Sunday 25 May 2014

Manics Fantasy Setlist - Final

The setlist below was compiled from 27 different setlists submitted by Manic Street Preachers fans during April and May 2014.  One point was awarded for each vote and the final tally for each song is shown after the name of each one.  Four songs tied on points for the last two places in the final setlist, so the position in the fans' top 50 was used as a tiebreaker.  So, apologies to 'Jackie Collins Existential Question Time' and '(It's Not War) Just the End of Love' which were unlucky to miss out!!  Thank you to all people who took part in, followed or promoted these setlists, it has been great fun!!!

Points to note as follows:

  • Position was decided on average placing across the setlists, however 'This is Yesterday' had to be moved forward to fit in with the acoustic set.
  • The three acoustic songs received more votes as acoustic songs compared to full band versions, hence their appearance here as acoustic.
  • Kylie Minogue was the most popular choice of duet in 'Little Baby Nothing', therefore appears in the final set.
  • There were more votes for 'This Sullen Welsh Heart' without a guest singer than with one, therefore it is here as Manics-only.
  • More people omitted a 'Motown Junk' intro than included one, therefore it appears intro-less.

See the 'Fantasy Setlist' tab for the full voting list and sub-charts with all manner of Manics-related lists that came out of these selections!!

Final Fantasy Setlist
Found that Soul 11
Little Baby Nothing (with Kylie Minogue) 12
Faster 24
Peeled Apples 12
Motorcycle Emptiness 22
From Despair to Where 11
Sleepflower 19
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) 14
Your Love Alone is not Enough 14
1985 10
The Masses Against the Classes 9
Stay Beautiful 17
Yes 17
You Stole the Sun from my Heart 11
PCP 8
This Sullen Welsh Heart (acoustic) 9
Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky (acoustic) 8
This is Yesterday (acoustic) 11
Revol 13
Show Me the Wonder 9
No Surface All Feeling 11
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 12
Motown Junk 16
You Love Us 17
A Design for Life 23


Saturday 24 May 2014

Fantasy Setlists - Late Addition

As everyone knows, voting for the fantasy setlists closed last Sunday but we had a late entry from a good friend of New Chart Riot this week.  So, while it won't count towards the voting, I've still put it on the blog to share with all you like-minded people!

Don't forget - final Manics Fantasy Setlist will be tweeted from 7pm Sunday 25th May, appearing here on the blog later on that evening, see you there!

AnnaA @annaalessandro
Found that Soul
Love's Sweet Exile
From Despair to Where 
Everything Must Go
The Girl Who Wanted to be God
No Surface All Feeling
Life Becoming a Landslide
Yes
This Joke Sport Severed 
Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky (acoustic)
This Sullen Welsh Heart ( acoustic)
Motorcycle Emptiness
Archives of Pain 
Revol
Dead Martyrs 
Marlon JD 
Kevin Carter
All is Vanity 
Judge Yr'self
Sepia
You Love Us 
Autumnsong
Faster
Motown Junk
A Design for Life 

"I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens" Spike Milligan

Sunday 18 May 2014

Fantasy Setlists 17th May - 18th May

Unless there's a late run of setlists this could well be the final batch of votes before the fans' setlist is compiled.  Some more interesting twists, with acoustic openings, a song that doesn't even include any of the Manics on it (!) and a rousing finale of '...Richard Nixon'.

The final fans' setlist will be compiled over the coming week and revealed on Twitter (and here afterwards) on the evening of Sunday 25th May.  Thanks again to everyone who voted!!!

clair horne @clairhorne
Little Baby Nothing (acoustic)
Black Dog on my Shoulder (acoustic)
4 Lonely Roads (acoustic with Cate Le Bon)
Break My Heart Slowly (acoustic)
The Endless Plain of Fortune (acoustic)
Born a Girl (acoustic)
It Will Take More Than a Grave to Bury You (acoustic)
A Design for Life (acoustic, Gruff Rhys only)
Found That Soul
A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun
Imperial Bodybags
Yes
Roses in the Hospital
Solitude Sometimes Is
This is Yesterday
Rewind the Film (with Richard Hawley)
Europa Geht Durch Mich
This Joke Sport Severed
Bag Lady
To Repel Ghosts
Underdogs
Suicide Alley
Stay Beautiful
Sleepflower
You Love Us

