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

31. Tsunami

32. Afterending

33. I'm Not Working

34. The Left Behind

35. Yes

36. Walk Me To The Bridge

37. Enola/Alone

38. Judge Yr'self

39. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

40. (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline

41. The Second Great Depression

42. This Is Yesterday

43. This Joke Sport Severed

44. I Live To Fall Asleep

45. There By The Grace Of God

46. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

47. The Secret He Had Missed

48. International Blue

49. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

50. Empty Souls

By Era

Generation Terrorists 5

Gold Against The Soul 3

The Holy Bible 9

Everything Must Go 5

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7

Know Your Enemy 1

Lifeblood 3

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From A Young Man 0

Rewind The Film 2

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 4

The Ultra Vivid Lament 3

Others 1

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The third chart of this batch sees Faster grab another number 1 and a high finish for Symphony Of Tourette at number 9 in what is only its third pick. Generation Terrorists, The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go are the eras that feature most, although three of Gold Against The Soul's five tracks make the top 10.

Also, after being picked for the first time only the other day, So Dead has now been selected four times, twice today!

h @newartriot

1. Faster

2. 4st 7lb

3. From Despair To Where

4. You Love Us

5. Nobody Loved You

6. Tsunami

7. Stay Beautiful

8. Sleepflower

9. Symphony Of Tourette

10. A Design For Life

11. Archives Of Pain

12. No Surface All Feeling

13. Last Exit On Yesterday

14. Hanging On

15. Can't Take My Eyes Off You

16. Motorcycle Emptiness

17. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

18. Sex, Power, Love & Money

19. Journal For Plague Lovers

20. The Love Of Richard Nixon

21. Socialist Serenade

22. Door To The River

23. Too Cold Here

24. There By The Grace Of God

25. Bored Out Of My Mind

26. Still Snowing In Sapporo

27. Ocean Spray

28. Quest For Ancient Colour

29. 4 Ever Delayed

30. This Is Yesterday

31. So Dead

32. Roses In The Hospital

33. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

34. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

35. Little Baby Nothing

36. Kevin Carter

37. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

38. Revol

39. The Convalescent

40. Postcards From A Young Man

41. Love's Sweet Exile

42. Enola/Alone

43. Mr Carbohydrate

44. Underdogs

45. International Blue

46. Imperial Bodybags

47. Indian Summer

48. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love

49. Walk Me To The Bridge

50. Nostalgic Pushead

By Era

Generation Terrorists 8

Gold Against The Soul 5

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 7

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 1

Send Away The Tigers 4

Journal For Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From A Young Man 2

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 2

Others 3

Manics Top 50s - 21st - 22nd Oct 2021

It's suddenly a bumper crop of charts today, starting with a top 50 ever-present, Heather subtitles her chart as "maybe leaving punky me behind a bit and embracing the soaring anthem and the lyrical reflective heartbreaker".  Design For Life takes the honours, snatching the top spot from Heather's favourite from last time, Faster.

The By Era chart shows the first five albums and Journal almost exclusively taking over, with a handful of Know Your Enemy, Lifeblood and standalone singles filling the other places.  Socialist Serenade also appears for the first time at 38.

Heather @heather1917

1. A Design For Life

2. Faster

3. Motorcycle Emptiness

4. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

5. Yes

6. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

7. You Love Us

8. 4st 7lb

9. Little Baby Nothing

10. Of Walking Abortion

11. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

12. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

13. From Despair To Where

14. Stay Beautiful

15. Archives Of Pain

16. PCP

17. No Surface All Feeling

18. Prologue To History

19. Slash N' Burn

20. Sleepflower

21. This Is Yesterday

22. This Joke Sport Severed

23. Me And Stephen Hawking

24. Motown Junk

25. Revol

26. Mr Carbohydrate

27. Donkeys

28. Die In The Summertime

29. Judge Yr'self

30. Sepia

31. Enola/Alone

32. Everything Must Go

33. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

34. Kevin Carter

35. Further Away

36. Ready For Drowning

37. Mausoleum

38. Socialist Serenade

39. 1985

40. All Is Vanity

41. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)

42. Roses In The Hospital

43. To Repel Ghosts

44. Found That Soul

45. Peeled Apples

46. There By The Grace Of God

47. Marlon JD

48. Bag Lady

49. The Masses Against The Classes

50. Spectators Of Suicide

By Era

Generation Terrorists 7

Gold Against The Soul 5

The Holy Bible 12

Everything Must Go 11

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 1

Lifeblood 2

Send Away The Tigers 0

Journal For Plague Lovers 6

Postcards From A Young Man 0

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 0

Resistance Is Futile 0

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 2

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Steve Murphy @iamstevemurphy

Next up is another one of our artistic entries and another host of the excellent What Is Music? podcast, recycling the style of their Manics season graphics.  If you haven't listened to their Manics season, make sure you do so to be dazzled, amused and infuriated in equal measure by the varying opinions of their back catalogue.

Steve also goes for Design For Life at number 1, earning it a whopping 100 points in just two charts, and ends up with seven songs each from the This Is My Truth and Lifeblood eras.

