Saturday, 2 October 2021

Manics Top 50s - 1st Oct 2021

Yesterday was a bumper 5 chart day, with 5 different number 1s, all of which you'd expect to be jostling for space at the top end of the final chart.  Our first chart comes from Niall (Diagrid), who had this to say about his Manics story:

The Manics have always been my band, the first band I got into and fell in love with on my own.  It was just before my 9th birthday when my now brother in law was talking to me about music and he happened to mention Richey's recent disappearance.  I was intrigued.  He played Motorcycle Emptiness and I then begged my parents to buy me the albums for my birthday (incidentally, my birthday happens to be the same day as JDB's).  It was love at first listen and from then on I was hooked.  EMG came out when I was 10 and getting it on release day is possibly the most excited I've ever been for anything.

The second chart from Keenomanjaro sees Yes grab its first 50 points at the top of the charts, with a few other songs also getting off the mark with their first pick full stop this time.  All eras are present and correct and This Joke Sport Severed manages to pick up its highest placing so far in 4th.

Next up we have James, still reeling from being mistaken for my brother in Cardiff.  Faster grabs another top spot, while The Holy Bible appears in its entirety, Intense Humming Of Evil and all.  And yet another chart where each era has representation from at least one song, that's the thing with Manics fans, we don't like to leave any album feeling unloved.

The Gutless Wonder follows next, rather appropriately having Tolerate in the top spot.  The Holy Bible again features more than any other era, with the first six albums taking the majority of the places, but there's still room for three from The Ultra Vivid Lament.  A Vision Of Dead Desire, Masking Tape and Close My Eyes all pick up their first points from this set of charts.

Finally we have Kurt, giving PCP its first number 1 this time around and a top 10 mostly made up of songs that don't often reach those dizzy heights.  Us Against You takes second place, personally I've always had that in first place if there was ever a chart of JDB's most indecipherable performances!  Every era represented here again, with another five song haul for TUVL too.  Although I'm noticing a lot of TUVL appearances are creeping into the lower reaches of charts as they gradually seep into our brains, will that be enough for one of them to amass enough points to make the final 50?  We shall see....

Diagrid @Diagrid3
1. You Love Us
2. Sleepflower
3. Archives Of Pain
4. Faster
5. Motorcycle Emptiness
6. A Design For Life
7. Of Walking Abortion
8. Yes
9. Slash N' Burn
10. No Surface All Feeling
11. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
12. Enola/Alone
13. Motown Junk
14. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
15. Methadone Pretty
16. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
17. PCP
18. Die In The Summertime
19. Mausoleum
20. All Is Vanity
21. 4st 7lb
22. To Repel Ghosts
23. 1985
24. Roses In The Hospital
25. Everything Must Go
26. Nobody Loved You
27. Be Natural
28. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
29. From Despair To Where
30. Prologue to History
31. Empty Souls
32. Yourself
33. Stay Beautiful
34. This Is Yesterday
35. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
36. Crucifix Kiss
37. Rendition
38. My Little Empire
39. The Joke Sport Severed
40. The Masses Against the Classes
41. Another Invented Disease
42. Futurology
43. Walk Me To The Bridge
44. Peeled Apples
45. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun
46. Still Snowing in Sapporo
47. Donkeys
48. Distant Colours
49. International Blue
50. Bag Lady

By Era
Generation Terrorists 9
Gold Against The Soul 5
The Holy Bible 10
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5
Know Your Enemy 0
Lifeblood 3
Send Away The Tigers 2
Journal For Plague Lovers 4
Postcards From A Young Man 1
Rewind The Film 0
Futurology 2
Resistance Is Futile 2
The Ultra Vivid Lament 1
Others 1

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Keenomanjaro @keenomanjaro
1. Yes
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Faster
4. This Joke Sport Severed
5. A Design For Life
6. From Despair To Where
7. Motown Junk
8. This Is Yesterday
9. Stay Beautiful
10. Marlon JD
11. Donkeys
12. PCP
13. Enola/Alone
14. You Love Us
15. Archives Of Pain
16. Of Walking Abortion
17. Sleepflower
18. Me & Stephen Hawking
19. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow
20. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)
21. The Masses Against The Classes
22. Little Baby Nothing
23. Vivian
24. 30-Year War
25. No Surface All Feeling
26. Revol
27. Kevin Carter
28. Prologue To History
29. Roses In The Hospital
30. Crucifix Kiss
31. Ready For Drowning
32. Slash N' Burn
33. Black Dog On My Shoulder
34. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)
35. Golden Platitudes
36. Facing Page: Top Left
37. International Blue
38. Don't Let The Night Divide Us
39. Let Robeson Sing
40. A Song For Departure
41. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
42. Welcome To The Dead Zone
43. Walk Me To The Bridge
44. Glasnost
45. Still Snowing In Sapporo
46. Winterlovers
47. Between The Clock And The Bed
48. Anorexic Rodin
49. Black Holes For The Young
50. 4 Ever Delayed