"You gave me nothing. And you can take it all away" - James Dean Bradfield

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Damon Corless @DamonCorless
Ostpolitik
Peeled Apples
Faster
Stay Beautiful
Revol
Yes
Everything Must Go
Underdogs
Judge Yr'self
Motorcycle Emptiness
From Despair to Where
Automatik Teknicolour
Little Baby Nothing (with Kylie Minogue)
This Sullen Welsh Heart (acoustic with Kylie Minogue)
This is Yesterday (acoustic)
This Joke Sport Severed
Enola/Alone
Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
4 Ever Delayed
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
No Surface All Feeling
Nobody Loved You
You Love Us
Motown Junk (She Sells Sanctuary intro)
A Design for Life

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Jennifer - Mother of @Pyfbrown
Motorcycle Emptiness
From Despair to Where
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
Faster
Enola/Alone
Little Baby Nothing 
You Stole the Sun from my Heart
Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
The Girl Who Wanted to be God
Your Love Alone is not Enough
A Design for Life
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
I Live to Fall Asleep
The Everlasting
Be Natural
Life Becoming a Landslide
Everything Must Go
Suicide is Painless (Theme from MASH)
Drug Drug Druggy
1985
Australia
Sepia
Kevin Carter
Further Away
The Love of Richard Nixon

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Phil John @PhilJohn4
1985
Slash and Burn
Motorcycle Emptiness
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
Found That Soul
PCP
Ready For Drowning
Dead Martyrs
Solitude Sometimes Is
Postcards From A Young Man
Pretension/Repulsion
Facing Page: Top Left (acoustic)
Sleepflower (acoustic)
No Surface All Feeling (acoustic)
(It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
Rewind The Film (with Richard Hawley).
Love Letter to The Future
Motown Junk
Virginia State Epileptic Colony
Nobody Loved You
The Masses Against The Classes
You Love Us
Peeled Apples
Faster
A Design For Life

Saturday 17 May 2014

Fantasy Setlists 15th May - 16th May

Another three setlists as we rush headlong to the deadline, one from friend of New Chart Riot Keith Cameron, who incidentally has already heard 'Futurology' and approves!  Given that I don't think we've had a quote repeated yet I think Keith's is a contender for the best so far!  Thanks to JamGaw for liaising with Keith.

Our other contributors have some very interesting guest appearances and song selections and even a closing acoustic set, which makes a change!!  Still plenty of new songs arriving and lots of fresh ideas, so keep your votes coming until the end of Sunday 18th!!!

Keith Cameron @KeithCameron2
INTRO: The Teachers Are Afraid Of The Pupils (Morrissey)
The Masses Against The Classes
Faster
La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
(It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love
Little Baby Nothing (with Kylie Minogue)
Yes
Send Away The Tigers
The Love Of Richard Nixon
Prologue To History
Marlon JD
Europa Geht Durch Mich (with Claudia Brucken)
This Sullen Welsh Heart (Acoustic)
Bright Eyes (Acoustic)
Motorcycle Emptiness
Mausoleum
1985
The Girl Who Wanted To Be God
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Archives Of Pain
Some Kind Of Nothingness (with Ian McCulloch)
Revol
A Design For Life
Motown Junk
No Surface All Feeling

“I’ve met the man in the street. He’s a cunt.” - Sid Vicious

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Richard Mills @CymruBoyo


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Gem @pluralistbaby
Tsunami
Europa Geht Durch Mich
Anthem for a Lost Cause
Intravenous Agnostic
Kevin Carter
Yourself
Firefight
Door to the River
You Stole the Sun from my Heart
This is the Day
She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach
Faster
Sleepflower
Life Becoming a Landslide
Repeat
Condemned to Rock 'n' Roll
Motorcycle Emptiness
A Design for Life
Everything Must Go
Stay Beautiful
Motown Junk
William's Last Words
You Love Us
Baby Elian (acoustic)
This is Yesterday (acoustic)

"In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name"

Fantasy Setlists 8th May - 14th May

Another two setlists as tomorrow's deadline looms and one definite interesting choice of cover too!!!  I have another three just waiting to go on the blog too, so still more to come, including a special guest who also contributed to the top 50s.