By Era

Generation Terrorists 4

Gold Against The Soul 3

The Holy Bible 6

Everything Must Go 4

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7

Know Your Enemy 3

Lifeblood 7

Send Away The Tigers 5

Journal For Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From A Young Man 0

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 3

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 1

Others 2

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Faster reclaims top spot in the next chart, which also managed to take another song off the fabled no-vote list with So Dead's selection.  Another chart that leans more towards the first five albums, but does have lots of picks later on in the Manics' career, with only Rewind The Film missing out.

The Convalescent was picked for only the third time in its highest position so far at number 8, while Let's Go To War also hit its third pick.

liz @sweetsaturnm1ne

1. Faster

2. Yes

3. No Surface All Feeling

4. Little Baby Nothing

5. Tsunami

6. Motorcycle Emptiness

7. A Design For Life

8. The Convalescent

9. Donkeys

10. Ready For Drowning

11. Prologue To History

12. Spectators Of Suicide

13. Black Dog On My Shoulder

14. Archives Of Pain

15. Sleepflower

16. Of Walking Abortion

17. Still Snowing In Sapporo

18. Epicentre

19. 4st 7lb

20. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

21. Stay Beautiful

22. Sepia

23. Be Natural

24. Slash N' Burn

25. The Intense Humming Of Evil

26. Let's Go To War

27. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)

28. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

29. You Love Us

30. From Despair To Where

31. Enola/Alone

32. Walk Me To The Bridge

33. So Dead

34. Everything Must Go

35. All Is Vanity

36. People Give In

37. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

38. Black Square

39. Solitude Sometimes Is

40. International Blue

41. Afterending

42. 1985

43. Indian Summer

44. Roses In The Hospital

45. To Repel Ghosts

46. Postcards From A Young Man

47. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

48. Kevin Carter

49. Doors Closing Slowly

50. Nobody Loved You

By Era

Generation Terrorists 7

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7

Know Your Enemy 3

Lifeblood 3

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From A Young Man 1

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 4

Resistance Is Futile 2

The Ultra Vivid Lament 2

Others 0

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The honour of the 50th top 50 goes to the next chart, I would have presented Steve's artistic endeavours here too but a few teething problems with the selections put paid to that one so he'll have to make do with my boring black and blue presentation!  As with the last chart Faster takes top spot and gains its own 100 points across two charts.

The first four album eras all hit double figures in terms of the number of entries with many albums missing out.  Surprisingly (to me at least), New Art Riot is selected for only the third time and in its highest placing at number 8.  The Holy Bible almost appears in its entirety, with just She Is Suffering missing out. 

Steve Burnett @SteveBurnett_

1. Faster

2. Motown Junk

3. Yes

4. PCP

5. Donkeys

6. A Design For Life

7. This Is Yesterday

8. New Art Riot

9. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

10. You Love Us

11. Gold Against The Soul

12. Comfort Comes

13. Mr Carbohydrate

14. Patrick Bateman

15. Little Baby Nothing

16. Stay Beautiful

17. From Despair To Where

18. Roses In The Hospital

19. Motorcycle Emptiness

20. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

21. Slash N' Burn

22. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

23. Revol

24. Life Becoming A Landslide

25. Everything Must Go

26. Australia

27. Hibernation

28. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

29. William's Last Words

30. Postcards From A Young Man

31. Prologue To History

32. No Surface All Feeling

33. Archives Of Pain

34. 4st 7lb

35. Of Walking Abortion

36. Mausoleum

37. Die In The Summertime

38. The Intense Humming Of Evil

39. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)

40. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

41. Kevin Carter

42. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

43. Velocity Girl

44. Further Away

45. Tsunami

46. Enola/Alone

47. Dead Yankee Drawl

48. Are Mothers Saints

49. Sleepflower

50. Repeat

By Era

Generation Terrorists 10

Gold Against The Soul 11

The Holy Bible 12

Everything Must Go 10

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 0

Lifeblood 0

Send Away The Tigers 1

Journal For Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From A Young Man 1

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 0

Resistance Is Futile 0

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 0

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The final chart of this batch has Indian Summer at number 1, in only its fifth pick so far.  There are lots of places for B-sides and some of those lesser-loved songs, with Distractions easily taking its highest placing at number 9 in its second pick and What Happened To The Blue Generation, Primitive Painters and Evidence Against Myself all picking up their first points.  In Key's own words: 

Don't have much to say except the fact that my top pick has always been and forever will be Indian Summer, I just have so much love for that song. It's the second song I've ever heard by the Manics (first one being Your Love Alone), and while I do massively enjoy the entirety of Send Away the Tigers (my favorite Manics album!), this one hits the hardest for me. I think the music video is really fitting, too - when I fell in love with the song and was playing it on repeat one night, it brought me to tears because it evoked so many childhood memories. It's really special to me.

