Tuesday 23 November 2021

Manics Top 50s - 22nd Nov 2021

It was a five chart day yesterday so I'll keep the comments relatively brief to save the blog running on forever.  We start off with A Design For Life taking another number 1 and a lot of different eras scoring relatively highly, Holy Bible and Everything Must Go each having six entries, while This Is My Truth, Lifeblood and Journal all have five each.

Paul Barnsley @Barnspaul31
1. A Design For Life
2. Faster
3. 1985
4. You're Tender And You're Tired
5. Yes
6. Still Snowing In Sapporo
7. Some Kind Of Nothingness
8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
9. I Live To Fall Asleep
10. Motorcycle Emptiness
11. Mausoleum
12. The Everlasting
13. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
14. Life Becoming A Landslide
15. No Surface All Feeling
16. Cardiff Afterlife
17. Doors Closing Slowly
18. Peeled Apples
19. Die In The Summertime
20. There By The Grace Of God
21. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
22. Nobody Loved You
23. William's Last Words
24. A Song For Departure
25. Diapause
26. The Second Great Depression
27. Glasnost
28. You Love Us
29. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
30. Prologue To History
31. International Blue
32. Rewind The Film
33. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God
34. This Joke Sport Severed
35. Indian Summer
36. From Despair To Where
37. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
38. This Sullen Welsh Heart
39. So Why So Sad
40. 4st 7lb
41. Black Square
42. The Masses Against The Classes
43. Ocean Spray
44. Let's Go To War
45. 3 Ways To See Despair
46. Motown Junk
47. The Left Behind
48. PCP
49. People Give In
50. Enola/Alone

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

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Our second chart is another nicely presented entry, but despite the Journal backdrop it's No Surface All Feeling that takes the number 1 slot and Holy Bible that takes the honours in the By Era chart.  Blank Diary Entry and Auto-Intoxication are a couple of album tracks with less than a handful of entries so far that manage to get a few more points on the board here.

Michael Lee @yekim_mikey


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

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As well as providing us with a few comments inserted against chosen tracks and giving You Love Us another 50 points, Steve has also helped out three of the no-vote songs get off the mark - Fear Of Motion, The Instrumental and All Alone Here all featuring for the first time.

Steven Drake @sdrake767
1. You Love Us
Hours of guitar practice learning the solos and always a high point of every gig, my love is made even stronger by a live version from the early 90s that turns in to a fight
2. A Design For Life
3. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
4. Fear Of Motion
Probably unusual to have this little song so high up but I love the cheap, throwaway nature of it. A real personal choice dating back to rummaging in the loft for my parents record player and represents the start of my desire to collect every Manics song (at that point I only owned EMG, KYE and TIMTTMY)
5. Ready For Drowning
Assisted by the DVD extra on the Millennium Stadium DVD and John Cale duet
6. No Surface All Feeling
7. Archives Of Pain
8. Kevin Carter
Possibly unusual to be this high up but the song that got me in to the band in guitar lessons in the late 90s
9. International Blue
10. The Masses Against The Classes
The excitement of listening to Radio 1 to hear it announced as number 1
11. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
12. Found That Soul
13. Show Me The Wonder
14. 1985
Should have been the first single....
15. Roses In The Hospital
16. Vision Blurred
Similar to Fear of Motion, this just sounds like a band doing what they want, and I love that
17. Sepia
18. Be Natural
19. Australia
20. From Despair To Where
21. Montana/Autumn/78
22. Everything Must Go
23. Intravenous Agnostic
24. Judge Yr'self
25. Comfort Comes
26. Vivian
27. All Alone Here
28. The Instrumental
29. Tsunami
30. This Joke Sport Severed
31. Masking Tape
32. Locust Valley
33. Automatik Teknicolour
34. The Long Goodbye
35. Heyday Of The Blood
36. 3 Ways To See Despair
37. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)
38. Europa Geht Durch Mich
39. Peeled Apples
40. Afterending
41. The Last Time I Saw Paris
The mystery of who the female voice is adds to the appeal
42. Send Away The Tigers
43. Faster
44. To Repel Ghosts
45. Rewind The Film
46. Motorcycle Emptiness
Perhaps lower than most people, I've never really loved it
47. Sleepflower
48. Some Kind Of Nothingness
49. Complicated Illusions
50. The Ghost Of Christmas
Always a pleasure having this as the first Christmas song I play in December

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

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It's a chart regular returning next with My Little Empire jumping up into the number 1 slot for the first time and Rendition also claiming its first top 10 place.  The Holy Bible just manages to edge out Everything Must Go and This Is My Truth in the By Era chart with eight selections.

Chorizo Garbanzo @ChorizoGarbanzo
1. My Little Empire
2. 4st 7lb
3. This Is Yesterday
4. Rendition
5. Faster
6. Found That Soul
7. The Masses Against The Classes
8. Distant Colours
9. Kevin Carter
10. Little Baby Nothing
11. Of Walking Abortion
12. Ready For Drowning
13. Motorcycle Emptiness
14. Complicated Illusions
15. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
16. The Convalescent
17. Donkeys
18. From Despair To Where
19. The Everlasting
20. Love Letter To The Future
21. A Design For Life
22. All Is Vanity
23. Yes
24. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)
25. Let Robeson Sing
26. Diapause
27. Mr Carbohydrate
28. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
29. Removables
30. Epicentre
31. Black Holes For The Young
32. You're Tender And You're Tired
33. No Surface All Feeling
34. Between The Clock And The Bed
35. Enola/Alone
36. In Eternity
37. The Year Of Purification
38. RP McMurphy
39. Mausoleum
40. Show Me The Wonder
41. Distractions
42. Die In The Summertime
43. Be Natural
44. Revol
45. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever
46. William's Last Words
47. Bored Out Of My Mind
48. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
49. Winterlovers
50. Solitude Sometimes Is

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

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Last but not least is Jack who kindly got a chart together amidst mounting college work, hopefully his grades won't suffer as a result!  As with the first chart in this batch, it's A Design For Life that triumphs and Everything Must Go takes a clean sweep by having the most entries By Era too.  Jack admitted The Ultra Vivid Lament has yet to get much airplay, so you never know next time that could have a chance at featuring.

Jack Kavanagh Homan @jkhoman
1. A Design For Life
2. Faster
3. Motorcycle Emptiness
4. The Everlasting
5. Everything Must Go
6. Motown Junk
7. Yes
8. Little Baby Nothing
9. You're Tender And You're Tired
10. Rewind The Film
11. You Love Us
12. Tsunami
13. Love's Sweet Exile
14. 4st 7lb
15. No Surface All Feeling
16. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
17. Comfort Comes
18. This Is Yesterday
19. 1985
20. Enola/Alone
21. Hold Me Like A Heaven
22. Door To The River
23. Black Dog On My Shoulder
24. Sepia
25. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
26. Sleepflower
27. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
28. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)
29. Ocean Spray
30. 4 Ever Delayed
31. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands
32. People Give In
33. The Second Great Depression
34. Spectators Of Suicide
35. Let Robeson Sing
36. William's Last Words
37. Life Becoming A Landslide
38. Empty Souls
39. This Is The Day
40. Patrick Bateman
41. The Year Of Purification
42. Anthem For A Lost Cause
43. Some Kind Of Nothingness
44. Indian Summer
45. I Live To Fall Asleep
46. 30-Year War
47. The Convalescent
48. All Is Vanity
49. Between The Clock And The Bed
50. Send Away The Tigers

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

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