Manics Top 50s - 25th August 2013

A bumper crop of three charts for your viewing pleasure today, two of which have been counting down gradually over the last week or so.  The first chart is definitely one of our most unique charts, being heavily weighted towards the first 3 albums/eras, but that allows some of those great early B-sides to have their day in the sun.  And I do believe 'Archives of Pain' has earned its first number one slot - that will be another chart by the way, the number one chart!!!  And no matter how much you love the later songs, you have to admit it's a damn fine chart, a glowing comment on the depth of the material available to us when making our selections.

I know I keep saying that some charts are equally spread between the albums when looking at the mini-charts, but our second chart is probably the closest we're going to get to actually being equal!!  I expect Clair herself may be surprised by this too :)  It is interesting to see whether your perceived favourite/not-so-favourite albums actually come out where you expect them to, mine were about right, although I have had other people say otherwise for theirs.  But a good mix in Clair's choices of the chart regulars and some of those that don't appear as often, including at least one no-vote song in there.

The third chart today has another new entry in our list of number ones and a whole host of different songs muscling their way in on the top ten too.  Many of the songs featured are in plenty of charts, but definitely some of their higher placings here.  Also a slight leaning away from the first two albums to balance out with our first selection!!  We've now hit chart number 44, within touching distance of 50, so as always keep them coming!!

RMcNamara @RorsDM

1. Archives of Pain

2. Of Walking Abortion

3. Die in the Summertime

4. Yes

5. Sleepflower

6. Patrick Bateman

7. Stay Beautiful

8. Repeat

9. Faster

10. Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel

11. Mausoleum

12. Condemned to Rock 'N' Roll

13. The Intense Humming of Evil

14. Revol

15. PCP

16. 4st 7lb

17. Motorcycle Emptiness

18. Slash N' Burn

19. Motown Junk

20. Democracy Coma

21. Love Torn Us Under

22. Life Becoming a Landslide

23. Mr Carbohydrate

24. Suicide is Painless (Theme from MASH)

25. All is Vanity

26. Hibernation

27. Comfort Comes

28. From Despair to Where

29. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

30. Love's Sweet Exile

31. Prologue to History

32. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky

33. New Art Riot

34. Judge Yr'self

35. It's So Easy

36. Sculpture of Man

37. Removables

38. Crucifix Kiss

39. Methadone Pretty

40. Gold Against the Soul

41. Sorrow 16

42. Symphony of Tourette

43. Drug Drug Druggy

44. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds

45. Doors Closing Slowly

46. Ocean Spray

47. So Dead

48. We Her Majesty's Prisoners

49. Another Invented Disease

50. Yourself

By Era

Generation Terrorists 18

Gold Against the Soul 10

The Holy Bible 14

Everything Must Go 3

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 1

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 0

Send Away the Tigers 0

Journal for Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From a Young Man 0

Others 0

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 21)

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clair horne @clairhorne
1. Yes
2. This is Yesterday
3. A Design for Life
4. Too Cold Here
5. This Joke Sport Severed
6. Your Love Alone is not Enough
7. Little Baby Nothing
8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
9. A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun
10. Ocean Spray
11. A Song for Departure
12. Doors Closing Slowly
13. His Last Painting
14. Ready for Drowning
15. Born a Girl
16. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
17. The Love of Richard Nixon
18. Faster
19. Motorcycle Emptiness
20. Life Becoming a Landslide
21. Solitude Sometimes Is
22. Door to the River
23. To Repel Ghosts
24. No Surface All Feeling
25. From Despair to Where
26. Bag Lady
27. Some Kind of Nothingness
28. You Know it's Going to Hurt
29. Facing Page: Top Left
30. Sleepflower
31. All is Vanity
32. I Think I Found It
33. Rewind the Film
34. Journal for Plague Lovers
35. Fragments
36. So Why So Sad
37. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
38. Found that Soul
39. Roses in the Hospital
40. Fearless Punk Ballad
41. Underdogs
42. You Love Us
43. The Masses Against the Classes
44. Endless Plain of Fortune
45. Yourself
46. Suicide is Painless (Theme from MASH)
47. William's Last Words
48. Imperial Bodybags
49. Let Robeson Sing
50. Stay Beautiful

By Era

Generation Terrorists 5

Gold Against the Soul 5

The Holy Bible 4

Everything Must Go 4

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 5

Lifeblood 5

Send Away the Tigers 5

Journal for Plague Lovers 7

Postcards From a Young Man 3

Others 4

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 25)

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Claire @clarahopscotch

1. This Joke Sport Severed

2. Further Away

3. My Little Empire

4. Some Kind of Nothingness

5. Golden Platitudes

6. Solitude Sometimes Is

7. Everything Must Go

8. Motorcycle Emptiness

9. Yes

10. No Surface All Feeling

11. Postcards From a Young Man

12. Faster

13. Peeled Apples

14. The Everlasting 

15. A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun

16. This is Yesterday

17. Show Me the Wonder

18. A Song for Departure

19. Hazelton Avenue

20. My Guernica

21. Little Baby Nothing

22. A Design for Life

23. Donkeys

24. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky

25. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

26. Cardiff Afterlife

27. 4 Ever Delayed

28. Revol 

29. Ready for Drowning

30. Prologue to History 

31. Life Becoming a Landslide

32. Nobody Loved You

33. 4st 7lb

34. PCP

35. Ocean Spray

36. Underdogs

37. Empty Souls

38. Glasnost

39. Judge Yr'self

40. Epicentre 

41. Me and Stephen Hawking

42. Baby Elian

43. Facing Page: Top Left

44. Enola/Alone

45. Can't Take My Eyes Off You

46. Doors Closing Slowly

47. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed my Children

48. This is the Day

49. New Art Riot

50. Umbrella

By Era

Generation Terrorists 3

Gold Against the Soul 2

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 7

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 6

Know Your Enemy 5

Lifeblood 5

Send Away the Tigers 1

Journal for Plague Lovers 5

Postcards From a Young Man 5

Others 4

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 24)