Key @corpseinsnow

1. Indian Summer

2. The Second Great Depression

3. Another Invented Disease

4. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

5. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

6. Of Walking Abortion

7. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

8. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

9. Distractions

10. Further Away

11. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

12. Enola/Alone

13. Black Dog On My Shoulder

14. Be Natural

15. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

16. She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach

17. Sequels Of Forgotten Wars

18. Always/Never

19. I Live To Fall Asleep

20. Journal For Plague Lovers

21. The Convalescent

22. Epicentre

23. Masking Tape

24. This Is The Day

25. What Happened To The Blue Generation

26. Primitive Painters

27. Send Away The Tigers

28. Prologue To History

29. Donkeys

30. Just A Kid

31. Sex, Power, Love & Money

32. Close My Eyes

33. Hazelton Avenue

34. Sleepflower

35. Kevin Carter

36. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)

37. Slash N' Burn

38. Born To End

39. Motorcycle Emptiness

40. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds

41. So Dead

42. Crucifix Kiss

43. Intravenous Agnostic

44. Judge Yr'self

45. Evidence Against Myself

46. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

47. Emily

48. Misguided Missile

49. The Vorticists

50. Everyone Knows/Nobody Cares

By Era

Generation Terrorists 8

Gold Against The Soul 3

The Holy Bible 3

Everything Must Go 5

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 6

Lifeblood 4

Send Away The Tigers 5

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 3

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 2

Manics Top 50s - 20th - 21st Oct 2021

Two charts again today and the first is from a returning top 50-er who has given his story below.  For those watching out for the no-vote album tracks, She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach has now been removed from that list!

I’ve updated my chart since my original entry that was included on your excellent blog on 15/08/13.

The interim period has been a roller coaster in terms of my relationship with the band. (Interesting side point - they are still the only current band that I feel there is a connection to the band, the bond between me and the band’s music is more than just fan and artist).

The highs include on 16-17/12/17, the two days and nights spent in London going to the Roundhouse to see The Holy Bible tour (this is the reason why many of the tracks that didn’t make my first chart are new entries in the updated one as I definitely have a newfound appreciation for those songs).

The second highlight would be going to Newcastle on 6/8/17 to see the band. Two reasons why this was personally special to me was it was a good excuse to spend time with my brother who lives up there (I’m in Coventry so we don’t get together too often).

The other reason this gig was a special memory is that I got to meet a few new friends at the concert, including the delightful @AndDarkWithin.

The third highlight would be on 23/06/19 when my two favourite live bands played 10 minutes from my house! Bon Jovi and the Manics at the Ricoh arena in Cov.

The low point is that due to personal circumstances out of my control I haven’t listened to their recent material as much as I have with previous releases. This is evident is the fact that there’s not a great difference in most of the songs general positions, maybe just moved down spaces to accommodate the occasional climber or new entry but Spoiler Alert the top 9 are as before!

Even though I haven’t listened as much as possible, the Manics remain head & shoulders above every other artist making music at the moment, still producing songs that can move the feet, touch the heart, and get the brain thinking all at the same time. Long may they continue to do this.

david wells @davidwells661

1. Yes

2. Motown Junk

3. Faster

4. Patrick Bateman

5. Motorcycle Emptiness

6. Stay Beautiful

7. Me And Stephen Hawking

8. Hibernation

9. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

10. 4st 7lb

11. 30-Year War

12. Little Baby Nothing

13. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel

14. Together Stronger (C'mon Wales)

15. Virginia State Epileptic Colony

16. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

17. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

18. Umbrella

19. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow

20. No Surface All Feeling

21. Let Robeson Sing

22. Revol

23. Dylan & Caitlin

24. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

25. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love

26. You Love Us

27. (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline

28. PCP

29. Peeled Apples

30. Too Cold Here

31. Europa Geht Durch Mich

32. Ocean Spray

33. Autumnsong

34. Archives Of Pain

35. The Everlasting

36. Further Away

37. Sex, Power, Love & Money

38. Of Walking Abortion

39. Kevin Carter

40. She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach

41. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

42. You Stole The Sun From My Heart

43. All Is Vanity

44. The Intense Humming Of Evil

45. Rewind The Film

46. The Masses Against The Classes

47. Mausoleum

48. So Why So Sad

49. Prologue To History

50. A Design For Life

By Era

Generation Terrorists 6

Gold Against The Soul 2

The Holy Bible 11

Everything Must Go 5

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 4

Lifeblood 0

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 6

Postcards From A Young Man 1

Rewind The Film 3

Futurology 3

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 3

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Our second chart sees Faster return to the top spot, the top 8 all being from the first three album eras, if like me you attach Judge Yr'self to The Holy Bible.  The rest of the chart is spread out more across the whole back catalogue, with only SATT failing to make the cut.

And it's another treat for the no-vote album tracks as Always/Never picks up its first points, leaving only FIVE album tracks waiting to break their duck.

