Tuesday 16 November 2021

Manics Top 50s - 14th Nov 2021

Three more charts here, starting off with a regular contributor who is.....my mother?  Yes I'm a bad influence, she wasn't a fan of Generation Terrorists other than the more un-GT songs like her number 1 pick (too punky), so Gold Against The Soul was the one she first liked.  That theme then carried on through their discography, bypassing the more abrasive albums and liking the more melodic albums.

She hasn't heard much beyond Send Away The Tigers apart from odd songs, but I did give her one of my surplus copies of The Ultra Vivid Lament which led to no less than six tracks making it into the 50!  I don't think we've had any more than that so far in a single chart and from what I reckon will be sure to be our oldest participant too.

Jennifer, Mother of @Pyfbrown
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
3. From Despair To Where
4. Gold Against The Soul
5. Still Snowing In Sapporo
6. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
7. The Secret He Had Missed
8. Faster
9. Enola/Alone
10. Orwellian
11. Afterending
12. Tsunami
13. Send Away The Tigers
14. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God
15. Little Baby Nothing
16. 1985
17. Sleepflower
18. International Blue
19. Distant Colours
20. A Song For Departure
21. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
22. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
23. Be Natural
24. A Design For Life
25. Black Dog On My Shoulder
26. Australia
27. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)
28. Everything Must Go
29. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
30. Further Away
31. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
32. The Second Great Depression
33. Autumnsong
34. Indian Summer
35. There By The Grace Of God
36. The Everlasting
37. Always/Never
38. Diapause
39. Kevin Carter
40. Don't Let The Night Divide Us
41. So Why So Sad
42. Yourself
43. Empty Souls
44. To Repel Ghosts
45. Hold Me Like A Heaven
46. Solitude Sometimes Is
47. Glasnost
48. The Love Of Richard Nixon
49. Drug Drug Druggy
50. Emily

By Era
Generation Terrorists 3
Gold Against The Soul 6
The Holy Bible 1
Everything Must Go 8
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6
Know Your Enemy 1
Lifeblood 9
Send Away The Tigers 5
Journal For Plague Lovers 0
Postcards From A Young Man 1
Rewind The Film 0
Futurology 0
Resistance Is Futile 3
The Ultra Vivid Lament 6
Others 1

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The second chart comes from our Australian correspondent (not Royal, at least I don't think so....), ensuring we have representation from both hemispheres.  A Design For Life takes top spot and All Is Vanity and The View From Stow Hill grab their first top 10 places.

There are a couple of firsts in Mirror Gaze and The Last Time I Saw Paris breaking their duck, while Groundhog Days, Pedestal, Broken Up Again and Everything Will Be are all selected for only the second time.

The Convalescent @EinBleistift
1. A Design For Life
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
4. Archives Of Pain
5. Die In The Summertime
6. The Masses Against The Classes
7. All Is Vanity
8. The View From Stow Hill
9. The Convalescent
10. You Love Us
11. The Everlasting
12. Faster
13. Yes
14. My Little Empire
15. I Live To Fall Asleep
16. Mausoleum
17. Epicentre
18. Life Becoming A Landslide
19. (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline
20. Peeled Apples
21. Black Square
22. Prologue To History
23. Solitude Sometimes Is
24. This Joke Sport Severed
25. Some Kind Of Nothingness
26. From Despair To Where
27. Sleepflower
28. Europa Geht Durch Mich
29. Groundhog Days
30. Mirror Gaze
31. Ready For Drowning
32. Everything Must Go
33. Misguided Missile
34. This Sullen Welsh Heart
35. Little Baby Nothing
36. Empty Souls
37. Kevin Carter
38. Nobody Loved You
39. Rewind The Film
40. The Last Time I Saw Paris
41. Send Away The Tigers
42. Postcards From A Young Man
43. Pedestal
44. Walk Me To The Bridge
45. Distant Colours
46. 4 Ever Delayed
47. 30-Year War
48. Broken Up Again
49. Hold Me Like A Heaven
50. Everything Will Be

By Era
Generation Terrorists 3
Gold Against The Soul 3
The Holy Bible 5
Everything Must Go 3
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6
Know Your Enemy 4
Lifeblood 4
Send Away The Tigers 1
Journal For Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From A Young Man 3
Rewind The Film 4
Futurology 6
Resistance Is Futile 3
The Ultra Vivid Lament 0
Others 2

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Next is another ever-present in the top 50s and fantasy setlists, who'll have our first participant at the top of this blog crying "Who's Monkey Mark?".  He's gone with his third different number 1 across his three charts too, with Intravenous Agnostic taking its first 50 points.  Nostalgic Pushead gets its highest placing so far at number 3.

Despite the number 1 pick, the first four albums and Journal For Plague Lovers make up the majority of the chart, with only two post-Journal songs sneaking in.

Monkey Marl @MonkeyMarl
1. Intravenous Agnostic
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Nostalgic Pushead
4. Faster
5. Found That Soul
6. Sleepflower
7. Stay Beautiful
8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
9. Die In The Summertime
10. From Despair To Where
11. Little Baby Nothing
12. Ready For Drowning
13. Peeled Apples
14. The Masses Against The Classes
15. 1985
16. Donkeys
17. A Design For Life
18. Prologue To History
19. No Surface All Feeling
20. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands
21. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
22. Golden Platitudes
23. Sepia
24. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
25. Marlon JD
26. PCP
27. Yourself
28. The Intense Humming Of Evil
29. Enola/Alone
30. Mr Carbohydrate
31. 4st 7lb
32. Slash N' Burn
33. Drug Drug Druggy
34. Yes
35. Take The Skinheads Bowling
36. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
37. William's Last Words
38. Roses In The Hospital
39. You Love Us
40. Hold Me Like A Heaven
41. She Is Suffering
42. Born To End
43. This Joke Sport Severed
44. Tennessee
45. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
46. RP McMurphy
47. Of Walking Abortion
48. Me And Stephen Hawking
49. Another Invented Disease
50. Further Away

By Era
Generation Terrorists 9
Gold Against The Soul 8
The Holy Bible 9
Everything Must Go 8
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3
Know Your Enemy 2
Lifeblood 1
Send Away The Tigers 1
Journal For Plague Lovers 6
Postcards From A Young Man 1
Rewind The Film 0
Futurology 0
Resistance Is Futile 1
The Ultra Vivid Lament 0
Others 1

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