Tuesday 26 October 2021

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

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