Manics Top 50s - 31st August 2013 part 3

And so to part 3 of the charts on the final day of Manics Top 50 voting, we started the day with the nice round number of 50, but after 12 late entries we ended up with 62, which is amazing so thanks for all your efforts!!!  Anyone that has been following this blog for a while will know that I have been mentally ticking off songs that have previously received no votes when they turn up in a chart, and I am proud to say that our last chart (submitted 10 minutes before the deadline!) managed to include the last remaining no-vote album track!!!  Given the number of songs to choose from I think it's great that there is someone out there that has a place for each one and, yes, there may still be some no-vote B-sides and compilation tracks, but some people may not have actually heard them to include them.

I'm not going to comment on each chart individually (you're probably fed up with seeing me saying the same things all the time!), but it is interesting that these four charts don't have the usual albums coming out on top, with good showings from 'Know Your Enemy', 'This is My Truth...' and 'Everything Must Go'.  And I know we have had at least one before, but the two closing charts come from the Irish wing of the Manics family, meaning we have had charts from England, Scotland, Wales, N.Ireland, Ireland, USA, Canada, Spain, Norway, Finland and South Korea (hope I haven't missed anyone out!).

So, after two months of re-visiting the Manics back catalogue, tearing your hair out trying to whittle the songs down into only 50 choices, the gnashing of teeth as you try and work out if you like 'Faster' better than 'Yes', the "damn-it-I-forgot-to-include-Masses-Against-the-Classes" feeling, Twitter countdowns and blog posts, we are finally close to the end result - the definitive unofficial Manics Fans Top 50.  Shortly I'll be totalling up the columns on my spreadsheet, so I'll be in on the secret, but you'll have to wait until the weekend of the 7th and 8th September before you find out!!!  What's your money on for number 1?  I have a top 5 in my head, in order, so I'm intrigued as to whether I got it right!!  Thanks again to everyone who voted, followed and commented on other people's charts, recruited other people or re-tweeted to get the message out there, see you next weekend.....

Steve Laithwaite @sglaithwaite

1. Your Love Alone is Not Enough

2. Motorcycle Emptiness

3. Little Baby Nothing

4. A Design for Life

5. Prologue to History

6. Stay Beautiful

7. Solitude Sometimes Is

8. Autumnsong

9. You're Tender and You're Tired

10. Ready for Drowning

11. You Stole the Sun from my Heart

12. Some Kind of Nothingness

13. Faster

14. From Despair to Where

15. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

16. 1985

17. My Guernica

18. She is Suffering

19. Golden Platitudes

20. Rewind the Film

21. Kevin Carter

22. Baby Elian

23. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach

24. This is Yesterday

25. Peeled Apples

26. Valley Boy

27. Nobody Loved You

28. Roses in the Hospital 

29. You Love Us

30. Die in the Summertime

31. Yes

32. Everything Must Go

33. Me and Stephen Hawking

34. Archives of Pain

35. Life Becoming a Landslide

36. Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head

37. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

38. No Surface All Feeling

39. Revol

40. 4 Ever Delayed

41. Tsunami

42. Spectators of Suicide

43. Send Away the Tigers

44. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

45. William's Last Words

46. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

47. Wattsville Blues

48. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever

49. Emily

50. Motown Junk

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 8

Know Your Enemy 4

Lifeblood 3

Send Away the Tigers 3

Journal for Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From a Young Man 3

Others 2

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 31)

