tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25385146011628599752024-03-05T11:40:24.503-08:00New Chart RiotThe Home to the Unofficial Manic Street Preachers Fans' Top 50!!!Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-12511026258975955912022-01-03T11:12:00.004-08:002022-04-12T11:15:09.191-07:00Manics Top 50 - In Their Own Words<div style="text-align: left;">During the Manics Top 50 countdown on Twitter, the person who selected each of the 50 songs in the highest position was linked in to each tweet, which was also a call for those people to write about the song they love for this blog. Since that call, some of you have come back with some typically verbose responses which are now presented here.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you haven't managed to get round to writing yours yet, don't worry.....you can still send them and I'll add them on when they come through. New additions as they are added after the first version will be shown in <span style="color: red;">red font</span>. Happy Manics fan reading!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>In Their Own Words</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>50. Europa Geht Durch Mich - 1002 points / 41 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @MentalJargon (4th)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>49. Golden Platitudes - 1006 points / 40 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @30yearwar (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>48. Judge Yr'self - 1009 points / 43 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @MildManics (2nd)</div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>47. Rewind The Film - 1067 points / 43 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @lonelyaesthetic (2nd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>46. Complicated Illusions - 1071 points / 42 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @diapause78 (4th)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>45. Mausoleum - 1075 points / 42 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @porthjess @Chuzzwozza (3rd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>44. Revol - 1099 points / 45 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: citymanblue (4th)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>43. Kevin Carter - 1103 points / 42 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @gloomyok @amirsuleman (3rd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>@gloomyok</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">I could say I placed this one so highly because I love playing it on bass and it wouldn’t be a lie. But it wouldn’t be the whole truth either. </span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>Everything Must Go</i> was the second Manics album I ever listened to (<i>Lifeblood</i> was my baptism of fire) but it was the first I started doing ‘research’ for, by which I mean googling stuff. I had so many questions! <i>Who the hell is Willem De Kooning?</i> But before that one, by sheer track listing order, the question was <i>who the hell is Kevin Carter?</i> and <i>will looking up this mystery man allow me to understand these rather obscure lyrics?</i></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I remember reading that Wikipedia page eagerly, slowly understanding, as if translating. Now the line ‘click, click, click / click himself under’ which sounded to me like a bunch of whatever revealed itself as an incredibly grotesque yet poignant statement about the man whose photographs slowly led him to despair.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">To me <i>Kevin Carter</i> symbolizes the unique quality of the Manics work: the way it can be enjoyed on different levels. You can enjoy the very surface: catchy melodies, cool guitar solos (epic trumpet solo in this particular case) and all-around quality tunes. But you can also dip your toes and start looking up the references: all these books, politicians, poems, historical figures… And you can also straight up dive in and start reading these things, watch documentaries, spend an afternoon down a Wikipedia rabbit hole, even write a few paragraphs about one of their songs! Isn’t it lovely?</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>42. Sepia - 1108 points / 47 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @ManicBeata @10000_manics (3rd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>41. Donkeys - 1145 points / 49 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @porthjess @jackmansavfc (2nd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>40. This Joke Sport Severed - 1195 points / 49 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @beksthebloody (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>@beksthebloody</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">I bought JFPL way back sometime and never listened to it properly until I went 0 to extreme Manics Fan in the space of a weekend listening to Do You Love Us.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Some part of JFPL immediately invaded my soul and has never left - it was like I had found something I didn't know I was missing and it was a musical comfort blanket I had sitting on my shelf all these years and never took down until maybe it was when I needed it most.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This Joke Sport Severed is the song that unlocked everything. Played on repeat while I come to figure out the emotions I'm feeling. It's the song that made me pick up the guitar and play music again. It's a perfect piece of poetry to me.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>39. Walk Me To The Bridge - 1223 points / 59 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @jennifer_eileen (4th)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>38. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll - 1241 points / 46 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @BrickingBadger @richierabs @RichKelly_ @0xytocinn (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>37. Slash N' Burn - 1260 points / 56 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @marcsedison (2nd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>36. Found That Soul - 1262 points / 49 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @MonkeyMarl @biscuitporpoise (5th)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>35. Life Becoming A Landslide - 1282 points / 46 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @marcsedison @dansm1th3 (3rd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>@dansm1th3</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Where to start with this song? It is perhaps able to bring out the most emotion in me from any Manics song. The melancholic opening, the brutal rise as the guitar and drums kick in, all build to the soaring stringed finale in the final chorus. On another day I could have very easily placed it at number one, if it had not been for the personal and nostalgic connections I have for Motorcycle Emptiness and All Surface No Feeling pipping it to the post. As I mentioned on Twitter I think the vocals are James’ best, the way he controls and alters his voice through the different sections of the song transcend my own understanding of singing to the point where I can’t help but just listen in awe.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The lyrics are hauntingly beautiful, this is Nicky and Richey at their best in portraying the harrowing realities of life, in a way only they can. ‘My idea of love comes from, a childhood glimpse of pornography’. I mean, how amazing is that? It’s poetry in motion. The song had such a deep impact on me early on in my Manics fanhood, and in my own opinion it is undoubtedly the high point of Gold Against The Soul and one that takes a long time to get off the turntable (I think my record for most consecutive listens is 14!). It’s a love that has stood the test of time and will undoubtedly continue to do so for many years to come!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>34. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky - 1327 points / 55 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @PhilipM04217017 (4th)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>33. Enola/Alone - 1328 points / 55 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @AliceBoothLewis (2nd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>@AliceBoothLewis</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">EMG was the album that turned me on to the Manics. It fast became a bit of an obsession for me. I'd fallen for this band in a big way. I loved the album - knew it word for word - but one track stood out. Every time it comes on - without fail, no matter how I'm feeling or what is going on around me - it takes me back to that exciting time. It lifts me; still, 27 years later. I feel a bit silly saying this, but it almost makes me feel like the real me whenever I hear it. Inhibitions gone, playing it loud and singing even louder. A song of glorious release.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>32. Die In The Summertime - 1384 points / 48 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @Wrestling20Yrs (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>31. The Everlasting - 1388 points / 52 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @MovieEvangelist (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>30. Peeled Apples - 1417 points / 57 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @KurtMarcECurtis @TinkHolloway (3rd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>@KurtMarcECurtis</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">That bridge to the chorus is exceptional, and it's got a bigger chorus than you remember. Best set of lyrics on an album of excellent lyrics. I adore a good ride cymbal and a bass breakdown. The guitar sound is cool af. Great way to start the second best album ever made!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>29. Of Walking Abortion - 1458 points / 54 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @myclwd (1st)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>28. PCP - 1496 points / 57 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @KurtMarcECurtis (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>@KurtMarcECurtis</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">This song for me is the finest example of the Manics I love. The lyrics, and the way they are delivered, are utterly tremendous. It has so many great touches, the drum breaks, the little bass runs, and the top guitar work. The heartpounding energy, the mind-blowing lyrics. What a way to end the greatest album ever made!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>27. International Blue - 1520 points / 66 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @TinkHolloway (2nd)</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>26. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart - 1563 points / 55 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @Chuzzwozza (2nd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>25. Still Snowing In Sapporo - 1594 points / 65 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: revolbiscuit (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>@revolbiscuit</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Why is 'Sapporo' at the top of my list? Obviously, I love everything about it - its mood changes and its long theatrical stops; James' lonely, haunting vocal in the verses and the subtlety of the bridge picking its way in, with JDB's vox taking on a kind of calming assurance, before guitar blam-a-lams herald in the chorus. And what a chorus - like Hokusai's In The Well of the Great Wave of Kanagawa, it dips and crescendos beautifully with droplets and tsunamis of melody and meaning.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">We know what it's all about. Nick misses Richey immeasurably, and here he's watching old videos, likely for the GATS anniversary boxset and Pieces of Sleep, and he's instantly back there, last date of a Japanese tour in '93. I watched the Japan 93 GATS tour TV special yesterday as well. Richey seemed at the top of his game, smiling, laughing, talking Japanese, smoking a cig. With a razor sharp memory, Wire recalls the time and place with his friend at his best, and the perfect symmetry of the 4....and now they're 3. And for me, this track has everything. It remembers, it grieves, it dissects and it celebrates. It's a singalong. And it fucking rocks. And that solo/riff is to die for.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>24. 1985 - 1597 points / 56 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @LondonLady70 (2nd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>23. Ready For Drowning - 1620 points / 59 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: Truba9 (2nd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>22. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough - 1657 points / 67 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @EdBiggsLGM @peterswan_ (4th)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><b>21. Tsunami - 1749 points / 68 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @GreenBitterfly @jackmansavfc @mylittlegempire (1st)</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div><div><div><b>20. Roses In The Hospital - 1754 points / 65 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @bentirs @w_onderwalls (2nd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>19. 4st 7lb - 1782 points / 61 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @newartriot @gloomyok @ChorizoGarbanzo @A_J_T_1970 (2nd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>@gloomyok</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">I know that a lot of Manics fans have a very personal connection with this song, but not me. I can’t say I’ve ever suffered from an ED. I don’t relate to the lyrics. Still, I felt I had to place this one in my top 10. It was one of the first Manics songs I’d ever heard and I did so without knowing beforehand what it was about, who Richey was or what even happened to him. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I couldn’t make out all of the lyrics then (I’m not a native speaker and JDB doesn’t make it any easier!) but I’ll never forget how the line ‘I want to walk in the snow and not leave a footprint’ felt like a punch in the gut. I just couldn’t believe how one could use such innocent words like “snow” and “footprint” and put them in such an order, in such a way that evoked a feeling so horrific. By the end of the song, I felt nauseous. It’s not everyday that someone gets such a visceral reaction for a song, is it? And it even has time for some pitch-black humor! ‘Choice is skeletal in everybody’s life’. I mean, what the hell!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">No disrespect to JDB and Sean’s staggering musical translation of the lyrics but to me <i>4st 7lb</i> is a testament to the power of words. It could have been just prose, black on white, and still be an incredibly powerful piece of art that would have left me feeling like shit. It’s diabolical. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Like that photograph, <i>The most beautiful suicide</i>, there’s some guilt in finding beauty in a song like this. I feel terrible for staring, but I can’t take my eyes off. And I wouldn’t want to.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div><div><b>18. Everything Must Go - 1814 points / 62 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @PatRedmond @DrGaryMarriner (2nd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>17. Prologue To History - 2027 points / 74 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @LondonLady70 @enola_Ole (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>16. The Masses Against The Classes - 2037 points / 72 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @MentalJargon @biscuitporpoise @enola_Ole (2nd)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>15. Archives Of Pain - 2339 points / 68 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @ricardlawless @MentalJargon (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>@ricardlawless</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Archives of Pain sets its stall out pretty early. It starts with a mother whose child was a Peter Sutcliffe victim, and follows with a creeping bass line in drop D. (Drop D is a guitar tuning where you lower the top string by a tone) Other than The Intense Humming Of Evil, this is one of the darkest intros on what is a very dark album. Although it shares some similarities with metal music, it has a depth to that darkness, and introspection. It questions the band's intention, as well as society's intentions. Through graphic imagery it debates if murders should be subject to their own torture, and why we unjustly celebrate them. It also pulls the band into this, asking if they are also to blame for endorsing this?</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The intensity of the performance only adds to this. The screamed vocals, the building crescendo of the guitar solo, the sinister stabs of guitar on the verses. I'm not sure, but is it the Manics song with the longest guitar solo, and the only one to be in drop D? Maybe it's obvious because I chose this as my number 1, but The Holy Bible is my favourite album. I think there are other songs on the album that may surpass this lyrically, but musically it speaks to me. It's not subtle in any way, it's a hammer blow to the skull. It has no pretensions of being a lovely melody, or delightful harmonies, it is to the point and abrasive. For me the music is a counter point to the lyrics. They are asking should we? Whilst the music is screaming do it!</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Personally this is one of the few Manics songs I can play from start to finish, and one I have performed live. Maybe 19 year old me wanted to shock my music teacher by performing this live, I can't totally recall my intentions, but it was a great song to sing. As we were a college band on a music course, we were largely performing to parents. My friend's mother seemed to hang on for dear life as I screamed "Not punish less, rise the pain, sterilise rapists." The fact that it followed a Mark Knopfler song probably didn't help to prepare her. Ranking the songs for my top 50 was really difficult, and there are many changes I would make now. Archives would still be number 1 though. For me no song better encapsulates The Holy Bible and what it was trying to achieve. Kill Yeltsin, who's saying?</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>14. This Is Yesterday - 2367 points / 74 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @marcsedison @oldcornc @ManicBeata (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>@oldcornc</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">There is no doubt that Edwards, Jones, Bradfield and Moore write songs that reach into people and drag things from them that they didn’t know were there. They spark emotion, they remind us of who we are and what makes us tick, or not. For me, this is yesterday is a bridge. It’s the bridge between the first and second incarnation of the band, Musically and lyrically.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Is it longing for a return to the past or is it a realisation that everything is futile? Is it a call from Nick that he can see the iceberg? Who knows?</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">If this song was a year younger, it’d be a perfect response to Richey’s disappearance. In fact in many ways it fits better on EMG than it does on The Holy Bible.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">But why is it the best? It’s a song I can play when happy or sad. It’s a song I can sing along to. It’s a song that takes me to places I loved with people I loved.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">There’s been a few comments about acoustic versions and whilst they’re good, they miss the dynamic of being performed by a full band, especially when we get the guitar solo and Sean’s snare! For me the best version was on the 1999 NME annual probe compilation CD, which I believe was recorded live in Cardiff. A band who had truly crossed over, but who still kept in touch with their past.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>13. Stay Beautiful - 2423 points / 83 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @DiscoDollie75 @jenvidg (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>12. Sleepflower - 2618 points / 91 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @AndDarkWithin @_happycactus @MildManics (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>11. Motown Junk - 2628 points / 79 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @ofmilesfromhome @Pyfbrown @liars_honey (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>@Pyfbrown</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">This was always going to be my number one, that position was never in doubt. I've always thought that this is the perfect song to play on vinyl - maybe it's because for years I only ever had it as the B-side to the 'Slash N' Burn' 7", so it's now ingrained in my memory as such. It's also the first Manics song I ever heard.....was it on the Indie Chart on the Chart Show, was it on Snub, I'm not sure which came first, but it didn't mean much to me at the time. </span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As time has gone on my favourite songs have changed, but eventually this just pushed its way to the front and is unlikely to be beaten. The guitar crackling into life, the primal energy as it warms up, before Wiring you into the mains (pun intended) for the next 168 seconds or so. Not only my number one Manics song, arguably my number one song. Full stop.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>10. You Love Us - 2722 points / 90 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @Diagrid3 @AChinnick90 @sdrake767 (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>9. From Despair To Where - 2754 points / 86 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @RicheyJones1234 @densk14 (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>8. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) - 2776 points / 87 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @PatRedmond Maddie Caridad @havinaradox @WelshDragonHQ (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Maddie Caridad</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">I love the lyrics, that fabulous riff and the fact the title was taken from a letter written by Vincent Van Gogh to his brother.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>7. Little Baby Nothing - 2839 points / 82 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @democracycoma1 (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>@democracycoma1 - </b><span style="color: red;">As I understand it, the video is one of the band’s least favourite – I mean only James Dean Bradfield is even in it and the symbolism and iconography are on overdrive. In a way, it’s a bit ridiculous, but there’s still something mesmerising about it.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">And there’s something mesmerising about the whole song. From the opening instrumental (truncated for the single version) to the closing refrain – the melody captures you and it carries you – and it makes my hairs stand up – every single time I hear it.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">Kylie Minogue was the band’s first choice for the song’s duet but wasn’t available for contractual reasons – though she did later perform the song live. But it’s good that she wasn’t, because the vocals of former pornographic actress Traci Lords (who isn’t in the video either) are incredible and I don’t think it would or could be the same song without her – as she explained, they were lyrics she identified with.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">This is of course a song about the exploitation of women and the sex industry. There are hints perhaps of Richey’s feelings of emasculation too, but as clever a lyricist as he was his verses and his metaphors here are actually pretty blunt – I mean, how could you be more literal than “used, used, used by men”? Every word bites and every line paints a picture.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">His use of the word snow as a synonym for purity is something he returned to in the Holy Bible track 4st 7lbs, and the slogan-like refrain of “culture, alienation, boredom and despair”, according to Richey the central theme for every Manics song, will forever resonate. No other band could have written the song. No other band could take such dark subject matter and turn it into something so beautiful – and that’s ultimately why I’ll never tire of it.</span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red;">Also found at <a href="https://democracycoma.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/little-baby-nothing-manic-street-preachers-greatest-song/">https://democracycoma.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/little-baby-nothing-manic-street-preachers-greatest-song/</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>6. No Surface All Feeling - 3120 points / 93 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @emilymjhyatt @yekim_mikey @Truba9 (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>@emilymjhyatt </b>- <span style="color: #2b00fe;">It’s very stirring for me; it’s a well of emotions where I can find joy, rapture, sadness, nostalgia and happiness. Its incredible live and when I see them play it its always a beautiful, uplifting and almost spiritual experience. </span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I first heard it when they played The White Room in 1996. I'd got Everything Must Go on CD but I hadn't really bothered with it, I was still obsessed with The Holy Bible and had TV appearance induced A Design For Life overkill! They played No Surface All Feeling and it just floored me, it's so big and beautiful and powerful yet it had a gentle element to it. I taped it and played it so often the tape for creased! That version led me to engage properly with Everything Must Go and I instantly adored the album version. </span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">One particular live outing of it in Llangollen in 2017 took my breath away, a massively intense experience that had me crying, sitting on the floor with my head against the barrier, just absorbing everything in waves. I’d just been told my best friend was dying, that gig and that track were incredible catharsis for me. That was the date No Surface, officially surpassed Faster as my favourite Manics song. It continued to be there for me after he died, I made some artwork whilst listening to it and that became one of the pieces approved to be on a Secret 7” copy of No Surface All Feeling. That record is now one of my prized possessions. </span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">It’s got everything I need in a song, it can be played loud or quiet, it can be emotionally huge or tender, it sounds a bit magical.