Manics Top 50s - 23rd August 2013

I have great pleasure in announcing today's top 50 from respected journalist Keith Cameron, no doubt in good spirits following his coffee and croissant with Nicky Wire recently!!  As well as a distinguished and continuing career with a number of top music magazines over the years, Keith may also be familiar to you as the author of the piece inside the booklet of the Holy Bible 10th Anniversary Edition.  As you'll see from the chart, his association with that album is no coincidence, coming out on top in the mini-chart by era.  His choice of number one is certainly a very popular one in these charts, although a surprise placing at number 2 for 'Prologue to History', which has been putting in a decent showing recently in a bid to be the highest placed B-side.

Thanks to Keith for taking the time out to contribute to our chart and also to JamGaw for his excellent recruiting skills, who incidentally suggests that we go and read Keith's just published Mudhoney biography as a thank you.  And as this is a place to celebrate words and music, and not product placement, we're sure he wouldn't mind if you just got it out of the library!  They do give us power after all.....

We are now up to 40 charts, so our goal of at least 50 top 50s is getting closer, especially considering we have 5 on the go at the moment!!

Keith Cameron @KeithCameron2

1. Faster

2. Prologue To History

3. Motorcycle Emptiness

4. Motown Junk

5. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

6. Archives Of Pain

7. Marlon JD

8. A Design For Life

9. Mausoleum

10. Yes

11. Little Baby Nothing

12. Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

13. Rewind The Film

14. Die In The Summertime

15. She Is Suffering

16. Slash N’ Burn

17. No Surface All Feeling

18. Enola/Alone

19. Of Walking Abortion

20. The Masses Against The Classes

21. All Is Vanity

22. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

23. Comfort Comes

24. Peeled Apples

25. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

26. Some Kind Of Nothingness

27. Mr Carbohydrate

28. The Love Of Richard Nixon

29. Pretension/Repulsion

30. Kevin Carter

31. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun

32. 1985

33. You Love Us

34. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

35. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

36. Send Away The Tigers

37. Ocean Spray

38. Judge Yr’self

39. You Stole The Sun From My Heart

40. Revol

41. From Despair To Where

42. Spectators Of Suicide

43. The Intense Humming Of Evil

44. Sleepflower

45. Dead Passive

46. Never Want Again

47. Empty Souls

48. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

49. Virginia State Epileptic Colony

50. Repeat

By Era

Generation Terrorists 8

Gold Against the Soul 4

The Holy Bible 11

Everything Must Go 8

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 1

Lifeblood 3

Send Away the Tigers 2

Journal for Plague Lovers 6

Postcards From a Young Man 2

Others 2

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 33)