Sunday 31 May 2015

Manics Top 50s - 30th May 2015

It was Ladies Day on the top 50s yesterday with three of our New Chart Riot regulars coming up with the goods.  We managed to find ourselves a new number one selection and also pick up a few more of those no-vote tracks along the way.  And while the numbers weren't particularly massive there seemed to be a fair bit of love for the latest two albums in these charts, a late bid by them to force their way into the 50?

We already have a few more charts waiting in the wings on this chart deadline day and I think we're now only one off beating the total of 62 charts last time.  So make sure you get yours in and we can blow that total out of the water!

Sarah E @starkitten8



By Era
Generation Terrorists 7
Gold Against the Soul 6
The Holy Bible 9
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 2
Lifeblood 1
Send Away the Tigers 2
Journal for Plague Lovers 5
Postcards From a Young Man 2
Rewind the Film 2
Futurology 4
Others 1

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Claire @clarahopscotch
1. This Sullen Welsh Heart
2. Faster
3. Yes
4. 30-Year War
5. Postcards From a Young Man
6. This is Yesterday
7. A Design for Life
8. Revol
9. This Joke Sport Severed
10. Everything Must Go
11. Mausoleum
12. Futurology
13. Peeled Apples
14. Europa Geht Durch Mich
15. Rewind The Film
16. Ocean Spray
17. Little Baby Nothing
18. Golden Platitudes
19. Show Me the Wonder
20. The Masses Against The Classes
21. Anthem For a Lost Cause
22. Solitude Sometimes Is
23. Further Away
24. You Love Us
25. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
26. Walk Me to the Bridge
27. Some Kind of Nothingness
28. This is the Day
29. A Song for Departure
30. There by the Grace of God
31. Underdogs
32. Hazelton Avenue
33. Donkeys
34. My Guernica
35. From Despair to Where
36. The Next Jet to Leave Moscow
37. Door to the River
38. Bright Eyes
39. 1985
40. Nobody Loved You
41. The Girl Who Wanted to be God
42. Judge Yr'self
43. Askew Road
44. Empty Souls
45. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children
46. Penny Royal Tea
47. Suicide is Painless (Theme from MASH)
48. Suicide Alley
49. Sleepflower
50. The Instrumental

By Era
Generation Terrorists 4
Gold Against the Soul 3
The Holy Bible 6
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 2
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 5
Send Away the Tigers 1
Journal for Plague Lovers 2
Postcards From a Young Man 4
Rewind the Film 5
Futurology 4
Others 6

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Gem @pluralistbaby
1. Tsunami
2. Kevin Carter
3. So Why So Sad
4. Door to the River
5. Firefight
6. Anthem For a Lost Cause
7. Between the Clock and the Bed
8. Builder of Routines
9. Manorbier
10. A Design For Life
11. The Girl Who Wanted to be God
12. My Guernica
13. Some Kind of Nothingness
14. Everything Must Go
15. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
16. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
17. This is Yesterday
18. Unstoppable Salvation
19. Black Holes for the Young
20. Intravenous Agnostic
21. Mayakovsky
22. The Last Time I Saw Paris
23. Send Away the Tigers
24. Motorcycle Emptiness
25. Sleepflower
26. William's Last Words
27. Prologue to History
28. The Everlasting
29. No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me
30. 4 Ever Delayed
31. Another Invented Disease
32. Bored Out Of My Mind
33. Symphony of Tourette
34. Buildings For Dead People
35. Yourself
36. Baby Elian
37. Judge Yr'self
38. You Love Us
39. Indian Summer
40. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
41. The Soulmates
42. Virginia State Epileptic Colony
43. Umbrella
44. I Live To Fall Asleep
45. Europa Geht Durch Mich
46. 1985
47. Motown Junk
48. Sepia
49. Can't Take My Eyes Off You
50. Faster

By Era
Generation Terrorists 5
Gold Against the Soul 3
The Holy Bible 3
Everything Must Go 8
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 6
Know Your Enemy 5
Lifeblood 3
Send Away the Tigers 2
Journal for Plague Lovers 2
Postcards From a Young Man 1
Rewind the Film 3
Futurology 4
Others 5

Saturday 30 May 2015

Manics Top 50s - 29th May 2015

It was a busy day yesterday with 8 charts announced as people battled the impending deadline!  It was a mixture of returning participants from last time and chart newcomers with the more popular songs mostly coming out in the number 1 slot, although we did have one that bucked the trend.

For our first participant there is a link below the title for a more in-depth look at the chart with facts and figures and videos galore.  You also may have seen on Twitter recently a Manics-related puzzle and our third participant is responsible for that very wordsearch, an inspired idea!

Some of the other charts managed to tick off a few more of our no-vote songs meaning our current count is only 47 out of 307 and just one of those is an album track.  Let's see how many more of those can get at least one point in the final two days.  If you haven't voted yet there's still time, get your charts to me by close of play Sunday!

