Friday 19 November 2021

Manics Top 50s - 18th Nov 2021

It was a four chart day yesterday, which I imagine might start to become more common as everyone finalises the charts they've been agonising over for the last few months.

First up is another ever-present from the top 50s and fantasy setlists, Nick has changed the number 1 from his previous two entries as Yes slips down to fourth to be overtaken by Faster.  As Holy As The Soil takes its first top 10 spot and therefore its highest placing so far, with All We Make Is Entertainment also getting its highest placing and First Republic its first vote full stop at 13.

A number of other B-sides also pick up some much needed points to avoid being near the back of the queue come the final reckoning.  I'll be going through soon to find out how many no-vote songs are left overall.

Nick Tait @ApolloScream
1. Faster
2. Autumnsong
3. Some Kind Of Nothingness
4. Yes
5. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
6. Love's Sweet Exile
7. Imperial Bodybags
8. You're Tender And You're Tired
9. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
10. As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)
11. Europa Geht Durch Mich
12. All We Make Is Entertainment
13. First Republic
14. 4st 7lb
15. You Love Us
16. Stay Beautiful
17. Judge Yr'self
18. The Masses Against The Classes
19. Don't Let The Night Divide Us
20. Found That Soul
21. This Is Yesterday
22. Slash N' Burn
23. Little Baby Nothing
24. Life Becoming A Landslide
25. Nobody Loved You
26. Underdogs
27. I Think I Found It
28. Walk Me To The Bridge
29. A Vision Of Dead Desire
30. No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me
31. Welcome To The Dead Zone
32. Afterending
33. Happy Bored Alone
34. Groundhog Days
35. From Despair To Where
36. Die In The Summertime
37. Golden Platitudes
38. Show Me The Wonder
39. Futurology
40. William's Last Words
41. Of Walking Abortion
42. Buildings For Dead People
43. Ready For Drowning
44. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
45. Ain't Going Down
46. Let Robeson Sing
47. I Live To Fall Asleep
48. 30-Year War
49. Anthem For A Lost Cause
50. Heyday Of The Blood

By Era
Generation Terrorists 7
Gold Against The Soul 3
The Holy Bible 8
Everything Must Go 2
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 1
Send Away The Tigers 6
Journal For Plague Lovers 1
Postcards From A Young Man 4
Rewind The Film 4
Futurology 3
Resistance Is Futile 0
The Ultra Vivid Lament 3
Others 1

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Next is our first Twitter blue tick participant this time, Dom is a Nottingham-based self-confessed Manics obsessive and music writer who was lucky enough to interview Nicky Wire only a few months ago, and for the third time no less!  And as Emily Hyatt documented in her recent (excellent) fanzine for the Manics tour, he clearly looks enough like a famous person to have been mistaken for one of the band in Halifax!

It's a Motorcycle Emptiness number 1 and a classic top 10, with Orwellian just knocking on the door on behalf of the new songs. Having taken its first vote only the previous day, Starlover now climbs even higher to number 20, with the Generation Terrorists (and before) and Holy Bible eras coming out on top equally with nine.

Dom Gourlay @domlikesrabbits
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. Faster
3. Stay Beautiful
4. A Design For Life
5. Motown Junk
6. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
7. Judge Yr'self
8. Revol
9. Sorrow 16
10. Sleepflower
11. Orwellian
12. All Is Vanity
13. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
14. There By The Grace Of God
15. 4 Ever Delayed
16. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
17. Archives Of Pain
18. Found That Soul
19. Australia
20. Starlover
21. Yourself
22. Interiors (Song For Willem De Kooning)
23. Yes
24. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
25. Ready For Drowning
26. Kevin Carter
27. Enola/Alone
28. The Masses Against The Classes
29. International Blue
30. Of Walking Abortion
31. Roses In The Hospital
32. You Love Us
33. Sculpture Of Man
34. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
35. From Despair To Where
36. Don't Let The Night Divide Us
37. Dead Yankee Drawl
38. Everything Must Go
39. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
40. Drug Drug Druggy
41. Repeat
42. Still Snowing In Sapporo
43. Patrick Bateman
44. No Surface All Feeling
45. Peeled Apples
46. Die In The Summertime
47. Europa Geht Durch Mich
48. Tsunami
49. Marlon JD
50. Slash N' Burn