Lucy @LaPoose

1. Faster

2. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

3. Yes

4. Judge Yr'self

5. Motown Junk

6. She Is Suffering

7. Motorcycle Emptiness

8. Sleepflower

9. Peeled Apples

10. A Song For Departure

11. This Joke Sport Severed

12. From Despair To Where

13. Still Snowing In Sapporo

14. Stay Beautiful

15. No Surface All Feeling

16. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

17. Ocean Spray

18. Prologue To History

19. All Is Vanity

20. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow

21. Always/Never

22. Golden Platitudes

23. 4 Ever Delayed

24. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

25. Found That Soul

26. Revol

27. Black Square

28. Hold Me Like A Heaven

29. Enola/Alone

30. Walk Me To The Bridge

31. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

32. Marlon JD

33. Love's Sweet Exile

34. Diapause

35. Bored Out Of My Mind

36. The Everlasting

37. Nobody Loved You

38. Empty Souls

39. Tsunami

40. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

41. Divine Youth

42. 1985

43. Bag Lady

44. PCP

45. Dead Yankee Drawl

46. Comfort Comes

47. Kevin Carter

48. This Sullen Welsh Heart

49. Donkeys

50. Between The Clock And The Bed

By Era

Generation Terrorists 7

Gold Against The Soul 5

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 4

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 3

Lifeblood 4

Send Away The Tigers 0

Journal For Plague Lovers 5

Postcards From A Young Man 1

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 5

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 2

Others 1

Manics Top 50s - 18th - 19th October 2021

It's double trouble again with the Manics Top 50s and first up it's a chart with Faster leading the way.  There's a good mixture of the recognised hits alongside B-sides and lower profile album tracks, There By The Grace Of God getting its highest placing so far at number 3.

The Holy Bible era features the most, but Generation Terrorists, Everything Must Go and Lifeblood all have a healthy share topped up by those aforementioned B-sides.

DSCNNCTD @bentirs

1. Faster

2. Roses In The Hospital

3. There By The Grace Of God

4. Marlon JD

5. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

6. 4 Ever Delayed

7. 1985

8. Revol

9. A Design For Life

10. Yes

11. Motown Junk

12. To Repel Ghosts

13. Motorcycle Emptiness

14. All Is Vanity

15. She Is Suffering

16. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

17. The Soulmates

18. No Surface All Feeling

19. Still Snowing In Sapporo

20. Cardiff Afterlife

21. Stay Beautiful

22. From Despair To Where

23. Empty Souls

24. Enola/Alone

25. The Masses Against The Classes

26. Love Torn Us Under

27. Comfort Comes

28. Found That Soul

29. This Joke Sport Severed

30. The Everlasting

31. Diapause

32. Bored Out Of My Mind

33. This Is Yesterday

34. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands

35. Of Walking Abortion

36. Sepia

37. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children

38. Divine Youth

39. Automatik Teknicolour

40. Running Out Of Fantasy

41. You Love Us

42. Bag Lady

43. Hold Me Like A Heaven

44. Everyone Knows/Nobody Cares

45. Die In The Summertime

46. Donkeys

47. Prologue To History

48. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)

49. RP McMurphy

50. Judge Yr'self

By Era

Generation Terrorists 6

Gold Against The Soul 5

The Holy Bible 9

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 6

Send Away The Tigers 0

Journal For Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From A Young Man 0

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 1

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 2

Others 4

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Our second chart arrived via email, while most of the submissions come via Twitter Emmy isn't on there but came across the blog and couldn't resist getting involved.  Despite featuring in most people's charts somewhere, this was perhaps surprisingly only the second number 1 for A Design For Life so far (always the bridesmaid!).  Emmy explains below her history with the band and, perhaps fittingly given the comments, the selected songs tend to concentrate around the first and last four albums.  

I’ve been a fan for round about 30 years having fallen in love with them as an awkward 13 year old who didn’t quite fit in living in the South Wales valleys. It was so exciting to see & hear a band who were local-ish on the tele/radio & who spoke to my soul. They had me at the old “rubble & shit” quote! No truer word was spoken. 

As much as I love Terrorists & Bible, my heart does belong to Everything as it carried me through that pivotal teen to adult phase, working at my A-levels & preparing to go to Uni. Design is the song which has my heart fully for a myriad of reasons but most prominently that it speaks about the Welsh working class experience so poetically & accurately.

To say I’ve had an up & down relationship with the band is no exaggeration, there are times (as you can see from my list) between Everything & Rewind where I lost a sense of connection to them but as in all long term relationships you have to take the rough with the smooth & I know not all fan journeys are the same. I am grateful to now be fully immersed in their present & not just clinging on to their past.

Emmy via email

1. A Design For Life

2. Stay Beautiful

3. Roses In The Hospital

4. The Masses Against The Classes

5. Archives Of Pain

6. Kevin Carter

7. Let Robeson Sing

8. International Blue

9. Mausoleum

10. Everything Must Go

11. This Is Yesterday

12. Walk Me To The Bridge

13. Motorcycle Emptiness

14. Sequels Of Forgotten Wars

15. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

16. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

17. Further Away

18. Show Me The Wonder

19. No Surface All Feeling

20. Orwellian

21. Anthem For A Lost Cause

22. The Love Of Richard Nixon

23. Imperial Bodybags

24. Die In The Summertime

25. Slash N' Burn

26. In Eternity

27. We Are All Bourgeois Now

28. This Sullen Welsh Heart

29. Marlon JD

30. The Secret He Had Missed

31. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

32. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

33. Complicated Illusions

34. Distant Colours

35. I'm Just A Patsy

36. Intravenous Agnostic

37. Enola/Alone

38. As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)

39. Still Snowing In Sapporo

40. Another Invented Disease

41. Afterending

42. Judge Yr'self

43. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love

44. Faster

45. The Left Behind

46. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow

47. Spectators Of Suicide

48. You Love Us

49. Builder Of Routines

50. Take The Skinheads Bowling

By Era

Generation Terrorists 7

Gold Against The Soul 1

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 8

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 0

Know Your Enemy 4

Lifeblood 1

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 1

Postcards From A Young Man 1

Rewind The Film 5

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 5

The Ultra Vivid Lament 5

Others 1

Manics Top 50s - 17th Oct 2021

It's a two chart day and first up Judith gives Golden Platitudes its first 50 pointer at the top of the chart and the namesake for her Twitter handle gains its highest placing yet at number 5.