Trust the Wizards @trustthewizards
1. Faster
2. My Little Empire
3. Little Baby Nothing
4. 4st 7lb
5. Rendition
6. The Masses Against The Classes
7. La Tristessa Durera (Scream To a Sigh)
8. Donkeys
9. No Surface All Feeling
10. Motorcycle Emptiness
11. All Is Vanity
12. Revol
13. 30-Year War
14. Yes
15. RP McMurphy
16. Of Walking Abortion
17. You Love Us
18. Show Me The Wonder
19. Ready For Drowning
20. Walk Me To The Bridge
21. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
22. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever
23. Just a Kid
24. A Design For Life
25. PCP
26. Removables
27. Autumnsong
28. Me And Stephen Hawking
29. This Sullen Welsh Heart
30. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
31. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
32. Glasnost
33. Roses In The Hospital
34. Wiliam's Last Words
35. Kevin Carter
36. Automatik Teknicolour
37. Love Letter to the Future
38. You're Tender and You're Tired
39. Postcards From A Young Man
40. Mausoleum
41. Solitude Sometimes Is
42. Nobody Loved You
43. Golden Platitudes
44. Black Dog On My Shoulder
45. From Despair To Where
46. Found That Soul
47. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow
48. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
49. Die in the Summertime
50. There By The Grace Of God

By Era
Generation Terrorists 4
Gold Against the Soul 4
The Holy Bible 8
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 6
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 2
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 4
Postcards From a Young Man 3
Rewind the Film 3
Futurology 2
Others 3

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Catherine Rogan @BeautyInLonely
1. A Design for Life
2. This is Yesterday
3. Faster
4. You Love Us
5. Motown Junk
6. Motorcycle Emptiness
7. Little Baby Nothing
8. Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky
9. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
10. PCP
11. Rewind the Film
12. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
13. Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head
14. Of Walking Abortion
15. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
16. Europa Geht Durch Mich
17. Sleepflower
18. Suicide Alley
19. Glasnost
20. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
21. 3 Ways to See Despair
22. Velocity Girl
23. Tsunami
24. Autumnsong
25. Futurology
26. Solitude Sometimes Is
27. You’re Tender and You’re Tired
28. Anthem for a Lost Cause
29. The Love of Richard Nixon
30. Marlon JD
31. Sex, Power, Love and Money
32. Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
33. Ready for Drowning
34. Dreaming a City (Hughesovka)
35. So Why So Sad
36. Your Love Alone is not Enough
37. Further Away
38. Underdogs
39. Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
40. A Song for Departure
41. Let’s Go to War
42. Black Holes for the Young
43. The Next Jet to Leave Moscow
44. Be Natural
45. The Everlasting
46. I Live to Fall Asleep
47. Sepia
48. Out of Time
49. Some Kind of Nothingness
50. Show Me The Wonder

By Era
Generation Terrorists 5
Gold Against the Soul 1
The Holy Bible 4
Everything Must Go 8
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 7
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 5
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 2
Postcards From a Young Man 1
Rewind the Film 4
Futurology 6
Others 1

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Jimothy Shondells @JimothyShondell
1. Motown Junk
2. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
3. Motorcycle Emptiness
4. Little Baby Nothing
5. Sleepflower
6. Stay Beautiful
7. Intravenous Agnostic
8. Prologue To History
9. The Everlasting
10. Automatik Teknicolour
11. Judge Yr'self
12. Empty Souls
13. A Design For Life
14. Roses In The Hospital
15. Take The Skinheads Bowling
16. This Is Yesterday
17. I Think I Found It
18. Let Robeson Sing
19. Faster
20. Dead Martyrs
21. Walk Me To The Bridge
22. Another Invented Disease
23. Further Away
24. Australia
25. Suicide Is Painless (Theme From MASH)
26. Symphony Of Tourette
27. Donkeys
28. Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)
29. She Bathed Herself In a Bath of Bleach
30. No Surface All Feeling
31. Dreaming a City (Hughesovka)
32. Solitude Sometimes Is
33. Crucifix Kiss
34. All We Make Is Entertainment
35. Autumnsong
36. Postcards From a Young Man
37. I Live to Fall Asleep
38. 4 Ever Delayed
39. Me and Stephen Hawking
40. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
41. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow
42. Rendition
43. Let's Go To War
44. Peeled Apples
45. I'm Just a Patsy
46. Condemned to Rock 'N' Roll
47. Sorrow 16
48. Door To The River
49. Methadone Pretty
50. Rewind The Film

By Era
Generation Terrorists 10
Gold Against the Soul 4
The Holy Bible 3
Everything Must Go 6
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 3
Send Away the Tigers 4
Journal for Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From a Young Man 3
Rewind the Film 1
Futurology 4
Others 3

