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
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