Manics Top 50s 28th Nov 2021

There are two charts in this batch and first up is a second number 1 for From Despair To Where.  Sequels Of Forgotten Wars makes the top 10 for the first time and therefore achieves its highest placing so far, but it's Everything Must Go that triumphs in the By Era chart with 11 entries.

Den @densk14

1. From Despair To Where

2. Motorcycle Emptiness

3. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

4. The Everlasting

5. A Design For Life

6. Sequels Of Forgotten Wars

7. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

8. Prologue To History

9. Send Away The Tigers

10. PCP

11. Everything Must Go

12. Little Baby Nothing

13. She Is Suffering

14. Faster

15. Further Away

16. Ready For Drowning

17. You're Tender And You're Tired

18. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love

19. Drug Drug Druggy

20. Yes

21. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

22. The Masses Against The Classes

23. The Love Of Richard Nixon

24. Roses In The Hospital

25. Dylan & Caitlin

26. Still Snowing In Sapporo

27. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

28. Mr Carbohydrate

29. The Descent (Pages 1 & 2)

30. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow

31. Stay Beautiful

32. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands

33. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

34. Motown Junk

35. Some Kind Of Nothingness

36. This Joke Sport Severed

37. Hanging On

38. Revol

39. This Is Yesterday

40. Futurology

41. Life Becoming A Landslide

42. Vivian

43. Underdogs

44. Bored Out Of My Mind

45. There By The Grace Of God

46. Australia

47. Tsunami

48. No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me

49. Empty Souls

50. Hazelton Avenue

By Era

Generation Terrorists 6

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 6

Everything Must Go 11

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5

Know Your Enemy 0

Lifeblood 2

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 1

Postcards From A Young Man 4

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 3

The Ultra Vivid Lament 1

Others 2

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Tolerate takes the honours in this chart, while the By Era split is possibly the most even we've had so far - two album eras with five entries, four with four entries and six with three entries.

But my little eyes light up at three songs appearing for the first time - so say hello to My Drowning World, A Secret Society and Dying Breeds, which bring the number of no-vote songs down to 39.

Philip Marsh @PhilipM04217017

1. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

2. Faster

3. A Design For Life

4. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

5. Archives Of Pain

6. The Masses Against The Classes

7. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

8. There By The Grace Of God

9. Golden Platitudes

10. Afterending

11. Let Robeson Sing

12. 30-Year War

13. Intravenous Agnostic

14. Misguided Missile

15. Motorcycle Emptiness

16. No Surface All Feeling

17. Black Dog On My Shoulder

18. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children

19. Rewind The Film

20. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

21. Yes

22. 4st 7lb

23. Some Kind Of Nothingness

24. Little Baby Nothing

25. Sepia

26. As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)

27. Judge Yr'self

28. Let's Go To War

29. 1985

30. Europa Geht Durch Mich

31. Gold Against The Soul

32. A Song For Departure

33. Buildings For Dead People

34. Solitude Sometimes Is

35. My Drowning World

36. Midnight Sun

37. Imperial Bodybags

38. You Love Us

39. Sleepflower

40. Complicated Illusions

41. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

42. Peeled Apples

43. Marlon JD

44. Diapause

45. Hold Me Like A Heaven

46. Walk Me To The Bridge

47. A Secret Society

48. Dying Breeds

49. Tennessee

50. All Is Vanity

By Era

Generation Terrorists 5

Gold Against The Soul 3

The Holy Bible 5

Everything Must Go 4

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 3

Lifeblood 4

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 3

Rewind The Film 3

Futurology 4

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 4

Others 3

Manics Top 50s - 27th Nov 2021

It was a one chart day on Saturday and that person was....oh, it was me.  So I didn't even have to pull rank to move myself to the top of the blog.  For anyone who has been following along on Twitter you'll know that I ranked all 338 of the songs, you'll find the link below if you want to dive in deeper than the 50 and see my story and all the associated sub-charts, similar to what you'll get for the top 50s once we've finished.

But my By Era chart is exclusive to this blog, so don't say you don't get treats here.  And it was a tie at the top for Generation Terrorists, The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go with eight each, which feels oddly satsifying.

Ian @Pyfbrown

(My full chart can be found here https://harmonycorruption.blogspot.com/2021/11/big-manics-chart-2021-update.html)

1. Motown Junk
2. A Design For Life
3. Stay Beautiful
4. From Despair To Where
5. Motorcycle Emptiness
6. This Is Yesterday
7. Faster
8. You Love Us
9. Still Snowing In Sapporo
10. The Masses Against The Classes
11. No Surface All Feeling
12. Sleepflower
13. Firefight
14. Empty Souls
15. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
16. Enola/Alone
17. Australia
18. Yes
19. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
20. Little Baby Nothing
21. Tsunami
22. The Everlasting
23. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
24. Together Stronger (C'mon Wales)
25. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
26. Complicated Illusions
27. People Give In
28. Found That Soul
29. Archives Of Pain
30. PCP
31. Show Me The Wonder
32. Baby Elian
33. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God
34. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
35. Everything Must Go
36. Revol
37. Imperial Bodybags
38. 1985
39. Postcards From A Young Man
40. Sepia
41. This Joke Sport Severed
42. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
43. New Art Riot
44. Donkeys
45. 4st 7lb
46. The Secret He Had Missed
47. International Blue
48. Walk Me To The Bridge
49. Judge Yr'self
50. Sorrow 16

By Era

Generation Terrorists 8

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 8

Everything Must Go 8

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 2

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 1

Postcards From A Young Man 2

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 1

Resistance Is Futile 2

The Ultra Vivid Lament 3

Others 3

Manics Top 50s - 26th Nov 2021

Yesterday was another three chart day, bringing the total number of top 50s up to 92, and my own is already sat waiting to be published as number 93.

It's appropriate that these charts are from yesterday as This Is Yesterday took its second number 1, with Everything Must Go hitting double figures in the By Era chart with 10 entries.  Firefight reached its highest position so far at number 7.