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cheshirecat @KBFletcher75
1. You Love Us
2. 1985
3. Motown Junk
4. The Masses Against the Classes
5. Faster
6. Die in the Summertime
7. Your Love Alone is not Enough
8. Sepia
9. Send Away the Tigers
10. 4 Lonely Roads
11. Revol
12. Solitude Sometimes Is
13. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will be Next
14. This is Yesterday
15. Autumnsong
16. Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel
17. Let’s Go to War
18. Europa Geht Durch Mich
19. We Are All Bourgeois Now
20. Automatik Teknicolour
21. PCP
22. Motorcycle Emptiness
23. A Design for Life
24. Close my Eyes
25. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
26. The View from Stow Hill
27. Rewind the Film
28. Golden Platitudes
29. Prologue to History
30. 30-Year War
31. Door to the River
32. Mausoleum
33. Futurology
34. Roses in the Hospital
35. Walk Me to the Bridge
36. Let Robeson Sing
37. No Surface All Feeling
38. Black Dog on my Shoulder
39. Ready for Drowning
40. Red Rubber
41. Yes
42. Rendition
43. 1404
44. Empty Souls
45. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
46. Stay Beautiful
47. Little Baby Nothing
48. No Jubilees
49. From Despair to Where
50. Found That Soul

By Era
Generation Terrorists 5
Gold Against the Soul 3
The Holy Bible 7
Everything Must Go 3
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 4
Lifeblood 4
Send Away the Tigers 5
Journal for Plague Lovers 1
Postcards From a Young Man 2
Rewind the Film 3
Futurology 5
Others 4

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Michaela Richardson @MichaelaRicha13
1. Doors Closing Slowly
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Faster
4. Solitude Sometimes Is
5. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
6. This is Yesterday
7. The Masses Against the Classes
8. You Love Us
9. Found That Soul
10. Revol
11. You Stole the Sun from my Heart
12. No Surface All Feeling
13. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach
14. My Little Empire
15. Motown Junk
16. Nobody Loved You
17. Anthem For a Lost Cause
18. Your Love Alone is not Enough
19. You're Tender and You're Tired
20. Love's Sweet Exile
21. Further Away
22. A Design For Life
23. Enola/Alone
24. Ready For Drowning
25. Tsunami
26. Ocean Spray
27. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
28. So Why So Sad
29. Walk Me to the Bridge
30. Indian Summer
31. Show Me the Wonder
32. Sex, Power, Love and Money
33. This Sullen Welsh Heart
34. Postcards From a Young Man
35. This Joke Sport Severed
36. A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun
37. Peeled Apples
38. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
39. Auto-Intoxication
40. Everything Must Go
41. Marlon JD
42. Born a Girl
43. Black Dog on my Shoulder
44. Europa Geht Durch Mich
45. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love
46. Suicide Alley
47. Rewind the Film
48. Send Away the Tigers
49. 30-Year War
50. Autumnsong

By Era
Generation Terrorists 5
Gold Against the Soul 0
The Holy Bible 3
Everything Must Go 7
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 9
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 1
Send Away the Tigers 4
Journal for Plague Lovers 5
Postcards From a Young Man 4
Rewind the Film 5
Futurology 3
Others 1

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Paudie O'Neill @oneillpaudie
1. Yes
2. From Despair to Where
3. Faster
4. Archives of Pain
5. No Surface All Feeling
6. Motorcycle Emptiness
7. A Design For Life
8. She is Suffering
9. Hibernation
10. Intravenous Agnostic
11. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
12. PCP
13. Donkeys
14. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
15. You Love Us
16. Stay Beautiful
17. Roses in the Hospital
18. I'm Not Working
19. Spectators of Suicide
20. Revol
21. All is Vanity
22. The Everlasting
23. Close My Eyes
24. Suicide is Painless (Theme From MASH)
25. Life Becoming a Landslide
26. 4st 7lb
27. Virginia State Epileptic Colony
28. Show Me the Wonder
29. Peeled Apples
30. Love's Sweet Exile
31. Empty Souls
32. Found That Soul
33. Little Baby Nothing
34. Indian Summer
35. Motown Junk
36. Postcards From a Young Man
37. Gold Against the Soul
38. Condemned to Rock 'N' Roll
39. Glasnost
40. The Girl Who Wanted to be God
41. The Masses Against the Classes
42. Baby Elian
43. Sleepflower
44. 1985
45. This Joke Sport Severed
46. This is Yesterday
47. Prologue to History
48. Europa Geht Durch Mich
49. Bored Out of My Mind
50. The Year of Purification

By Era
Generation Terrorists 10
Gold Against the Soul 8
The Holy Bible 9
Everything Must Go 3
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3
Know Your Enemy 4
Lifeblood 3
Send Away the Tigers 1
Journal for Plague Lovers 4
Postcards From a Young Man 1
Rewind the Film 1
Futurology 1
Others 2