The Holy Bible and This Is My Truth are the album eras with the most selections, with The Ultra Vivid Lament doing relatively well with four entries.  Builder Of Routines is another of the no-vote album tracks to be selected here, bringing the total down to only seven now!  Will they all end up being selected before the deadline....?

Me Judith Manics @30yearwar

1. Golden Platitudes

2. Faster

3. Motorcycle Emptiness

4. Ready For Drowning

5. 30-Year War

6. Postcards From A Young Man

7. Everything Must Go

8. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

9. Rewind The Film

10. The Everlasting

11. Black Dog On My Shoulder

12. Misguided Missile

13. 4st 7lb

14. A Design For Life

15. Little Baby Nothing

16. Autumnsong

17. Of Walking Abortion

18. Afterending

19. Roses In The Hospital

20. Builder Of Routines

21. Complicated Illusions

22. Show Me The Wonder

23. Some Kind Of Nothingness

24. Marlon JD

25. My Little Empire

26. No Surface All Feeling

27. Yes

28. Prologue To History

29. Walk Me To The Bridge

30. Baby Elian

31. 1985

32. Quest For Ancient Colour

33. Europa Geht Durch Mich

34. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

35. Mausoleum

36. Tsunami

37. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

38. PCP

39. You Stole The Sun From My Heart

40. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

41. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

42. Dead Martyrs

43. All Is Vanity

44. A Song For The Sadness

45. Me & Stephen Hawking

46. Intravenous Agnostic

47. Still Snowing In Sapporo

48. The View From Stow Hill

49. There By The Grace Of God

50. Fearless Punk Ballad

By Era

Generation Terrorists 2

Gold Against The Soul 2

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 4

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7

Know Your Enemy 4

Lifeblood 1

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 3

Rewind The Film 4

Futurology 4

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 4

Others 1

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Our second chart sees Motorcycle Emptiness gaining its first top spot since, ooh, five charts ago and just after Judith gave 30-Year War its highest placing, Alex goes and tops it by going one higher at number 4!

Generation Terrorists (and the pre-GT era) took the most songs with eight, Condemned to Rock 'N' Roll having its second top 10 finish so far to join Motorcycle Emptiness in the upper echelons.

Alex P. Gaywood @dr__alex

1. Motorcycle Emptiness

2. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

3. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

4. 30-Year War

5. From Despair To Where

6. PCP

7. Still Snowing In Sapporo

8. Nobody Loved You

9. Found That Soul

10. Stay Beautiful

11. A Design For Life

12. Of Walking Abortion

13. Peeled Apples

14. Faster

15. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow

16. Virginia State Epileptic Colony

17. Cardiff Afterlife

18. You Love Us

19. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

20. Dead Martyrs

21. Postcards From A Young Man

22. Walk Me To The Bridge

23. Send Away The Tigers

24. Motown Junk

25. Sleepflower

26. 1985

27. Marlon JD

28. Sorrow 16

29. Black Dog On My Shoulder

30. Don't Let The Night Divide Us

31. Yes

32. Australia

33. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

34. Show Me The Wonder

35. Little Baby Nothing

36. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

37. Revol

38. Prologue To History

39. Ready For Drowning

40. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children

41. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

42. Diapause

43. I'm Just A Patsy

44. (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline

45. Hold Me Like A Heaven

46. Europa Geht Durch Mich

47. Further Away

48. The Everlasting

49. There By The Grace Of God

50. Firefight

By Era

Generation Terrorists 8

Gold Against The Soul 3

The Holy Bible 5

Everything Must Go 4

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5

Know Your Enemy 3

Lifeblood 2

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From A Young Man 1

Rewind The Film 3

Futurology 3

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 3

Others 2

Manics Top 50s - 16th Oct 2021

After a short break from chart entries we return with a chart top-heavy with The Holy Bible, with seven songs making the top 10 including the number 1.  Journal For Plague Lovers also fares well, with six entries, the same number as the Generation Terrorists era.

In terms of the lesser-loved songs go, As Holy As The Soil makes only its second appearance so far down at number 46, being the only Rewind The Film song to make the cut. 