Christian Oldcorn @oldcornc

1. This Is Yesterday

2. A Design For Life

3. Motorcycle Emptiness

4. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

5. No Surface All Feeling

6. Solitude Sometimes Is

7. Firefight

8. From Despair To Where

9. Faster

10. You Love Us

11. Motown Junk

12. Die In The Summertime

13. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

14. Enola/Alone

15. Yes

16. Australia

17. Golden Platitudes

18. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

19. You Stole The Sun From My Heart

20. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

21. Complicated Illusions

22. International Blue

23. Show Me The Wonder

24. This Is The Day

25. To Repel Ghosts

26. Found That Soul

27. Kevin Carter

28. Ocean Spray

29. Roses In The Hospital

30. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

31. The Everlasting

32. Further Away

33. Broken Algorithms

34. Futurology

35. Peeled Apples

36. Stay Beautiful

37. Prologue To History

38. Life Becoming A Landslide

39. Sleepflower

40. Little Baby Nothing

41. Everything Must Go

42. This Sullen Welsh Heart

43. Underdogs

44. Rewind The Film

45. Walk Me To The Bridge

46. Distant Colours

47. Horses Under Starlight

48. There By The Grace Of God

49. Sepia

50. Some Kind Of Nothingness

By Era

Generation Terrorists 6

Gold Against The Soul 5

The Holy Bible 4

Everything Must Go 10

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 2

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 1

Postcards From A Young Man 2

Rewind The Film 3

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 3

The Ultra Vivid Lament 1

Others 3

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It was A Design For Life's turn to triumph in the second chart, with Australia in second reaching its highest position so far.  Anthem For A Lost Cause finally managed to reach the top 10 too after a couple of 11th place finishes.

This Is My Truth just edged out Everything Must Go in the By Era chart, although there were also relatively good showings from Rewind The Film and Resistance Is Futile with five each.

Sarah Eyles @SarahEyles1

1. A Design For Life

2. Australia

3. Motorcycle Emptiness

4. Ready For Drowning

5. Autumnsong

6. Let Robeson Sing

7. International Blue

8. Everything Must Go

9. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

10. Anthem For A Lost Cause

11. Revol

12. Complicated Illusions

13. Little Baby Nothing

14. William's Last Words

15. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)

16. Hold Me Like A Heaven

17. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

18. Sleepflower

19. Distant Colours

20. Show Me The Wonder

21. Some Kind Of Nothingness

22. Rewind The Film

23. Sepia

24. Walk Me To The Bridge

25. Afterending

26. Running Out Of Fantasy

27. Orwellian

28. Found That Soul

29. The Secret He Had Missed

30. PCP

31. 4 Ever Delayed

32. Archives Of Pain

33. Liverpool Revisited

34. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

35. You Stole The Sun From My Heart

36. Send Away The Tigers

37. People Give In

38. No Surface All Feeling

39. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever

40. Golden Platitudes

41. The Everlasting

42. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

43. This Sullen Welsh Heart

44. Solitude Sometimes Is

45. Prologue To History

46. Further Away

47. My Little Empire

48. You Love Us

49. You're Tender And You're Tired

50. Born A Girl

By Era

Generation Terrorists 4

Gold Against The Soul 1

The Holy Bible 3

Everything Must Go 7

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 8

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 1

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 1

Postcards From A Young Man 3

Rewind The Film 5

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 5

The Ultra Vivid Lament 4

Others 1

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It's A Design For Life in top spot again in the third chart of this batch, this time it's 4st 7lb and Be Natural that match their highest placings so far.  This Is My Truth and The Holy Bible share the spoils in the By Era chart with eight each.

Andrew J Taylor @A_J_T_1970

1. A Design For Life

2. 4st 7lb

3. Motorcycle Emptiness

4. Be Natural

5. Yes

6. Life Becoming A Landslide

7. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

8. Little Baby Nothing

9. No Surface All Feeling

10. From Despair To Where

11. Born A Girl

12. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

13. The Everlasting

14. You're Tender And You're Tired

15. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

16. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

17. Intravenous Agnostic

18. Ocean Spray

19. Autumnsong

20. Black Dog On My Shoulder

21. Sepia

22. Revol

23. Faster

24. Nobody Loved You

25. PCP

26. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

27. Everything Must Go

28. She Is Suffering

29. The Convalescent

30. Peeled Apples

31. The Year Of Purification

32. Golden Platitudes

33. Postcards From A Young Man

34. This Sullen Welsh Heart

35. Show Me The Wonder

36. Walk Me To The Bridge

37. Donkeys

38. Indian Summer

39. This Is Yesterday

40. You Love Us

41. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

42. Dylan & Caitlin

43. Quest For Ancient Colour

44. Let Robeson Sing

45. Kevin Carter

46. So Why So Sad

47. Still Snowing In Sapporo

48. Prologue To History

49. Between The Clock And The Bed

50. All We Make Is Entertainment

By Era

Generation Terrorists 3

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 8

Everything Must Go 7

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 8

Know Your Enemy 6

Lifeblood 0

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 1

Postcards From A Young Man 3

Rewind The Film 2

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 2

Others 0

Manics Top 50s - 25th Nov 2021

As the charts come streaming in, these three are from Thursday 25th and we start with another top spot for Motorcycle Emptiness.  I Live To Fall Asleep and William's Last Words both achieve their highest placing so far, while Generation Terrorists just pips This Is My Truth to top spot in the By Era chart.

Chris Bickley @ChrisBickley1

1. Motorcycle Emptiness

2. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

3. I Live To Fall Asleep

4. From Despair To Where

5. Faster

6. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

7. A Design For Life

8. Black Dog On My Shoulder

9. William's Last Words

10. Hold Me Like A Heaven

11. Everything Must Go

12. Archives Of Pain

13. No Surface All Feeling

14. Motown Junk

15. Spectators Of Suicide

16. The Masses Against The Classes

17. You Love Us

18. Golden Platitudes

19. Send Away The Tigers

20. Some Kind Of Nothingness

21. A Song For Departure

22. Tsunami

23. Intravenous Agnostic

24. Little Baby Nothing

25. Walk Me To The Bridge

26. Yes

27. Peeled Apples

28. A Song For The Sadness

29. Love's Sweet Exile

30. Rewind The Film

31. Roses In The Hospital

32. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

33. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

34. 4st 7lb

35. Let Robeson Sing

36. Between The Clock And The Bed

37. Further Away

38. My Little Empire

39. Prologue To History

40. Slash N' Burn

41. The Vorticists

42. This Is Yesterday

43. Sorrow 16

44. Marlon JD

45. The Everlasting

46. Sleepflower

47. We Are All Bourgeois Now

48. I'm Not Working

49. Revol

50. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands

By Era

Generation Terrorists 8

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 6

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7

Know Your Enemy 4

Lifeblood 2

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 2

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 2

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 1

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It's a second number 1 for Tsunami in the second chart of this batch, while Donkeys also takes it second number 2 slot.  Valley Boy hits the top 10 in its highest placing so far, while a few of the lesser-loved album tracks manage to get some much needed points on the board.  Generation Terrorists, Gold Against The Soul and This Is My Truth all tie at the top of the By Era chart with 7 each.