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Laura McCulloch @LorMcC
1. Yes
2. Door to the River
3. Enola/Alone
4. Faster
5. Picturesque
6. Mausoleum
7. Further Away
8. Golden Platitudes
9. This is Yesterday
10. This Joke Sport Severed
11. Everything Must Go
12. Empty Souls
13. Stay Beautiful
14. PCP
15. Indian Summer
16. Sepia
17. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
18. Roses in the Hospital
19. Little Baby Nothing
20. Facing Page: Top Left
21. Montana/Autumn/78
22. She is Suffering
23. Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)
24. Just a Kid
25. Prologue to History
26. The Convalescent
27. Solitude Sometimes Is
28. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach
29. So Dead
30. Empty Motorcade
31. Marlon JD
32. Firefight
33. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
34. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever
35. Sleepflower
36. Methadone Pretty
37. The Second Great Depression
38. The Everlasting
39. Kevin Carter
40. Bored Out Of My Mind
41. Hanging On
42. I Live To Fall Asleep
43. RP McMurphy
44. The Last Time I Saw Paris
45. From Despair to Where
46. Socialist Serenade
47. Dead Martyrs
48. 4 Ever Delayed
49. My Guernica
50. William's Last Words

By Era
Generation Terrorists 6
Gold Against the Soul 4
The Holy Bible 6
Everything Must Go 8
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 4
Lifeblood 3
Send Away the Tigers 2
Journal for Plague Lovers 5
Postcards From a Young Man 2
Rewind the Film 0
Futurology 2
Others 4

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Paul Fiander-Turner @havinaradox
1. Faster
2. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
3. No Surface All Feeling
4. Bag Lady
5. Revol
6. Motorcycle Emptiness
7. Yes
8. Everything Must Go
9. Archives of Pain
10. A Design For Life
11. Sepia
12. Nobody Loved You
13. Die in the Summertime
14. You Love Us
15. PCP
16. Ready For Drowning
17. Your Love Alone is not Enough
18. Sleepflower
19. Stay Beautiful
20. Send Away the Tigers
21. Judge Yr'self
22. Peeled Apples
23. Me and Stephen Hawking
24. Enola/Alone
25. Found That Soul
26. A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun
27. Automatik Teknicolour
28. Rewind the Film
29. There by the Grace of God
30. Dead Martyrs
31. Of Walking Abortion
32. 1985
33. Firefight
34. Glasnost
35. The Masses Against the Classes
36. Marlon JD
37. Baby Elian
38. 30-Year War
39. Imperial Bodybags
40. The Next Jet to Leave Moscow
41. Starlover
42. Further Away
43. Motown Junk
44. Futurology
45. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
46. RP McMurphy
47. All is Vanity
48. Montana/Autumn/78
49. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach
50. Love's Sweet Exile

By Era
Generation Terrorists 7
Gold Against the Soul 2
The Holy Bible 9
Everything Must Go 6
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 2
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 6
Postcards From a Young Man 1
Rewind the Film 2
Futurology 2
Others 4

Thursday 28 May 2015

Manics Top 50s - 28th May 2015

The other chart from yesterday is going up as today's chart, but I was just hanging on for the written piece you can see below and as you'll see it was worth waiting for, some cracking anecdotes! (note: click on the picture to open it larger if it's too small to read)  Over to you.....

Popty Ping @Lightupthecat



By Era
Generation Terrorists 9
Gold Against the Soul 5
The Holy Bible 6
Everything Must Go 7
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 6
Know Your Enemy 0
Lifeblood 1
Send Away the Tigers 7
Journal for Plague Lovers 2
Postcards From a Young Man 3
Rewind the Film 0
Futurology 1
Others 3

Manics Top 50s - 27th May 2015

The charts are coming thick and fast as the deadline looms, and the 27th was a four chart day!  Three of those are featured here and The Holy Bible and Generation Terrorists did pretty well for themselves among the three charts while Postcards From a Young Man in particular struggled for votes.

As with last time I'm deliberately not totalling up the votes as we go so that the results are as much of a surprise to me as they are to all of you (although I will find out a week before you lot!).  Initial plans are to announce the final 50 on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th June on the evenings but I'm conscious this is just after the Cardiff Castle gig so people may not be around, any thoughts?  Over to the charts....

Rich @richierabs
1. Condemned to Rock 'N' Roll
2. Yes
3. A Design For Life
4. You Love Us
5. Bag Lady
6. Motorcycle Emptiness
7. Little Baby Nothing
8. Die in the Summertime
9. Archives of Pain
10. Of Walking Abortion
11. From Despair to Where
12. Faster
13. Peeled Apples
14. Sleepflower
15. The Everlasting
16. Motown Junk
17. The Masses Against the Classes
18. 30-Year War
19. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
20. Stay Beautiful
21. Kevin Carter
22. Imperial Bodybags
23. Door to the River
24. This Sullen Welsh Heart
25. Prologue to History
26. She is Suffering
27. Life Becoming a Landslide
28. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
29. Everything Must Go
30. Enola/Alone
31. Roses in the Hospital
32. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
33. Rewind the Film
34. Walk Me to the Bridge
35. 4st 7lb
36. Nobody Loved You
37. To Repel Ghosts
38. This is Yesterday
39. Europa Geht Durch Mich
40. PCP
41. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
42. Winterlovers
43. Send Away the Tigers
44. Slash N' Burn
45. The Intense Humming of Evil
46. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
47. Suicide is Painless (Theme From MASH)
48. A Song For Departure
49. Bored Out of my Mind
50. Builder of Routines