We've had 23 contributors so far, less than half of our top 50 contributions, so what are you waiting for?!  You didn't have any plans for today or tomorrow did you?!

Tranmere Steve @Tranmeresteve
Walk Me to the Bridge
Stay Beautiful
Faster
Peeled Apples
Solitude Sometimes Is
Suicide is Painless (Theme From MASH)
The Masses Against the Classes
Imperial Bodybags
(It's Not War) Just the End of Love
Some Kind of Nothingness
Archives of Pain
Die in the Summertime
This is Yesterday (acoustic)
Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head (acoustic)
Little Baby Nothing (acoustic with Traci Lords)
As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)
Sleepflower
Futurology
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
1985
30 Year War
Motown Junk
A Design for Life
Your Love Alone is not Enough
Motorcycle Emptiness

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RMcNamara @RorsDM
Faster
Stay Beautiful
Revol
The Intense Humming of Evil
Indian Summer
Harvester of Sorrow
Yourself
PCP
Removables
All is Vanity
Bag Lady
Slash N' Burn
Everything Fades
A Design for Life
Motorcycle Emptiness
Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
Mr Carbohydrate
Love's Sweet Exile
Yes
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
Found That Soul
Life Becoming a Landslide
Motown Junk
You Love Us
Sleepflower

Thursday 8 May 2014

Fantasy Setlists 3rd May - 7th May

So, only one solitary chart this time, but some excellent selections and even more songs getting their first vote!!  We're fast running out of time to get entries in, so if you're thinking about it remember to get them in by 18th May!

The blog will be going quiet for a week while I'm away, but keep them coming in as I'll still be watching and will catch up with the blog later.  Don't forget to let me know if you're announcing via Twitter so I can keep track of who has voted, alternatively ask me for my email and you can submit that way.

Lisa @Sparklyl
Motorcycle Emptiness
Motown Junk (Baby Love intro)
Born to End
Mausoleum
(It's Not War) Just the End of Love
Anthem For a Lost Cause
Revol
Tsunami
Found that Soul
The Masses Against the Classes
Archives of Pain
Stay Beautiful
This is Yesterday (acoustic)
The Everlasting (acoustic)
Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky (acoustic)
This Sullen Welsh Heart (acoustic)
Faster
Peeled Apples
You Love Us
All is Vanity
All We Make is Entertainment
Judge Yr'self
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
All Surface No Feeling
A Design for Life

Saturday 3 May 2014

Fantasy Setlists 26th April - 2nd May

Setlists number 16 and 17 here, and as usual some great selections in amongst them.  Just over two weeks now to submit your own selections, it doesn't look like we'll manage to hit the heights of the top 50s but you never know, so get recruiting!

The big reveal of the final fans' setlist will be the weekend following the deadline so make sure your calendar is free!

David Morton @Abertawe62
Send Away the Tigers
Sleepflower
1985
Peeled Apples
Yes
Underdogs
No Surface All Feeling
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
Your Love Alone is Not Enough
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
Leviathan
Me and Stephen Hawking
You Stole the Sun From My Heart
Motorcycle Emptiness
Ready for Drowning
You Love Us
Faster
Revol
Tsunami
Love's Sweet Exile
To Repel Ghosts
Little Baby Nothing
A Design For Life

"At every moment one must confront what one is saying and doing with what one is thinking, with what one is." Michel Foucault

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andy @citymanblue
Found that Soul
You Love Us
The Masses Against the Classes
Motorcycle Emptiness
Little Baby Nothing 
Sleepflower
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
Roses in the Hospital
Faster
1985
Virginia State Epileptic Colony
Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
Black Dog on my Shoulder
Baby Elian (acoustic)
This Sullen Welsh Heart (acoustic)
You Stole the Sun from my Heart
Revol
Prologue to History
4 Ever Delayed
Your Love Alone is not Enough
(It's Not War) Just the End of Love
Empty Souls 
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Motown Junk
A Design for Life

Saturday 26 April 2014

Fantasy Setlists 23rd - 25th April

Two more setlists as they start to become a little more frequent now, one from our very own mastermind behind the video top 10, Mild Manics.  Maybe we're at that stage where people have thought about it a bit more and are ready to commit.  When I set out the rules, James and Nicky solo songs were permitted and it seems one in particular is proving quite popular!