Jack @jackmansavfc

1. Tsunami

2. Donkeys

3. Archives Of Pain

4. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

5. Sepia

6. Valley Boy

7. From Despair To Where

8. Send Away The Tigers

9. Faster

10. Sleepflower

11. Motorcycle Emptiness

12. A Design For Life

13. Comfort Comes

14. Golden Platitudes

15. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

16. The Everlasting

17. Removables

18. PCP

19. Prologue To History

20. So Dead

21. Nostalgic Pushead

22. The Convalescent

23. Tennessee

24. Roses In The Hospital

25. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun

26. Intravenous Agnostic

27. Solitude Sometimes Is

28. 1985

29. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

30. I Think I Found It

31. Be Natural

32. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

33. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

34. Autumnsong

35. Rewind The Film

36. The Descent (Pages 1 & 2)

37. Empty Souls

38. Walk Me To The Bridge

39. Epicentre

40. The Year Of Purification

41. Ocean Spray

42. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

43. Sorrow 16

44. Montana/Autumn/78

45. Slash N' Burn

46. The Secret He Had Missed

47. This Sullen Welsh Heart

48. Still Snowing In Sapporo

49. Anthem For A Lost Cause

50. (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline

By Era

Generation Terrorists 7

Gold Against The Soul 7

The Holy Bible 3

Everything Must Go 4

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7

Know Your Enemy 5

Lifeblood 3

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 0

Postcards From A Young Man 4

Rewind The Film 4

Futurology 1

Resistance Is Futile 0

The Ultra Vivid Lament 2

Others 0

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Last but not least in this batch is an emailed entry and possibly my favourite Manics origin story so far.  Born A Girl makes its debut in the 50 point club and Generation Terrorists takes the honours by era, but it's over to Daisy to explain the background in more detail:

I’m a relatively new Manics fan, having gotten into them just over a year ago now. I started listening to them because my dad told me he wasn’t a fan and that was my form of teenage rebellion, but after getting hooked on The Holy Bible I am now a bonafide Manics obsessive, with posters on my wall and Larkin on my shelf like every other teenage girl.

Born A Girl is my favourite Manics song because I think it’s so beautifully melancholic and sad, and it’s some of Nicky’s best lyricism for sure. It’s hugely underrated even with Manics fans.

Daisy via email

1. Born A Girl

2. Yes

3. 4st 7lb

4. Archives Of Pain

5. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

6. Faster

7. My Little Empire

8. Tsunami

9. Motown Junk

10. Be Natural

11. This Sullen Welsh Heart

12. Little Baby Nothing

13. From Despair To Where

14. Diapause

15. Sleepflower

16. Motorcycle Emptiness

17. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

18. A Design For Life

19. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

20. Stay Beautiful

21. This Is Yesterday

22. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

23. Repeat

24. Slash N' Burn

25. Intravenous Agnostic

26. The Masses Against The Classes

27. Afterending

28. I Live To Fall Asleep

29. You Love Us

30. Kevin Carter

31. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

32. Sorrow 16

33. All Is Vanity

34. Wattsville Blues

35. Prologue To History

36. Facing Page: Top Left

37. Complicated Illusions

38. Enola/Alone

39. Still Snowing In Sapporo

40. Yourself

41. Me And Stephen Hawking

42. Quest For Ancient Colour

43. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

44. International Blue

45. Roses In The Hospital

46. The Love Of Richard Nixon

47. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

48. So Why So Sad

49. Door To The River

50. Mr Carbohydrate

By Era

Generation Terrorists 9

Gold Against The Soul 5

The Holy Bible 6

Everything Must Go 5

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6

Know Your Enemy 4

Lifeblood 2

Send Away The Tigers 0

Journal For Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From A Young Man 0

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 0

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 5

Others 2

Manics Top 50s - 24th Nov 2021

It was another one chart day yesterday from a top 50 ever-present, albeit in a different guise than usual.  But it was a new number 1 both in terms of comparing with his previous charts and with the current batch of charts in general, as Die In The Summertime claimed its first 50 points.  It's So Easy is the next song to get off the mark with its first vote.

It was also a trademark By Era chart as only three songs from beyond Everything Must Go made the cut and four from the Everything Must Go-era itself, leaving Generation Terrorists (and before) and The Holy Bible with 36 entries between them.

Wrestling 20 Years Ago Podcast @Wrestling20Yrs

1. Die In The Summertime

2. Stay Beautiful

3. Of Walking Abortion

4. Yes

5. So Dead

6. Archives Of Pain

7. Sleepflower

8. Faster

9. Patrick Bateman

10. Mr Carbohydrate

11. Mausoleum

12. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

13. The Intense Humming Of Evil

14. Democracy Coma

15. Revol

16. 4st 7lb

17. Methadone Pretty

18. Love's Sweet Exile

19. Slash N' Burn

20. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

21. Repeat

22. Hibernation

23. Love Torn Us Under

24. New Art Riot

25. Motown Junk

26. Motorcycle Emptiness

27. Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel

28. Sculpture Of Man

29. All Is Vanity

30. Prologue To History

31. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

32. Life Becoming A Landslide

33. Crucifix Kiss

34. Comfort Comes

35. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

36. Judge Yr'self

37. Removables

38. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds

39. Born To End

40. No Surface All Feeling

41. Spectators Of Suicide

42. Sorrow 16

43. It's So Easy

44. We Her Majesty's Prisoners

45. Strip It Down

46. Another Invented Disease

47. Drug Drug Druggy

48. PCP

49. Symphony Of Tourette

50. Dead Yankee Drawl

By Era

Generation Terrorists 22

Gold Against The Soul 7

The Holy Bible 14

Everything Must Go 4

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 1

Know Your Enemy 1

Lifeblood 0

Send Away The Tigers 0

Journal For Plague Lovers 1

Postcards From A Young Man 0

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 0

Resistance Is Futile 0

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 0

Manics Top 50s - 23rd Nov 2021

It's a one chart day today but it has a nice background to brighten up the blog a bit.  Yes grabs another number 1 slot, while there's a relatively rare outing for The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever which takes its highest placing so far at 15.

The first four albums all battle it out for supremacy in the By Era chart with 6 or 7 each, Gold Against The Soul and Everything Must Go just edging it.  We're now up to chart number 85!

Iain Taylor @Raindogtaylor

By Era

Generation Terrorists 6

Gold Against The Soul 7

The Holy Bible 6

Everything Must Go 7

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 3

Lifeblood 2

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 3

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 3

Resistance Is Futile 3

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 1

Manics Top 50s - 22nd Nov 2021

It was a five chart day yesterday so I'll keep the comments relatively brief to save the blog running on forever.  We start off with A Design For Life taking another number 1 and a lot of different eras scoring relatively highly, Holy Bible and Everything Must Go each having six entries, while This Is My Truth, Lifeblood and Journal all have five each.