By Era
Generation Terrorists 9
Gold Against the Soul 5
The Holy Bible 10
Everything Must Go 6
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 1
Lifeblood 2
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 2
Postcards From a Young Man 0
Rewind the Film 4
Futurology 2
Others 2

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Sharon @GoldSparkShaz
1. A Design for Life
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Yes
4. Faster
5. 1985
6. 4 Ever Delayed
7. 4st 7lb
8. Little Baby Nothing
9. Tsunami
10. Glasnost
11. Roses in the Hospital
12. Australia
13. You Love Us
14. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
15. Ocean Spray
16. Epicentre
17. I Live to Fall Asleep
18. Condemned to Rock 'N' Roll
19. The Everlasting
20. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
21. The Next Jet to Leave Moscow
22. Kevin Carter
23. Cardiff Afterlife
24. Mr. Carbohydrate
25. Donkeys
26. Love's Sweet Exile
27. Revol
28. This Sullen Welsh Heart
29. William's Last Words
30. Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)
31. Between the Clock and the Bed
32. The View From Stow Hill
33. Marlon JD
34. You Stole the Sun From My Heart
35. Sleepflower
36. Comfort Comes
37. Virginia State Epileptic Colony
38. Black Dog on My Shoulder
39. This Joke Sport Severed
40. RP McMurphy
41. Show Me the Wonder
42. Me and Stephen Hawking
43. Mausoleum
44. Wattsville Blues
45. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
46. The Love of Richard Nixon
47. Sorrow 16
48. Sepia
49. (I Miss the) Tokyo Skyline
50. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds

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 5
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 5
Send Away the Tigers 0
Journal for Plague Lovers 6
Postcards From a Young Man 0
Rewind the Film 3
Futurology 3
Others 1

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Samuel @dharmacide
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. Roses in the Hospital
3. From Despair to Where
4. Yes
5. Faster
6. Little Baby Nothing
7. A Design For Life
8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
9. Some Kind of Nothingness
10. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
11. Stay Beautiful
12. Motown Junk
13. Send Away the Tigers
14. Life Becoming a Landslide
15. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
16. Ready For Drowning
17. PCP
18. Cardiff Afterlife
19. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
20. She is Suffering
21. This is Yesterday
22. Die in the Summertime
23. Suicide is Painless (Theme From MASH)
24. Of Walking Abortion
25. Archives of Pain
26. Tsunami
27. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
28. You Stole the Sun from my Heart
29. The Convalescent
30. Ocean Spray
31. Anthem For a Lost Cause
32. Slash N' Burn
33. Prologue to History
34. Williams's Last Words
35. Sepia
36. 4st 7lb
37. Love's Sweet Exile
38. Removables
39. His Last Painting
40. Autumnsong
41. Australia
42. Mausoleum
43. No Surface All Feeling
44. Nobody Loved You
45. My Little Empire
46. Solitude Sometimes Is
47. Postcards From a Young Man
48. Show Me the Wonder
49. The Next Jet to Leave Moscow
50. Running Out Of Fantasy

By Era
Generation Terrorists 7
Gold Against the Soul 4
The Holy Bible 11
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 7
Know Your Enemy 4
Lifeblood 2
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 1
Postcards From a Young Man 2
Rewind the Film 3
Futurology 1
Others 0

Tuesday 26 May 2015

Manics Top 50s - 26th May 2015

Today's chart is from a contributor who was with us last time out for the fantasy setlist but it's a first in terms of the top 50.  And surprisingly for such a high profile song I think I'm right in saying that for both of the times we've done these charts it's a first number one slot for Tolerate.  This Is My Truth also takes the honours in the By Era chart and we can cross off one of our no vote tracks as another one creeps in to get its first selection.

Only 5 days left now to register your vote and I'm still hoping that you're all leaving it until the last minute as we're still some way short of the 62 charts we got last time!  Happy ordering!

Phil John @PhilJohn4
1. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
2. A Design For Life
3. Faster
4. Peeled Apples
5. Rewind the Film
6. You Love Us
7. The Everlasting
8. Motorcycle Emptiness
9. The Second Great Depression
10. Solitude Sometimes Is
11. Motown Junk
12. Ready For Drowning
13. Postcards From A Young Man
14. Archives of Pain
15. Little Baby Nothing
16. Nobody Loved You
17. 1985
18. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
19. Tsunami
20. Bag Lady
21. You're Tender And You're Tired
22. The Masses Against the Classes
23. 30-Year War
24. My Little Empire
25. Dreaming a City (Hughesovka)
26. I'm Leaving You For Solitude
27. Life Becoming a Landslide
28. We Her Majesty's Prisoners
29. Found That Soul
30. No Surface All Feeling
31. Revol
32. Show Me the Wonder
33. Europa Geht Durch Mich
34. Black Holes for the Young
35. Us Against You
36. Baby Elian
37. PCP
38. This Sullen Welsh Heart
39. The Soulmates
40. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
41. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children
42. See it Like Sutherland
43. This is Yesterday
44. Golden Platitudes
45. Slash N' Burn
46. Leviathan
47. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love
48. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
49. You Stole the Sun from my Heart
50. Autumnsong

