Sunday 3 October 2021

Manics Top 50s - 2nd Oct 2021 part 2

The second batch of charts start as the first batch began, with a Tolerate number 1.  Epicentre bags a cool 49 points, although This Is My Truth takes the honours with the most songs featured.  Haydon explains more in his own words:

I knew this would be a challenge, but the shifting sands of a still-new album made it even harder to pin down what exactly my thoughts were on any given song's position in the list. Looking back on my previous list, I'm surprised that it's even as similar as it is, sharing slightly more than half the songs (and a fair few which only narrowly missed this time around) - I think of March 2015 as still quite early in my Manics fandom, still just beginning to scratch the surface of their discography, so it's interesting how much has stayed relatively the same. I've wrestled with myself over the number one spot for some time now, both are major favourites of mine and normally with such a close call I'd err on the side of the less universally loved - but whilst Epicentre could well lay claim to being the Manics best song, it can't quite do what Tolerate can, which is push a strong claim for being the best song of all time.
 
Haydon @hcd199
1. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
2. Epicentre
3. Motown Junk
4. Yes
5. Faster
6. The Everlasting
7. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)
8. Ready For Drowning
9. This Is Yesterday
10. Some Kind Of Nothingness
11. A Design For Life
12. Door To The River
13. Motorcycle Emptiness
14. I Live To Fall Asleep
15. This Sullen Welsh Heart
16. Little Baby Nothing
17. International Blue
18. Doors Closing Slowly
19. Cardiff Afterlife
20. Black Square
21. Solitude Sometimes Is
22. Intravenous Agnostic
23. Golden Platitudes
24. All Is Vanity
25. Still Snowing In Sapporo
26. Of Walking Abortion
27. Broken Up Again
28. You're Tender And You're Tired
29. Archives Of Pain
30. Running Out Of Fantasy
31. Life Becoming A Landslide
32. No Surface All Feeling
33. Black Dog On My Shoulder
34. Tsunami
35. Diapause
36. Donkeys
37. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
38. Judge Yr'self
39. Walk Me To The Bridge
40. P.C.P.
41. To Repel Ghosts
42. My Little Empire
43. Marlon JD
44. The Year Of Purification
45. Distant Colours
46. Misguided Missile
47. Dead Yankee Drawl
48. Be Natural
49. Quest For Ancient Colour
50. Futurology

By Era
Generation Terrorists 4
Gold Against The Soul 2
The Holy Bible 7
Everything Must Go 3
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 8
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 4
Send Away The Tigers 0
Journal For Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From A Young Man 3
Rewind The Film 2
Futurology 5
Resistance Is Futile 2
The Ultra Vivid Lament 3
Others 1

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Next is another chart bursting with those lesser-loved songs, with a Lifeblood number 1 and various B-sides and bonus tracks making the top 10.  Of the tracks that earned no points at all last time out, Litany, The Long Goodbye, Distractions, Lost Voices, The Passing Show and Midnight Sun all ensured they didn't get a repeat (no pun intended) through this one chart!  Again every era is represented, with Lifeblood taking the honours with 8 songs (including B-sides) to match Cardiff Afterlife taking the top spot.

Khizar Jamil @KhizzyJ

1. Cardiff Afterlife
2. Distant Colours
3. Love Letter To The Future
4. Send Away The Tigers
5. The Soulmates
6. The Vorticists
7. Everyone Knows/Nobody Cares
8. Ready For Drowning
9. Complicated Illusions
10. Be Natural
11. A Soundtrack To Complete Withdrawal
12. Door To The River
13. From Despair To Where
14. Emily
15. Afterending
16. Journal For Plague Lovers
17. Sequels Of Forgotten Wars
18. Diapause
19. This Sullen Welsh Heart
20. The Second Great Depression
21. Midnight Sun
22. Buildings For Dead People
23. Let Robeson Sing
24. Empty Souls
25. Of Walking Abortion
26. There By The Grace Of God
27. Everything Will Be
28. Roses In The Hospital
29. Quest For Ancient Colour
30. Stay Beautiful
31. A Song For The Sadness
32. International Blue
33. PCP
34. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)
35. Postcards From A Young Man
36. A Design For Life
37. Imperial Bodybags
38. Teenage 20/20
39. Litany
40. Distractions
41. Show Me The Wonder
42. You're Tender And You're Tired
43. Solitude Sometimes Is
44. Rewind The Film
45. Lost Voices
46. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow
47. Sleepflower
48. The Long Goodbye
49. The Passing Show
50. Death Of A Digital Ghost

By Era
Generation Terrorists 2
Gold Against The Soul 3
The Holy Bible 2
Everything Must Go 1
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 1
Lifeblood 8
Send Away The Tigers 6
Journal For Plague Lovers 1
Postcards From A Young Man 5
Rewind The Film 4
Futurology 2
Resistance Is Futile 5
The Ultra Vivid Lament 4
Others 2

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The third chart in this batch sees Resistance Is Futile grab its first ever number 1 in the shape of Distant Colours, with Still Snowing In Sapporo grabbing second place for the new album.  And if you know Karen then you'll know why Slash N' Burn features so highly!  Horses Under Starlight was another no-voter from last time to pick up points, grabbing 41 from its 10th position.

Karen Davies @karenedavies68
1. Distant Colours
2. Still Snowing In Sapporo
3. The Everlasting
4. Slash N' Burn
5. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
6. Underdogs
7. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
8. From Despair To Where
9. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
10. Horses Under Starlight
11. Kevin Carter
12. Sleepflower
13. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
14. The Masses Against The Classes
15. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow
16. Faster
17. Revol
18. Enola/Alone
19. A Design For Life
20. Born A Girl
21. Be Natural
22. You Love Us
23. Spectators Of Suicide
24. She Is Suffering
25. Hazelton Avenue
26. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
27. Manorbier
28. The View From Stow Hill
29. Winterlovers
30. Motorcycle Emptiness
31. Diapause
32. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
33. Send Away The Tigers
34. S.Y.M.M.
35. Black Dog On My Shoulder
36. Everything Must Go
37. Ready For Drowning
38. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
39. I'm Not Working
40. I Live To Fall Asleep
41. 1985
42. Mayakovsky
43. Rewind The Film
44. Some Kind Of Nothingness
45. Vivian
46. Sequels Of Forgotten Wars
47. Yes
48. Found That Soul
49. Quest For Ancient Colour
50. Afterending

By Era
Generation Terrorists 5
Gold Against The Soul 3
The Holy Bible 4
Everything Must Go 6
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 9
Know Your Enemy 1
Lifeblood 2
Send Away The Tigers 4
Journal For Plague Lovers 0
Postcards From A Young Man 3
Rewind The Film 2
Futurology 3
Resistance Is Futile 3
The Ultra Vivid Lament 4
Others 1

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