Paul Barnsley @Barnspaul31

1. A Design For Life

2. Faster

3. 1985

4. You're Tender And You're Tired

5. Yes

6. Still Snowing In Sapporo

7. Some Kind Of Nothingness

8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

9. I Live To Fall Asleep

10. Motorcycle Emptiness

11. Mausoleum

12. The Everlasting

13. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

14. Life Becoming A Landslide

15. No Surface All Feeling

16. Cardiff Afterlife

17. Doors Closing Slowly

18. Peeled Apples

19. Die In The Summertime

20. There By The Grace Of God

21. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

22. Nobody Loved You

23. William's Last Words

24. A Song For Departure

25. Diapause

26. The Second Great Depression

27. Glasnost

28. You Love Us

29. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

30. Prologue To History

31. International Blue

32. Rewind The Film

33. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

34. This Joke Sport Severed

35. Indian Summer

36. From Despair To Where

37. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

38. This Sullen Welsh Heart

39. So Why So Sad

40. 4st 7lb

41. Black Square

42. The Masses Against The Classes

43. Ocean Spray

44. Let's Go To War

45. 3 Ways To See Despair

46. Motown Junk

47. The Left Behind

48. PCP

49. People Give In

50. Enola/Alone

By Era

Generation Terrorists 3

Gold Against The Soul 3

The Holy Bible 6

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 5

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 5

Postcards From A Young Man 1

Rewind The Film 3

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 3

The Ultra Vivid Lament 2

Others 2

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Our second chart is another nicely presented entry, but despite the Journal backdrop it's No Surface All Feeling that takes the number 1 slot and Holy Bible that takes the honours in the By Era chart.  Blank Diary Entry and Auto-Intoxication are a couple of album tracks with less than a handful of entries so far that manage to get a few more points on the board here.

Michael Lee @yekim_mikey

By Era

Generation Terrorists 3

Gold Against The Soul 6

The Holy Bible 8

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 3

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 5

Postcards From A Young Man 5

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 0

The Ultra Vivid Lament 2

Others 1

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As well as providing us with a few comments inserted against chosen tracks and giving You Love Us another 50 points, Steve has also helped out three of the no-vote songs get off the mark - Fear Of Motion, The Instrumental and All Alone Here all featuring for the first time.

Steven Drake @sdrake767

1. You Love Us

Hours of guitar practice learning the solos and always a high point of every gig, my love is made even stronger by a live version from the early 90s that turns in to a fight

2. A Design For Life

3. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

4. Fear Of Motion

Probably unusual to have this little song so high up but I love the cheap, throwaway nature of it. A real personal choice dating back to rummaging in the loft for my parents record player and represents the start of my desire to collect every Manics song (at that point I only owned EMG, KYE and TIMTTMY)

5. Ready For Drowning

Assisted by the DVD extra on the Millennium Stadium DVD and John Cale duet

6. No Surface All Feeling

7. Archives Of Pain

8. Kevin Carter

Possibly unusual to be this high up but the song that got me in to the band in guitar lessons in the late 90s

9. International Blue

10. The Masses Against The Classes

The excitement of listening to Radio 1 to hear it announced as number 1

11. You Stole The Sun From My Heart

12. Found That Soul

13. Show Me The Wonder

14. 1985

Should have been the first single....

15. Roses In The Hospital

16. Vision Blurred

Similar to Fear of Motion, this just sounds like a band doing what they want, and I love that

17. Sepia

18. Be Natural

19. Australia

20. From Despair To Where

21. Montana/Autumn/78

22. Everything Must Go

23. Intravenous Agnostic

24. Judge Yr'self

25. Comfort Comes

26. Vivian

27. All Alone Here

28. The Instrumental

29. Tsunami

30. This Joke Sport Severed

31. Masking Tape

32. Locust Valley

33. Automatik Teknicolour

34. The Long Goodbye

35. Heyday Of The Blood

36. 3 Ways To See Despair

37. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)

38. Europa Geht Durch Mich

39. Peeled Apples

40. Afterending

41. The Last Time I Saw Paris

The mystery of who the female voice is adds to the appeal

42. Send Away The Tigers

43. Faster

44. To Repel Ghosts

45. Rewind The Film

46. Motorcycle Emptiness

Perhaps lower than most people, I've never really loved it

47. Sleepflower

48. Some Kind Of Nothingness

49. Complicated Illusions

50. The Ghost Of Christmas

Always a pleasure having this as the first Christmas song I play in December

By Era

Generation Terrorists 2

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 3

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6

Know Your Enemy 5

Lifeblood 3

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From A Young Man 1

Rewind The Film 3

Futurology 3

Resistance Is Futile 2

The Ultra Vivid Lament 2

Others 5

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It's a chart regular returning next with My Little Empire jumping up into the number 1 slot for the first time and Rendition also claiming its first top 10 place.  The Holy Bible just manages to edge out Everything Must Go and This Is My Truth in the By Era chart with eight selections.

Chorizo Garbanzo @ChorizoGarbanzo

1. My Little Empire

2. 4st 7lb

3. This Is Yesterday

4. Rendition

5. Faster

6. Found That Soul

7. The Masses Against The Classes

8. Distant Colours

9. Kevin Carter

10. Little Baby Nothing

11. Of Walking Abortion

12. Ready For Drowning

13. Motorcycle Emptiness

14. Complicated Illusions

15. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

16. The Convalescent

17. Donkeys

18. From Despair To Where

19. The Everlasting

20. Love Letter To The Future

21. A Design For Life

22. All Is Vanity

23. Yes

24. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)

25. Let Robeson Sing

26. Diapause

27. Mr Carbohydrate

28. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

29. Removables

30. Epicentre

31. Black Holes For The Young

32. You're Tender And You're Tired

33. No Surface All Feeling

34. Between The Clock And The Bed

35. Enola/Alone

36. In Eternity

37. The Year Of Purification

38. RP McMurphy

39. Mausoleum

40. Show Me The Wonder

41. Distractions

42. Die In The Summertime

43. Be Natural

44. Revol

45. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever

46. William's Last Words

47. Bored Out Of My Mind

48. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

49. Winterlovers

50. Solitude Sometimes Is

By Era

Generation Terrorists 5

Gold Against The Soul 3

The Holy Bible 8

Everything Must Go 7

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6

Know Your Enemy 5

Lifeblood 1

Send Away The Tigers 4

Journal For Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From A Young Man 2

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 1

Resistance Is Futile 2

The Ultra Vivid Lament 2

Others 1

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Last but not least is Jack who kindly got a chart together amidst mounting college work, hopefully his grades won't suffer as a result!  As with the first chart in this batch, it's A Design For Life that triumphs and Everything Must Go takes a clean sweep by having the most entries By Era too.  Jack admitted The Ultra Vivid Lament has yet to get much airplay, so you never know next time that could have a chance at featuring.