A few more songs are starting to show themselves as potential contenders for the final set now that we're getting more contributions.  The acoustic sections in particular are throwing up quite a few repeats (pun intended).  Just over 3 weeks to get your own setlist in, so plenty of time to hone it to perfection.

Mild Manics @MildManics
Sleepflower
Stay Beautiful
Suicide is Painless (Theme from MASH)
Roses in the Hospital
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
From Despair to Where
Drug Drug Druggy
Judge Yr'self
Faster
Yes
This Joke Sport Severed (acoustic)
Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky (acoustic)
Still a Long Way to Go (acoustic)
Found that Soul
You Stole the Sun From my Heart
Autumnsong
Me and Stephen Hawking
Empty Souls
Show Me the Wonder
PCP
Sculpture of Man
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Tsunami
Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
A Design for Life

"A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: she changes it more often" Oliver Herford

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Jan R. @SirManic
Motorcycle Emptiness
Peeled Apples
4st 7lb
You Stole the Sun From my Heart
Some Kind of Nothingness
Anthem for a Lost Cause
Your Love Alone is not Enough
Stay Beautiful
Virginia State Epileptic Colony
Nostalgic Pushead
Ocean Spray
From Despair to Where
Die in the Summertime
Can't Take My Eyes Off You (acoustic)
Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky (acoustic)
This Joke Sport Severed (acoustic with string quartet)
Faster
Sleepflower
Prologue to History 
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Autumnsong
Show Me the Wonder
Yes
William's Last Words (vocals by Nicky Wire)
A Design for Life

"The simplest answer to who or what I am is to point to my body, using my finger.  But clearly I cannot identify my self or my own ego with my body." - Arne Naess

Tuesday 22 April 2014

Fantasy Setlists 17th - 22nd April

Four more setlists from the last few days including my own up first, as well as our very own author of the producer's chart from the top 50, JamGaw, and his wife Sarah.  Not forgetting our 'Nostalgic Pushead'-loving friend too, of course.

I said previously that I didn't think we'd get the same depth of selection with the live tracks as we did with the top 50s, but looks like I'm going to be proved wrong!!!  Loads of variation so far and still hopefully a lot more to come!  Everyone is welcome, so feel free to get recruiting, let's see if we can beat the number of top 50s!

Ian Lipthorpe @Pyfbrown
Motorcycle Emptiness Stealth Sonic Orchestra Soundtrack (intro)
Motown Junk
You Love Us
Sleepflower
Show Me the Wonder
Postcards From a Young Man
Tsunami
The Masses Against the Classes
Imperial Bodybags
The Everlasting
(It's Not War) Just the End of Love
From Despair to Where
No Surface All Feeling
Condemned to Rock N Roll
RP McMurphy (acoustic)
Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky (acoustic)
The Girl Who Wanted to be God
Baby Elian
Yes
Underdogs
Found that Soul
Motorcycle Emptiness
Stay Beautiful
Faster
This is Yesterday
A Design for Life
(Askew Road PA outro)

"There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves" Kierkegaard

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JamGaw @starsfrighten


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Monkey Marl @MonkeyMarl
Sleepflower
Virginia State Epileptic Colony
Slash N' Burn
Postcards From a Young Man
Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)
Yes
She is Suffering
PCP
Intravenous Agnostic
Ready for Drowning
From Despair to Where
Tennessee
Donkeys (acoustic)
Too Cold Here (acoustic)
Dead Trees and Traffic Islands (acoustic)
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Autumnsong
Rewind the Film (with Richard Hawley)
1985
Motorcycle Emptiness
The Masses Against the Classes
No Surface All Feeling
Nostalgic Pushead
A Design for Life
You Love Us

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Sarah E @starkitten8



Wednesday 16 April 2014

Fantasy Setlists 12th - 16th April

Three more setlists for your viewing pleasure, this time with one presented so well I just had to include it in its original form!!!  Still loads more songs coming out of the woodwork that haven't been selected yet and I certainly haven't picked out many clear contenders for the final setlist yet.  After all the talk of openers and closers on the recent gigs, I'm finding it really interesting to keep an eye on these too!

I think as blogger-in-chief I reserve the right to say mine will be coming on Saturday and having had a listen through already it's the best gig ever!  Manics are you reading?

