Thursday 18 November 2021

Manics Top 50s - 17th Nov 2021

There are four charts here including the one that took us over the previous record of 68 charts, and they don't look like stopping any time soon.  Can we break 100?!

First is one of our more artistic entries, with Ocean Spray taking its second number 1 slot.  This Sullen Welsh Heart and Locust Valley both take their place in the top 10 and earn their highest placing so far.  To go with the number 1 and the top 10 B-side, Know Your Enemy takes the honours in the By Era chart with eight.

I'd can can if I could @gloomyok

By Era
Generation Terrorists 3
Gold Against The Soul 1
The Holy Bible 5
Everything Must Go 6
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 8
Lifeblood 4
Send Away The Tigers 3
Journal For Plague Lovers 4
Postcards From A Young Man 2
Rewind The Film 4
Futurology 2
Resistance Is Futile 3
The Ultra Vivid Lament 1
Others 0

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The next chart is another artistic one, with Bob opting for leopard print and joining his daughter's previous submission in the process.  A Design For Life takes the 50 points home but it's The Holy Bible that tops the By Era chart with eleven, so that's only two of the songs on the album not making it.  

It's also a top three that mirrors the top three of the previous editions of the top 50s in content, if not in order.  But will something else break in this time?

BOB CARIDAD @deporbags


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

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The third chart in this batch sees Motown Junk take its first number 1, perhaps surprising that it took this long?  Automatik Teknicolour appears in its highest position in 6th, although not its only top 10 finish, while Starlover picks up its first vote.

There's a good spread across the albums in the By Era chart, with The Holy Bible just nudging ahead with seven.

a lot of miles from home @ofmilesfromhome
1. Motown Junk
2. A Design For Life
3. Motorcycle Emptiness
4. Send Away The Tigers
5. Prologue To History
6. Automatik Teknicolour
7. The Masses Against The Classes
8. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)
9. 4 Ever Delayed
10. Faster
11. Tsunami
12. Roses In The Hospital
13. Some Kind Of Nothingness
14. Futurology
15. You Love Us
16. Australia
17. No Surface All Feeling
18. PCP
19. Yes
20. 1985
21. Found That Soul
22. All Is Vanity
23. Peeled Apples
24. Sleepflower
25. The Convalescent
26. International Blue
27. Door To The River
28. Judge Yr'self
29. Boxes & Lists
30. From Despair To Where
31. Enola/Alone
32. Empty Motorcade
33. A Song For The Sadness
34. Love Letter To The Future
35. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
36. You're Tender And You're Tired
37. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
38. Archives Of Pain
39. Stay Beautiful
40. 30-Year War
41. My Little Empire
42. Epicentre
43. In Eternity
44. This Is Yesterday
45. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
46. Of Walking Abortion
47. Patrick Bateman
48. Starlover
49. The Secret He Had Missed
50. Broken Up Again

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 4
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 1
Send Away The Tigers 4
Journal For Plague Lovers 2
Postcards From A Young Man 2
Rewind The Film 1
Futurology 2
Resistance Is Futile 3
The Ultra Vivid Lament 1
Others 4

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Last but not least we have La Tristesse Durera appearing top of the pile for the fourth time so far, with the second place for Solitude Sometimes Is its highest position so far.  Caldey grabs its third vote, but the second in the top 10, if we were going on average points that would score pretty highly!

There are also rare outings for What Happened To The Blue Generation, TE Lawrence On A Bike, Teenage 20/20 and Wattsville Blues, all picking up some much needed points for their tally.

Cadw'r ffydd @WelshDragonHQ
1. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
2. Solitude Sometimes Is
3. This Is Yesterday
4. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
5. Ready For Drowning
6. His Last Painting
7. Caldey
8. Mausoleum
9. This Sullen Welsh Heart
10. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
11. 1985
12. Black Dog On My Shoulder
13. What Happened To The Blue Generation
14. Anthem For A Lost Cause
15. The Intense Humming Of Evil
16. Rewind The Film
17. Yes
18. People Give In
19. 4st 7lb
20. Donkeys
21. Send Away The Tigers
22. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
23. Roses In The Hospital
24. Dylan And Caitlin
25. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
26. Sleepflower
27. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God
28. Motorcycle Emptiness
29. Comfort Comes
30. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
31. Yourself
32. Peeled Apples
33. Askew Road
34. Firefight
35. Slash N' Burn
36. Gold Against The Soul
37. Stay Beautiful
38. A Song For Departure
39. A Design For Life
40. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
41. Teenage 20/20
42. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun
43. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands
44. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children
45. Wattsville Blues
46. Glasnost
47. Autumnsong
48. Hazelton Avenue
49. T.E. Lawrence On A Bike
50. My Guernica

By Era
Generation Terrorists 5
Gold Against The Soul 7
The Holy Bible 6
Everything Must Go 4
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3
Know Your Enemy 5
Lifeblood 5
Send Away The Tigers 2
Journal For Plague Lovers 1
Postcards From A Young Man 3
Rewind The Film 5
Futurology 1
Resistance Is Futile 2
The Ultra Vivid Lament 0
Others 1

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