Jared A. Carnie @jacarnie

1. Faster

2. Yes

3. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

4. Of Walking Abortion

5. Motorcycle Emptiness

6. You Love Us

7. Die In The Summertime

8. This Is Yesterday

9. PCP

10. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

11. From Despair To Where

12. All Is Vanity

13. This Joke Sport Severed

14. Mausoleum

15. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

16. Solitude Sometimes Is

17. The Masses Against The Classes

18. My Little Empire

19. I Live To Fall Asleep

20. A Design For Life

21. Enola/Alone

22. Golden Platitudes

23. Ready For Drowning

24. Archives Of Pain

25. Motown Junk

26. Stay Beautiful

27. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

28. 4st 7lb

29. Send Away The Tigers

30. Love's Sweet Exile

31. Emily

32. I'm Just A Patsy

33. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow

34. Prologue To History

35. Walk Me To The Bridge

36. Sleepflower

37. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children

38. Found That Soul

39. Facing Page: Top Left

40. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

41. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

42. No Surface All Feeling

43. Roses In The Hospital

44. Peeled Apples

45. Judge Yr'self

46. As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)

47. Bag Lady

48. Misguided Missile

49. Postcards From A Young Man

50. Intravenous Agnostic

By Era

Generation Terrorists 6

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 11

Everything Must Go 4

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 3

Lifeblood 3

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 6

Postcards From A Young Man 2

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 3

Resistance Is Futile 0

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 1

Manics Top 50s - 13th Oct 2021

Another single chart day and it's Faster grabbing another 50 points in top spot, with its rivals following close behind.  Diapause manages to take its fourth top 10 finish so far in a chart with four songs from the new album.

It's another chart that finds a place for all album eras, Some Kind Of Nothingness scraping in near the end to ensure Postcards has representation, while The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go are at the head of the queue with eight each.

Paulo @Paul_Franklyn

1. Faster

2. A Design For Life

3. Motorcycle Emptiness

4. Archives Of Pain

5. No Surface All Feeling

6. Yes

7. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

8. Diapause

9. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

10. Little Baby Nothing

11. Everything Must Go

12. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

13. Roses In The Hospital

14. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

15. Stay Beautiful

16. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

17. Motown Junk

18. PCP

19. This Is Yesterday

20. Dylan & Caitlin

21. The Masses Against The Classes

22. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

23. Of Walking Abortion

24. I Live To Fall Asleep

25. Mr Carbohydrate

26. Hold Me Like A Heaven

27. Walk Me To The Bridge

28. Kevin Carter

29. Bag Lady

30. You Love Us

31. The Secret He Had Missed

32. A Song For Departure

33. All Is Vanity

34. Afterending

35. Nobody Loved You

36. Rewind The Film

37. From Despair To Where

38. Peeled Apples

39. Complicated Illusions

40. Let Robeson Sing

41. Journal For Plague Lovers

42. 4 Ever Delayed

43. Sleepflower

44. 1985

45. Sepia

46. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

47. Some Kind Of Nothingness

48. Prologue To History

49. Revol

50. Cardiff Afterlife

By Era

Generation Terrorists 5

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 8

Everything Must Go 8

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 1

Lifeblood 4

Send Away The Tigers 1

Journal For Plague Lovers 5

Postcards From A Young Man 1

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 1

Resistance Is Futile 2

The Ultra Vivid Lament 4

Others 2

Manics Top 50s - 12th Oct 2021

Another single chart day and today it's the turn of Little Baby Nothing to hit the heights of number 1, with a top 10 heavy on Generation Terrorists and The Holy Bible in particular, also the album eras that have the most songs featured.  There's plenty of representation from the other albums though, although three didn't manage to take a spot at the top table. 

As the tour proper winds its way to a close, are we going to see a few more top 50s coming to fruition?

democracycoma @democracycoma1

1. Little Baby Nothing

2. Motorcycle Emptiness

3. Faster

4. 4st 7lb

5. You Love Us

6. Roses In The Hospital

7. Of Walking Abortion

8. A Design For Life

9. Archives Of Pain

10. Yes

11. PCP

12. Prologue To History

13. Dylan & Caitlin

14. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

15. Everything Must Go

16. The Masses Against The Classes

17. International Blue

18. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

19. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

20. Stay Beautiful

21. Europa Geht Durch Mich

22. Tsunami

23. Enola/Alone

24. No Surface All Feeling

25. She Is Suffering

26. Rewind The Film

27. In Eternity

28. Motown Junk

29. Sleepflower

30. Divine Youth

31. Peeled Apples

32. From Despair To Where

33. Kevin Carter

34. Revol

35. Ocean Spray

36. Bag Lady

37. Slash N' Burn

38. Judge Yr'self

39. Sex, Power, Love & Money

40. Life Becoming A Landslide

41. Autumnsong

42. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

43. Found That Soul

44. Anthem For A Lost Cause

45. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

46. You Stole The Sun From My Heart

47. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

48. Walk Me To The Bridge

49. Love's Sweet Exile

50. Methadone Pretty

By Era

Generation Terrorists 9

Gold Against The Soul 5

The Holy Bible 9

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 0

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 0

Rewind The Film 2

Futurology 4

Resistance Is Futile 3

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 1

Manics Top 50s - 9th Oct 2021

Two charts here from a couple of people I had the pleasure of meeting at the recent gigs, first up is Liz, fresh from turning her Jersey to Cardiff nightmare into a positive with her onstage shoutout from Sir Nicholas of Wireshire himself.