By Era
Generation Terrorists 6
Gold Against the Soul 2
The Holy Bible 5
Everything Must Go 3
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 9
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 3
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From a Young Man 4
Rewind the Film 5
Futurology 2
Others 2

Monday 25 May 2015

Manics Top 50s - 25th May 2015

A returning friend of New Chart Riot today and a not unexpected old school feel to it as the By Era chart leans very heavily towards the first three albums, with a Holy Bible top four.  There was even time to throw in a first vote for one song buried in the 50, make up your own mind as to which one that might be.....

I was expecting a busier bank holiday weekend to be honest as the deadline looms, I guess you're all leaving it until the last minute right?  Right?! :)  Next Sunday night (May 31st) is the deadline remember, so make sure you get yours in in time, I make this chart number 40 so far so we need another 23 in just 6 days to break last time's tally!!!

RMcNamara @RorsDM
1. Archives of Pain
2. Die in the Summertime
3. Of Walking Abortion
4. Yes
5. Sleepflower
6. Stay Beautiful
7. Repeat
8. Faster
9. Patrick Bateman
10. Condemned to Rock 'N' Roll
11. The Intense Humming of Evil
12. Mr Carbohydrate
13. Mausoleum
14. PCP
15. Revol
16. 4st 7lb
17. Democracy Coma
18. Slash N' Burn
19. Motown Junk
20. So Dead
21. Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel
22. Love Torn Us Under
23. Motorcycle Emptiness
24. Hibernation
25. Suicide is Painless (Theme From MASH)
26. All is Vanity
27. Love's Sweet Exile
28. Life Becoming a Landslide
29. New Art Riot
30. Prologue to History
31. Comfort Comes
32. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
33. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
34. Judge Yr'self
35. From Despair to Where
36. Methadone Pretty
37. Removables
38. Crucifix Kiss
39. Sculpture of Man
40. Gold Against the Soul
41. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds
42. Symphony of Tourette
43. Sorrow 16
44. We Her Majesty's Prisoners
45. It's So Easy
46. Drug Drug Druggy
47. No Surface All Feeling
48. Doors Closing Slowly
49. Another Invented Disease
50. Spectators of Suicide

By Era
Generation Terrorists 19
Gold Against the Soul 9
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 2
Postcards From a Young Man 0
Rewind the Film 0
Futurology 0
Others 0

Friday 22 May 2015

Manics Top 50s - 22nd May 2015

Today's chart comes from an absolutely invaluable resource for Manics fans, MSPPedia, which you can find by clicking here.  I was recently able to view the setlist of my first ever Manics gig in 1994 on the site (thanks to Monkey Marl for pointing out it was now listed!) which I was really pleased about, what a setlist it was!  It's a treasure trove of Manics-related information, which will keep the obsessives among us (all of us?) happy for hours.

But back to the charts and Lifeblood manages to get itself a top share of songs this time alongside This is My Truth in terms of overall entries, while our big hitters continue to take the top spots.  Whether it's enough to change the order of last time still remains to be seen.

The bank holiday weekend starts here and with just over a week to go I imagine a few of you will be putting the finishing touches to your own charts, so I look forward to seeing them and adding your votes to the total!

MSPpedia @MSPpedia
1. A Design for Life
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Black Dog on my Shoulder
4. Your Love Alone is not Enough
5. 1985
6. This Sullen Welsh Heart
7. Faster
8. Yes
9. Peeled Apples
10. Prologue to History
11. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
12. From Despair to Where
13. Archives of Pain
14. Dreaming a City (Hughesovka)
15. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
16. Mausoleum
17. Motown Junk
18. The Masses Against the Classes
19. Enola/Alone
20. You Love Us
21. Rewind the Film
22. Found That Soul
23. This Joke Sport Severed
24. Send Away the Tigers
25. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
26. You Stole the Sun from my Heart
27. Europa Geht Durch Mich
28. 4 Ever Delayed
29. Ready For Drowning
30. To Repel Ghosts
31. Epicentre
32. Fragments
33. Some Kind of Nothingness
34. Be Natural
35. Slash N' Burn
36. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
37. I Live to Fall Asleep
38. Cardiff Afterlife
39. Roses in the Hospital
40. Condemned to Rock 'N' Roll
41. Let Robeson Sing
42. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
43. Little Baby Nothing
44. 30-Year War
45. Solitude Sometimes Is
46. A Song For Departure
47. The Everlasting
48. No Surface All Feeling
49. Masking Tape
50. Let's Go To War

By Era
Generation Terrorists 6
Gold Against the Soul 3
The Holy Bible 5
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 7
Know Your Enemy 4
Lifeblood 7
Send Away the Tigers 2
Journal for Plague Lovers 2
Postcards From a Young Man 1
Rewind the Film 3
Futurology 3
Others 2

Thursday 21 May 2015

Manics Top 50s - 21st May 2015

Today's chart leans heavily on the first five albums, taking a decent chunk from each, but with an almost equal representation from the remaining seven albums when looked at together.  The big hitters again take the big places in terms of points too but there are still a lot of points up for grabs as we close in on the 31st May deadline.