Jack Kavanagh Homan @jkhoman

1. A Design For Life

2. Faster

3. Motorcycle Emptiness

4. The Everlasting

5. Everything Must Go

6. Motown Junk

7. Yes

8. Little Baby Nothing

9. You're Tender And You're Tired

10. Rewind The Film

11. You Love Us

12. Tsunami

13. Love's Sweet Exile

14. 4st 7lb

15. No Surface All Feeling

16. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

17. Comfort Comes

18. This Is Yesterday

19. 1985

20. Enola/Alone

21. Hold Me Like A Heaven

22. Door To The River

23. Black Dog On My Shoulder

24. Sepia

25. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

26. Sleepflower

27. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

28. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)

29. Ocean Spray

30. 4 Ever Delayed

31. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands

32. People Give In

33. The Second Great Depression

34. Spectators Of Suicide

35. Let Robeson Sing

36. William's Last Words

37. Life Becoming A Landslide

38. Empty Souls

39. This Is The Day

40. Patrick Bateman

41. The Year Of Purification

42. Anthem For A Lost Cause

43. Some Kind Of Nothingness

44. Indian Summer

45. I Live To Fall Asleep

46. 30-Year War

47. The Convalescent

48. All Is Vanity

49. Between The Clock And The Bed

50. Send Away The Tigers

By Era

Generation Terrorists 7

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 4

Everything Must Go 8

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 4

Lifeblood 3

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 1

Rewind The Film 3

Futurology 1

Resistance Is Futile 2

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 3

Manics Top 50s - 21st Nov 2021 part 2

The charts have kept rolling in today but here we're catching up with a couple from last night so the blogs don't get too crowded!  

First up it was a nicely presented chart that deserves to be shown on the blog, but unfortunately the image sizes meant either relatively small or too big for the blog frame, so I've reproduced it below too!  Show Me The Wonder is the latest song to join the 50 point club and International Blue at number 2 also claims its highest placing so far.

It's a close-run thing in the By Era chart as This Is My Truth just edges out Everything Must Go by seven to six, with a few other albums sharing the load to make it to five and four.   

Tink Holloway @TinkHolloway

1. Show Me The Wonder

2. International Blue

3. Peeled Apples

4. A Design For Life

5. As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)

6. Archives Of Pain

7. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

8. Diapause

9. A Song For Departure

10. Motown Junk

11. Little Baby Nothing

12. Between The Clock And The Bed

13. You're Tender And You're Tired

14. The Secret He Had Missed

15. The Masses Against The Classes

16. Enola/Alone

17. Be Natural

18. 30-Year War

19. Die In The Summertime

20. Black Dog On My Shoulder

21. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

22. Sleepflower

23. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

24. Motorcycle Emptiness

25. Still Snowing In Sapporo

26. PCP

27. The Everlasting

28. We Were Never Told

29. Send Away The Tigers

30. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

31. The Love Of Richard Nixon

32. Afterending

33. Love Letter To The Future

34. Further Away

35. Ready For Drowning

36. Sepia

37. This Sullen Welsh Heart

38. So Why So Sad

39. Always/Never

40. Faster

41. Stay Beautiful

42. Nobody Loved You

43. Quest For Ancient Colour

44. Walk Me To The Bridge

45. People Give In

46. Automatik Teknicolour

47. I Live To Fall Asleep

48. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

49. Door To The River

50. Masking Tape

By Era

Generation Terrorists 5

Gold Against The Soul 1

The Holy Bible 4

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 4

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 1

Postcards From A Young Man 0

Rewind The Film 4

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 2

The Ultra Vivid Lament 5

Others 4

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The second chart in this batch sees A Design For Life reclaim another top spot, with I Live To Fall Asleep and Interiors both claiming their highest placing so far.

Seven different albums get at least four picks, but it's The Holy Bible that's out in front with eight.  Postcards fails to get a single selection in either of the charts of the day.

LaLaLaMurph @LaMurphF1

1. A Design For Life

2. Faster

3. Motorcycle Emptiness

4. I Live To Fall Asleep

5. Donkeys

6. Sepia

7. From Despair To Where

8. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)

9. Diapause

10. This Sullen Welsh Heart

11. All Is Vanity

12. Be Natural

13. Let's Go To War

14. Yes

15. Empty Motorcade

16. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

17. Judge Yr'self

18. Motown Junk

19. Die In The Summertime

20. Still Snowing In Sapporo

21. Stay Beautiful

22. No Surface All Feeling

23. You Love Us

24. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

25. She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach

26. Sleepflower

27. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

28. Send Away The Tigers

29. Peeled Apples

30. Builder Of Routines

31. Glasnost

32. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

33. 1985

34. Of Walking Abortion

35. Europa Geht Durch Mich

36. The Year Of Purification

37. 30-Year War

38. My Guernica

39. Comfort Comes

40. 4st 7lb

41. This Joke Sport Severed

42. Slash N' Burn

43. I'm Just A Patsy

44. Archives Of Pain

45. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

46. (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline

47. The Masses Against The Classes

48. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

49. Solitude Sometimes Is

50. International Blue

By Era

Generation Terrorists 5

Gold Against The Soul 5

The Holy Bible 8

Everything Must Go 5

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 2

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 4

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 5

Postcards From A Young Man 0

Rewind The Film 4

Futurology 3

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 2

Others 1

Manics Top 50s - 21st Nov 2021

One single top 50 in this blog and it's Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll that takes it's second 50 point haul so far and Bag Lady 'bags' its highest spot at number 5, its second top 10 placing.  Vivian gets a relatively rare outing too with only its third selection.

The Holy Bible hits double figures with ten picks breaking down By Era, with half of the chart coming from either The Holy Bible, Generation Terrorists or Everything Must Go eras.

Rich @richierabs

1. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

2. A Design For Life

3. Yes

4. You Love Us

5. Bag Lady

6. Little Baby Nothing

7. Motorcycle Emptiness

8. Archives Of Pain

9. From Despair To Where

10. Kevin Carter

11. Die In The Summertime

12. The Everlasting

13. Of Walking Abortion

14. Peeled Apples

15. Sleepflower

16. Faster

17. Everything Must Go

18. Life Becoming A Landslide

19. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

20. Imperial Bodybags

21. Stay Beautiful

22. Roses In The Hospital

23. Too Cold Here

24. Afterending

25. The Masses Against The Classes

26. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

27. Enola/Alone

28. The Intense Humming Of Evil

29. PCP

30. Slash N' Burn

31. Prologue To History

32. Winterlovers

33. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

34. Ocean Spray

35. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

36. My Little Empire

37. Send Away The Tigers

38. I'm Just A Patsy

39. Found That Soul

40. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands

41. This Sullen Welsh Heart

42. She Is Suffering

43. 30-Year War

44. Vivian

45. Doors Closing Slowly

46. Diapause

47. This Joke Sport Severed

48. Still Snowing In Sapporo

49. Bored Out Of My Mind

50. 4st 7lb

By Era

Generation Terrorists 8

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 10

Everything Must Go 7

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 3

Lifeblood 0

Send Away The Tigers 4

Journal For Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From A Young Man 0

Rewind The Film 2

Futurology 0

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 3

Others 1

Manics Top 50s - 19th Nov 2021

So I went through my spreadsheet last night and worked out how many no-vote songs were remaining overall (48 if you were wondering), only to find afterwards that an email had gone into my junk folder with two no-vote songs selected!

