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.
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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
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