By Era
Generation Terrorists 8
Gold Against The Soul 5
The Holy Bible 7
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 1
Lifeblood 2
Send Away The Tigers 3
Journal For Plague Lovers 4
Postcards From A Young Man 1
Rewind The Film 1
Futurology 3
Resistance Is Futile 2
The Ultra Vivid Lament 2
Others 2

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James @archivesofjames
1. Faster
2. You Love Us
3. Motorcycle Emptiness
4. Yes
5. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
6. A Design For Life
7. Sleepflower
8. Peeled Apples
9. Archives Of Pain
10. From Despair To Where
11. Patrick Bateman
12. Prologue To History
13. Motown Junk
14. Found That Soul
15. The Masses Against The Classes
16. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
17. Revol
18. PCP
19. Little Baby Nothing
20. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
21. This Is Yesterday
22. Tsunami
23. Mausoleum
24. Mr Carbohydrate
25. 4st 7lb
26. Marlon JD
27. Of Walking Abortion
28. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
29. Judge Yr'self
30. Roses In The Hospital
31. She Is Suffering
32. Enola/Alone
33. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
34. 1985
35. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
36. 4 Ever Delayed
37. Walk Me To The Bridge
38. Die In The Summertime
39. 30-Year War
40. Ready For Drowning
41. Some Kind Of Nothingness
42. William's Last Words
43. No Surface All Feeling
44. Sorrow 16
45. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
46. Still Snowing In Sapporo
47. The Intense Humming Of Evil
48. The Secret He Had Missed
49. Underdogs
50. In Eternity

By Era
Generation Terrorists 5
Gold Against The Soul 5
The Holy Bible 14
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5
Know Your Enemy 2
Lifeblood 1
Send Away The Tigers 1
Journal For Plague Lovers 4
Postcards From A Young Man 1
Rewind The Film 1
Futurology 1
Resistance Is Futile 1
The Ultra Vivid Lament 2
Others 2

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The Gutless Wonder @BraddersCentric
1. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
2. This Is Yesterday
3. Nobody Loved You
4. Faster
5. Motorcycle Emptiness
6. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
7. Spectators Of Suicide
8. Stay Beautiful
9. PCP
10. A Vision Of Dead Desire
11. Methadone Pretty
12. Let Robeson Sing
13. Comfort Comes
14. Masking Tape
15. You Love Us
16. A Design For Life
17. She Is Suffering
18. Kevin Carter
19. Tennessee
20. Gold Against The Soul
21. The Intense Humming Of Evil
22. Nostalgic Pushead
23. Everything Must Go
24. Glasnost
25. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
26. Autumnsong
27. Of Walking Abortion
28. Diapause
29. Australia
30. Dead Martyrs
31. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)
32. My Guernica
33. Archives Of Pain
34. Yes
35. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
36. 4st 7lb
37. You're Tender And You're Tired
38. Die In The Summertime
39. Black Dog On Your Shoulder
40. No Surface All Feeling
41. Sleepflower
42. Life Becoming A Landslide
43. Mausoleum
44. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)
45. Anthem For A Lost Cause
46. The Secret He Had Missed
47. Liverpool Revisited
48. Complicated Illusions
49. Close My Eyes
50. Donkeys

By Era
Generation Terrorists 8
Gold Against The Soul 6
The Holy Bible 11
Everything Must Go 8
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5
Know Your Enemy 4
Lifeblood 1
Send Away The Tigers 1
Journal For Plague Lovers 0
Postcards From A Young Man 0
Rewind The Film 1
Futurology 0
Resistance Is Futile 1
The Ultra Vivid Lament 3
Others 1

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Kurt Curtis @KurtMarcECurtis
1. PCP
2. Us Against You
3. Peeled Apples
4. Distant Colours
5. Everything Must Go
6. Between The Clock And The Bed
7. Motown Junk
8. His Last Painting
9. Black Dog On My Shoulder
10. The Second Great Depression
11. Donkeys
12. Rewind The Film
13. Door To The River
14. Archives Of Pain
15. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun
16. Journal For Plague Lovers
17. Faster
18. Die In The Summertime
19. Complicated Illusions
20. You Love Us
21. Mausoleum
22. Motorcycle Emptiness
23. This Is Yesterday
24. Revol
25. Empty Souls
26. Walk Me To The Bridge
27. Send Away The Tigers
28. Imperial Bodybags
29. Diapause
30. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)
31. Hold Me Like A Heaven
32. Sleepflower
33. The Secret He Had Missed
34. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
35. Orwellian
36. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
37. Still Snowing In Sapporo
38. Epicentre
39. Intravenous Agnostic
40. Slash N' Burn
41. Tsunami
42. A Design For Life
43. Are Mothers Saints
44. Sepia
45. No Surface All Feeling
46. Life Becoming A Landslide
47. Roses In The Hospital
48. Sculpture Of Man
49. Broken Algorithms
50. Comfort Comes

By Era
Generation Terrorists 5
Gold Against The Soul 8
The Holy Bible 8
Everything Must Go 4
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 1
Send Away The Tigers 3
Journal For Plague Lovers 2
Postcards From A Young Man 1
Rewind The Film 1
Futurology 2
Resistance Is Futile 3
The Ultra Vivid Lament 5
Others 1

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