So alongside A Design For Life at number 1 and first top 10 finishes for Vision Blurred, Firefight and Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel, Dai has given Kodawari and Ostpolitik their first points to bring that total down to 46.  There were 36 back in 2015 so let's see if we can get below that total this time.  The Holy Bible just edged out Send Away The Tigers in the By Era chart by 7 to 6, meaning there was a more even spread across the albums.

Dai Howells @Dai_Howells

1. A Design For Life

2. Faster

3. The Masses Against The Classes

4. Motorcycle Emptiness

5. Vision Blurred

6. Found That Soul

7. To Repel Ghosts

8. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

9. Firefight

10. Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel

11. Judge Yr'self

12. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

13. Sleepflower

14. Archives Of Pain

15. No Surface All Feeling

16. Kodawari

17. Sepia

18. Removables

19. Tsunami

20. Prologue To History

21. Mausoleum

22. Automatik Teknicolour

23. All We Make Is Entertainment

24. Of Walking Abortion

25. From Despair To Where

26. Walk Me To The Bridge

27. Ostpolitik

28. Door To The River

29. Anorexic Rodin

30. In Eternity

31. PCP

32. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

33. The Vorticists

34. Everything Must Go

35. You Love Us

36. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

37. Send Away The Tigers

38. This Joke Sport Severed

39. Montana/Autumn/78

40. Nobody Loved You

41. International Blue

42. The Ghost Of Christmas

43. Some Kind Of Nothingness

44. Fearless Punk Ballad

45. Autumnsong

46. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

47. Still Snowing In Sapporo

48. Empty Souls

49. Comfort Comes

50. Sculpture Of Man

By Era

Generation Terrorists 3

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 5

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 2

Send Away The Tigers 6

Journal For Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From A Young Man 3

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 2

The Ultra Vivid Lament 1

Others 6

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The second chart in this batch comes with extensive notes, so I'll leave it to Dr Gary to explain in his own words in batches of ten!

Dr Gary P Marriner @DrGaryMarriner

1. Motorcycle Emptiness

2. Everything Must Go

3. No Surface All Feeling

4. Prologue To History

5. Divine Youth

6. Faster

7. Motown Junk

8. You Love Us

9. Sepia

10. Black Holes For The Young

Classic track for the top spot, no surprises there. Few oddities in my top 10 including Prologue to History, just can’t beat that damn harsh rock piano, something about the anger in the song gets me every time. Divine Youth and Sepia both ache of melancholic beauty and nostalgic sorrow in very different ways. Black Holes for the Young is not an amazing track but the contrast between JDB and SEB is. Her class-ridden droll juxtaposed to his unashamedly Welsh statements creates something that speaks to the absolute heart of what the later 20th century was about for me.

11. Stay Beautiful

12. From Despair To Where

13. Kevin Carter

14. Removables

15. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

16. A Design For Life

17. Little Baby Nothing

18. Europa Geht Durch Mich

19. Slash N' Burn

20. In Eternity

More obvious classics with the two biggest hitters (Tolerate & Design for Life) making my top 20. Stay Beautiful, From Despair to Where and Slash ‘n’ Burn all make it in for their absolute banger status when the music is turned up loud and we shout along. Every Manics fan deserves to have heard Stay Beautiful live at least once. Kevin Carter was one of the first tracks that led me to find out more about the people behind the songs. Removables is just so damn sad but speaks of an appealing movement of emotions that gives it something more. Funny the Little Baby Nothing and Europa ended up next to each other. Two very good duets, the first of which is another simple classic and tells a perfect story. Europa should have been the anthem that prevented Brexit.

21. Yes

22. First Republic

23. Nobody Loved You

24. Pedestal

25. Intravenous Agnostic

26. Sleepflower

27. Enola/Alone

28. Show Me The Wonder

29. Hold Me Like A Heaven

30. Donkeys

Yes, First Republic and Intravenous Agnostic are all fantastic rock songs with excellent lyrics. All examples of songs that again made me learn and research. Nobody Loved You builds and builds to that moment and is heartbreaking every time. If it is possible to detach the song from Richey I almost feel like it stands stronger as a pure song of loss. Show me the Wonder was the first Manics song my wife liked and we still sing it together in the car, a very good reason to have it in there. Sleepflower will always remind me of being a teenager pogoing around in my bedroom whereas Hold me Like A Heaven will always remind me of meeting my wife and falling in Love. The opening line to Donkeys is one of the greatest lyrics ever written.

31. Socialist Serenade

32. Further Away

33. The Masses Against The Classes

34. Leviathan

35. Masking Tape

36. Golden Platitudes

37. This Joke Sport Severed

38. Be Natural

39. Valley Boy

40. Afterending

The dog barking at the start of Socialist Serenade is just fab, the song speaking of the contradictions in modern socialism really helped me hone my personal politics whereas Masses is just an absolute banger that deserves to be remembered more and I’ll always love that it was the first new No1 of this entire millennium. Leviathan is my 6th form Philosophy class in a nutshell, and I’ll always love it for that. Masking Tape provided me with the perfect metaphor for my own feelings and is an underrated gem. Golden Platitudes has the colonise the moon lyric but is also a grand old anthem of disaffection. Valley Boy gets a mention for being so beautifully European long before Futurology. I’ve always seen myself as European and when I started travelling more that song came with me. Afterending sneaks in as my favourite track from TUVL and for its brilliant lyrics.

41. Spectators Of Suicide

42. Red Sleeping Beauty

43. Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel

44. People Give In

45. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

46. Morning Comrades

47. A Song For The Sadness

48. We Her Majesty's Prisoners

49. Patrick Bateman

50. Heyday Of The Blood

Final 10 are mostly all songs that appeal to different parts of my character. The opening speech on Spectators of Suicide Heavenly Version is another touchstone from where I learnt a lot, same with Heyday of the Blood. Red Sleeping Beauty led me to find McCarthy and become a huge fan of their work too. People Give in was the anthem of the latter stages of my PhD along with A Song for the Sadness. Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel feels raw and dirty and exotic and ridiculous, kind of like my experience in Bangkok. We Her Majesty’s Prisoners and Patrick Bateman brim with a ridiculous confidence lyrically and I adore them for it. So crass, so offensive and so bloody arrogant.