Claire @clarahopscotch
Faster
Prologue to History
This Joke Sport Severed
Dead Martyrs
Solitude Sometimes Is
Your Love Alone is not Enough
Motorcycle Emptiness
Anthem for a Lost Cause
Freedom of Speech Won't Feed my Children
Yes
30 Year War
This Sullen Welsh Heart (acoustic)
4 Ever Delayed (acoustic)
Me and Stephen Hawking
Kevin Carter
My Little Empire
PCP
Peeled Apples
Still a Long Way to Go
From Despair to Where
Everything Must Go
Golden Platitudes
A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun (with Duff McKagan)
Suicide Alley
Revol

"Rise up with me against the organisation of misery" - Pablo Neruda

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Paul Fiander-Turner @havinaradox
Stay Beautiful
Sleepflower
Motorcycle Emptiness
Imperial Bodybags
Everything Must Go
Found that Soul
No Surface All Feeling
Glasnost
Enola/Alone
Marlon JD
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
Ready for Drowning
Yes
Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky (acoustic)
This is Yesterday (acoustic)
As Holy as the Soil (That Buries Your Skin)
Dead Martyrs
(It's Not War) Just the End of Love
Revol
Nobody Loved You
Bag Lady
Faster
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
You Love Us
A Design for Life

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Old Noshie @oldnoshie


Saturday 12 April 2014

Fantasy Setlists 6th - 11th April

Two more excellent setlists to add to the ones we've had so far, I'm currently taking a short break from shortlisting mine to type this and I can tell you it's not easy!!  But obviously worth it in the end.....

I make it 81 songs selected in only 6 lists so far, so we're already getting a wide selection of songs!!!  And, unlike the top 50s, early on we have no song which has been selected in every set.  Which proves that some people might occasionally want a break from the big guns, even though we know that is extremely unlikely to happen in real life.  Keep them coming!!

Nostalgic Pushead @NostalgicPus
Yes
You Stole the Sun from my Heart
Motorcycle Emptiness
Roses in the Hospital 
Patrick Bateman
Little Baby Nothing (with Molly Yarde)
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
From Despair to Where
Everything Must Go
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
Suicide is Painless (Theme From MASH)
This Sullen Welsh Heart (acoustic)
Rewind the Film (with Richard Hawley acoustic)
This Joke Sport Severed (acoustic)
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (with NP herself!)
Sleepflower
Methadone Pretty
Tsunami
Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
Postcards From a Young Man
You Love Us
Motown Junk (Sloop John B intro)
Some Kind of Nothingness
Show Me the Wonder
Nostalgic Pushead

"I am woman. I am strong" - Miss Piggy

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Nick Tait @ApolloScream
Motorcycle Emptiness
Your Love Alone is Not Enough
All We Make is Entertainment
Show Me the Wonder
30 Year War
Die in the Summertime
Faster
The Masses Against the Classes
First Republic
Imperial Bodybags
Postcards From a Young Man
So Dead
Revol
Yes
You're Tender and You're Tired (acoustic)
I Think I Found It (acoustic)
Autumnsong
Suicide Alley
Nobody Loved You
As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)
Underdogs
Stay Beautiful
Motown Junk
You Love Us
A Design for Life

"Be pure, be vigilant, behave"

Saturday 5 April 2014

Fantasy Setlists - 1st - 5th April

So, New Chart Riot is back with the first batch of fantasy setlists and so far we've had a mixture.  Generally speaking, however, the first few have gone how I expected - a combination of the tried and tested live staples mixed in with those that have either long since retired from the live arena or barely made their mark, if at all.  It's going to be interesting to see if that's how it remains given the more relaxed rules this time around!!  Loads of time to get your own entry in so get your thinking caps on!!