It's possible we may end up with multiple blogs on some days as the deadline looms, I'm expecting to be busy!  So if you've been thinking about yours but not got round to it yet, what are you waiting for?!

David Keen @division80
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. A Design For Life
3. No Surface All Feeling
4. Little Baby Nothing
5. You Love Us
6. Faster
7. Die in the Summertime
8. Suicide is Painless (Theme From MASH)
9. Yes
10. Postcards From a Young Man
11. Anthem For a Lost Cause
12. From Despair to Where
13. Enola/Alone
14. Autumnsong
15. 4 Ever Delayed
16. 4st 7lb
17. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
18. Life Becoming a Landslide
19. Roses in the Hospital
20. Revol
21. Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky
22. Sleepflower
23. She is Suffering
24. Rewind the Film
25. Show Me the Wonder
26. Futurology
27. Send Away the Tigers
28. Peeled Apples
29. 1985
30. Ocean Spray
31. Stay Beautiful
32. La Tristessa Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
33. PCP
34. Tsunami
35. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
36. Kevin Carter
37. Everything Must Go
38. The Everlasting
39. Australia
40. Slash N' Burn
41. Empty Souls
42. Your Love Alone is not Enough
43. You're Tender and You're Tired
44. Prologue to History
45. Black Dog on my Shoulder
46. This Joke Sport Severed
47. Mr Carbohydrate
48. Intravenous Agnostic
49. Hazelton Avenue
50. Walk Me to the Bridge

By Era
Generation Terrorists 6
Gold Against the Soul 5
The Holy Bible 7
Everything Must Go 9
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 6
Know Your Enemy 2
Lifeblood 2
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 2
Postcards From a Young Man 2
Rewind the Film 3
Futurology 2
Others 1

Tuesday 19 May 2015

Manics Top 50s - 19th May 2015

Today's chart is another one that's pretty even, no one album pulling away from the rest in the number of picks and representation from every one.  A familiar number one again staking its claim for its own push into the top 2 of the big chart after last time.

As of today there are only 12 more days to get your chart in.  This is chart number 37 and I know there are a lot of you out there that are planning on submitting a chart so hopefully we can beat last time's total of 62.  Feel free to recruit anyone you can to help us get as many contributors as possible, the more people we have the more accurate and representative the final chart will be!

D @milliondrones
1. A Design For Life
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Nobody Loved You
4. Yes
5. Roses In The Hospital
6. Bag Lady
7. 1985
8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
9. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
10. You Love Us
11. William’s Last Words
12. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
13. Black Square
14. No Surface All Feeling
15. Postcards From A Young Man
16. Tsunami
17. Faster
18. 30-Year War
19. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
20. Glasnost
21. All We Make Is Entertainment
22. Found That Soul
23. Me & Stephen Hawking
24. The Masses Against The Classes
25. The Second Great Depression
26. Golden Platitudes
27. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)
28. Marlon JD
29. Misguided Missile
30. This Is Yesterday
31. She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach
32. The Everlasting
33. Underdogs
34. (It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love
35. Mausoleum
36. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
37. Stay Beautiful
38. Revol
39. Tennessee
40. Journal For Plague Lovers
41. Futurology
42. Enola/Alone
43. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow
44. Let Robeson Sing
45. 4 Ever Delayed
46. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God
47. So Why So Sad
48. Running Out Of Fantasy
49. Removables
50. A Song For Departure

By Era
Generation Terrorists 4
Gold Against the Soul 2
The Holy Bible 6
Everything Must Go 6
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 5
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 3
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 6
Postcards From a Young Man 4
Rewind the Film 2
Futurology 4
Others 2

Wednesday 13 May 2015

Manics Top 50s - 13th May 2015

It's another two returning contributors from last time today and while in the first chart the number one manages to retain its place, the rest of the chart is quite different.  A healthy dose of songs from the latest two albums and a big reshuffle elsewhere, but let's face it, it would be boring if we kept it the same, right?!  I'm sure most of us would change them around if we were asked again the following day!

The second chart also manages to retain its number one and is probably the biggest chart of the underdog so far, ticking off a number of our no-vote songs in the process.  It's also significant for being weighted more towards the second half of the band's career, yet still, every era manages to see at least one vote.