And Nicky would be pleased to see Wattsville Blues, William's Last Words and Concrete Fields boosting the votes for Nicky vocals....in fact, what's that I hear?  A no-vote album track klaxon again?  Yes, Wattsville Blues' inclusion now means we're down to just eight album tracks with no votes yet.  Prologue To History also grabs its first number 1 slot.

Note: the rules have now been updated with a revised deadline of Sunday 5th December to take into account the early December gigs.

Jersey Liz @LondonLady70

1. Prologue To History

2. 1985

3. This Joke Sport Severed

4. The Second Great Depression

5. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

6. Nobody Loved You

7. Die In The Summertime

8. Diapause

9. Motorcycle Emptiness

10. No Surface All Feeling

11. A Design For Life

12. 4 Ever Delayed

13. Golden Platitudes

14. Complicated Illusions

15. Archives Of Pain

16. Revol

17. Tsunami

18. Let Robeson Sing

19. Anthem For A Lost Cause

20. Found That Soul

21. Door To The River

22. Little Baby Nothing

23. Still Snowing In Sapporo

24. Some Kind Of Nothingness

25. Yes

26. Faster

27. Wattsville Blues

28. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

29. You're Tender And You're Tired

30. Further Away

31. Rewind The Film

32. Ready For Drowning

33. Donkeys

34. William's Last Words

35. A Song For Departure

36. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)

37. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

38. Solitude Sometimes Is

39. Ocean Spray

40. Walk Me To The Bridge

41. Enola/Alone

42. Concrete Fields

43. She Is Suffering

44. Sleepflower

45. Autumnsong

46. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

47. Hold Me Like A Heaven

48. Divine Youth

49. The View From Stow Hill

50. Sex, Power, Love & Money

By Era

Generation Terrorists 3

Gold Against The Soul 3

The Holy Bible 6

Everything Must Go 4

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5

Know Your Enemy 5

Lifeblood 3

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 2

Rewind The Film 2

Futurology 5

Resistance Is Futile 2

The Ultra Vivid Lament 3

Others 2

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Our second chart comes from returning top 50-er Craig, who's the third person so far to give Motorcycle Emptiness top spot.  It's a solid top 10 full of songs you would mostly expect to be there or thereabouts in the final 50.

There's the now familiar sight of some pretty decent placings for The Ultra Vivid Lament songs and every album era gets a place, Everything Must Go just edging it with the most entries.

Craig @Parky1977

1. Motorcycle Emptiness

2. A Design For Life

3. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

4. No Surface All Feeling

5. International Blue

6. Little Baby Nothing

7. Sleepflower

8. Roses In The Hospital

9. This Is Yesterday

10. From Despair To Where

11. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

12. Distant Colours

13. Walk Me To The Bridge

14. Ready For Drowning

15. Send Away The Tigers

16. Complicated Illusions

17. Still Snowing In Sapporo

18. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

19. Australia

20. Enola/Alone

21. Further Away

22. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

23. Postcards From A Young Man

24. Kevin Carter

25. Tsunami

26. Golden Platitudes

27. 1985

28. Solitude Sometimes Is

29. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love

30. Firefight

31. PCP

32. You Love Us

33. This Joke Sport Severed

34. Hold Me Like A Heaven

35. Die In The Summertime

36. The Secret He Had Missed

37. Some Kind Of Nothingness

38. Life Becoming A Landslide

39. Found That Soul

40. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

41. The Everlasting

42. I'm Just A Patsy

43. Everything Must Go

44. You Stole The Sun From My Heart

45. Revol

46. Me And Stephen Hawking

47. Faster

48. Show Me The Wonder

49. Yes

50. 30-Year War

By Era

Generation Terrorists 4

Gold Against The Soul 5

The Holy Bible 6

Everything Must Go 7

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5

Know Your Enemy 1

Lifeblood 2

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 4

Rewind The Film 2

Futurology 1

Resistance Is Futile 3

The Ultra Vivid Lament 3

Others 1

Manics Top 50s - 8th Oct 2021

Another single chart day and it's a returning top 50-er, who by his own admission has switched around the top 2 from his previous entries, with La Tristesse Durera now coming out on top.  The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go eras tie for most entries with eight each, while Bag Lady scores big points at number 7 after a few lower entries here and there in other charts so far.

Paul Fiander-Turner @havinaradox

1. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

2. Faster

3. Motorcycle Emptiness

4. A Design For Life

5. Stay Beautiful

6. No Surface All Feeling

7. Bag Lady

8. Nobody Loved You

9. Yes

10. Rewind The Film

11. Die In The Summertime

12. Sleepflower

13. Everything Must Go

14. You Love Us

15. Judge Yr'self

16. Archives Of Pain

17. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

18. Futurology

19. This Sullen Welsh Heart

20. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

21. Ready For Drowning

22. This Is Yesterday

23. Firefight

24. Found That Soul

25. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love

26. Revol

27. Marlon JD

28. There By The Grace Of God

29. Motown Junk

30. Glasnost

31. From Despair To Where

32. Peeled Apples

33. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

34. Send Away The Tigers

35. Don't Be Evil

36. Enola/Alone

37. This Is The Day

38. Baby Elian

39. Misguided Missile

40. Black Dog On My Shoulder

41. 1985

42. 30-Year War

43. Prologue To History

44. Donkeys

45. Sepia

46. Born To End

47. Further Away

48. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

49. PCP

50. Golden Platitudes

By Era

Generation Terrorists 5

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 8

Everything Must Go 8

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 2

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 3

Rewind The Film 3

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 0

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 3

Manics Top 50s - 7th Oct 2021

Only one chart for today, but it's my near-neighbour and name-sharer who came up with the creative masterpiece below!  There's a whopping 12 songs from the Know Your Enemy era, incidentally his first Manics album purchase, but it's The Holy Bible that takes the number 1 slot with Archives Of Pain grabbing its second lot of 50 points so far.