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>5. Yes - 3274 points / 90 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @keenomanjaro @jplanasuk @davidwells661 @Raindogtaylor (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>4. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - 3309 points / 89 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @adamglasspool @BraddersCentric @BorgoBarbara @hcd199 @10000_manics @gunnerdave83 @diapause78 @PhilipM04217017 @JKgiro85 @jennifer_eileen (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>3. A Design For Life - 4567 points / 116 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @SilentRefusal Emmy @heather1917 @iamstevemurphy @cam_sh @EinBleistift @deporbags @Dai_Howells @LaMurphF1 @Barnspaul31 @jkhoman @SarahEyles1 @A_J_T_1970 @biscuitporpoise @PaulMatthewman @traceyw1981 @peterswan_ (1st)</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>@deporbags</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Well I'm not going to tell people who aren't Manics fans that ADFL is the greatest song ever written and not have it as my No 1. How a band came back from losing Richey to release this will always amaze me. Fck Thatcher and fck tories. Nicholas Wire you legend.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><b>Emmy</b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> - Part of the draw the Manics had to 13-year-old me back in late 1991 was they were like me, albeit male, older & from a few mountains over. Yet, there was little true working class, Welsh representation during my formative years & when they burst into my consciousness via NME, tele slots, Radio 1’s Evening Session, I knew I’d found my band. As the 90s rolled by, I held my fandom lightly & was unsure what the future held following Richey’s disappearance. Knowing they were not the boorish live-for-the-weekend types like Oasis, not sneering class tourists like Blur, kept me listening. Having a band exist, which upheld the mind-set, which was instilled in me & which small pockets of the Valleys still held dear: that education broadens you & sets you free – was enough for me, even if there was nothing more from them. I would enjoy what existed & be grateful that it did.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Then, the release of A Design for Life changed everything for me. There are moments in your life that a song gets you, it looks you square in the eye & sees every fibre of your soul & very being. A Design for Life is that song for me.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Basic you say; yes, it is. Overexposed you shout; most definitely. Overplayed you shrug; of course it is. Too popular you sneer; absolutely I agree.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The criticisms flung its way all have their truth, but for me it is more than just a song. It is an unveiling; an exposing of the truth of the reality of what it means to be from the post-industrial, working class valleys of South Wales.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">From the opening strum all the way through to the closing beat, ADFL takes me on that, almost, mythical hiraeth journey of the longing for something now gone, perhaps a something that never was. Every line is a statement of intent, to me both a lament & call to arms around what has been & what could still be. Hearing the landscape, which surrounded me expressed in a song, was something else. It captured my heart in a way no other song had ever done before, or has done since.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">It is no exaggeration to describe 90s Wales as a bleak place. The miners’ welfare libraries, which had once stood as cathedrals of learning in every valley, were, like the rest of the landscape, derelict or decaying. Work had all but disappeared; raising the question if there was no work, then what was the purpose of the place & us as a people. The dignity work brings had been lost in the mire of sneers, dismissal & ignorance from those who had created the mess that the communities found themselves in. People were lost in a melee of drink & violence as there was literally nothing else to do, the tools, which allowed us to stand tall, had been removed or depleted. It is the reference to being scarred by a bottle, which sears through me the most. The valleys are a tough place to live; the tough dangerous work created a tough people. The violence which took place was very much part of daily life, it was met with a shrug & acceptance rather than pearl clutching outrage. Something, which I often forget having moved out over twenty years ago. That all we were left with was a drinking culture saddened me, surely, there was more to life than boozing, fighting & shagging. The hope there was more led me to put my head down & study hard enough to go to university (am I ever thankful I was the last cohort before the fees landed) & escape. Yet I carried, & still do, the feeling that experiences & opportunities in the world were not for people like me – the insidious message that we were “other” refuses to leave no matter how hard I push against it.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Yet there is hope coursing through the song’s core. Hope that maybe one day there could be an embracing of the parts of the culture, which gave power, dignity & pride. Hope that freedom can be found through meaningful, appreciated existence. The bittersweet admiration for a place that has had its soul torn out but still keeps on trying to be its authentic self.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">It is the song that when played life I have a tear in my eye, pride in my heart & I sing loudest. Sometimes I wonder if it could be an alternative Welsh National Anthem! ADFL is the song, which I fall deeper in love with as I get older. This was the easiest placing on my chart & the one Manics song I really would never let go.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>2. Faster - 4820 points / 117 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @AliceBoothLewis @LeesonPalmer @Chuzzwozza @wadedc1 @porthjess @archivesofjames @Paul_Franklyn @jacarnie @bentirs @LaPoose @dreamingac1ty @SteveBurnett_ @newartriot @ApolloScream @rickl80 @smudger63 @EdBiggsLGM @HollyBaleen Peter Stockdale (1st)</div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>@AliceBoothLewis</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Rolling Stones were always my absolute favourite band, until I got into the Manics and they quickly equalled The Stones. Both bands were my obsessions during my formative years - against the grain of what 99.9% of teenagers were into in my home town. But as much as I adore The Stones still now, they never wrote anyrhing lyrically or musically that comes anywhere close to Faster. And as much as I would like to think I'm a pretty intelligent person, there's no way I could put so many ideas together especially with so much venom and eloquence all rolled into one. This song says everything I'd want to say, but in such a perfect way. And the music just matches flawlessly. It has seen me through tough times, where some of the lyrics seemed to mirror my situation. Just complete genius. My favourite song by anyone, ever.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>1. Motorcycle Emptiness - 4910 points / 119 picks</b></div><div>Placed highest by: @roisinmckeon @lonelywreckage @Parky1977 @dr__alex @mark_ness @w_onderwalls @Matt_Nixey_1985 Jennifer @domlikesrabbits @dansm1th3 @DrGaryMarriner @ChrisBickley1 @glorygerbil @MarshFactor @_DerekMcHugh_ Steven Gill @tomsky11 (1st)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>@roisinmckeon</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">This song is absolute perfection. Imagine writing those lyrics at that age - it blows my mind. The guitar riff - kills me every time. My first concert in over 18 months was the NHS gig in Cardiff. I was so happy to be at a gig again. And the Manics too!</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I was not prepared for how emotional it was going to be. When they opened with Motorcycle Emptiness , I bawled crying. All the frustration of the pandemic just melted away in seconds, the song was such a release. Like a cloud had been lifted. </span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I'm here for the 6'09" album version too. An epic and powerful song that for me is the Manics.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><b>@dansm1th3</b><span> -</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> As I am one of seventeen (!) who voted for Motorcycle Emptiness to be crowned the winner, I shall leave the intrinsic discussion of the song to those who can undoubtedly do it more justice than I, and instead tell a story about how I discovered a certain band from Wales…</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">January 2nd 2017. Deep inside a YouTube wormhole of 1990s Top of the Pops appearances, I came across a video from a band called Manic Street Preachers. The somewhat aggressive name stood out to my angsty, disillusioned teenage self, and within that short 3 minute clip, I began a journey that changed my life and that I never, ever want to end. Adorning a stage of red roses and Nicky draped in his signature leopard print, the band were introduced and James’ infamous Les Paul Custom gave me perhaps one of the defining moments of my life to that point.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">What stood out first was the riff. Oh, that riff. It still rattles triumphantly around my brain almost everyday like a treasured memory you just can’t displace. Not that I would ever want to of course. It gives me the same level of comfort as a warm summers day and still fills me with the same amount of awe and wonder today as it did when I first heard it. The lyrics are undoubtedly politically charged, but they also carry a theme of resilience that appeals to everyone who has ever felt alone, scared, or directionless. Words which I carry around with me to this day like a badge of honour, ‘under neon loneliness’ acts as a sort of mantra to live your life, the loneliness of being surrounded by everything. It’s a feeling that only the Manics themselves and the fans can truly understand. The feeling of being a sort of mainstream outsider. Emerging and cementing themselves at a time where grunge and later Britpop were the taste of the day, the Manics always remained true to themselves, and the fans always stuck with them. I’ve never experienced such a close relationship between a band and their fans than the Manics, and to me, Motorcycle Emptiness is the epitome of that relationship. A universal language that brings a community together.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">It’s certainly had that defining impact on me, introducing me to the greatest band in the world, without whom I honestly do not know where or who I would be today. That’s the real magic of the Manics, they change lives. Once the Manics have reached you it’s hard to let them go, and let’s be honest, why would you want to? </span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I remember the first version I heard was the 4 minute radio version, with the guitar outro significantly shortened. When I finally realised the album version was longer, that outro blew me away, how can somebody possibly play guitar THAT good? Nowadays it’s taken it’s place live as the set opener, which always gets the blood pumping from the off and on some occasions, the emotions flowing. It’s perhaps a lot of people’s first introduction to the band, their first dip into the pool of mainstream music, and here we are today, discussing why it has been voted the fandoms favourite track. To reach that accolade against the rest of the Manics’ back catalogue, it must be doing something right! What a band, what a song. Long may it reign.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span><b>@mark_ness</b> - <span style="color: #2b00fe;">"</span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Possibly the only song to successfully combine stadium rock with bedsit angst" is how I once remember this song being succinctly and accurately described.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">And although the G'n'R vibes of the music are very much rooted in the era of classic rock, the themes of Motorcycle Emptiness are still as relevant today, maybe even more so? Neon signs have just been replaced by targeted ads while you doom scroll social media, that's all.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I've found it to be an odd choice of set opener in recent years for the Manics; in my opinion it still deserves to be at the climax of their gigs. Even if you've heard it live hundreds of times before, it is still exciting to hear how JDB will ad lib the "All we want from you are the kicks..." middle 8 and those guitar solos.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I remember the first time I heard it on the radio. It was late 1996 and at the time, the only Manics songs I knew were the 4 recent singles from Everything Must Go. But that riff and chorus immediately elevated this song above all of those (yes, even ADFL), and 25 years on, Motorcycle Emptiness has remained not just my favourite Manics song, but my favourite song by anyone. Ever.</span></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-19884747733805555982021-12-12T13:55:00.001-08:002021-12-12T13:55:48.066-08:00The Unofficial Fans' Manics Top 50 2021<div style="text-align: left;">The chart below was compiled from 127 different top 50s submitted by Manic Street Preachers fans between September and December 2021. Points were awarded based on 50 for number 1, 49 for number 2 etc, down to 1 point for number 50, and the final tally for each song is shown after the name of each one alongside the number of charts it appeared in.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div><br /></div><div>The numbers in brackets show the position in the last chart from 2015. Thank you to all people who took part in, followed or promoted these charts, it has been great fun again!!!</div><div><br /></div><div>See also the full chart of all 338 eligible songs and sub-charts below with all manner of Manics-related lists that came out of these selections!!</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Manics Fans' Final Top 50 2021</b></div><div><div>1. (1) Motorcycle Emptiness - 4910 pts / 119 picks</div><div>2. (2) Faster - 4820 pts / 117 picks</div><div>3. (3) A Design For Life - 4567 pts / 116 picks</div><div>4. (5) If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - 3309 pts / 89 picks</div><div>5. (4) Yes - 3274 pts / 90 picks</div><div>6. (16) No Surface All Feeling - 3120 pts / 93 picks</div><div>7. (10) Little Baby Nothing - 2839 pts / 82 picks</div><div>8. (8) La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) - 2776 pts / 87 picks</div><div>9. (12) From Despair To Where - 2754 pts / 86 picks</div><div>10. (6) You Love Us - 2722 pts / 90 picks</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. (7) Motown Junk - 2628 pts / 79 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. (14) Sleepflower - 2618 pts / 91 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. (9) Stay Beautiful - 2423 pts / 83 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. (15) This Is Yesterday - 2367 pts / 74 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. (29) Archives Of Pain - 2339 pts / 68 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. (20) The Masses Against The Classes - 2037 pts / 74 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. (23) Prologue To History - 2027 pts / 74 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. (36) Everything Must Go - 1814 pts / 62 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. (24) 4st 7lb - 1782 pts / 61 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. (18) Roses In The Hospital - 1754 pts / 65 picks</span></div><div>21. (25) Tsunami - 1749 pts / 68 picks</div><div>22. (13) Your Love Alone Is Not Enough - 1657 pts / 67 picks</div><div>23. (47) Ready For Drowning - 1620 pts / 59 picks</div><div>24. (17) 1985 - 1597 pts / 56 picks</div><div>25. (-) Still Snowing In Sapporo - 1594 pts / 65 picks</div><div>26. (28) ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart - 1563 pts / 56 picks</div><div>27. (-) International Blue - 1520 pts / 66 picks</div><div>28. (11) PCP - 1496 pts / 57 picks</div><div>29. (34) Of Walking Abortion - 1458 pts / 54 picks</div><div>30. (21) Peeled Apples - 1417 pts / 57 picks</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. (27) The Everlasting - 1388 pts / 52 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. (30) Die In The Summertime - 1384 pts / 48 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. (48) Enola/Alone - 1328 pts / 55 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. (22) Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky - 1327 pts / 55 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. (32) Life Becoming A Landslide - 1282 pts / 46 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. (33) Found That Soul - 1262 pts / 49 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. (65) Slash N' Burn - 1260 pts / 56 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. (51) Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll - 1241 pts / 46 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. (43) Walk Me To The Bridge - 1223 pts / 59 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. (39) This Joke Sport Severed - 1195 pts / 49 picks</span></div><div>41. (45) Donkeys - 1145 pts / 49 picks</div><div>42. (64) Sepia - 1108 pts / 47 picks</div><div>43. (58) Kevin Carter - 1103 pts / 42 picks</div><div>44. (19) Revol - 1099 pts / 46 picks</div><div>45. (35) Mausoleum - 1075 pts / 42 picks</div><div>46. (-) Complicated Illusions - 1071 pts / 42 picks</div><div>47. (41) Rewind The Film - 1067 pts / 43 picks</div><div>48. (57) Judge Yr'self - 1009 pts / 43 picks</div><div>49. (60) Golden Platitudes - 1006 pts / 40 picks</div><div>50. (42) Europa Geht Durch Mich - 1002 pts / 41 picks</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 7</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 6</div><div>The Holy Bible 12</div><div>Everything Must Go 7</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5</div><div>Know Your Enemy 1</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 1</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 2</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 1</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>By Era By Score</b></div><div>(i.e. points allocated by position)</div><div>Generation Terrorists 240</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 181</div><div>The Holy Bible 305</div><div>Everything Must Go 178</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 159</div><div>Know Your Enemy 15</div><div>Lifeblood 27</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 29</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 32</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 4</div><div>Futurology 13</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 24</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 31</div><div>Others 35</div></div><div><br /></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Manics Fans' Full Chart</b></div><div>1. (1) Motorcycle Emptiness - 4910 pts / 119 picks</div><div>2. (2) Faster - 4820 pts / 117 picks</div><div>3. (3) A Design For Life - 4567 pts / 116 picks</div><div>4. (5) If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - 3309 pts / 89 picks</div><div>5. (4) Yes - 3274 pts / 90 picks</div><div>6. (16) No Surface All Feeling - 3120 pts / 93 picks</div><div>7. (10) Little Baby Nothing - 2839 pts / 82 picks</div><div>8. (8) La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) - 2776 pts / 87 picks</div><div>9. (12) From Despair To Where - 2754 pts / 86 picks</div><div>10. (6) You Love Us - 2722 pts / 90 picks</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. (7) Motown Junk - 2628 pts / 79 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. (14) Sleepflower - 2618 pts / 91 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. (9) Stay Beautiful - 2423 pts / 83 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. (15) This Is Yesterday - 2367 pts / 74 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. (29) Archives Of Pain - 2339 pts / 68 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. (20) The Masses Against The Classes - 2037 pts / 74 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. (23) Prologue To History - 2027 pts / 74 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. (36) Everything Must Go - 1814 pts / 62 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. (24) 4st 7lb - 1782 pts / 61 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. (18) Roses In The Hospital - 1754 pts / 65 picks</span></div><div>21. (25) Tsunami - 1749 pts / 68 picks</div><div>22. (13) Your Love Alone Is Not Enough - 1657 pts / 67 picks</div><div>23. (47) Ready For Drowning - 1620 pts / 59 picks</div><div>24. (17) 1985 - 1597 pts / 56 picks</div><div>25. (-) Still Snowing In Sapporo - 1594 pts / 65 picks</div><div>26. (28) ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart - 1563 pts / 56 picks</div><div>27. (-) International Blue - 1520 pts / 66 picks</div><div>28. (11) PCP - 1496 pts / 57 picks</div><div>29. (34) Of Walking Abortion - 1458 pts / 54 picks</div><div>30. (21) Peeled Apples - 1417 pts / 57 picks</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. (27) The Everlasting - 1388 pts / 52 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. (30) Die In The Summertime - 1384 pts / 48 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. (48) Enola/Alone - 1328 pts / 55 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. (22) Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky - 1327 pts / 55 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. (32) Life Becoming A Landslide - 1282 pts / 46 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. (33) Found That Soul - 1262 pts / 49 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. (65) Slash N' Burn - 1260 pts / 56 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. (51) Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll - 1241 pts / 46 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. (43) Walk Me To The Bridge - 1223 pts / 59 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. (39) This Joke Sport Severed - 1195 pts / 49 picks</span></div><div>41. (45) Donkeys - 1145 pts / 49 picks</div><div>42. (64) Sepia - 1108 pts / 47 picks</div><div>43. (58) Kevin Carter - 1103 pts / 42 picks</div><div>44. (19) Revol - 1099 pts / 46 picks</div><div>45. (35) Mausoleum - 1075 pts / 42 picks</div><div>46. (-) Complicated Illusions - 1071 pts / 42 picks</div><div>47. (41) Rewind The Film - 1067 pts / 43 picks</div><div>48. (57) Judge Yr'self - 1009 pts / 43 picks</div><div>49. (60) Golden Platitudes - 1006 pts / 40 picks</div><div>50. (42) Europa Geht Durch Mich - 1002 pts / 41 picks</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">51. (38) Jackie Collins Existential Question Time - 991 pts / 46 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">52. (75) Nobody Loved You - 984 pts / 41 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">53. (-) Hold Me Like A Heaven - 979 pts / 42 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">54. (50) Ocean Spray - 977 pts / 43 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">55. (55) This Sullen Welsh Heart - 968 pts / 43 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">56. (72) Black Dog On My Shoulder - 964 pts / 36 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">57. (31) Autumnsong - 931 pts / 41 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">58. (46) Show Me The Wonder - 901 pts / 38 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">59. (37) Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless) - 900 pts / 34 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">60. (53) Australia - 897 pts / 34 picks</span></div><div>61. (-) Diapause - 890 pts / 38 picks</div><div>62. (56) Send Away The Tigers - 887 pts / 41 picks</div><div>63. (49) Some Kind Of Nothingness - 878 pts / 37 picks</div><div>64. (59) Door To The River - 877 pts / 33 picks</div><div>65. (26) Solitude Sometimes Is - 867 pts / 39 picks</div><div>66. (108) I Live To Fall Asleep - 864 pts / 38 picks</div><div>67. (69) All Is Vanity - 858 pts / 35 picks</div><div>68. (74) The Girl Who Wanted To Be God - 831 pts / 34 picks</div><div>69. (104) Be Natural - 806 pts / 26 picks</div><div>70. (52) Empty Souls - 787 pts / 40 picks</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">71. (105) Comfort Comes - 778 pts / 31 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">72. (-) Afterending - 735 pts / 34 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">73. (67) You Stole The Sun From My Heart - 732 pts / 31 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">74. (63) 4 Ever Delayed - 719 pts / 31 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">75. (114) Miss Europa Disco Dancer - 713 pts / 37 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">76. (-) Distant Colours - 709 pts / 28 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">77. (68) Further Away - 700 pts / 37 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">78. (76) You're Tender And You're Tired - 695 pts / 28 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">79. (-) The Secret He Had Missed - 690 pts / 37 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">80. (70) Let Robeson Sing - 675 pts / 29 picks</span></div><div>81. (40) 30-Year War - 656 pts / 33 picks</div><div>=81 (54) She Is Suffering - 656 pts / 28 picks</div><div>83. (79) A Song For Departure - 638 pts / 27 picks</div><div>84. (80) Dreaming A City (Hughesovka) - 636 pts / 25 picks</div><div>85. (86) To Repel Ghosts - 611 pts / 28 picks</div><div>86. (44) Postcards From A Young Man - 588 pts / 30 picks</div><div>87. (131) Born A Girl - 580 pts / 23 picks</div><div>88. (98) There By The Grace Of God - 573 pts / 25 picks</div><div>89. (88) Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier - 569 pts / 26 picks</div><div>90. (82) Intravenous Agnostic - 565 pts / 29 picks</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">91. (62) Anthem For A Lost Cause - 563 pts / 25 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">92. (101) William's Last Words - 554 pts / 28 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">93. (71) Marlon JD - 549 pts / 27 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">94. (77) (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love - 543 pts / 24 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">95. (85) Love's Sweet Exile - 525 pts / 21 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">96. (91) Spectators Of Suicide - 515 pts / 23 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">97. (106) Journal For Plague Lovers - 511 pts / 21 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">98. (66) Patrick Bateman - 510 pts / 21 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">99. (84) My Little Empire - 500 pts / 23 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">100. (175) Gold Against The Soul - 482 pts / 21 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div>101. (87) Bag Lady - 457 pts / 22 picks</div><div>102. (95) The Next Jet To Leave Moscow - 448 pts / 23 picks</div><div>103. (78) Mr Carbohydrate - 437 pts / 22 picks</div><div>104. (97) The Second Great Depression - 433 pts / 18 picks</div><div>105. (100) Black Square - 423 pts / 17 picks</div><div>106. (94) Epicentre - 422 pts / 19 picks</div><div>107. (-) People Give In - 417 pts / 22 picks</div><div>108. (134) Removables - 412 pts / 17 picks</div><div>109. (61) Futurology - 400 pts / 21 picks</div><div>110. (153) Nostalgic Pushead - 387 pts / 15 picks</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">111. (112) Methadone Pretty - 373 pts / 14 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">112. (96) Glasnost - 371 pts / 18 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">113. (81) Imperial Bodybags - 367 pts / 21 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">114. (113) Indian Summer - 359 pts / 19 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">115. (130) The Convalescent - 358 pts / 14 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">116. (73) Me And Stephen Hawking - 353 pts / 21 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">117. (124) Cardiff Afterlife - 352 pts / 17 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=117 (111) Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning) - 352 pts / 20 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=117 (89) The Love Of Richard Nixon - 352 pts / 17 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">120. (170) Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children - 334 pts / 16 picks</span></div><div>121. (150) The Intense Humming Of Evil - 332 pts / 16 picks</div><div>122. (121) So Why So Sad - 331 pts / 19 picks</div><div>123. (127) Automatik Teknicolour - 323 pts / 13 picks</div><div>124. (147) Misguided Missile - 315 pts / 17 picks</div><div>125. (143) Firefight - 303 pts / 13 picks</div><div>126. (102) Baby Elian - 299 pts / 15 picks</div><div>127. (199) Montana/Autumn/78 - 297 pts / 12 picks</div><div>128. (118) A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun - 295 pts / 15 picks</div><div>129. (103) Sorrow 16 - 294 pts / 16 picks</div><div>130. (126) Dead Martyrs - 286 pts / 13 picks</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">131. (-) Orwellian - 276 pts / 11 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">132. (-) Dylan & Caitlin - 271 pts / 15 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">133. (109) Crucifix Kiss - 269 pts / 12 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">134. (156) Black Holes For The Young - 267 pts / 13 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">135. (148) This Is The Day - 264 pts / 14 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">136. (125) Born To End - 263 pts / 12 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">137. (-) Quest For Ancient Colour - 261 pts / 13 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=137 (115) Yourself - 261 pts / 11 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">139. (128) Running Out Of Fantasy - 256 pts / 13 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">140. (142) Let's Go To War - 255 pts / 13 picks</span></div><div>141. (92) Between The Clock And The Bed - 254 pts / 13 picks</div><div>142. (137) Dead Trees And Traffic Islands - 249 pts / 12 picks</div><div>143. (-) Don't Let The Night Divide Us - 248 pts / 12 picks</div><div>144. (119) So Dead - 247 pts / 9 picks</div><div>145. (193) Always/Never - 244 pts / 10 picks</div><div>146. (93) Underdogs - 243 pts / 13 picks</div><div>147. (140) Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds - 242 pts / 10 picks</div><div>148. (133) Democracy Coma - 241 pts / 11 picks</div><div>149. (135) Another Invented Disease - 239 pts / 13 picks</div><div>150. (-) In Eternity - 237 pts / 13 picks</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">151. (132) My Guernica - 235 pts / 10 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">152. (123) Divine Youth - 231 pts / 13 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">153. (99) Virginia State Epileptic Colony - 230 pts / 12 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">154. (168) The Year Of Purification - 229 pts / 13 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">155. (177) His Last Painting - 219 pts / 8 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">156. (210) Tennessee - 214 pts / 8 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">157. (117) New Art Riot - 209 pts / 13 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">158. (110) Hibernation - 206 pts / 10 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">159. (107) Bored Out Of My Mind - 204 pts / 12 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=159 (-) Sequels Of Forgotten Wars - 204 pts / 7 picks</span></div><div>161. (122) As Holy As the Soil (That Buries Your Skin) - 196 pts / 8 picks</div><div>162. (138) Too Cold Here - 190 pts / 12 picks</div><div>163. (176) (I Miss the) Tokyo Skyline - 187 pts / 12 picks</div><div>=163 (157) Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel - 187 pts / 8 picks</div><div>165. (161) Umbrella - 186 pts / 8 picks</div><div>166. (-) A Song For The Sadness - 183 pts / 12 picks</div><div>= 166 (83) She Bathed Herself In A Bath of Bleach - 183 pts / 7 picks</div><div>168. (120) Sculpture Of Man - 180 pts / 9 picks</div><div>169. (90) Doors Closing Slowly - 178 pts / 8 picks</div><div>170. (172) The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever - 173 pts / 8 picks</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">171. (233) Boxes & Lists - 172 pts / 5 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=171 (144) Repeat - 172 pts / 11 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">173. (191) Anorexic Rodin - 165 pts / 8 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=173 (219) Love Letter To The Future - 165 pts / 7 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">175. (179) RP McMurphy - 162 pts / 9 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">176. (-) Blank Diary Entry - 160 pts / 7 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">177. (196) The View From Stow Hill - 159 pts / 10 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">178. (183) Masking Tape - 158 pts / 8 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">179. (230) Vision Blurred - 157 pts / 4 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">180. (188) I'm Just A Patsy - 156 pts / 13 picks</span></div><div>=180 (166) Rendition - 156 pts / 9 picks</div><div>182. (194) Us Against You - 154 pts / 8 picks</div><div>183. (208) Welcome To The Dead Zone - 153 pts / 9 picks</div><div>184. (259) The Vorticists - 152 pts / 7 picks</div><div>185. (182) We Are All Bourgeois Now - 147 pts / 7 picks</div><div>186. (129) Facing Page: Top Left - 139 pts / 9 picks</div><div>=186 (189) The Descent (Pages 1 & 2) - 139 pts / 6 picks</div><div>188. (185) Emily - 136 pts / 7 picks</div><div>=188 (151) We Her Majesty's Prisoners - 136 pts / 10 picks</div><div>190. (184) Winterlovers - 135 pts / 9 picks</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">191. (169) Hazelton Avenue - 134 pts / 7 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">192. (149) All We Make Is Entertainment - 127 pts / 6 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">193. (152) Wattsville Blues - 126 pts / 6 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">194. (158) Sex, Power, Love And Money - 121 pts / 9 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">195. (180) Leviathan - 119 pts / 6 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=195 (155) Symphony Of Tourette - 119 pts / 6 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">197. (226) Valley Boy - 116 pts / 8 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">198. (136) Drug Drug Druggy - 113 pts / 7 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=198 (212) Socialist Serenade - 113 pts / 7 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">200. (163) Builder Of Routines - 111 pts / 5 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div>201. (237) Dead Yankee Drawl - 110 pts / 9 picks</div><div>202. (-) The Left Behind - 107 pts / 8 picks</div><div>203. (225) Empty Motorcade - 102 pts / 5 picks</div><div>204. (204) 4 Lonely Roads - 100 pts / 5 picks</div><div>205. (272) Pedestal - 99 pts / 4 picks</div><div>206. (272) Horses Under Starlight - 98 pts / 5 picks</div><div>=206 (146) Just A Kid - 98 pts / 6 picks</div><div>208. (159) Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - 97 pts / 6 picks</div><div>209. (-) Broken Algorithms - 96 pts / 7 picks</div><div>=209 (241) Caldey - 96 pts / 3 picks</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">211. (218) First Republic - 93 pts / 3 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">212. (145) Strip It Down - 92 pts / 6 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=212 (207) The Soulmates - 92 pts / 3 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">214. (224) I Know The Numbers - 91 pts / 4 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">215. (190) Are Mothers Saints - 85 pts / 7 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">216. (-) Happy Bored Alone - 84 pts / 8 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=216 (197) Love Torn Us Under - 84 pts / 5 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">218. (187) A Vision Of Dead Desire - 83 pts / 3 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">219. (255) The Ghost Of Christmas - 82 pts / 7 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=219 (-) Together Stronger (C'mon Wales) - 82 pts / 5 picks</span></div><div>221. (162) Hanging On - 75 pts / 3 picks</div><div>=221 (165) I'm Not Working - 75 pts / 6 picks</div><div>=221 (-) Vivian - 75 pts / 5 picks</div><div>224. (-) Liverpool Revisited - 74 pts / 5 picks</div><div>225. (174) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - 72 pts / 3 picks</div><div>=225 (154) Locust Valley - 72 pts / 4 picks</div><div>=225 (223) No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me - 72 pts / 5 picks</div><div>228. (272) Distractions - 68 pts / 4 picks</div><div>229. (200) Askew Road - 67 pts / 3 picks</div><div>230. (116) Suicide Alley - 66 pts / 3 picks</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">231. (272) Ain't Going Down - 65 pts / 4 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">232. (272) What Happened To The Blue Generation - 64 pts / 2 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">233. (198) 3 Ways To See Despair - 63 pts / 5 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=233 (239) I'm Leaving You For Solitude - 63 pts / 5 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">235. (-) A Soundtrack To Complete Withdrawal - 62 pts / 2 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=235 (232) Buildings For Dead People - 62 pts / 5 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">237. (160) Manorbier - 61 pts / 5 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">238. (-) Into The Waves Of Love - 60 pts / 4 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=238 (201) Last Exit On Yesterday - 60 pts / 3 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">240. (261) SYMM - 58 pts / 3 picks</span></div><div>241. (139) We Were Never Told - 55 pts / 2 picks</div><div>242. (173) Close My Eyes - 53 pts / 5 picks</div><div>=242 (247) Morning Comrades - 53 pts / 3 picks</div><div>244. (246) Everyone Knows/Nobody Cares - 52 pts / 3 picks</div><div>245. (203) Never Want Again - 51 pts / 3 picks</div><div>246. (141) I Think I Found It - 49 pts / 4 picks</div><div>247. (251) Auto-Intoxication - 48 pts / 5 picks</div><div>248. (272) Fear Of Motion - 47 pts / 1 pick</div><div>249. (268) Antarctic - 46 pts / 1 pick</div><div>250. (272) Black Garden - 45 pts / 3 picks</div><div>=250 (272) Midnight Sun - 45 pts / 2 picks</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">252. (256) Antisocialmanifesto - 44 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=252 (222) Fearless Punk Ballad - 44 pts / 6 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=252 (256) Groundhog Days - 44 pts / 3 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=252 (215) Melancholyme - 44 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">256. (272) T.E. Lawrence On A Bike - 43 pts / 2 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=256 (272) Wake Up Alone - 43 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">258. (202) Fragments - 42 pts / 2 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">259. (-) (Feels Like) Heaven - 41 pts / 2 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">260. (241) Charles Windsor - 40 pts / 3 picks</span></div><div>261. (167) Don't Be Evil - 39 pts / 3 picks</div><div>262. (243) Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel - 38 pts / 1 pick</div><div>=262 (252) Red Sleeping Beauty - 38 pts / 2 picks</div><div>264. (272) All Alone Here - 35 pts / 2 picks</div><div>=264 (272) Kodawari - 35 pts / 1 pick</div><div>266. (209) Mayakovsky - 34 pts / 3 picks</div><div>=266 (217) Starlover - 34 pts / 2 picks</div><div>268. (171) Red Rubber - 32 pts / 1 pick</div><div>269. (211) Out Of Time - 30 pts / 3 picks</div><div>=269 (272) Wrote For Luck - 30 pts / 1 pick</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">271. (186) Broken Up Again - 28 pts / 3 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=271 (164) Pretension/Repulsion - 28 pts / 3 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">273. (272) Voodoo Polaroids - 27 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">274. (245) Primitive Painters - 26 pts / 2 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=274 (220) Teenage 20/20 - 26 pts / 3 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">276. (239) Everything Will Be - 25 pts / 2 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=276 (181) Take The Skinheads Bowling - 25 pts / 3 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">278. (272) Ostpolitik - 24 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">279. (271) The Instrumental - 23 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=279 (213) The Last Time I Saw Paris - 23 pts / 3 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=279 (220) Under My Wheels - 23 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div>282. (272) Foggy Eyes - 21 pts / 1 pick</div><div>=282 (-) Mirror Gaze - 21 pts / 1 pick</div><div>284. (272) The Long Goodbye - 20 pts / 2 picks</div><div>285. (214) Working Class Hero - 19 pts / 2 picks</div><div>286. (249) Heyday Of The Blood - 18 pts / 3 picks</div><div>=286 (228) Unstoppable Salvation - 18 pts / 1 pick</div><div>288. (230) A Secret Society - 17 pts / 2 picks</div><div>289. (-) My Drowning World - 16 pts / 1 pick</div><div>290. (-) Concrete Fields - 13 pts / 2 picks</div><div>=290 (263) It's So Easy - 13 pts / 2 picks</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">292. (272) Litany - 12 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=292 (205) The Drowners - 12 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">294. (206) Picturesque - 9 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">295. (195) Been A Son - 8 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=295 (178) Velocity Girl - 8 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">297. (272) Happy Ending - 7 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=297 (192) Royal Correspondent - 7 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">299. (272) Evidence Against Myself - 6 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=299 (252) Last Christmas - 6 pts / 2 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=299 (272) Lost Voices - 6 pts / 1 pick</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div>302. (261) Dying Breeds - 3 pts / 1 pick</div><div>=302 (258) The Sound Of Detachment - 3 pts / 1 pick</div><div>=302 (235) You Know It's Going to Hurt - 3 pts / 1 pick</div><div>305. (272) The Passing Show - 2 pts / 1 pick</div><div>306. (268) Death Of A Digital Ghost - 1 pts / 1 pick</div><div>=306 (272) Rock 'N' Roll Genius - 1 pts / 1 pick</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">308. (227) 1404 - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (216) Alien Orders/Invisible Armies - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (228) Blistered Mirrors - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (238) Bright Eyes - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (263) Damn Dog - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (244) Dead Passive - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (272) Dixie - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (272) Engage With Your Shadow - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (272) Failure Bound - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (272) Glory Glory - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (-) Holding Patterns - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (272) Inky Fingers - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (272) It's All Gone - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (272) Kiss My Eyes For Eternity - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (268) Lady Lazarus - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (272) Little Girl Lost - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (272) Little Trolls - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (267) No Jubilees - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (265) Penny Royalty - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (234) Quarantine (In My Place Of) - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (254) Rock And Roll Music - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (250) See It Like Sutherland - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (272) Slow Reflections - Strange Delays - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (265) Soul Contamination - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (272) Start Me Up - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (248) Stay With Me - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (236) The Endless Plain Of Fortune - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (-) These Dark Roads - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (272) Time Ain't Nothing - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (272) Train In Vain - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">=308 (259) What's My Name - 0 pts / 0 picks</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="color: black;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Sub-Charts</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><div>In this section you will find all manner of sub-charts breaking down the Manics Fans' Chart in various ways, these include:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Album Chart (by scores)</li><li>Album Chart (by average score per song, so no cheating 'Generation Terrorists'!)</li><li>Album Chart (by number of picks)</li><li>Album Chart (by number of picks per song)</li><li>Number Ones (from the individual charts)</li><li>Number Ones by Album</li><li>Chart for each Album (Songs ordered by scores, includes both discs of Lipstick Traces)</li><li>B-Sides Top 20</li><li>Covers Top 10</li><li>National Treasures Chart (see how those big songs got on at a glance)</li><li>Duets Top 10</li><li>How many did each participant share with the final top 50?</li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div>So did you have an idea of which album would come out on top of the favourite album chart? There were no surprises at the top of the first chart where it shows which album purely scored the most points. Compared with 2015, however, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours managed to leapfrog Gold Against The Soul, while Know Your Enemy climbed above Lifeblood and Send Away The Tigers into 7th position. The Ultra Vivid Lament did brilliantly to debut in at 9th, while Resistance Is Futile slipped in a little more unnoticed in 13th. (Note: this doesn't include hidden tracks)</div></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><b>Album Chart By Score</b></div><div>1. (1) The Holy Bible 23645</div><div>2. (2) Generation Terrorists 18454</div><div>3. (3) Everything Must Go 17020</div><div>4. (5) This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 13460</div><div><div>5. (4) Gold Against The Soul 12546</div></div><div>6. (6) Journal For Plague Lovers 7186</div><div>7. (9) Know Your Enemy 7038</div><div>8. (7) Lifeblood 6861</div><div>9. (-) The Ultra Vivid Lament 6069</div><div>10. (11) Futurology 5501</div><div>11. (8) Send Away The Tigers 5324</div><div>12. (10) Rewind The Film 5129</div><div>13. (-) Resistance Is Futile 4872</div><div><div>14. (12) Postcards From A Young Man 4019</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In the second chart, where those total scores are divided by the number of eligible songs on the album, the story changes for those albums with more songs, particularly Generation Terrorists and Know Your Enemy. The likes of Damn Dog, which got 0 points, and Royal Correspondent with 7 points, had a negative effect on the score. Compared with 2015, Lifeblood managed to climb above Journal For Plague Lovers to take the number six slot, while The Ultra Vivid Lament did even better than the chart above on its debut in 8th position.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Album Chart By Average Score per Song</b></div><div>1. (1) The Holy Bible 1819</div><div>2. (2) Everything Must Go 1418</div><div>3. (3) Gold Against The Soul 1255</div><div>4. (4) Generation Terrorists 1086</div><div>5. (5) This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 1035</div><div>6. (7) Lifeblood 572</div><div>7. (6) Journal For Plague Lovers 553</div><div>8. (-) The Ultra Vivid Lament 552</div><div><div>9. (8) Send Away The Tigers 532</div></div><div>10. (12) Know Your Enemy 440</div><div><div>11. (9) Rewind The Film 427</div><div>12. (10) Futurology 423</div><div>13. (-) Resistance Is Futile 406</div></div><div>14. (11) Postcards From A Young Man 335</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Points are the key part of these charts, but if you ignore them for a second and look at how many times songs were picked you get the following charts. As above it's the total number of picks in the first chart and then divided by the number of songs for the second, having the same effect for those albums with more songs.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's interesting in the first chart that the order is exactly the same as the points! I was intrigued to see if some of the later albums might do better here as I had noticed a trend where they would often sneak in at the bottom of people's charts, gaining few points but appearing fairly regularly. </div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Album Chart By Picks</b></div><div>1. The Holy Bible 755</div><div>2. Generation Terrorists 609</div><div>3. Everything Must Go 591</div><div>4. This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 485</div><div><div>5. Gold Against The Soul 435</div></div><div><div>6. Journal For Plague Lovers 323</div></div><div>7. Know Your Enemy 321</div><div>8. Lifeblood 299</div><div>9. The Ultra Vivid Lament 271</div><div>10. Futurology 264</div><div>11. Send Away The Tigers 251</div><div>12. Rewind The Film 235</div><div>13. Resistance Is Futile 230</div><div><div>14. Postcards From A Young Man 185</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Album Chart By Average Picks per Song</b></div><div>(Averages have been rounded below but are ordered by their more exact figures)</div><div>1. The Holy Bible 58</div><div>2. Everything Must Go 49</div><div>3. Gold Against The Soul 44</div><div>4. This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 37</div><div>5. Generation Terrorists 36</div><div><div>6. Send Away The Tigers 25</div><div><div>7. Lifeblood 25</div></div><div>8. Journal For Plague Lovers 25</div></div><div>9. The Ultra Vivid Lament 25</div><div><div>10. Futurology 20</div></div><div>11. Know Your Enemy 20</div><div>12. Rewind The Film 20</div><div><div>13. Resistance Is Futile 19</div></div><div>14. Postcards From A Young Man 15</div><div><br /></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So, out of 127 charts, we had 41 different number ones!!! That's a lot of variation, although we still had some recurring favourites, as you can see below with the top 4 unsurprisingly being made up of the same songs as the chart's top 4. However, Faster took the honours here as a kind of consolation prize, with two more number ones than Motorcycle Emptiness. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Masses Against The Classes was the highest placed song at number 16 not to have been selected as a number one, while Little Baby Nothing was the only one of the top 15 to have been selected as number one only once. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll was selected four times yet only made number 38!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Also, 16 of the number one selections didn't even make the final top 50! Autumnsong and Ocean Spray even had two number ones, but those 100 points couldn't help them over the line and into the final 50. So, look at your chart and feel content with the fact that other people also like your number one choice as much as you do, or that you are unique!!</div><div><br /></div></div><div><b>Number Ones</b></div><div>1. Faster 19</div><div>2. A Design For Life 17</div><div>=2. Motorcycle Emptiness 17</div><div>4. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 10</div><div>5. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll 4</div><div>=5. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) 4</div><div>=5. Yes 4</div><div>8. Motown Junk 3</div><div>=8. No Surface All Feeling 3</div><div>=8. Sleepflower 3</div><div>=8. This Is Yesterday 3</div><div>=8. Tsunami 3</div><div>=8. You Love Us 3</div><div>14. Archives Of Pain 2</div><div>=14. Autumnsong 2</div><div>=14. From Despair To Where 2</div><div>=14. Ocean Spray 2</div><div>=14. Prologue To History 2</div><div>=14. Stay Beautiful 2</div><div>20. A Song For Departure 1</div><div>=20. Born A Girl 1</div><div>=20. Born To End 1</div><div>=20. Cardiff Afterlife 1</div><div>=20. Die In The Summertime 1</div><div>=20. Distant Colours 1</div><div>=20. Door To The River 1</div><div>=20. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children 1</div><div>=20. Futurology 1</div><div>=20. Golden Platitudes 1</div><div>=20. Indian Summer 1</div><div>=20. Intravenous Agnostic 1</div><div>=20. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time 1</div><div>=20. Little Baby Nothing 1</div><div>=20. My Little Empire 1</div><div>=20. Of Walking Abortion 1</div><div>=20. PCP 1</div><div>=20. Show Me The Wonder 1</div><div>=20. Still Snowing In Sapporo 1</div><div>=20. Tennessee 1</div><div>=20. The Everlasting 1</div><div>=20. This Joke Sport Severed 1</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As well as the top 50 having representation from every album, so did the number ones, even Lipstick Traces and the Forever Delayed bonus track were included!</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Number Ones By Album</b></div><div><div>1. The Holy Bible 31</div><div>2. Generation Terrorists 29</div><div>3. Everything Must Go 20</div><div>4. This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 16</div><div>5. Gold Against The Soul 9</div><div>6. Others (Motown, Prologue, Door) 6</div><div><div>7. Know Your Enemy 4</div></div><div><div>8. Send Away The Tigers 3</div></div><div>9. Journal For Plague Lovers 2</div><div>=9. Lifeblood 2</div><div>11. Futurology 1</div><div>=11. Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>=11. Resistance Is Futile 1</div></div><div><div>=11. Rewind The Film 1</div><div>=11. The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div></div><div><br /></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So, you may have your favourite on all the albums, but do others agree with you? There weren't too many surprises here, although as in the top 50 Golden Platitudes beating the three singles from Postcards was something I didn't see coming!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Generation Terrorists, Gold Against The Soul and The Ultra Vivid Lament all seem quite polarised, with a definite dividing line between the points scored by the top 5 or 6 and the rest of the songs, while the other albums see the points decline more gradually. Damn Dog was the only album track to get no points (not counting Lipstick Traces).</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Generation Terrorists</b></div><div><div>1. (1) Motorcycle Emptiness - 4910 pts / 119 picks</div><div>7. (10) Little Baby Nothing - 2839 pts / 82 picks</div><div>10. (6) You Love Us - 2722 pts / 90 picks</div><div>13. (9) Stay Beautiful - 2423 pts / 83 picks</div><div>37. (65) Slash N' Burn - 1260 pts / 56 picks</div><div>38. (51) Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll - 1241 pts / 46 picks</div><div><div>95. (85) Love's Sweet Exile - 525 pts / 21 picks</div><div>96. (91) Spectators Of Suicide - 515 pts / 23 picks</div></div><div>111. (112) Methadone Pretty - 373 pts / 14 picks</div><div>133. (109) Crucifix Kiss - 269 pts / 12 picks</div><div>136. (125) Born To End - 263 pts / 12 picks</div><div>144. (119) So Dead - 247 pts / 9 picks</div><div>147. (140) Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds - 242 pts / 10 picks</div><div>149. (135) Another Invented Disease - 239 pts / 13 picks</div><div>156. (210) Tennessee - 214 pts / 8 picks</div><div>=171 (144) Repeat - 172 pts / 11 picks</div><div>=308 (263) Damn Dog - 0 pts / 0 picks</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Gold Against The Soul</b></div><div><div><div>8. (8) La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) - 2776 pts / 87 picks</div><div>9. (12) From Despair To Where - 2754 pts / 86 picks</div></div><div>12. (14) Sleepflower - 2618 pts / 91 picks</div><div>20. (18) Roses In The Hospital - 1754 pts / 65 picks</div><div>35. (32) Life Becoming A Landslide - 1282 pts / 46 picks</div><div>100. (175) Gold Against The Soul - 482 pts / 21 picks</div><div>110. (153) Nostalgic Pushead - 387 pts / 15 picks</div><div>=137 (115) Yourself - 261 pts / 11 picks</div><div>=195 (155) Symphony Of Tourette - 119 pts / 6 picks</div><div>198. (136) Drug Drug Druggy - 113 pts / 7 picks</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The Holy Bible</b></div><div><div>2. (2) Faster - 4820 pts / 117 picks</div><div>5. (4) Yes - 3274 pts / 90 picks</div><div>14. (15) This Is Yesterday - 2367 pts / 74 picks</div><div>15. (29) Archives Of Pain - 2339 pts / 68 picks</div><div>19. (24) 4st 7lb - 1782 pts / 61 picks</div><div>26. (28) ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart - 1563 pts / 56 picks</div><div>28. (11) PCP - 1496 pts / 57 picks</div><div>29. (34) Of Walking Abortion - 1458 pts / 54 picks</div><div>32. (30) Die In The Summertime - 1384 pts / 48 picks</div><div><div>44. (19) Revol - 1099 pts / 46 picks</div><div>45. (35) Mausoleum - 1075 pts / 42 picks</div></div><div>=81 (54) She Is Suffering - 656 pts / 28 picks</div><div>121. (150) The Intense Humming Of Evil - 332 pts / 16 picks</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Everything Must Go</b></div><div><div>3. (3) A Design For Life - 4567 pts / 116 picks</div><div>6. (16) No Surface All Feeling - 3120 pts / 93 picks</div><div>18. (36) Everything Must Go - 1814 pts / 62 picks</div><div>33. (48) Enola/Alone - 1328 pts / 55 picks</div><div>34. (22) Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky - 1327 pts / 55 picks</div><div>43. (58) Kevin Carter - 1103 pts / 42 picks</div><div>60. (53) Australia - 897 pts / 34 picks</div><div>68. (74) The Girl Who Wanted To Be God - 831 pts / 34 picks</div><div>77. (68) Further Away - 700 pts / 37 picks</div><div>89. (88) Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier - 569 pts / 26 picks</div><div>108. (134) Removables - 412 pts / 17 picks</div><div><div>=117 (111) Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning) - 352 pts / 20 picks</div></div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours</b></div><div><div>4. (5) If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - 3309 pts / 89 picks</div><div>21. (25) Tsunami - 1749 pts / 68 picks</div><div>23. (47) Ready For Drowning - 1620 pts / 59 picks</div><div>31. (27) The Everlasting - 1388 pts / 52 picks</div><div>52. (75) Nobody Loved You - 984 pts / 41 picks</div><div>56. (72) Black Dog On My Shoulder - 964 pts / 36 picks</div><div>69. (104) Be Natural - 806 pts / 26 picks</div><div>73. (67) You Stole The Sun From My Heart - 732 pts / 31 picks</div><div>78. (76) You're Tender And You're Tired - 695 pts / 28 picks</div><div>87. (131) Born A Girl - 580 pts / 23 picks</div><div>99. (84) My Little Empire - 500 pts / 23 picks</div><div>=221 (165) I'm Not Working - 75 pts / 6 picks</div><div>240. (261) SYMM - 58 pts / 3 picks</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Know Your Enemy</b></div><div><div>36. (33) Found That Soul - 1262 pts / 49 picks</div><div>54. (50) Ocean Spray - 977 pts / 43 picks</div><div>75. (114) Miss Europa Disco Dancer - 713 pts / 37 picks</div><div>80. (70) Let Robeson Sing - 675 pts / 29 picks</div><div>90. (82) Intravenous Agnostic - 565 pts / 29 picks</div><div>106. (94) Epicentre - 422 pts / 19 picks</div><div><div>115. (130) The Convalescent - 358 pts / 14 picks</div></div><div>120. (170) Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children - 334 pts / 16 picks</div><div>122. (121) So Why So Sad - 331 pts / 19 picks</div><div>126. (102) Baby Elian - 299 pts / 15 picks</div><div>130. (126) Dead Martyrs - 286 pts / 13 picks</div><div>151. (132) My Guernica - 235 pts / 10 picks</div><div><div>154. (168) The Year Of Purification - 229 pts / 13 picks</div><div>155. (177) His Last Painting - 219 pts / 8 picks</div></div><div>193. (152) Wattsville Blues - 126 pts / 6 picks</div><div>=297 (192) Royal Correspondent - 7 pts / 1 pick</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Lipstick Traces - Disc 1</b></div><div>17. (23) Prologue To History - 2027 pts / 74 picks</div><div><div>41. (45) Donkeys - 1145 pts / 49 picks</div><div>42. (64) Sepia - 1108 pts / 47 picks</div></div><div>48. (57) Judge Yr'self - 1009 pts / 43 picks</div><div>71. (105) Comfort Comes - 778 pts / 31 picks</div><div>74. (63) 4 Ever Delayed - 719 pts / 31 picks</div><div>96. (91) Spectators Of Suicide - 515 pts / 23 picks</div><div>103. (78) Mr Carbohydrate - 437 pts / 22 picks</div><div>129. (103) Sorrow 16 - 294 pts / 16 picks</div><div>142. (137) Dead Trees And Traffic Islands - 249 pts / 12 picks</div><div>148. (133) Democracy Coma - 241 pts / 11 picks</div><div>159. (107) Bored Out Of My Mind - 204 pts / 12 picks</div><div>168. (120) Sculpture Of Man - 180 pts / 9 picks</div><div>=188 (151) We Her Majesty's Prisoners - 136 pts / 10 picks</div><div>197. (226) Valley Boy - 116 pts / 8 picks</div><div>=198 (212) Socialist Serenade - 113 pts / 7 picks</div><div><div>206. (272) Horses Under Starlight - 98 pts / 5 picks</div><div>=206 (146) Just A Kid - 98 pts / 6 picks</div></div><div>212. (145) Strip It Down - 92 pts / 6 picks</div><div>242. (173) Close My Eyes - 53 pts / 5 picks</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Lipstick Traces - Disc 2</b></div><div>185. (182) We Are All Bourgeois Now - 147 pts / 7 picks</div><div>208. (159) Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - 97 pts / 6 picks</div><div>225. (174) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - 72 pts / 3 picks</div><div>262. (243) Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel - 38 pts / 1 pick</div><div><div>269. (211) Out Of Time - 30 pts / 3 picks</div><div>=269 (272) Wrote For Luck - 30 pts / 1 pick</div></div><div>=276 (181) Take The Skinheads Bowling - 25 pts / 3 picks</div><div>=290 (263) It's So Easy - 13 pts / 2 picks</div><div><div>295. (195) Been A Son - 8 pts / 1 pick</div><div>=295 (178) Velocity Girl - 8 pts / 1 pick</div></div><div>=299 (252) Last Christmas - 6 pts / 2 picks</div><div>=308 (238) Bright Eyes - 0 pts / 0 picks</div><div>=308 (254) Rock And Roll Music - 0 pts / 0 picks</div><div><div>=308 (272) Train In Vain - 0 pts / 0 picks</div><div>=308 (259) What's My Name - 0 pts / 0 picks</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Lifeblood</b></div><div><div>24. (17) 1985 - 1597 pts / 56 picks</div><div><div>65. (26) Solitude Sometimes Is - 867 pts / 39 picks</div><div>66. (108) I Live To Fall Asleep - 864 pts / 38 picks</div></div><div>70. (52) Empty Souls - 787 pts / 40 picks</div><div>83. (79) A Song For Departure - 638 pts / 27 picks</div><div>85. (86) To Repel Ghosts - 611 pts / 28 picks</div><div>112. (96) Glasnost - 371 pts / 18 picks</div><div>117. (124) Cardiff Afterlife - 352 pts / 17 picks</div><div>=117 (89) The Love Of Richard Nixon - 352 pts / 17 picks</div><div>145. (193) Always/Never - 244 pts / 10 picks</div><div>188. (185) Emily - 136 pts / 7 picks</div><div>258. (202) Fragments - 42 pts / 2 picks</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Send Away The Tigers</b></div><div><div><div>22. (13) Your Love Alone Is Not Enough - 1657 pts / 67 picks</div></div><div>57. (31) Autumnsong - 931 pts / 41 picks</div><div>62. (56) Send Away The Tigers - 887 pts / 41 picks</div><div>104. (97) The Second Great Depression - 433 pts / 18 picks</div><div><div>113. (81) Imperial Bodybags - 367 pts / 21 picks</div><div>114. (113) Indian Summer - 359 pts / 19 picks</div></div><div>146. (93) Underdogs - 243 pts / 13 picks</div><div><div>180. (188) I'm Just A Patsy - 156 pts / 13 picks</div><div>=180 (166) Rendition - 156 pts / 9 picks</div></div><div>190. (184) Winterlovers - 135 pts / 9 picks</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Journal For Plague Lovers</b></div><div><div><div>30. (21) Peeled Apples - 1417 pts / 57 picks</div></div><div>40. (39) This Joke Sport Severed - 1195 pts / 49 picks</div><div>51. (38) Jackie Collins Existential Question Time - 991 pts / 46 picks</div><div>67. (69) All Is Vanity - 858 pts / 35 picks</div><div>92. (101) William's Last Words - 554 pts / 28 picks</div><div>93. (71) Marlon JD - 549 pts / 27 picks</div><div>97. (106) Journal For Plague Lovers - 511 pts / 21 picks</div><div>116. (73) Me And Stephen Hawking - 353 pts / 21 picks</div><div>153. (99) Virginia State Epileptic Colony - 230 pts / 12 picks</div><div>= 166 (83) She Bathed Herself In A Bath of Bleach - 183 pts / 7 picks</div><div>169. (90) Doors Closing Slowly - 178 pts / 8 picks</div><div>186. (129) Facing Page: Top Left - 139 pts / 9 picks</div><div>=271 (164) Pretension/Repulsion - 28 pts / 3 picks</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Postcards From A Young Man</b></div><div><div>49. (60) Golden Platitudes - 1006 pts / 40 picks</div><div>63. (49) Some Kind Of Nothingness - 878 pts / 37 picks</div><div>86. (44) Postcards From A Young Man - 588 pts / 30 picks</div><div><div>94. (77) (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love - 543 pts / 24 picks</div></div><div>128. (118) A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun - 295 pts / 15 picks</div><div><div>170. (172) The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever - 173 pts / 8 picks</div></div><div>=186 (189) The Descent (Pages 1 & 2) - 139 pts / 6 picks</div><div><div>191. (169) Hazelton Avenue - 134 pts / 7 picks</div><div>192. (149) All We Make Is Entertainment - 127 pts / 6 picks</div></div><div><div>246. (141) I Think I Found It - 49 pts / 4 picks</div><div>247. (251) Auto-Intoxication - 48 pts / 5 picks</div></div><div>261. (167) Don't Be Evil - 39 pts / 3 picks</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Rewind The Film</b></div><div><div>47. (41) Rewind The Film - 1067 pts / 43 picks</div><div>55. (55) This Sullen Welsh Heart - 968 pts / 43 picks</div><div>58. (46) Show Me The Wonder - 901 pts / 38 picks</div><div>81. (40) 30-Year War - 656 pts / 33 picks</div><div>91. (62) Anthem For A Lost Cause - 563 pts / 25 picks</div><div><div>139. (128) Running Out Of Fantasy - 256 pts / 13 picks</div></div><div>161. (122) As Holy As the Soil (That Buries Your Skin) - 196 pts / 8 picks</div><div>163. (176) (I Miss the) Tokyo Skyline - 187 pts / 12 picks</div><div>200. (163) Builder Of Routines - 111 pts / 5 picks</div><div>204. (204) 4 Lonely Roads - 100 pts / 5 picks</div><div>233. (198) 3 Ways To See Despair - 63 pts / 5 picks</div><div>237. (160) Manorbier - 61 pts / 5 picks</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Futurology</b></div><div><div>39. (43) Walk Me To The Bridge - 1223 pts / 59 picks</div><div>50. (42) Europa Geht Durch Mich - 1002 pts / 41 picks</div><div><div>84. (80) Dreaming A City (Hughesovka) - 636 pts / 25 picks</div></div><div>102. (95) The Next Jet To Leave Moscow - 448 pts / 23 picks</div><div>105. (100) Black Square - 423 pts / 17 picks</div><div>109. (61) Futurology - 400 pts / 21 picks</div><div>124. (147) Misguided Missile - 315 pts / 17 picks</div><div>140. (142) Let's Go To War - 255 pts / 13 picks</div><div>141. (92) Between The Clock And The Bed - 254 pts / 13 picks</div><div>152. (123) Divine Youth - 231 pts / 13 picks</div><div>177. (196) The View From Stow Hill - 159 pts / 10 picks</div><div>194. (158) Sex, Power, Love And Money - 121 pts / 9 picks</div><div>266. (209) Mayakovsky - 34 pts / 3 picks</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Resistance Is Futile</b></div><div><div>27. (-) International Blue - 1520 pts / 66 picks</div><div>53. (-) Hold Me Like A Heaven - 979 pts / 42 picks</div><div>76. (-) Distant Colours - 709 pts / 28 picks</div><div>107. (-) People Give In - 417 pts / 22 picks</div><div>132. (-) Dylan & Caitlin - 271 pts / 15 picks</div><div>150. (-) In Eternity - 237 pts / 13 picks</div><div><div>=159 (-) Sequels Of Forgotten Wars - 204 pts / 7 picks</div></div><div>166. (-) A Song For The Sadness - 183 pts / 12 picks</div><div>202. (-) The Left Behind - 107 pts / 8 picks</div><div>209. (-) Broken Algorithms - 96 pts / 7 picks</div><div><div>=221 (-) Vivian - 75 pts / 5 picks</div><div>224. (-) Liverpool Revisited - 74 pts / 5 picks</div></div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The Ultra Vivid Lament</b></div><div><div>25. (-) Still Snowing In Sapporo - 1594 pts / 65 picks</div><div>46. (-) Complicated Illusions - 1071 pts / 42 picks</div><div><div>61. (-) Diapause - 890 pts / 38 picks</div></div><div>72. (-) Afterending - 735 pts / 34 picks</div><div>79. (-) The Secret He Had Missed - 690 pts / 37 picks</div><div>131. (-) Orwellian - 276 pts / 11 picks</div><div>137. (-) Quest For Ancient Colour - 261 pts / 13 picks</div><div>143. (-) Don't Let The Night Divide Us - 248 pts / 12 picks</div><div>176. (-) Blank Diary Entry - 160 pts / 7 picks</div><div>216. (-) Happy Bored Alone - 84 pts / 8 picks</div><div><div>238. (-) Into The Waves Of Love - 60 pts / 4 picks</div><div><br /></div></div></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The B-side chart was headed by the same three songs as in 2015, and in the same order, but the difference this time was that Sepia was joining them as a fully-fledged member of the top 50! Comfort Comes jumped from number 7 in the 2015 B-side chart to number 4 here. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's interesting that the last three songs are the only three to break into the top 20 that date after Lipstick Traces, although having said that there are a number of songs that make the top 20 that weren't selected for that collection.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Top 20 B-Sides</b></div><div><div>17. (23) Prologue To History - 2027 pts / 74 picks</div><div>41. (45) Donkeys - 1145 pts / 49 picks</div><div>42. (64) Sepia - 1108 pts / 47 picks</div><div>71. (105) Comfort Comes - 778 pts / 31 picks</div><div>98. (66) Patrick Bateman - 510 pts / 21 picks</div><div>103. (78) Mr Carbohydrate - 437 pts / 22 picks</div><div>123. (127) Automatik Teknicolour - 323 pts / 13 picks</div><div>127. (199) Montana/Autumn/78 - 297 pts / 12 picks</div><div>129. (103) Sorrow 16 - 294 pts / 16 picks</div><div>134. (156) Black Holes For The Young - 267 pts / 13 picks</div><div>142. (137) Dead Trees And Traffic Islands - 249 pts / 12 picks</div><div>148. (133) Democracy Coma - 241 pts / 11 picks</div><div>158. (110) Hibernation - 206 pts / 10 picks</div><div>159. (107) Bored Out Of My Mind - 204 pts / 12 picks</div><div>162. (138) Too Cold Here - 190 pts / 12 picks</div><div>=163 (157) Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel - 187 pts / 8 picks</div><div>168. (120) Sculpture Of Man - 180 pts / 9 picks</div><div>171. (233) Boxes & Lists - 172 pts / 5 picks</div><div><div>173. (191) Anorexic Rodin - 165 pts / 8 picks</div><div>=173 (219) Love Letter To The Future - 165 pts / 7 picks</div></div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">As you can see from the chart below, cover versions seemed to be relatively unpopular in terms of votes, none of them made the top 50 and I actually had to downgrade it from a top 20 to a top 10 this time because of a lack of votes! Maybe it's because a lot of them are tucked away, hidden from view and memory as B-sides/hidden tracks etc. or maybe they just don't stand up as well when you put them next to the originals. No surprises with the chart topper here, the only cover to make the top 100.</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Top 10 Covers</b></div><div>59. (37) Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless) - 900 pts / 34 picks</div><div>135. (148) This Is The Day - 264 pts / 14 picks</div><div>165. (161) Umbrella - 186 pts / 8 picks</div><div>179. (230) Vision Blurred - 157 pts / 4 picks</div><div>185. (182) We Are All Bourgeois Now - 147 pts / 7 picks</div><div>208. (159) Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - 97 pts / 6 picks</div><div>225. (174) Can't Take My Eyes Off You - 72 pts / 3 picks</div><div><div>=256 (272) Wake Up Alone - 43 pts / 1 pick</div></div><div><div>259. (-) (Feels Like) Heaven - 41 pts / 2 picks</div><div>260. (241) Charles Windsor - 40 pts / 3 picks</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">With 38 songs on it, you might expect all of the 'National Treasures' songs to get in the top 50. Not at all, competition for places was fierce and 17 of them ended up missing out, leaving plenty of places for your favourite album tracks, B-sides and songs that post-date that collection. 13 out of the final top 20 and 8 out of the top 10 were singles though, so they did provide many of the high scorers.</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>National Treasures</b></div><div><div>1. (1) Motorcycle Emptiness - 4910 pts / 119 picks</div><div>2. (2) Faster - 4820 pts / 117 picks</div><div>3. (3) A Design For Life - 4567 pts / 116 picks</div><div>4. (5) If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - 3309 pts / 89 picks</div><div>7. (10) Little Baby Nothing - 2839 pts / 82 picks</div><div>8. (8) La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh) - 2776 pts / 87 picks</div><div>9. (12) From Despair To Where - 2754 pts / 86 picks</div><div>10. (6) You Love Us - 2722 pts / 90 picks</div><div>11. (7) Motown Junk - 2628 pts / 79 picks</div><div>13. (9) Stay Beautiful - 2423 pts / 83 picks</div><div>16. (20) The Masses Against The Classes - 2037 pts / 74 picks</div><div>18. (36) Everything Must Go - 1814 pts / 62 picks</div><div>20. (18) Roses In The Hospital - 1754 pts / 65 picks</div><div>21. (25) Tsunami - 1749 pts / 68 picks</div><div>22. (13) Your Love Alone Is Not Enough - 1657 pts / 67 picks</div><div>31. (27) The Everlasting - 1388 pts / 52 picks</div><div>35. (32) Life Becoming A Landslide - 1282 pts / 46 picks</div><div>36. (33) Found That Soul - 1262 pts / 49 picks</div><div>37. (65) Slash N' Burn - 1260 pts / 56 picks</div><div>43. (58) Kevin Carter - 1103 pts / 42 picks</div><div>44. (19) Revol - 1099 pts / 46 picks</div><div>54. (50) Ocean Spray - 977 pts / 43 picks</div></div><div>57. (31) Autumnsong - 931 pts / 41 picks</div><div><div>59. (37) Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless) - 900 pts / 34 picks</div><div>60. (53) Australia - 897 pts / 34 picks</div><div>63. (49) Some Kind Of Nothingness - 878 pts / 37 picks</div><div>70. (52) Empty Souls - 787 pts / 40 picks</div><div>73. (67) You Stole The Sun From My Heart - 732 pts / 31 picks</div><div>80. (70) Let Robeson Sing - 675 pts / 29 picks</div><div>=81 (54) She Is Suffering - 656 pts / 28 picks</div><div>86. (44) Postcards From A Young Man - 588 pts / 30 picks</div><div>88. (98) There By The Grace Of God - 573 pts / 25 picks</div><div><div>94. (77) (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love - 543 pts / 24 picks</div><div>95. (85) Love's Sweet Exile - 525 pts / 21 picks</div></div><div>114. (113) Indian Summer - 359 pts / 19 picks</div><div>=117 (89) The Love Of Richard Nixon - 352 pts / 17 picks</div><div>122. (121) So Why So Sad - 331 pts / 19 picks</div><div>135. (148) This Is The Day - 264 pts / 14 picks</div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">With the last few albums seeing duets becoming more common with our heroes, I've updated the top 10 from 2015 below to see how they measure up. Two of the newest ones have already made a name for themselves!</div><div><b>Top 10 Duets</b></div><div>7. (10) Little Baby Nothing - 2839 pts / 82 picks</div><div>22. (13) Your Love Alone Is Not Enough - 1657 pts / 67 picks</div><div>47. (41) Rewind The Film - 1067 pts / 43 picks</div><div>50. (42) Europa Geht Durch Mich - 1002 pts / 41 picks</div><div><div>55. (55) This Sullen Welsh Heart - 968 pts / 43 picks</div></div><div>63. (49) Some Kind Of Nothingness - 878 pts / 37 picks</div><div>79. (-) The Secret He Had Missed - 690 pts / 37 picks</div><div>132. (-) Dylan & Caitlin - 271 pts / 15 picks</div><div>134. (156) Black Holes For The Young - 267 pts / 13 picks</div><div>141. (92) Between The Clock And The Bed - 254 pts / 13 picks</div><div><br /></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Now we all know that no one chart is any more valid than the others, we all have 1275 points to share out and share them we did. But just out of interest, how many did you share with the final top 50? It's ranked in order but remember it doesn't mean your chart was any better or worse than anyone else's! If you had one of the lower numbers that just means you're special and unique. And a little bit weird. Even for a Manics fan.....</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There was also a prize of Marc Burrows' book 'Manic Street Preachers Album By Album', which featured four of our top 50 participants (Dom, Adam, Tracey and Emily), and went to Heather for sharing the most songs with the final 50. Adam (@MarshFactor) relinquished his title from 2015 and had to be content with second place this time along with myself. That would have been embarrassing if I had won!