Phillimess @phillimess
1. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
2. Sorrow 16
3. Roses In The Hospital
4. Motown Junk
5. Stay Beautiful 
6. Strip It Down
7. Methadone Pretty
8. Never Want Again
9. Motorcycle Emptiness
10. Are Mothers Saints
11. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
12. Hanging On
13. Crucifix Kiss 
14. Masking Tape
15. Born To End
16. Locust Valley
17. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart 
18. 4 Ever Delayed
19. Die In The Summertime
20. Anthem For A Lost Cause
21. Some Kind Of Nothingness 
22. Doors Closing Slowly
23. There By The Grace Of God
24. Of Walking Abortion
25. The Descent (Pages 1 & 2)
26. Rewind The Film
27. The Soulmates
28. Archives Of Pain
29. Golden Platitudes
30. This Joke Sport Severed 
31. Black Square
32. Leviathan 
33. Faster
34. A Design For Life
35. Kevin Carter
36. Ready For Drowning
37. Running Out Of Fantasy 
38. Everyone Knows/Nobody Cares
39. Be Natural
40. The Everlasting
41. 3 Ways To See Despair
42. Heyday Of The Blood
43. Umbrella
44. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
45. I'm Just A Patsy
46. 1985
47. Imperial Bodybags
48. Everything Must Go
49. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children
50. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow 

By Era
Generation Terrorists 10
Gold Against the Soul 3
The Holy Bible 5
Everything Must Go 4
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 3
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 2
Postcards From a Young Man 3
Rewind the Film 4
Futurology 2
Others 4

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laura @lonelyaesthetic
1. Ocean Spray
2. Rewind the Film
3. Peeled Apples
4. We Were Never Told
5. This is Yesterday
6. As Holy as the Soil (That Buries Your Skin)
7. Anorexic Rodin
8. Autumnsong
9. Black Square
10. Faster
11. Sepia
12. Melancholyme
13. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach
14. Mausoleum
15. Last Exit on Yesterday
16. This Sullen Welsh Heart
17. Spectators of Suicide
18. Blistered Mirrors
19. Vision Blurred
20. Leviathan
21. Doors Closing Slowly
22. Boxes and Lists
23. Askew Road
24. Manorbier
25. Masking Tape
26. Can't Take My Eyes Off You
27. I Know the Numbers
28. Red Rubber
29. Winterlovers
30. Anthem For a Lost Cause
31. Tsunami
32. Welcome to the Dead Zone
33. Marlon JD
34. Another Invented Disease
35. You Stole the Sun From My Heart
36. Some Kind of Nothingness
37. Indian Summer
38. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
39. Buildings For Dead People
40. Archives of Pain
41. Journal For Plague Lovers
42. The Sound of Detachment
43. The Vorticists
44. Love Torn Us Under
45. Die in the Summertime
46. Umbrella
47. Solitude Sometimes Is
48. Empty Motorcade
49. Comfort Comes
50. See It Like Sutherland

By Era
Generation Terrorists 3
Gold Against the Soul 1
The Holy Bible 6
Everything Must Go 2
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 2
Lifeblood 2
Send Away the Tigers 7
Journal for Plague Lovers 6
Postcards From a Young Man 3
Rewind the Film 7
Futurology 4
Others 3

Monday 11 May 2015

Manics Top 50s - 11th May 2015

Today's entry sees a familiar number one, staking its claim this time to rise from the number 3 spot in the overall chart and break into the top two.  This Is My Truth puts up a valiant fight against The Holy Bible in the By Era chart with 7 entries as every album is represented and we manage to tick off another no-vote song, although a B-side this time (not telling which though!).  Keep them coming!

David Scullion @scully161280
1. A Design For Life
2. Archives of Pain
3. Door to the River
4. Tsunami
5. Rewind the Film
6. Golden Platitudes
7. Motorcycle Emptiness 
8. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
9. This Joke Sport Severed
10. Suicide is Painless (Theme From MASH)
11. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 
12. Sleepflower
13. 4st 7lb
14. Black Dog on my Shoulder
15. Motown Junk
16. Roses in the Hospital
17. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love
18. Prologue to History
19. Mausoleum
20. Show Me the Wonder 
21. Kevin Carter
22. Found That Soul
23. Condemned to Rock 'N' Roll
24. Futurology
25. The Second Great Depression 
26. Sex, Power, Love and Money 
27. Die in the Summertime 
28. Yes
29. Bag Lady
30. The Convalescent 
31. Love Torn Us Under 
32. 1985
33. Judge Yr'self 
34. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time 
35. Out of Time
36. Emily
37. Little Baby Nothing 
38. Australia 
39. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart 
40. Be Natural 
41. Running Out of Fantasy 
42. Misguided Missile 
43. PCP
44. Everything Must Go 
45. Valley Boy
46. Autumnsong
47. Red Rubber
48. This Sullen Welsh Heart
49. Glasnost 
50. Born a Girl

By Era
Generation Terrorists 5
Gold Against the Soul 3
The Holy Bible 9
Everything Must Go 4
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 7
Know Your Enemy 2
Lifeblood 3
Send Away the Tigers 2
Journal for Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From a Young Man 3
Rewind the Film 4
Futurology 3
Others 2