Pearls of Wisdom @Ddraig76
Judge Yr'self
Imperial Bodybags
Peeled Apples
From Despair to Where
Crucifix Kiss
Stay Beautiful
Faster
Revol
Be Natural
Roses in the Hospital
She is Suffering
Sleepflower
4 Ever Delayed
You Love Us
Australia
Tsunami
A Design for Life
The Masses Against the Classes
You Stole the Sun from my Heart
Slash N' Burn
There by the Grace of God
Indian Summer
Postcards From a Young Man
Love's Sweet Exile
This is Yesterday

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Adam Marshall @MarshFactor
Welcome To The Jungle > Motown Junk
Sleepflower
Yes
Send Away The Tigers
La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
1985
Little Baby Nothing (with Kylie Minogue)
Archives Of Pain
Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
4st 7lb
Marlon JD
Faster
Roses In The Hospital
This Sullen Welsh Heart (with Lucy Rose, acoustic) 
Still A Long Way To Go (acoustic)
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Die In The Summertime
Rewind The Film (with Richard Hawley)
All Is Vanity
Motorcycle Emptiness
Solitude Sometimes Is
This Is Yesterday
No Surface All Feeling
Condemned To Rock 'N Roll
A Design For Life

"Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life" — Guy Debord

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KB2X @KB2X
Peeled Apples
Found That Soul
1985
Drug Drug Druggy
Golden Platitudes
Emigre
3 Ways to See Despair
Faster
Show Me the Wonder
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
4st 7lbs
Everything Must Go
Slash N' Burn
Stay Beautiful
Revol
Journal for Plague Lovers
Yes
Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky
Sleepflower
Firefight
There by the Grace of God
Anorexic Rodin
Motown Junk
Miss Europa Disco Dancer
Suicide Alley

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Molly Yarde @4ever_delayed
The Masses Against the Classes
Faster
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
Stay Beautiful
Europa Geht Durch Mich
All is Vanity
Sleepflower
Some Kind of Nothingness (with Ian McCulloch)
Anthem for a Lost Cause
Motorcycle Emptiness
Prologue to History
Still a Long Way to Go
Marlon JD
Little Baby Nothing (with Molly!)
The Everlasting (acoustic)
Can't Take My Eyes Off You (acoustic)
Send Away the Tigers
You Stole the Sun from my Heart
Solitude Sometimes Is
Revol
Yes
30 Year War
You Love Us
PCP
A Design for Life

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way" - Juan Ramón Jiménez

Tuesday 1 April 2014

Fantasy Setlist - The Rules!!!

After last year's chart action, New Chart Riot is back with a vengeance......with a new twist!!

So, what if you were in charge of the setlist for a Manic Street Preachers gig?  Which songs would you pick?  A greatest hits set maybe, a whole set of songs they never play live, covers, B-sides, all of the above?  For this "chart" of sorts YOU are in charge!!

The Rules!


  • Select 25 different songs of your choice. This may contain ANY song the Manics have ever recorded or played live.
  • If you wish to select a fantasy cover that they have never ever played in any form but you would like them to, you may (however bear in mind this is highly unlikely to be selected by anyone else!).
  • With the above in mind, James or Nicky solo songs are valid entries if you would like to see the full band play them.
  • It doesn't HAVE to be your favourite 25 songs.  Some may not work as well live or you may just want to see certain songs played more than others, the choice is yours.
  • The order of the songs ideally will be how you want your gig to flow, however the order may not be important to you (see scoring for the effect of ordering).
  • You may specify that a song is included in a solo/acoustic section if you wish (see scoring for the effects of this).
  • As an additional option, in true Manics style, you may add your own setlist quote (thanks JamGaw for this suggestion!).

Scoring


  • No weighting will be applied to songs, each selection will count as 1 vote.
  • If you specified a song as solo/acoustic this counts against all votes for that song (i.e. there aren't separate entries for full band/solo songs).
  • For the 25 songs with the most votes, an average placing in the set will be calculated based on the order of your selections so that the final 25 is in the optimal order as decided by you.
  • If any of the top 25 entries has more votes as a solo/acoustic song than with the full band it will appear in the final set as solo/acoustic.

Submitting your Entry

Once you have your 25 selections, participants are encouraged to share their setlist (like with the top 50s) on Twitter for a lively debate with your followers!!  If you do this, put your own personal hashtag against each entry (e.g. #ManicsSetlistIanL) and let me know @Pyfbrown so that I can register your votes.  Each entry will go up on this blog with your Twitter name for anyone that may miss it to study and critique!!  Note: if you came across this blog through a site other than Twitter I will include another name as appropriate.

However, if you would rather blog your own setlist or just send it by email without counting down on Twitter in this way that's fine too, contact me to arrange this at the time.

The deadline for entries to be considered for the overall fans' setlist is Sunday May 18th 2014. Happy setlisting!!