</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Participants' Picks Shared With The Final Top 50</b></div><div>38 - @heather1917</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36 -@Pyfbrown @MarshFactor</span></div><div>35 - @Diagrid3 @democracycoma1</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34 - @archivesofjames @deporbags Peter Stockdale</span></div><div>33 - @Parky1977 @jacarnie @domlikesrabbits</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32 - @_happycactus @SteveBurnett_ @cam_sh @RicheyJones1234 @RichKelly_ @MovieEvangelist</span></div><div>31 - @LeesonPalmer @havinaradox @Paul_Franklyn @MonkeyMarl @AChinnick90 @Raindogtaylor @oldcornc @traceyw1981</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">30 - @keenomanjaro @sweetsaturm1ne @gunnerdave83 @_Jen175_ @JKgiro85</span></div><div>29 - @roisinmckeon Maddie Caridad @Matt_Nixey_1985 @richierabs @LaMurphF1 @EdBiggsLGM</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">28 - @citymanblue @ricardlawless @iamstevemurphy @dansm1th3 @A_J_T_1970 @PaulMatthewman Steven Gill</span></div><div>27 - @lonelywreckage @30yearwar @bentirs @LaPoose @rickl80 @yekim_mikey @ChrisBickley1 Daisy @glorygerbil @_DerekMcHugh_ @peterswan_</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">26 - @AndDarkWithin @AliceBoothLewis @adamglasspool @marcsedison @PatRedmond @KurtMarcECurtis @MildManics @ofmilesfromhome @Barnspaul31 @HollyBaleen</span></div><div>25 - @BorgoBarbara @LondonLady70 @dr__alex @davidwells661 @10000_manics @Dai_Howells @sdrake767 @PhilipM04217017 @jennifer_eileen @0xytocinn</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">24 - @wadedc1 @BrickingBadger @karenedavies68 @jplanasuk @pineyewoman666 @EinBleistift @DrGaryMarriner @ChorizoGarbanzo @SarahEyles1 @myclwd @amirsuleman @tomsky11</span></div><div>23 - @GreenBitterfly @RichardE1875 @Chuzzwozza @hcd199 @MentalJargon @newartriot @jackmansavfc @beksthebloody @Truba9 @DiscoDollie75</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">22 - @BraddersCentric Emmy @gloomyok @ApolloScream @TinkHolloway @densk14 @enola_Ole</span></div><div>21 - @revolbiscuit @jkhoman @Wrestling20Yrs @biscuitporpoise @ManicBeata @WH2000_</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20 - @porthjess @mark_ness @w_onderwalls @WelshDragonHQ @jenvidg</span></div><div>19 - @smudger63 @KB2X @liars_honey</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18 - @SilentRefusal Jennifer (Mother of @Pyfbrown)</span></div><div>17 - @emilymjhyatt @diapause78</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15 - @S_jul @mylittlegempire</span></div><div>14 - @corpseinsnow</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12 - @lonelyaesthetic</span></div><div>11 - @KhizzyJ @MrTeenWordpower</div><div><br /></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-82443297708207893852021-12-08T11:08:00.002-08:002021-12-13T13:53:23.224-08:00Manics Top 50s - 5th Dec 2021 part 2<div style="text-align: left;">So here they are, the final six charts of the 2021 edition of the Manics Top 50s that arrived on deadline day. First up is one of our artistic entries, lovingly cut and pasted into a suitable format and giving Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll another number 1 in the process. Bag Lady also grabbed its highest placing at number 3, while Generation Terrorists and The Holy Bible shared the spoils in the By Era chart with nine each.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Mr Wobbly From Piccadilly @0xytocinn</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_tUuRN7TV_L5ufd4wbUyjs67DEl_GiEXuZcQU58CbCIDDVy2StfLPPxeFo3lKOSz6NsxR1yNynGSsWSPTTBnJavW3hDU3SXKBMxn9_jbCzMWL_n1LKtAOAyWcWNcZN1Db1GjAixwyy2IVH_7ks1Iv_3MPIl9fV0WoHrEiI85sqx5yCaYljv2jpGM0Zg=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1449" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_tUuRN7TV_L5ufd4wbUyjs67DEl_GiEXuZcQU58CbCIDDVy2StfLPPxeFo3lKOSz6NsxR1yNynGSsWSPTTBnJavW3hDU3SXKBMxn9_jbCzMWL_n1LKtAOAyWcWNcZN1Db1GjAixwyy2IVH_7ks1Iv_3MPIl9fV0WoHrEiI85sqx5yCaYljv2jpGM0Zg=w283-h400" width="283" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjahJznAuLHTzc6X5KgZAlQLkLJ-LCERNFPNy1zWJptSDum8_8GNho2n_8GN5HH6JdVfImsyW8od0NIFMnTRzlHaiXOdsGvqsILWIgqvf2BagEH2wazM4nPeQPEwex807TqUKOSOu0N_5z1N-cZx4oGpSm_hqvNpqXMV0ctupY-qQ5awEWTW7NX5rV5A=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1449" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgjahJznAuLHTzc6X5KgZAlQLkLJ-LCERNFPNy1zWJptSDum8_8GNho2n_8GN5HH6JdVfImsyW8od0NIFMnTRzlHaiXOdsGvqsILWIgqvf2BagEH2wazM4nPeQPEwex807TqUKOSOu0N_5z1N-cZx4oGpSm_hqvNpqXMV0ctupY-qQ5awEWTW7NX5rV5A=w283-h400" width="283" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 9</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 7</div><div>The Holy Bible 9</div><div>Everything Must Go 5</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3</div><div>Know Your Enemy 6</div><div>Lifeblood 3</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 0</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 0</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div><div>Others 0</div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's another suitably Manics-esque presentation next and fittingly it's Stay Beautiful in the number 1 position, perhaps surprisingly for the first time. It's a chart that's heavily weighted towards the first few albums, with Generation Terrorists (and before) having 14 entries. The Drowners is saved at the last minute from the no-vote list at number 39.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Karen Hayward @DiscoDollie75</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4jKlYfv24y8A33SsAB_acTsxaxJ5arGGI3DXTVJPgVHDsYtaVzZ8tQBU2nI44l4WRNCk8hENE8utZ1HluKui9bqmqwJcCnqU5D0I_6A2AwG5_ezj_MYrL0xug2p-bX5mj-IE8Xkh3hVkV6ERma6NXHG2uWgpUD8U2dl40F4nsEC6LiAw6me3v2138uA=s680" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="680" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4jKlYfv24y8A33SsAB_acTsxaxJ5arGGI3DXTVJPgVHDsYtaVzZ8tQBU2nI44l4WRNCk8hENE8utZ1HluKui9bqmqwJcCnqU5D0I_6A2AwG5_ezj_MYrL0xug2p-bX5mj-IE8Xkh3hVkV6ERma6NXHG2uWgpUD8U2dl40F4nsEC6LiAw6me3v2138uA=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><b><br /></b></div><div><div>1. Stay Beautiful</div><div>2. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>3. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</div><div>4. Faster</div><div>5. PCP</div><div>6. Donkeys</div><div>7. You Love Us </div><div>8. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>9. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>10. From Despair To Where</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Motown Junk</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Patrick Bateman</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Us Against You</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Mr Carbohydrate</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Still Snowing In Sapporo</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Complicated Illusions</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Sorrow 16</span></div><div>21. Comfort Comes</div><div>22. Sculpture Of Man</div><div>23. Spectators Of Suicide</div><div>24. Slash N' Burn</div><div>25. Sleepflower</div><div>26. Repeat</div><div>27. Can't Take My Eyes Off You</div><div>28. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</div><div>29. RP McMurphy</div><div>30. Roses In The Hospital</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Me And Stephen Hawking</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. This Is Yesterday</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. The Masses Against The Classes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Umbrella</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Rendition</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Afterending</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Happy Bored Alone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. The Drowners</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. A Design For Life</span></div><div>41. Let Robeson Sing</div><div>42. Miss Europa Disco Dancer</div><div>43. She Is Suffering</div><div>44. Europa Geht Durch Mich</div><div>45. Strip It Down</div><div>46. It's So Easy</div><div>47. Too Cold Here</div><div>48. I'm Just A Patsy</div><div>49. I Live To Fall Asleep</div><div>50. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 14</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 7</div><div>The Holy Bible 8</div><div>Everything Must Go 5</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 1</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 2</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 0</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 0</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 4</div><div>Others 2</div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Stay Beautiful waits all this time for a number 1 and then another comes along immediately after the first! With it being my own number 3, of course I approve of such behaviour. Generation Terrorists leads the By Era chart with eight picks, ahead of This Is My Truth with six. And another song is rescued from no-vote oblivion, Rock 'N' Roll Genius sneaking in at number 50 to gain one single point. In Jenni's own words:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Compiling a chart like this is equal parts pure fun, very exciting and a bit intimidating as well. The majority of these choices are the long shadows of the past few years, the zeitgeist of a strange time when I've listened to less music than ever before. Thus I gather these songs must've truly meant something. From complete surprises to never-changing staples from my 25 years of being a fan.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">On this list all songs bar one were chosen by pure intuition – I wrote each eligible title on paper, cut them out and sorted each into categories of NO, POSSIBLY and YES. In the end I had 49 YES songs and had to take a very deep dive into POSSIBLY to decide which was the lucky one to make it into the final 50. That, I can tell you, was the most painful part.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">From this done and dusted final list you won't find any losers nor winners, but a glittery, bass-heavy journey from glorious hate & failure to triumphant climactic mess of eyeliner & spray-paint.</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>JENNI VIDGREN @jenvidg</b></div><div><div>1. Stay Beautiful</div><div>2. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>3. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>4. Golden Platitudes</div><div>5. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>6. This Is Yesterday</div><div>7. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>8. A Song For Departure</div><div>9. Complicated Illusions</div><div>10. You're Tender And You're Tired</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Automatik Teknicolour</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Dylan & Caitlin</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Of Walking Abortion</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Motorcycle Emptiness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Further Away</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. My Little Empire</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Motown Junk</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Builder Of Routines</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. The Secret He Had Missed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds</span></div><div>21. The Left Behind</div><div>22. Life Becoming A Landslide</div><div>23. Diapause</div><div>24. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>25. Black Dog On My Shoulder</div><div>26. A Design For Life</div><div>27. Doors Closing Slowly</div><div>28. There By The Grace Of God</div><div>29. Wattsville Blues</div><div>30. Everything Must Go</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Born To End</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. I'm Leaving You For Solitude</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. International Blue</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Mausoleum</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Mr Carbohydrate</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Australia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. 30-Year War</span></div><div>41. Door To The River</div><div>42. The View From Stow Hill</div><div>43. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>44. Us Against You</div><div>45. This Sullen Welsh Heart</div><div>46. Hold Me Like A Heaven</div><div>47. Marlon JD</div><div>48. Socialist Serenade</div><div>49. Valley Boy</div><div>50. Rock 'N' Roll Genius</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 8</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 4</div><div>Everything Must Go 5</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 0</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 2</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 3</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 4</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 4</div><div>Others 4</div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Motorcycle Emptiness returns to the top spot in the next chart, in a top 10 where only A Design For Life breaks the stranglehold of the first three albums. The Holy Bible wins the day in the By Era chart, taking eleven of the entries.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Thomas Haywood @tomsky11</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdANlC6aWs0xGg7zPp9R9Isss8ZXaRXS6lJ6Trkk7o7HXqL6NNuCBdIE5P78QqK7El2sFLBIGRUNVpSIdjo2zYYtUPI4tOKkJJ_qvuVQDwyrbKvuHpgdV32WMdRR38p3fP08ndbgFG3n1i6SslNyYYyWCeVPdcKKHixL3cL6FCvGEtzw494wHXpgci8g=s680" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="680" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdANlC6aWs0xGg7zPp9R9Isss8ZXaRXS6lJ6Trkk7o7HXqL6NNuCBdIE5P78QqK7El2sFLBIGRUNVpSIdjo2zYYtUPI4tOKkJJ_qvuVQDwyrbKvuHpgdV32WMdRR38p3fP08ndbgFG3n1i6SslNyYYyWCeVPdcKKHixL3cL6FCvGEtzw494wHXpgci8g=w400-h269" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 5</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 5</div><div>The Holy Bible 11</div><div>Everything Must Go 5</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3</div><div>Know Your Enemy 4</div><div>Lifeblood 3</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 1</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 5</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 2</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 0</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div><div>Others 4</div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The final contributor from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire came in just before the deadline and A Design For Life led the way, gaining another 50 points at the last moment. With a top 10 full of songs with an eye on the final 50, would these points have guaranteed them all a place though? This Is My Truth just pipped Generation Terrorists in the By Era chart with eight picks to seven.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Peter Swan @peterswan_</b></div><div><div>1. A Design For Life</div><div>2. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>3. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>4. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>5. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>6. Australia</div><div>7. You Stole The Sun From My Heart</div><div>8. The Everlasting</div><div>9. Prologue To History</div><div>10. International Blue</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Distant Colours</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Faster</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Some Kind Of Nothingness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. The Masses Against The Classes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Black Holes For The Young</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. This Sullen Welsh Heart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Everything Must Go</span></div><div>21. 1985</div><div>22. Nobody Loved You</div><div>23. Rewind The Film</div><div>24. Let Robeson Sing</div><div>25. Life Becoming A Landslide</div><div>26. Tsunami</div><div>27. Yes</div><div>28. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>29. From Despair To Where</div><div>30. Ocean Spray</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Hold Me Like A Heaven</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Still Snowing In Sapporo</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. This Is Yesterday</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Further Away</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Spectators Of Suicide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Autumnsong</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Empty Souls</span></div><div>41. Stay Beautiful</div><div>42. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>43. Revol</div><div>44. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>45. Ready For Drowning</div><div>46. Show Me The Wonder</div><div>47. Afterending</div><div>48. Postcards From A Young Man</div><div>49. Anthem For A Lost Cause</div><div>50. So Why So Sad</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 7</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 4</div><div>Everything Must Go 6</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 8</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 0</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 3</div><div>Rewind The Film 4</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The final chart of this edition of the Manics Top 50s goes to my impromptu train companions out of Llandudno last week, with help from her daughter. Motown Junk was in top spot, and not for the first time, which I can say with confidence without checking the spreadsheet given I also picked it. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There's an intermittent Wire vocal theme to the upper reaches of the chart and I expect it will come as no surprise to learn that 4th place here was Wattsville Blues' highest placing. Antisocialmanifesto at number 7 was successfully removed from the no-vote list at the very last minute.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>LiarsHoney @liars_honey</b></div><div><div>1. Motown Junk</div><div>2. Yes</div><div>3. Afterending</div><div>4. Wattsville Blues</div><div>5. William's Last Words</div><div>6. Futurology</div><div>7. Antisocialmanifesto</div><div>8. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever</div><div>9. Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel</div><div>10. Miss Europa Disco Dancer</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Solitude Sometimes Is</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Archives Of Pain</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. All Is Vanity</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. The Masses Against The Classes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. 4st 7lb</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Little Baby Nothing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Motorcycle Emptiness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Judge Yr'self</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Some Kind Of Nothingness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Prologue To History</span></div><div>21. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier</div><div>22. We Her Majesty's Prisoners</div><div>23. Die In The Summertime</div><div>24. Faster</div><div>25. Spectators Of Suicide</div><div>26. Anthem For A Lost Cause</div><div>27. Tsunami</div><div>28. Journal For Plague Lovers</div><div>29. You're Tender And You're Tired</div><div>30. New Art Riot</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Blank Diary Entry</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Door To The River</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Donkeys</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Life Becoming A Landslide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Baby Elian</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Postcards From A Young Man</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Democracy Coma</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Golden Platitudes</span></div><div>41. Crucifix Kiss</div><div>42. Bag Lady</div><div>43. The Secret He Had Missed</div><div>44. Autumnsong</div><div>45. Repeat</div><div>46. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>47. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>48. Mr Carbohydrate</div><div>49. Slash N' Burn</div><div>50. The Ghost Of Christmas</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 11</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 2</div><div>The Holy Bible 6</div><div>Everything Must Go 3</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3</div><div>Know Your Enemy 4</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 4</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 4</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 3</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 0</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 3</div><div>Others 3</div></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-54992519121718361932021-12-07T11:27:00.000-08:002021-12-07T11:27:00.759-08:00Manics Top 50s - 5th Dec 2021 part 1<div style="text-align: left;">Deadline day was busy as expected with 12 charts submitted, so I've broken them down into two blogs of six. That's a lot of votes to add onto what you've already seen and affect the final standings! First up is a chart submitted by email where Faster took the top spot and The Holy Bible also took the honours in the By Era chart with nine.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Peter Stockdale via email</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div>1. Faster</div><div>2. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>3. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>4. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>5. Yes</div><div>6. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>7. Sleepflower</div><div>8. Die In The Summertime</div><div>9. Peeled Apples</div><div>10. A Design For Life</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Found That Soul</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Slash N' Burn</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Divine Youth</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Europa Geht Durch Mich</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Of Walking Abortion</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Marlon JD</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Removables</span></div><div>21. This Joke Sport Severed</div><div>22. Sepia</div><div>23. Archives Of Pain</div><div>24. This Is Yesterday</div><div>25. She Is Suffering</div><div>26. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children</div><div>27. From Despair To Where</div><div>28. PCP</div><div>29. Everything Must Go</div><div>30. Motown Junk</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Comfort Comes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Ready For Drowning</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Tsunami</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Further Away</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Hold Me Like A Heaven</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. All Is Vanity</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. International Blue</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Donkeys</span></div><div>41. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div>42. Life Becoming a Landslide</div><div>43. Show Me The Wonder</div><div>44. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love</div><div>45. Always/Never</div><div>46. Enola/Alone</div><div>47. Mausoleum</div><div>48. Montana/Autumn/78</div><div>49. Epicentre</div><div>50. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 6</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 6</div><div>The Holy Bible 9</div><div>Everything Must Go 7</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 1</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 4</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 3</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 0</div><div>Others 0</div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This Joke Sport Severed managed to join that elite group of songs to have been picked as a number 1, joining the 50 point club, while Dreaming A City scored its highest finish at number 2. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It was a four-way tie at the top of the By Era chart with six picks for Generation Terrorists, Everything Must Go, Lifeblood and Journal For Plague Lovers.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>anxious jazz hands @beksthebloody</b></div><div><div>1. This Joke Sport Severed</div><div>2. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)</div><div>3. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>4. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>5. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>6. Faster</div><div>7. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div>8. My Little Empire</div><div>9. She Is Suffering</div><div>10. Journal For Plague Lovers</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. To Repel Ghosts</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Roses In The Hospital</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Motorcycle Emptiness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Always/Never</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Yes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Australia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Umbrella</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Kevin Carter</span></div><div>21. A Design For Life</div><div>22. Miss Europa Disco Dancer</div><div>23. Europa Geht Durch Mich</div><div>24. Diapause</div><div>25. I Live To Fall Asleep</div><div>26. Empty Motorcade</div><div>27. You Stole The Sun From My Heart</div><div>28. Everything Must Go</div><div>29. Autumnsong</div><div>30. 1985</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. This Sullen Welsh Heart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Let's Go To War</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Removables</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Postcards From A Young Man</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Motown Junk</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Die In The Summertime</span></div><div>41. Slash N' Burn</div><div>42. Nobody Loved You</div><div>43. Peeled Apples</div><div>44. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>45. Strip It Down</div><div>46. She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach</div><div>47. William's Last Words</div><div>48. A Song For Departure</div><div>49. You Love Us </div><div>50. Patrick Bateman</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 6</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 4</div><div>Everything Must Go 6</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5</div><div>Know Your Enemy 1</div><div>Lifeblood 6</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 6</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 5</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 0</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Next is the second submission from the three BBC Radio Cambridgeshire colleagues and it's Autumnsong that picks up its second number 1 finish, with Anthem For A Lost Cause hitting the dizzy heights of number 2 for the first time. In another relatively even chart by era, it was Generation Terrorists that just edged ahead with six.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Amir Suleman @amirsuleman</b></div><div><div>1. Autumnsong</div><div>2. Anthem For A Lost Cause</div><div>3. Kevin Carter</div><div>4. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>5. Postcards From A Young Man</div><div>6. I Live To Fall Asleep</div><div>7. This Is Yesterday</div><div>8. Life Becoming A Landslide</div><div>9. Black Dog On My Shoulder</div><div>10. Dead Martyrs</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Hold Me Like A Heaven</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Orwellian</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. This Joke Sport Severed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. 4st 7lb</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. All We Make Is Entertainment</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Complicated Illusions</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Distant Colours</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Empty Souls</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Further Away</span></div><div>21. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>22. Motown Junk</div><div>23. Ocean Spray</div><div>24. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>25. Send Away The Tigers</div><div>26. Show Me The Wonder</div><div>27. The Everlasting</div><div>28. 1985</div><div>29. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun</div><div>30. Faster</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Happy Bored Alone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. International Blue</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Intravenous Agnostic</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Nostalgic Pushead</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Sepia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Tsunami</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. A Design For Life</span></div><div>41. From Despair To Where</div><div>42. Golden Platitudes</div><div>43. Indian Summer</div><div>44. Methadone Pretty</div><div>45. New Art Riot</div><div>46. People Give In</div><div>47. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div>48. Yes</div><div>49. You're Tender And You're Tired</div><div>50. Auto-Intoxication</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 6</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 4</div><div>Everything Must Go 5</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 4</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 4</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 5</div><div>Rewind The Film 3</div><div>Futurology 0</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 3</div><div>Others 0</div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The next chart comes all the way from Norway and sees No Surface All Feeling claim its third number 1 spot, with Ready For Drowning at number 2 also finishing in its highest position. Send Away The Tigers took a relatively rare victory in the By Era chart with eight entries.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Trond Findahl* @Truba9</b></div><div><div>1. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>2. Ready For Drowning</div><div>3. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>4. A Design For Life</div><div>5. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</div><div>6. This Joke Sport Severed</div><div>7. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>8. Autumnsong</div><div>9. Ocean Spray</div><div>10. Anorexic Rodin</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. A Song For Departure</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Afterending</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. The Masses Against The Classes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Epicentre</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. In Eternity</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. 3 Ways To See Despair</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. The Secret He Had Missed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. She Is Suffering</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. The Second Great Depression</span></div><div>21. Slash N' Burn</div><div>22. I Live To Fall Asleep</div><div>23. Underdogs</div><div>24. Complicated Illusions</div><div>25. This Sullen Welsh Heart</div><div>26. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun</div><div>27. Misguided Missile</div><div>28. Faster</div><div>29. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>30. Archives Of Pain</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. International Blue</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Winterlovers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Gold Against The Soul</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. From Despair To Where</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. 30-Year War</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Postcards From A Young Man</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. A Song For The Sadness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</span></div><div>41. You Love Us</div><div>42. Stay Beautiful</div><div>43. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>44. Imperial Bodybags</div><div>45. To Repel Ghosts</div><div>46. The Everlasting</div><div>47. Let's Go To War</div><div>48. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>49. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>50. Australia</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 5</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 4</div><div>Everything Must Go 4</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 3</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 8</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 2</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 3</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 4</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Motorcycle Emptiness was in top spot in the next chart, which also managed to help out one of our no-vote songs on the final day, Voodoo Polaroids coming in at number 24 to avoid finishing on zero points. This Is My Truth led the way in the By Era chart with eight selections.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Derek McHugh @_DerekMcHugh_</b></div><div><div>1. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>2. Faster</div><div>3. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>4. A Design For Life</div><div>5. Montana/Autumn/78</div><div>6. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>7. Patrick Bateman</div><div>8. International Blue</div><div>9. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>10. Archives Of Pain</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Are Mothers Saints</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Dead Yankee Drawl</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Boxes & Lists</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Yes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. The Vorticists</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Walk Me To The Bridge</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. This Is Yesterday</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Intravenous Agnostic</span></div><div>21. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>22. Leviathan</div><div>23. I'm Not Working</div><div>24. Voodoo Polaroids</div><div>25. Peeled Apples</div><div>26. Comfort Comes</div><div>27. William's Last Words</div><div>28. This Sullen Welsh Heart</div><div>29. A Soundtrack To Complete Withdrawal</div><div>30. Judge Yr'self</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. You Stole The Sun From My Heart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Journal For Plague Lovers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Umbrella</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Valley Boy</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Nobody Loved You</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Enola/Alone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. 1985</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Rewind The Film</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Dead Martyrs</span></div><div>41. Stay Beautiful</div><div>42. The Everlasting</div><div>43. Motown Junk</div><div>44. Kevin Carter</div><div>45. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>46. Die In The Summertime</div><div>47. Autumnsong</div><div>48. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>49. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</div><div>50. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 7</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 6</div><div>Everything Must Go 4</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 8</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 4</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 4</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 2</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div><div>Others 3</div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Motorcycle Emptiness again took the number 1 in the final chart of this batch and another no-vote song managed to grab a single point as Primitive Painters crept up to one point to avoid the zero point shame. Journal For Plague Lovers was the album that led the By Era chart this time with eight picks.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Steven Gill via email</b></div><div><div>1. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>2. Yes</div><div>3. Faster</div><div>4. Motown Junk</div><div>5. You Love Us </div><div>6. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>7. 4st 7lb</div><div>8. 1985</div><div>9. Rewind The Film</div><div>10. Door To The River</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Hibernation</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Of Walking Abortion</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. This Is Yesterday</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. From Despair To Where</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. William's Last Words</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Slash N' Burn</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Archives Of Pain</span></div><div>21. A Design For Life</div><div>22. Donkeys</div><div>23. Peeled Apples</div><div>24. The Everlasting</div><div>25. The Year Of Purification</div><div>26. This Joke Sport Severed</div><div>27. My Little Empire</div><div>28. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>29. PCP</div><div>30. Comfort Comes</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Walk Me To The Bridge</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Doors Closing Slowly</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. The Secret He Had Missed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Virginia State Epileptic Colony</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Bag Lady</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. International Blue</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Solitude Sometimes Is</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Me And Stephen Hawking</span></div><div>41. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>42. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>43. The Love Of Richard Nixon</div><div>44. Running Out Of Fantasy</div><div>45. This Is The Day</div><div>46. Close My Eyes</div><div>47. Cardiff Afterlife</div><div>48. Postcards From A Young Man</div><div>49. Stay Beautiful</div><div>50. Primitive Painters</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 7</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 6</div><div>The Holy Bible 7</div><div>Everything Must Go 2</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 2</div><div>Know Your Enemy 1</div><div>Lifeblood 4</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 0</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 8</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 2</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 5</div><div><br /></div></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-20870575369134617092021-12-06T11:32:00.000-08:002021-12-06T11:32:31.320-08:00Manics Top 50s - 4th Dec 2021<div style="text-align: left;">Saturday was the penultimate day before the deadline and there were four charts submitted, first up is Mark who submitted along with two colleagues from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire who will follow on later blogs. Mark scored the first 50 point haul for his number 1 selection, which features in his Manics story below:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I saw my favourite band, Manic Street Preachers, live for the seventh time last night. It was also the culmination of a two month process of working out my fifty favourite songs of theirs to submit for an overall top 50.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">But first, a prologue of history. I first became aware of the band when my sister got me Everything Must Go for Christmas in 1996. I used to listen to the singles on the first side, then turn it over and fast forward to Australia. Safe to say, I was not so in to music then.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Then in 1999 I had an existential crisis. I felt, at 25, I’d done nothing with my life; never had a holiday, couldn’t drive, first girlfriend had just dumped me, I’d never been to a new year party or a gig for any band. So when I saw the advert, it felt an unmissable opportunity. Of course it was sold out, so I ended up buying two tickets from a guy in a pub near Bristol Temple Meads station three days before Christmas. But then I, and my Manics loving recently ex-girlfriend, had the best New Year’s Eve ever.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I next saw them with a work colleague in 2002 at the Nottingham Arena. It was the day my leg came out of plaster after a double break / dislocation of my ankle. I walked from the train station to the gig, and had to be moved to the seats because I couldn’t stand up! While I still loved the band I didn’t see them live during my first marriage. When that ended, I heard a Manics track in the car and had to pull over to a lay-by to bawl my eyes out; the emotion of thirteen years of my life coming to an end poured out through one piece of music.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The following summer I saw the band live again at Cardiff Castle. Not only was this the first time I’d made a true connection with The Holy Bible, as they played the whole thing, but JDB also played an acoustic / string quartet arrangement of the song which nearly broke me. Since then I’ve seen them another four times live, each time accompanied by the incredible lady that married me earlier this year. The first time was at the Royal Albert Hall in 2016, probably the best gig I’ve ever been to. But the others have all been superb as well.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">So the process of putting together a top fifty involved a lot of personal history with songs. I’ve also presented classical and folk music programmes for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire - those styles of music have undoubtedly influenced my choices as well. But now my list is done and ready to share. Here it is, after two months of deliberation. I’m also a film critic, so as well as acoustic guitar and string arrangements, there’s film references and all sorts. But the number one is that song I heard in the car and at Cardiff Castle, and can still break me.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I hope this inspires you to make a selection of your own, or just to go and listen to your favourite band for a bit. All opinions are valid, but all music is fabulous, and hearing it live again, from the safety of the back of Wembley Arena, was emotional and brilliant.</span></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Mark Walsh @MovieEvangelist</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_Em0ivu0RZCGuAvt4rspAmIdZjn3D_YvCC7CzrCRC4yXYO-PXZ8kTH8k0iKOT91SMaK4OOH79W6f5xqf9C2aYR4zDRxwFmKeSvdFB1dHsDWLmeUxaxXIM3iuNN5tT-atqzh9-hcVyQaVoZQXD48AG91IvvzPzPH0Eim5NWjK-TXqfSOrbz8SG1YAyrw=s680" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="405" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_Em0ivu0RZCGuAvt4rspAmIdZjn3D_YvCC7CzrCRC4yXYO-PXZ8kTH8k0iKOT91SMaK4OOH79W6f5xqf9C2aYR4zDRxwFmKeSvdFB1dHsDWLmeUxaxXIM3iuNN5tT-atqzh9-hcVyQaVoZQXD48AG91IvvzPzPH0Eim5NWjK-TXqfSOrbz8SG1YAyrw=w382-h640" width="382" /></a></div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 5</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 5</div><div>The Holy Bible 5</div><div>Everything Must Go 8</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 3</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Next up is Jen, transatlantic Manics-watcher extraordinaire, having hopped back and forth a few times this year to see our boys! Jen explains her selections, in particular her number 1 below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj31xr_h8Ah2-SUEn-UI0U_Oh_g3VvdI_tQH147nZdSptSSihco03y7uxRIGtvzoijXxtNGa0xBOycKZrazw24Br_4igjamThUTjAwOIllKHZONpTucXfuyuJInD5ew65avAs0UNh-HNQ0KCI3WE6HbIDmN-1l1kfE4mPF8RHThDh_-w0-8V584fM26RQ=s360" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="315" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj31xr_h8Ah2-SUEn-UI0U_Oh_g3VvdI_tQH147nZdSptSSihco03y7uxRIGtvzoijXxtNGa0xBOycKZrazw24Br_4igjamThUTjAwOIllKHZONpTucXfuyuJInD5ew65avAs0UNh-HNQ0KCI3WE6HbIDmN-1l1kfE4mPF8RHThDh_-w0-8V584fM26RQ=s320" width="280" /></a></div><div><b>Jen @jennifer_eileen</b></div><div><div>1. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>2. You're Tender And You're Tired</div><div>3. Some Kind Of Nothingness</div><div>4. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>5. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>6. Everything Must Go</div><div>7. You Stole The Sun From My Heart</div><div>8. Show Me The Wonder</div><div>9. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>10. Australia</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Motorcycle Emptiness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. A Design For Life</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Complicated Illusions</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. International Blue</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Afterending</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Still Snowing In Sapporo</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. This Is The Day</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Autumnsong</span></div><div>21. Ocean Spray</div><div>22. The Love Of Richard Nixon</div><div>23. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>24. Tsunami</div><div>25. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head</div><div>26. Welcome To The Dead Zone</div><div>27. Ready For Drowning</div><div>28. From Despair To Where</div><div>29. Sleepflower</div><div>30. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Orwellian</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. The Secret He Had Missed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Enola/Alone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. People Give In</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Gold Against The Soul</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Let Robeson Sing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Indian Summer</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Europa Geht Durch Mich</span></div><div>41. Faster</div><div>42. Motown Junk</div><div>43. Born A Girl</div><div>44. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div>45. Slash N' Burn</div><div>46. Send Away The Tigers</div><div>47. Don't Let The Night Divide Us</div><div>48. Hold Me Like A Heaven</div><div>49. I'm Just A Patsy</div><div>50. Futurology</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 5</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 1</div><div>Everything Must Go 6</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 8</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 6</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 0</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 3</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 6</div><div>Others 2</div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Third in this batch is Holly who has gone for Faster at number 1, closely followed at number 2 by Comfort Comes in its highest placing so far. Looking at the By Era chart, the first four albums take the lion's share of the picks, with Generation Terrorists (and before) leading the way with eleven.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Holly Baleen @HollyBaleen</b></div><div><div>1. Faster</div><div>2. Comfort Comes</div><div>3. You Love Us</div><div>4. A Design For Life</div><div>5. Revol</div><div>6. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>7. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>8. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>9. Symphony Of Tourette</div><div>10. Sculpture Of Man</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Us Against You</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Vision Blurred</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Peeled Apples</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Found That Soul</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Europa Geht Durch Mich</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Yes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Mausoleum</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Motown Junk</span></div><div>21. Born To End</div><div>22. Patrick Bateman</div><div>23. Kevin Carter</div><div>24. PCP</div><div>25. New Art Riot</div><div>26. Love's Sweet Exile</div><div>27. Let's Go To War</div><div>28. Stay Beautiful</div><div>29. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>30. Australia</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Tsunami</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Born A Girl</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Judge Yr'self</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Sepia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Empty Souls</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Intravenous Agnostic</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Miss Europa Disco Dancer</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Broken Algorithms</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Gold Against The Soul</span></div><div>41. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>42. Dylan & Caitlin</div><div>43. Black Garden</div><div>44. Charles Windsor</div><div>45. Sleepflower</div><div>46. Repeat</div><div>47. Slash N' Burn</div><div>48. Too Cold Here</div><div>49. Of Walking Abortion</div><div>50. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 11</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 9</div><div>The Holy Bible 9</div><div>Everything Must Go 7</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 2</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 0</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 2</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 0</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 0</div><div>Others 2</div><div><br /></div></div><div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Finally in this batch is Tracey, who recently contributed a chapter to Marc Burrows' book 'Manic Street Preachers Album by Album', which will be given away as a prize to the person who shares the most entries with the final fans' top 50 (assuming that person doesn't have it already!).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A Design For Life took the number 1 spot, while Misguided Missile made it into the top 10 for the first time. Generation Terrorists led the By Era chart with eight entries.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Tracey Wise #saveourvenues @traceyw1981</b></div><div><div>1. A Design For Life</div><div>2. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>3. Of Walking Abortion</div><div>4. Motown Junk</div><div>5. Everything Must Go</div><div>6. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>7. Misguided Missile</div><div>8. Hold Me Like A Heaven</div><div>9. Faster</div><div>10. This Is Yesterday</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Yes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Cardiff Afterlife</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Judge Yr'self</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Complicated Illusions</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Anthem For A Lost Cause</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Nobody Loved You</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Bag Lady</span></div><div>21. Life Becoming A Landslide</div><div>22. From Despair To Where</div><div>23. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>24. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>25. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>26. Show Me The Wonder</div><div>27. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>28. Golden Platitudes</div><div>29. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>30. Further Away</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. All Is Vanity</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Revol</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Peeled Apples</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Repeat</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Out Of Time</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Sepia</span></div><div>41. Hibernation</div><div>42. New Art Riot</div><div>43. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>44. The Second Great Depression</div><div>45. Epicentre</div><div>46. Found That Soul</div><div>47. No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me</div><div>48. 30-Year War</div><div>49. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>50. Door To The River</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 8</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 5</div><div>The Holy Bible 6</div><div>Everything Must Go 6</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 4</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 3</div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-13882014009601543512021-12-05T11:13:00.000-08:002021-12-05T11:13:57.077-08:00Manics Top 50s - 3rd Dec 2021<div style="text-align: left;">Friday was a two chart day, the relative calm before the deadline weekend storm! Motorcycle Emptiness took number 1 in the first chart, with Golden Platitudes making the top 10 again after a late run of higher positions, making up for a slow start from Postcards in general!