Masses is in second place, which isn't surprising given it was his first ever Manics purchase, and Wrote For Luck manages to break its duck from the last time out by scoring its first points.  Special mention too to "Judge Yr'elf", a little nod to my recent amusing spelling mistake....

MentalJargon @MentalJargon

By Era

Generation Terrorists 4

Gold Against The Soul 3

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 3

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 2

Know Your Enemy 12

Lifeblood 5

Send Away The Tigers 1

Journal For Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From A Young Man 0

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 6

Resistance Is Futile 0

The Ultra Vivid Lament 3

Others 2

Manics Top 50s - 5th Oct 2021

A couple of charts today, with our first family member up to start with.  Bob is still working on his own chart, but his daughter Maddie beat him to it with this selection, La Tristesse grabbing its second number 1 so far.  The first five albums are the main focus, with a sprinkling of Journal in there too, and a top 10 packed full of songs that are likely to be challenging for the final 50.

Maddie Caridad - Daughter of @deporbags

1. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

2. Prologue To History

3. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

4. Motorcycle Emptiness

5. Sleepflower

6. Yes

7. Archives Of Pain

8. No Surface All Feeling

9. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

10. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

11. Faster

12. Nostalgic Pushead

13. Peeled Apples

14. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

15. Ready For Drowning

16. Stay Beautiful

17. PCP

18. From Despair To Where

19. Roses In The Hospital

20. Slash N' Burn

21. The Masses Against The Classes

22. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

23. Little Baby Nothing

24. Everything Must Go

25. Removables

26. Repeat

27. This Is The Day

28. Motown Junk

29. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds

30. Revol

31. Tsunami

32. Me And Stephen Hawking

33. Gold Against The Soul

34. A Design For Life

35. Sorrow 16

36. Australia

37. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

38. Love's Sweet Exile

39. You Stole The Sun From My Heart

40. Life Becoming A Landslide

41. Mr Carbohydrate

42. Journal For Plague Lovers

43. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love

44. You Love Us

45. Black Dog On My Shoulder

46. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)

47. Further Away

48. 4st 7lb

49. You're Tender And You're Tired

50. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

By Era

Generation Terrorists 11

Gold Against The Soul 7

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 10

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7

Know Your Enemy 0

Lifeblood 0

Send Away The Tigers 1

Journal For Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From A Young Man 1

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 0

Resistance Is Futile 0

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 2

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Our second chart sees Freedom Of Speech scoring its first 50 pointer at the top, and not only does The Ghost Of Christmas come flying in at number 3, but the other, shall we say, out of character song from the Manics back catalogue Together Stronger is also included!

Caldey scores big on its debut appearance at number 6 and after I announced on Twitter the other day that there are only ten album tracks across their whole back catalogue yet to pick up a point, that particular klaxon went off with this chart as the selection of The Descent (Pages 1 & 2) reduced that list to nine.  Postcards has seven songs included to take a rare victory as most selected era.

Yulia @S_jul

1. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children

2. Afterending

3. The Ghost Of Christmas

4. Autumnsong

5. No Surface All Feeling

6. Caldey

7. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

8. Some Kind Of Nothingness

9. Motorcycle Emptiness

10. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

11. A Design For Life

12. Postcards From A Young Man

13. Black Dog On My Shoulder

14. 30-Year War

15. Golden Platitudes

16. International Blue

17. You're Tender And You're Tired

18. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun

19. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow

20. The Descent (Pages 1 & 2)

21. Don't Let The Night Divide Us

22. People Give In

23. The Secret He Had Missed

24. Hazelton Avenue

25. Still Snowing In Sapporo

26. Show Me The Wonder

27. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love

28. Emily

29. Faster

30. Mausoleum

31. She Is Suffering

32. Peeled Apples

33. I Live To Fall Asleep

34. Roses In The Hospital

35. From Despair To Where

36. Glasnost

37. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

38. Little Baby Nothing

39. Indian Summer

40. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

41. Prologue To History

42. Empty Motorcade

43. Together Stronger (C'mon Wales)

44. Spectators Of Suicide

45. Rendition

46. The View From Stow Hill

47. Concrete Fields

48. Nobody Loved You

49. Sex, Power, Love & Money

50. Ocean Spray

By Era

Generation Terrorists 3

Gold Against The Soul 3

The Holy Bible 3

Everything Must Go 2

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5

Know Your Enemy 3

Lifeblood 3

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From A Young Man 7

Rewind The Film 2

Futurology 5

Resistance Is Futile 3

The Ultra Vivid Lament 4

Others 2