By Era

Generation Terrorists 8

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 3

Everything Must Go 9

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7

Know Your Enemy 4

Lifeblood 0

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 1

Postcards From A Young Man 1

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 4

The Ultra Vivid Lament 1

Others 2

Manics Top 50s - 18th Nov 2021

It was a four chart day yesterday, which I imagine might start to become more common as everyone finalises the charts they've been agonising over for the last few months.

First up is another ever-present from the top 50s and fantasy setlists, Nick has changed the number 1 from his previous two entries as Yes slips down to fourth to be overtaken by Faster.  As Holy As The Soil takes its first top 10 spot and therefore its highest placing so far, with All We Make Is Entertainment also getting its highest placing and First Republic its first vote full stop at 13.

A number of other B-sides also pick up some much needed points to avoid being near the back of the queue come the final reckoning.  I'll be going through soon to find out how many no-vote songs are left overall.

Nick Tait @ApolloScream

1. Faster

2. Autumnsong

3. Some Kind Of Nothingness

4. Yes

5. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

6. Love's Sweet Exile

7. Imperial Bodybags

8. You're Tender And You're Tired

9. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

10. As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)

11. Europa Geht Durch Mich

12. All We Make Is Entertainment

13. First Republic

14. 4st 7lb

15. You Love Us

16. Stay Beautiful

17. Judge Yr'self

18. The Masses Against The Classes

19. Don't Let The Night Divide Us

20. Found That Soul

21. This Is Yesterday

22. Slash N' Burn

23. Little Baby Nothing

24. Life Becoming A Landslide

25. Nobody Loved You

26. Underdogs

27. I Think I Found It

28. Walk Me To The Bridge

29. A Vision Of Dead Desire

30. No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me

31. Welcome To The Dead Zone

32. Afterending

33. Happy Bored Alone

34. Groundhog Days

35. From Despair To Where

36. Die In The Summertime

37. Golden Platitudes

38. Show Me The Wonder

39. Futurology

40. William's Last Words

41. Of Walking Abortion

42. Buildings For Dead People

43. Ready For Drowning

44. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

45. Ain't Going Down

46. Let Robeson Sing

47. I Live To Fall Asleep

48. 30-Year War

49. Anthem For A Lost Cause

50. Heyday Of The Blood

By Era

Generation Terrorists 7

Gold Against The Soul 3

The Holy Bible 8

Everything Must Go 2

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 3

Lifeblood 1

Send Away The Tigers 6

Journal For Plague Lovers 1

Postcards From A Young Man 4

Rewind The Film 4

Futurology 3

Resistance Is Futile 0

The Ultra Vivid Lament 3

Others 1

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Next is our first Twitter blue tick participant this time, Dom is a Nottingham-based self-confessed Manics obsessive and music writer who was lucky enough to interview Nicky Wire only a few months ago, and for the third time no less!  And as Emily Hyatt documented in her recent (excellent) fanzine for the Manics tour, he clearly looks enough like a famous person to have been mistaken for one of the band in Halifax!

It's a Motorcycle Emptiness number 1 and a classic top 10, with Orwellian just knocking on the door on behalf of the new songs. Having taken its first vote only the previous day, Starlover now climbs even higher to number 20, with the Generation Terrorists (and before) and Holy Bible eras coming out on top equally with nine.

Dom Gourlay @domlikesrabbits

1. Motorcycle Emptiness

2. Faster

3. Stay Beautiful

4. A Design For Life

5. Motown Junk

6. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

7. Judge Yr'self

8. Revol

9. Sorrow 16

10. Sleepflower

11. Orwellian

12. All Is Vanity

13. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

14. There By The Grace Of God

15. 4 Ever Delayed

16. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

17. Archives Of Pain

18. Found That Soul

19. Australia

20. Starlover

21. Yourself

22. Interiors (Song For Willem De Kooning)

23. Yes

24. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

25. Ready For Drowning

26. Kevin Carter

27. Enola/Alone

28. The Masses Against The Classes

29. International Blue

30. Of Walking Abortion

31. Roses In The Hospital

32. You Love Us

33. Sculpture Of Man

34. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

35. From Despair To Where

36. Don't Let The Night Divide Us

37. Dead Yankee Drawl

38. Everything Must Go

39. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

40. Drug Drug Druggy

41. Repeat

42. Still Snowing In Sapporo

43. Patrick Bateman

44. No Surface All Feeling

45. Peeled Apples

46. Die In The Summertime

47. Europa Geht Durch Mich

48. Tsunami

49. Marlon JD

50. Slash N' Burn

By Era

Generation Terrorists 9

Gold Against The Soul 7

The Holy Bible 9

Everything Must Go 8

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 1

Lifeblood 0

Send Away The Tigers 1

Journal For Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From A Young Man 0

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 1

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 3

Others 3

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Motorcycle Emptiness comes out on top again in the third chart of this batch and there's a highest finish so far for Dead Trees And Traffic Islands at number 6.  His Last Painting picks ups its third vote in a couple of days, it's strange how some of the lesser-loved songs just seem to turn up in bursts, like we had with So Dead a few weeks ago!

This Is My Truth tops Dan's By Era chart with nine, closely followed by Know Your Enemy, a little break from the usual suspects there!

Dan Smith @dansm1th3

1. Motorcycle Emptiness

2. No Surface All Feeling

3. Life Becoming A Landslide

4. A Design For Life

5. 4st 7lb

6. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands

7. Little Baby Nothing

8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

9. Enola/Alone

10. Yes

11. You Love Us

12. The Everlasting

13. Black Dog On My Shoulder

14. Australia

15. Faster

16. My Little Empire

17. Let Robeson Sing

18. His Last Painting

19. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

20. Further Away

21. Prologue To History

22. This Is Yesterday

23. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

24. This Joke Sport Severed

25. Nobody Loved You

26. I Live To Fall Asleep

27. The Masses Against The Classes

28. Born A Girl

29. We Are All Bourgeois Now

30. Ocean Spray

31. Ready For Drowning

32. Patrick Bateman

33. International Blue

34. So Why So Sad

35. Are Mothers Saints

36. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

37. Of Walking Abortion

38. Slash N' Burn

39. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

40. Dead Martyrs

41. Tsunami

42. Mr Carbohydrate

43. PCP

44. Stay Beautiful

45. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun

46. Bag Lady

47. Found That Soul

48. All We Make Is Entertainment

49. Roses In The Hospital

50. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

By Era

Generation Terrorists 6

Gold Against The Soul 5

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 7

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 9

Know Your Enemy 8

Lifeblood 1

Send Away The Tigers 0

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 2

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 0

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 1

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The final chart of this batch gives us a nice bit of symmetry, with Faster at number 1 again to book-end the two Motorcycle Emptinesses.  Tolerate takes its third number 2 slot, while Everything Must Go takes the honours in the By Era chart with eight entries.