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Lizzy Halpin @lizzyhalpin

1. Stay Beautiful

2. A Design For Life

3. From Despair To Where

4. Life Becoming A Landslide

5. Motorcycle Emptiness

6. Roses In The Hospital

7. Marlon JD

8. Enola/Alone

9. Always/Never

10. You Love Us

11. This Is The Day

12. No Surface All Feeling

13. William's Last Words

14. Golden Platitudes

15. Autumnsong

16. My Little Empire

17. Little Baby Nothing

18. Underdogs

19. Judge Yr'self

20. Revol

21. Faster

22. A Song For Departure

23. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

24. Emily

25. Postcards From A Young Man

26. Umbrella

27. 4st 7lb

28. Of Walking Abortion

29. Found That Soul

30. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

31. Further Away

32. The Masses Against The Classes

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

34. Hanging On

35. Sepia

36. Glasnost

37. Repeat

38. Leviathan

39. Out Of Time

40. Yes

41. Suicide Is Painless (Theme from MASH)

42. Tsunami

43. Sleepflower

44. Motown Junk

45. Die in the Summertime

46. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky

47. Everything Must Go

48. Australia

49. Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)

50. Hazelton Avenue

By Era

Generation Terrorists 7

Gold Against the Soul 5

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 11

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 2

Know Your Enemy 1

Lifeblood 4

Send Away the Tigers 2

Journal for Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From a Young Man 3

Others 5

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 30)

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DavyFlats @DavyFlats
1. No Surface All Feeling
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Further Away
4. Motown Junk
5. Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning]
6. Roses in the Hospital
7. Stay Beautiful
8. Of Walking Abortion
9. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
10. Automatik Teknicolour
11. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
12. Solitude Sometimes Is
13. A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun
14. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever
15. Ready for Drowning
16. From Despair to Where
17. Faster
18. PCP
19. Let Robeson Sing
20. Marlon JD
21. Archives of Pain
22. Close My Eyes
23. Yes
24. I Live to Fall Asleep
25. Life Becoming a Landslide
26. Found that Soul
27. We Are All Bourgeois Now
28. My Little Empire
29. Enola/Alone
30. Glasnost
31. This Is Yesterday
32. Mausoleum
33. Sleepflower
34. Door to the River
35. Removables
36. Dead Martyrs
37. Intravenous Agnostic
38. William's Last Words
39. My Guernica
40. It's All Gone
41. Facing Page: Top Left
42. His Last Painting
43. Don't Be Evil
44. The Convalescent
45. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach
46. This is the Day
47. The Year of Purification
48. A Design For Life
49. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
50. Your Love Alone is Not Enough

By Era
Generation Terrorists 3
Gold Against the Soul 5
The Holy Bible 7
Everything Must Go 7
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3
Know Your Enemy 9
Lifeblood 3
Send Away the Tigers 1
Journal for Plague Lovers 4
Postcards From a Young Man 3
Others 5

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 24)

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Ricky Crean @RickyCrean

1. Motorcycle Emptiness

2. She is Suffering 

3. No Surface All Feeling

4. Kevin Carter

5. Enola/Alone

6. Nobody Loved You

7. From Despair to Where

8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

9. Glasnost

10. Your Love Alone is not Enough

11. A Design for Life

12. Yes 

13. Little Baby Nothing

14. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

15. Faster

16. We Are All Bourgeois Now

17. 1985

18. Door to the River

19. Close my Eyes

20. Let Robeson Sing

21. Everything Must Go

22. Born to End

23. Royal Correspondent

24. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky

25. S.Y.M.M.

26. So Why So Sad

27. Rewind the Film

28. The Everlasting 

29. The Love of Richard Nixon

30. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

31. Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)

32. This Joke Sport Severed

33. Spectators of Suicide

34. Montana/Autumn/78

35. Yourself

36. Further Away

37. Motown Junk

38. I Live to Fall Asleep

39. Autumnsong

40. I'm Not Working

41. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love

42. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children

43. Dead Martyrs

44. You Love Us

45. Prologue to History

46. Life Becoming a Landslide

47. Send Away the Tigers

48. To Repel Ghosts

49. Slash N' Burn

50. Black Dog on my Shoulder

By Era

Generation Terrorists 7

Gold Against the Soul 4

The Holy Bible 3

Everything Must Go 8

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 8

Know Your Enemy 7

Lifeblood 5

Send Away the Tigers 3

Journal for Plague Lovers 1

Postcards From a Young Man 1

Others 3

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 25)