By Era
Generation Terrorists 9
Gold Against The Soul 7
The Holy Bible 9
Everything Must Go 8
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3
Know Your Enemy 1
Lifeblood 0
Send Away The Tigers 1
Journal For Plague Lovers 4
Postcards From A Young Man 0
Rewind The Film 0
Futurology 1
Resistance Is Futile 1
The Ultra Vivid Lament 3
Others 3

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Motorcycle Emptiness comes out on top again in the third chart of this batch and there's a highest finish so far for Dead Trees And Traffic Islands at number 6.  His Last Painting picks ups its third vote in a couple of days, it's strange how some of the lesser-loved songs just seem to turn up in bursts, like we had with So Dead a few weeks ago!

This Is My Truth tops Dan's By Era chart with nine, closely followed by Know Your Enemy, a little break from the usual suspects there!

Dan Smith @dansm1th3
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. No Surface All Feeling
3. Life Becoming A Landslide
4. A Design For Life
5. 4st 7lb
6. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands
7. Little Baby Nothing
8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
9. Enola/Alone
10. Yes
11. You Love Us
12. The Everlasting
13. Black Dog On My Shoulder
14. Australia
15. Faster
16. My Little Empire
17. Let Robeson Sing
18. His Last Painting
19. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
20. Further Away
21. Prologue To History
22. This Is Yesterday
23. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
24. This Joke Sport Severed
25. Nobody Loved You
26. I Live To Fall Asleep
27. The Masses Against The Classes
28. Born A Girl
29. We Are All Bourgeois Now
30. Ocean Spray
31. Ready For Drowning
32. Patrick Bateman
33. International Blue
34. So Why So Sad
35. Are Mothers Saints
36. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
37. Of Walking Abortion
38. Slash N' Burn
39. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
40. Dead Martyrs
41. Tsunami
42. Mr Carbohydrate
43. PCP
44. Stay Beautiful
45. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun
46. Bag Lady
47. Found That Soul
48. All We Make Is Entertainment
49. Roses In The Hospital
50. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

By Era
Generation Terrorists 6
Gold Against The Soul 5
The Holy Bible 7
Everything Must Go 7
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 9
Know Your Enemy 8
Lifeblood 1
Send Away The Tigers 0
Journal For Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From A Young Man 2
Rewind The Film 0
Futurology 0
Resistance Is Futile 1
The Ultra Vivid Lament 0
Others 1

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The final chart of this batch gives us a nice bit of symmetry, with Faster at number 1 again to book-end the two Motorcycle Emptinesses.  Tolerate takes its third number 2 slot, while Everything Must Go takes the honours in the By Era chart with eight entries.

Rick @rickl80
1. Faster
2. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
3. A Design For Life
4. Motorcycle Emptiness
5. This Is Yesterday
6. Slash N' Burn
7. Life Becoming A Landslide
8. Yes
9. No Surface All Feeling
10. Peeled Apples
11. The Masses Against The Classes
12. Sepia
13. Sleepflower
14. Door To The River
15. Australia 
16. Motown Junk
17. 4 Ever Delayed
18. You Love Us
19. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)
20. Montana/Autumn/78
21. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
22. Automatik Teknicolour
23. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
24. Europa Geht Durch Mich
25. Intravenous Agnostic
26. Stay Beautiful
27. Rendition
28. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
29. Prologue To History
30. There By The Grace Of God
31. Send Away The Tigers
32. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God
33. Enola/Alone
34. Tsunami
35. I Know The Numbers
36. This Joke Sport Severed
37. Black Square
38. Be Natural
39. Walk Me To The Bridge
40. Broken Algorithms
41. Donkeys
42. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands
43. Love Letter To The Future
44. Misguided Missile
45. Locust Valley
46. I'm Just A Patsy
47. The Everlasting
48. From Despair To Where
49. Never Want Again
50. Too Cold Here

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

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