Rick @rickl80

1. Faster

2. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

3. A Design For Life

4. Motorcycle Emptiness

5. This Is Yesterday

6. Slash N' Burn

7. Life Becoming A Landslide

8. Yes

9. No Surface All Feeling

10. Peeled Apples

11. The Masses Against The Classes

12. Sepia

13. Sleepflower

14. Door To The River

15. Australia 

16. Motown Junk

17. 4 Ever Delayed

18. You Love Us

19. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)

20. Montana/Autumn/78

21. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

22. Automatik Teknicolour

23. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love

24. Europa Geht Durch Mich

25. Intravenous Agnostic

26. Stay Beautiful

27. Rendition

28. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

29. Prologue To History

30. There By The Grace Of God

31. Send Away The Tigers

32. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

33. Enola/Alone

34. Tsunami

35. I Know The Numbers

36. This Joke Sport Severed

37. Black Square

38. Be Natural

39. Walk Me To The Bridge

40. Broken Algorithms

41. Donkeys

42. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands

43. Love Letter To The Future

44. Misguided Missile

45. Locust Valley

46. I'm Just A Patsy

47. The Everlasting

48. From Despair To Where

49. Never Want Again

50. Too Cold Here

By Era

Generation Terrorists 6

Gold Against The Soul 5

The Holy Bible 4

Everything Must Go 8

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 0

Send Away The Tigers 4

Journal For Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From A Young Man 2

Rewind The Film 0

Futurology 5

Resistance Is Futile 1

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 5

Manics Top 50s - 17th Nov 2021

There are four charts here including the one that took us over the previous record of 68 charts, and they don't look like stopping any time soon.  Can we break 100?!

First is one of our more artistic entries, with Ocean Spray taking its second number 1 slot.  This Sullen Welsh Heart and Locust Valley both take their place in the top 10 and earn their highest placing so far.  To go with the number 1 and the top 10 B-side, Know Your Enemy takes the honours in the By Era chart with eight.

I'd can can if I could @gloomyok

By Era

Generation Terrorists 3

Gold Against The Soul 1

The Holy Bible 5

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 8

Lifeblood 4

Send Away The Tigers 3

Journal For Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From A Young Man 2

Rewind The Film 4

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 3

The Ultra Vivid Lament 1

Others 0

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The next chart is another artistic one, with Bob opting for leopard print and joining his daughter's previous submission in the process.  A Design For Life takes the 50 points home but it's The Holy Bible that tops the By Era chart with eleven, so that's only two of the songs on the album not making it.  

It's also a top three that mirrors the top three of the previous editions of the top 50s in content, if not in order.  But will something else break in this time?

BOB CARIDAD @deporbags

By Era

Generation Terrorists 5

Gold Against The Soul 7

The Holy Bible 11

Everything Must Go 5

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 1

Lifeblood 4

Send Away The Tigers 4

Journal For Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From A Young Man 2

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 0

Resistance Is Futile 0

The Ultra Vivid Lament 2

Others 1

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The third chart in this batch sees Motown Junk take its first number 1, perhaps surprising that it took this long?  Automatik Teknicolour appears in its highest position in 6th, although not its only top 10 finish, while Starlover picks up its first vote.

There's a good spread across the albums in the By Era chart, with The Holy Bible just nudging ahead with seven.

a lot of miles from home @ofmilesfromhome

1. Motown Junk

2. A Design For Life

3. Motorcycle Emptiness

4. Send Away The Tigers

5. Prologue To History

6. Automatik Teknicolour

7. The Masses Against The Classes

8. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)

9. 4 Ever Delayed

10. Faster

11. Tsunami

12. Roses In The Hospital

13. Some Kind Of Nothingness

14. Futurology

15. You Love Us

16. Australia

17. No Surface All Feeling

18. PCP

19. Yes

20. 1985

21. Found That Soul

22. All Is Vanity

23. Peeled Apples

24. Sleepflower

25. The Convalescent

26. International Blue

27. Door To The River

28. Judge Yr'self

29. Boxes & Lists

30. From Despair To Where

31. Enola/Alone

32. Empty Motorcade

33. A Song For The Sadness

34. Love Letter To The Future

35. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

36. You're Tender And You're Tired

37. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

38. Archives Of Pain

39. Stay Beautiful

40. 30-Year War

41. My Little Empire

42. Epicentre

43. In Eternity

44. This Is Yesterday

45. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

46. Of Walking Abortion

47. Patrick Bateman

48. Starlover

49. The Secret He Had Missed

50. Broken Up Again

By Era

Generation Terrorists 6

Gold Against The Soul 4

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 3

Lifeblood 1

Send Away The Tigers 4

Journal For Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From A Young Man 2

Rewind The Film 1

Futurology 2

Resistance Is Futile 3

The Ultra Vivid Lament 1

Others 4

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Last but not least we have La Tristesse Durera appearing top of the pile for the fourth time so far, with the second place for Solitude Sometimes Is its highest position so far.  Caldey grabs its third vote, but the second in the top 10, if we were going on average points that would score pretty highly!

There are also rare outings for What Happened To The Blue Generation, TE Lawrence On A Bike, Teenage 20/20 and Wattsville Blues, all picking up some much needed points for their tally.

Cadw'r ffydd @WelshDragonHQ

1. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

2. Solitude Sometimes Is

3. This Is Yesterday

4. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

5. Ready For Drowning

6. His Last Painting

7. Caldey

8. Mausoleum

9. This Sullen Welsh Heart

10. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

11. 1985

12. Black Dog On My Shoulder

13. What Happened To The Blue Generation

14. Anthem For A Lost Cause

15. The Intense Humming Of Evil

16. Rewind The Film

17. Yes

18. People Give In

19. 4st 7lb

20. Donkeys

21. Send Away The Tigers

22. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

23. Roses In The Hospital

24. Dylan And Caitlin

25. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love

26. Sleepflower

27. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

28. Motorcycle Emptiness

29. Comfort Comes

30. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

31. Yourself

32. Peeled Apples

33. Askew Road

34. Firefight

35. Slash N' Burn

36. Gold Against The Soul

37. Stay Beautiful

38. A Song For Departure

39. A Design For Life

40. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll

41. Teenage 20/20

42. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun

43. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands

44. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children

45. Wattsville Blues

46. Glasnost

47. Autumnsong

48. Hazelton Avenue

49. T.E. Lawrence On A Bike

50. My Guernica

By Era

Generation Terrorists 5

Gold Against The Soul 7

The Holy Bible 6

Everything Must Go 4

This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 5

Lifeblood 5

Send Away The Tigers 2

Journal For Plague Lovers 1

Postcards From A Young Man 3

Rewind The Film 5

Futurology 1

Resistance Is Futile 2

The Ultra Vivid Lament 0

Others 1