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Generation Terrorists stood out from the pack in the By Era chart with nine picks.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Bill G @glorygerbil</b></div><div>1. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>2. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>3. Faster</div><div>4. A Design For Life</div><div>5. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>6. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>7. Complicated Illusions</div><div>8. Golden Platitudes</div><div>9. Yes</div><div>10. Roses In The Hospital</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Solitude Sometimes Is</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Still Snowing In Sapporo</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. 1985</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. I Live To Fall Asleep</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. 30-Year War</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Hold Me Like A Heaven</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Some Kind Of Nothingness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. You Love Us</span></div><div>21. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>22. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>23. Black Dog On My Shoulder</div><div>24. Anthem For A Lost Cause</div><div>25. Tsunami</div><div>26. International Blue</div><div>27. So Why So Sad</div><div>28. Afterending</div><div>29. Marlon JD</div><div>30. Sepia</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Automatik Teknicolour</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Slash N' Burn</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Motown Junk</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. His Last Painting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. The Masses Against The Classes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Further Away</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Comfort Comes</span></div><div>41. Ready For Drowning</div><div>42. Die In The Summertime</div><div>43. Donkeys</div><div>44. Close My Eyes</div><div>45. Let Robeson Sing</div><div>46. Are Mothers Saints</div><div>47. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</div><div>48. Dead Yankee Drawl</div><div>49. Us Against You</div><div>50. William's Last Words</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 9</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 6</div><div>The Holy Bible 4</div><div>Everything Must Go 5</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 3</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 1</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 2</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 2</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 3</div><div>Others 3</div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">The second chart comes from a regular top 50-er who in 2015 was the contributor who shared the most picks with the final 50 (37). Will that still be the case now, with changes both to Adam's chart and to the final 50? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Motorcycle Emptiness remained his number 1 choice with The Holy Bible taking the honours in the By Era chart with ten.</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Adam Marshall @MarshFactor</b></div><div>1. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>2. Faster</div><div>3. A Design For Life</div><div>4. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>5. Yes</div><div>6. Hold Me Like A Heaven</div><div>7. This Is Yesterday</div><div>8. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>9. From Despair To Where</div><div>10. Motown Junk</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Rewind The Film</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Life Becoming A Landslide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Solitude Sometimes Is</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Die In The Summertime</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Little Baby Nothing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. 1985</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. 4st 7lb</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</span></div><div>21. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>22. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>23. Marlon JD</div><div>24. Send Away The Tigers</div><div>25. Australia</div><div>26. All Is Vanity</div><div>27. This Joke Sport Severed</div><div>28. The Second Great Depression</div><div>29. Archives Of Pain</div><div>30. Stay Beautiful</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. PCP</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Found That Soul</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Roses In The Hospital</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. A Song For Departure</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. International Blue</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Tsunami</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Complicated Illusions</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Still Snowing In Sapporo</span></div><div>41. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</div><div>42. Revol</div><div>43. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</div><div>44. Futurology</div><div>45. Let Robeson Sing</div><div>46. 30-Year War</div><div>47. Of Walking Abortion</div><div>48. Donkeys</div><div>49. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow</div><div>50. Sleepflower</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 7</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 6</div><div>The Holy Bible 10</div><div>Everything Must Go 3</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 3</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 4</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 2</div><div>Futurology 3</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 0</div></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-4875719330541893662021-12-05T08:00:00.002-08:002022-03-07T15:51:37.590-08:00Manics Top 50s - 2nd Dec 2021<div style="text-align: left;">Four more charts from 2nd December and first up is one of my Edinburgh queue and barrier buddies (and mystery Halifax gut puncher), who gives Door To The River its first number 1 placing, although apparently Golden Platitudes lost out on alphabetical order!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Holy Bible takes the honours in the By Era chart, reaching double figures with ten selections. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Jen @_Jen175_</b></div><div>1. Door To The River</div><div>2. Golden Platitudes</div><div>3. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>4. Motown Junk</div><div>5. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>6. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>7. Faster</div><div>8. Mausoleum</div><div>9. Yes</div><div>10. Revol</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Archives Of Pain</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. 4 Ever Delayed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. A Song For Departure</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. The View From Stow Hill</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Running Out Of Fantasy</span></div><div>21. This Sullen Welsh Heart</div><div>22. Divine Youth</div><div>23. Diapause</div><div>24. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>25. 4st 7lb</div><div>26. Australia</div><div>27. Enola/Alone</div><div>28. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>29. Facing Page: Top Left</div><div>30. Of Walking Abortion</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Judge Yr'self</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Spectators Of Suicide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. A Design For Life</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. You Stole The Sun From My Heart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Motorcycle Emptiness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. This Is Yesterday</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Tsunami</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Complicated Illusions</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Socialist Serenade</span></div><div>41. Postcards From A Young Man</div><div>42. The Secret He Had Missed</div><div>43. Hold Me Like A Heaven</div><div>44. Donkeys</div><div>45. International Blue</div><div>46. Afterending</div><div>47. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</div><div>48. Imperial Bodybags</div><div>49. Europa Geht Durch Mich</div><div>50. Further Away</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 7</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 1</div><div>The Holy Bible 10</div><div>Everything Must Go 6</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5</div><div>Know Your Enemy 0</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 2</div><div>Futurology 4</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 4</div><div>Others 3</div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Next it's Tolerate that takes the honours at number 1, with a top 10 chock full of songs which will be hoping to make it over the line and into the final 50. Everything Must Go is the era that hits double figures this time, four picks ahead of This Is My Truth.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>John Keith @JKgiro85</b></div><div>1. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>2. A Design For Life</div><div>3. Faster</div><div>4. The Everlasting</div><div>5. Archives Of Pain</div><div>6. Tsunami</div><div>7. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>8. Yes</div><div>9. Prologue To History</div><div>10. 1985</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. International Blue</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Still Snowing In Sapporo</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. To Repel Ghosts</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Sepia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. I Live To Fall Asleep</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Die In The Summertime</span></div><div>21. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>22. All Is Vanity</div><div>23. 4 Ever Delayed</div><div>24. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>25. Kevin Carter</div><div>26. Black Square</div><div>27. Enola/Alone</div><div>28. Sleepflower</div><div>29. Futurology</div><div>30. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. From Despair To Where</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Journal For Plague Lovers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. This Is Yesterday</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Australia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. A Song For Departure</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Hold Me Like A Heaven</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. This Joke Sport Severed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</span></div><div>41. You're Tender And You're Tired</div><div>42. Ocean Spray</div><div>43. Peeled Apples</div><div>44. 30-Year War</div><div>45. Ready For Drowning</div><div>46. Diapause</div><div>47. Golden Platitudes</div><div>48. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow</div><div>49. Virginia State Epileptic Colony</div><div>50. Intravenous Agnostic</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 2</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 3</div><div>The Holy Bible 5</div><div>Everything Must Go 10</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 4</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 1</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 5</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 4</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 2</div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Tsunami picks up its third number 1 in Gem's chart, followed by a number 2 and 3 which achieve their highest placings so far. Generation Terrorists just edges out Know Your Enemy in the By Era chart by eight to seven.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And another no-vote song picks up points for the first time as Unstoppable Salvation comes in at number 33.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Gem @mylittlegempire</b></div><div>1. Tsunami</div><div>2. I Know The Numbers</div><div>3. Blank Diary Entry</div><div>4. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</div><div>5. Black Holes For The Young</div><div>6. Kevin Carter</div><div>7. Door To The River</div><div>8. Miss Europa Disco Dancer</div><div>9. Firefight</div><div>10. So Why So Sad</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Motorcycle Emptiness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Yourself</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Sequels Of Forgotten Wars</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Intravenous Agnostic</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Little Baby Nothing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. My Guernica</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Diapause</span></div><div>21. The Convalescent</div><div>22. I Live To Fall Asleep</div><div>23. 4 Ever Delayed</div><div>24. Bored Out Of My Mind</div><div>25. People Give In</div><div>26. The Left Behind</div><div>27. Builder Of Routines</div><div>28. Manorbier</div><div>29. Indian Summer</div><div>30. Anthem For A Lost Cause</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Ain't Going Down</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Unstoppable Salvation</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Afterending</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Still Snowing In Sapporo</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Another Invented Disease</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Symphony Of Tourette</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. The Soulmates</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Everything Must Go</span></div><div>41. This Is Yesterday</div><div>42. Baby Elian</div><div>43. Ocean Spray</div><div>44. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>45. In Eternity</div><div>46. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>47. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>48. Europa Geht Durch Mich</div><div>49. The Last Time I Saw Paris</div><div>50. International Blue</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 8</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 2</div><div>The Holy Bible 1</div><div>Everything Must Go 4</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4</div><div>Know Your Enemy 7</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 1</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 3</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 5</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 4</div><div>Others 6</div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Finally we both have a chart and don't, at George's request I haven't yet published his chart as he is going to announce it in his own way in due course. I do however have his top 50 for points purposes, which have fed into the overall totals to be used for calculating the final 50.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The chart did eventually arrive in the form of a unique medley of covers, see the link below!</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>G @MrTeenWordpower</b></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmr8HSM0dB0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmr8HSM0dB0</a></div><div>1. Autumnsong</div><div>2. A Design For Life</div><div>3. 1985</div><div>4. The Year Of Purification</div><div>5. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>6. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>7. Tsunami</div><div>8. International Blue</div><div>9. Empty Souls</div><div>10. The Descent (Pages 1 & 2)</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Show Me The Wonder</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Motorcycle Emptiness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. The Second Great Depression</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. So Why So Sad</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Emily</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Quest For Ancient Colour</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Postcards From A Young Man</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Miss Europa Disco Dancer</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Always/Never</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Hold Me Like A Heaven</span></div><div>21. The Love Of Richard Nixon</div><div>22. Imperial Bodybags</div><div>23. Door To The River</div><div>24. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun</div><div>25. From Despair To Where</div><div>26. People Give In</div><div>27. Don't Let The Night Divide Us</div><div>28. Virginia State Epileptic Colony</div><div>29. (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline</div><div>30. Some Kind Of Nothingness</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Hazelton Avenue</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Black Dog On My Shoulder</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Glasnost</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Anthem For A Lost Cause</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Sequels Of Forgotten Wars</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Orwellian</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. The Convalescent</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</span></div><div>41. Ready For Drowning</div><div>42. There By The Grace Of God</div><div>43. Into The Waves Of Love</div><div>44. I'm Just A Patsy</div><div>45. Auto-Intoxication</div><div>46. To Repel Ghosts</div><div>47. Indian Summer</div><div>48. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>49. Dylan & Caitlin</div><div>50. Rendition</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 2</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 1</div><div>The Holy Bible 0</div><div>Everything Must Go 2</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5</div><div>Know Your Enemy 4</div><div>Lifeblood 7</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 7</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 7</div><div>Rewind The Film 3</div><div>Futurology 0</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 5</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 4</div><div>Others 2</div><div><br /></div></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-9225866204046295372021-12-05T06:05:00.001-08:002021-12-05T06:07:01.092-08:00Manics Top 50s - 1st Dec 2021<div style="text-align: left;">Three charts from the 1st of December and we start with a returning chart regular picking a song that's new to the 50 point club in Futurology. Distant Colours grabs its second number 2 slot, although it isn't its highest placing being a member of that exclusive 50 point club itself.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The By Era chart is relatively even, but Everything Must Go just nudges ahead with six, ahead of Resistance Is Futile.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Kyle @KB2X</b></div><div>1. Futurology</div><div>2. Distant Colours</div><div>3. Yes</div><div>4. Golden Platitudes</div><div>5. 1985</div><div>6. Journal For Plague Lovers</div><div>7. Found That Soul</div><div>8. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>9. Faster</div><div>10. Little Baby Nothing</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Firefight</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. I Live To Fall Asleep</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Peeled Apples</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Glasnost</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Don't Let The Night Divide Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Europa Geht Durch Mich</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Enola/Alone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Anorexic Rodin</span></div><div>21. She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach</div><div>22. 30-Year War</div><div>23. Some Kind Of Nothingness</div><div>24. Boxes & Lists</div><div>25. Complicated Illusions</div><div>26. People Give In</div><div>27. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier</div><div>28. The Secret He Had Missed</div><div>29. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>30. Nobody Loved You</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Motorcycle Emptiness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. There By The Grace Of God</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. A Design For Life</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Liverpool Revisited</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Me And Stephen Hawking</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Comfort Comes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. This Sullen Welsh Heart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. A Secret Society</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div>41. Broken Algorithms</div><div>42. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>43. Further Away</div><div>44. Show Me The Wonder</div><div>45. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun</div><div>46. No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me</div><div>47. International Blue</div><div>48. 3 Ways To See Despair</div><div>49. Drug Drug Druggy</div><div>50. Australia</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 4</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 3</div><div>The Holy Bible 3</div><div>Everything Must Go 6</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 1</div><div>Know Your Enemy 1</div><div>Lifeblood 3</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 4</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 4</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 3</div><div>Rewind The Film 4</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 5</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 4</div><div>Others 3</div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The second chart here is dominated by songs from the Generation Terrorists era and before, as shown in the By Era chart with a whopping 19 picks. Fittingly it's Born To End that's another new addition to the 50 point club, with Methadone Pretty and Always/Never also claiming their highest placings so far in the top 5. </div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Will Hunter @WH2000_</b></div><div>1. Born To End</div><div>2. Prologue To History</div><div>3. Methadone Pretty</div><div>4. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>5. Always/Never</div><div>6. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>7. Strip It Down</div><div>8. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>9. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div>10. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Sorrow 16</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Automatik Teknicolour</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Democracy Coma</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. 1985</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. This Sullen Welsh Heart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Motown Junk</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. RP McMurphy</span></div><div>21. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>22. Ready For Drowning</div><div>23. Love's Sweet Exile</div><div>24. New Art Riot</div><div>25. Faster</div><div>26. A Song For The Sadness</div><div>27. 4 Lonely Roads</div><div>28. So Why So Sad</div><div>29. Gold Against The Soul</div><div>30. International Blue</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. A Vision Of Dead Desire</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Fragments</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Complicated Illusions</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Glasnost</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. PCP</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. From Despair To Where</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Crucifix Kiss</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Postcards From A Young Man</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. All Alone Here</span></div><div>41. Slash N' Burn</div><div>42. Revol</div><div>43. She Is Suffering</div><div>44. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>45. Manorbier</div><div>46. Golden Platitudes</div><div>47. Dead Yankee Drawl</div><div>48. Another Invented Disease</div><div>49. We Her Majesty's Prisoners</div><div>50. Donkeys</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 19</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 5</div><div>The Holy Bible 4</div><div>Everything Must Go 3</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 2</div><div>Know Your Enemy 1</div><div>Lifeblood 6</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 0</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 0</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 3</div><div>Futurology 0</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div><div>Others 2</div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Prologue To History gets top spot for the second time in the third chart in this batch, adding 50 points to the 49 it gained in the second chart above, while This Is My Truth streaks ahead in the By Era chart with eleven entries.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Another song is removed from the no-vote list as You Know It's Going To Hurt sneaks in at number 48 to get off the mark. If you're wondering how many are left now, well I'll save that for the Manics Top 50 Facts after the deadline has passed!</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Maria @enola_Ole</b></div><div>1. Prologue To History</div><div>2. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>3. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>4. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>5. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow</div><div>6. Let's Go To War</div><div>7. Ready For Drowning</div><div>8. A Design For Life</div><div>9. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</div><div>10. Further Away</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Nobody Loved You</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Baby Elian</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Imperial Bodybags</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. My Guernica</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Mr Carbohydrate</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Tsunami</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Found That Soul</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. 1985</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Morning Comrades</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. The Love Of Richard Nixon</span></div><div>21. Autumnsong</div><div>22. Empty Souls</div><div>23. She Is Suffering</div><div>24. Dead Martyrs</div><div>25. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever</div><div>26. You Stole The Sun From My Heart</div><div>27. The Intense Humming Of Evil</div><div>28. This Is Yesterday</div><div>29. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>30. Born A Girl</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Close My Eyes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Die In The Summertime</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Black Dog On My Shoulder</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Judge Yr'self</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Faster</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Motorcycle Emptiness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. The Everlasting</span></div><div>41. This Is The Day</div><div>42. PCP</div><div>43. Revol</div><div>44. Automatik Teknicolour</div><div>45. 4 Ever Delayed</div><div>46. From Despair To Where</div><div>47. Gold Against The Soul</div><div>48. You Know It's Going To Hurt</div><div>49. Buildings For Dead People</div><div>50. Black Holes For The Young</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 2</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 5</div><div>The Holy Bible 8</div><div>Everything Must Go 5</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 11</div><div>Know Your Enemy 4</div><div>Lifeblood 3</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 4</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 0</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 0</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 0</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 0</div><div>Others 5</div><div><br /></div></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-1655567345998602532021-12-04T11:49:00.001-08:002021-12-04T11:52:16.374-08:00Manics Top 50s - 30th Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">This was a four chart day, starting off with another number 1 to add to Faster's collection, holding off some of the other big contenders overall in the top 3. Everything Must Go took the honours by era with seven, but there were strong showings for both Rewind The Film and Futurology with five each.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Ed Biggs @EdBiggsLGM / @StudentPlaylist</b></div><div><div>1. Faster</div><div>2. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>3. A Design For Life</div><div>4. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>5. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>6. This Sullen Welsh Heart</div><div>7. Motown Junk</div><div>8. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</div><div>9. Rewind The Film</div><div>10. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Europa Geht Durch Mich</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Yes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Futurology</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Archives Of Pain</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. 1985</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Indian Summer</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Tsunami</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Walk Me To The Bridge</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. This Is Yesterday</span></div><div>21. Sleepflower</div><div>22. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)</div><div>23. You Love Us</div><div>24. 4st 7lb</div><div>25. International Blue</div><div>26. Enola/Alone</div><div>27. Door To The River</div><div>28. Postcards From A Young Man</div><div>29. Ready For Drowning</div><div>30. Peeled Apples</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. (It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Anthem For A Lost Cause</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Horses Under Starlight</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. A Song For Departure</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Autumnsong</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Still Snowing In Sapporo</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Black Dog On My Shoulder</span></div><div>41. Life Becoming A Landslide</div><div>42. Ocean Spray</div><div>43. 30-Year War</div><div>44. Show Me The Wonder</div><div>45. Donkeys</div><div>46. Leviathan</div><div>47. Masking Tape</div><div>48. Orwellian</div><div>49. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</div><div>50. Let’s Go To War</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 3</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 3</div><div>The Holy Bible 5</div><div>Everything Must Go 7</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 2</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 5</div><div>Futurology 5</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 2</div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The next chart was significant for being chart number 100! Unfortunately for Paul there was no prize, just the eternal respect of his peers. A Design For Life was number 1 here, with the top 3 being rearranged from the first chart above.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It was another fairly even chart by era, with lots of 5s, 4s and 3s, Generation Terrorists, Everything Must Go and This Is My Truth sharing the honours with five each.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Paul Matthewman @PaulMatthewman</b></div><div>1. A Design For Life</div><div>2. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>3. Faster</div><div>4. Stay Beautiful</div><div>5. Hold Me Like A Heaven</div><div>6. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>7. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>8. Enola/Alone</div><div>9. 1985</div><div>10. Yes</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Walk Me To The Bridge</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Ready For Drowning</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Indian Summer</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Rewind The Film</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. People Give In</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Roses In The Hospital</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Cardiff Afterlife</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. 4 Ever Delayed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow</span></div><div>21. International Blue</div><div>22. Diapause</div><div>23. Everything Must Go</div><div>24. The Everlasting</div><div>25. This Is Yesterday</div><div>26. Slash N' Burn</div><div>27. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier</div><div>28. Sleepflower</div><div>29. Afterending</div><div>30. You Love Us</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Running Out Of Fantasy</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Empty Souls</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Let's Go To War</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Solitude Sometimes Is</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. You Stole The Sun From My Heart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Europa Geht Durch Mich</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Welcome To The Dead Zone</span></div><div>41. Ocean Spray</div><div>42. Send Away The Tigers</div><div>43. This Joke Sport Severed</div><div>44. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children</div><div>45. Happy Bored Alone</div><div>46. From Despair To Where</div><div>47. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>48. She Is Suffering</div><div>49. Born A Girl</div><div>50. Baby Elian</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 5</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 4</div><div>Everything Must Go 5</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 4</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 4</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 2</div><div>Futurology 4</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 4</div><div>Others 2</div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll took its third number 1 spot in the next chart, with its Generation Terrorists neighbour Methadone Pretty having its highest placing so far at number 4. Generation Terrorists also just pipped The Holy Bible in the By Era chart with nine selections to eight.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Richard Kelly @RichKelly_</b></div><div>1. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>2. A Design For Life</div><div>3. Motown Junk</div><div>4. Methadone Pretty</div><div>5. PCP</div><div>6. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>7. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>8. Yes</div><div>9. You Stole The Sun From My Heart</div><div>10. No Surface All Feeling</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Some Kind Of Nothingness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. We Are All Bourgeois Now</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Golden Platitudes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Solitude Sometimes Is</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Revol</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</span></div><div>21. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>22. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</div><div>23. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun</div><div>24. Australia</div><div>25. Complicated Illusions</div><div>26. Faster</div><div>27. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>28. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>29. Ready For Drowning</div><div>30. Autumnsong</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. From Despair To Where</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. So Why So Sad</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Misguided Missile</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Repeat</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Tsunami</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. 4st 7lb</span></div><div>41. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow</div><div>42. Show Me The Wonder</div><div>43. Empty Souls</div><div>44. Slash N' Burn</div><div>45. Found That Soul</div><div>46. This Is Yesterday</div><div>47. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)</div><div>48. International Blue</div><div>49. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>50. Of Walking Abortion</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 9</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 8</div><div>Everything Must Go 5</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 0</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 3</div><div>Rewind The Film 2</div><div>Futurology 3</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Beata returns to New Chart Riot on the back of her previous fantasy setlist painting (check the index page to take a look), giving This Is Yesterday its third number 1 so far. To Repel Ghosts and Sepia also achieved their highest placings to date (Sepia matching an earlier number 3 pick).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Picturesque was the next song to be removed from the no-vote list, coming in for the first time at number 42, while Generation Terrorists (and earlier) took the honours in the By Era chart.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>ManicBeata @ManicBeata</b></div><div>1. This Is Yesterday</div><div>2. To Repel Ghosts</div><div>3. Sepia</div><div>4. Stay Beautiful</div><div>5. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>6. Suicide Alley</div><div>7. Sorrow 16</div><div>8. PCP</div><div>9. Faster</div><div>10. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Ready For Drowning</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. A Design For Life</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. From Despair To Where</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. This Joke Sport Severed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. William's Last Words</span></div><div>21. Bag Lady</div><div>22. Door To The River</div><div>23. Donkeys</div><div>24. Bored Out Of My Mind</div><div>25. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</div><div>26. Golden Platitudes</div><div>27. Methadone Pretty</div><div>28. Distant Colours</div><div>29. Welcome To The Dead Zone</div><div>30. The View From Stow Hill</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Divine Youth</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. The Left Behind</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Spectators Of Suicide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. 1985</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Hold Me Like A Heaven</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Blank Diary Entry</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Complicated Illusions</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Autumnsong</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Nobody Loved You</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Afterending</span></div><div>41. Automatik Teknicolour</div><div>42. Picturesque</div><div>43. 4 Ever Delayed</div><div>44. Ain't Going Down</div><div>45. Valley Boy</div><div>46. Distractions</div><div>47. Black Holes For The Young</div><div>48. I'm Leaving You For Solitude</div><div>49. Found That Soul</div><div>50. Rewind The Film</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 8</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 3</div><div>The Holy Bible 3</div><div>Everything Must Go 5</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5</div><div>Know Your Enemy 1</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 4</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 3</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 3</div><div>Others 4</div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-25511832679621309762021-12-04T06:06:00.000-08:002021-12-04T06:06:20.729-08:00Manics Top 50s - 29th Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">The charts never went away but the blog returns after a brief hiatus seeing some Welsh band or other, I forget the name now. There were three charts on 29th November, first up Andy goes with A Design For Life at number 1 and a rather satisfying "4 Ever" combination at 11 and 12.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This Is My Truth pushed its way through the scrum of the first six albums to lead the By Era chart with eight selections.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Andy @biscuitporpoise</b></div><div>1. A Design For Life</div><div>2. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>3. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>4. You Love Us</div><div>5. Found That Soul</div><div>6. 4st 7lb</div><div>7. Yourself</div><div>8. Enola/Alone</div><div>9. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>10. Faster</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. 4 Ever Delayed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Autumnsong</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Patrick Bateman</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Archives Of Pain</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. There By The Grace Of God</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Walk Me To The Bridge</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Judge Yr'self</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Further Away</span></div><div>21. Born A Girl</div><div>22. Some Kind Of Nothingness</div><div>23. Futurology</div><div>24. This Is Yesterday</div><div>25. Journal For Plague Lovers</div><div>26. Slash N' Burn</div><div>27. Kevin Carter</div><div>28. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)</div><div>29. Baby Elian</div><div>30. Prologue To History</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Montana/Autumn/78</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Removables</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Peeled Apples</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Little Baby Nothing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Miss Europa Disco Dancer</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Welcome To The Dead Zone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. We Are All Bourgeois Now</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. You're Tender And You're Tired</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Show Me The Wonder</span></div><div>41. My Little Empire</div><div>42. Valley Boy</div><div>43. A Song For The Sadness</div><div>44. Black Holes For The Young</div><div>45. Dylan & Caitlin</div><div>46. Tsunami</div><div>47. A Song For Departure</div><div>48. Donkeys</div><div>49. Don't Let The Night Divide Us</div><div>50. This Is The Day</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 4</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 5</div><div>Everything Must Go 6</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 8</div><div>Know Your Enemy 5</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 2</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 3</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div><div>Others 4</div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The second chart sees Of Walking Abortion steal in late in the day to claim its first 50 point haul, with The Holy Bible taking half of the top 10 places. The same album triumphed in the By Era chart with nine picks.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Pretension/Repulsion became the second last album track to gain any points, leaving only one album track now without a vote. There's still time but I'm not hopeful for it....</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Mike Wood @myclwd</b></div><div>1. Of Walking Abortion</div><div>2. Die In The Summertime</div><div>3. Stay Beautiful</div><div>4. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</div><div>5. Slash N' Burn</div><div>6. Archives Of Pain</div><div>7. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>8. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>9. From Despair To Where</div><div>10. Faster</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Peeled Apples</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Revol</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Judge Yr'self</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. 4 Ever Delayed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Glasnost</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Life Becoming A Landslide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Bag Lady</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Hold Me Like A Heaven</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Postcards From A Young Man</span></div><div>21. Sleepflower</div><div>22. Masking Tape</div><div>23. Mausoleum</div><div>24. A Design For Life</div><div>25. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>26. Yes</div><div>27. Door To The River</div><div>28. Anthem For A Lost Cause</div><div>29. You Love Us</div><div>30. Indian Summer</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. The Second Great Depression</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. The Descent (Pages 1 & 2)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. International Blue</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Misguided Missile</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Between The Clock And The Bed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Complicated Illusions</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. (Feels Like) Heaven</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. This Is The Day</span></div><div>41. Black Square</div><div>42. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>43. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>44. Pretension/Repulsion</div><div>45. Distant Colours</div><div>46. Never Want Again</div><div>47. Always/Never</div><div>48. Intravenous Agnostic</div><div>49. The Year Of Purification</div><div>50. Firefight</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 8</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 5</div><div>The Holy Bible 9</div><div>Everything Must Go 1</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 0</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 3</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div><div>Others 6</div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And finally in this batch is Keith, who chose Faster in top spot and in between submitting this chart and me blogging it kindly came over and said hello in Llandudno, nice to put a face to the chart! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Be Natural's second place was its highest placing so far and after having no votes for so long, Pretension/Repulsion only went higher in the next chart submitted at number 31!</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Keith Smith @smudger63</b></div><div>1. Faster</div><div>2. Be Natural</div><div>3. A Design For Life</div><div>4. Donkeys</div><div>5. Comfort Comes</div><div>6. Montana/Autumn/78</div><div>7. Leviathan</div><div>8. Motown Junk</div><div>9. Boxes And Lists</div><div>10. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. So Dead</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Mr Carbohydrate</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. PCP</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. The Vorticists</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Black Garden</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Mausoleum</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. All Is Vanity</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Socialist Serenade</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. You Love Us</span></div><div>21. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)</div><div>22. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</div><div>23. Horses Under Starlight</div><div>24. Pedestal</div><div>25. You're Tender And You're Tired</div><div>26. Dead Martyrs</div><div>27. Revol</div><div>28. Valley Boy</div><div>29. My Guernica</div><div>30. Ready For Drowning</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Pretension/Repulsion</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Cardiff Afterlife</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. 4st 7lb</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Still Snowing In Sapporo</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. This Sullen Welsh Heart</span></div><div>41. Sleepflower</div><div>42. Liverpool Revisited</div><div>43. Stay Beautiful</div><div>44. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</div><div>45. Enola/Alone</div><div>46. Happy Bored Alone</div><div>47. Don't Be Evil</div><div>48. Auto-Intoxication</div><div>49. 30-Year War</div><div>50. Broken Algorithms</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 4</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 3</div><div>The Holy Bible 6</div><div>Everything Must Go 9</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 2</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 2</div><div><br /></div></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-89788183685665447462021-11-28T11:33:00.000-08:002021-11-28T11:33:19.051-08:00Manics Top 50s 28th Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">There are two charts in this batch and first up is a second number 1 for From Despair To Where. Sequels Of Forgotten Wars makes the top 10 for the first time and therefore achieves its highest placing so far, but it's Everything Must Go that triumphs in the By Era chart with 11 entries.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Den @densk14</b></div><div>1. From Despair To Where</div><div>2. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>3. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</div><div>4. The Everlasting</div><div>5. A Design For Life</div><div>6. Sequels Of Forgotten Wars</div><div>7. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</div><div>8. Prologue To History</div><div>9. Send Away The Tigers</div><div>10. PCP</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Little Baby Nothing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. She Is Suffering</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Faster</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Further Away</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Ready For Drowning</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. You're Tender And You're Tired</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Drug Drug Druggy</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Yes</span></div><div>21. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>22. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>23. The Love Of Richard Nixon</div><div>24. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>25. Dylan & Caitlin</div><div>26. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>27. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier</div><div>28. Mr Carbohydrate</div><div>29. The Descent (Pages 1 & 2)</div><div>30. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Motown Junk</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Some Kind Of Nothingness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. This Joke Sport Severed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Hanging On</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Revol</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. This Is Yesterday</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Futurology</span></div><div>41. Life Becoming A Landslide</div><div>42. Vivian</div><div>43. Underdogs</div><div>44. Bored Out Of My Mind</div><div>45. There By The Grace Of God</div><div>46. Australia</div><div>47. Tsunami</div><div>48. No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me</div><div>49. Empty Souls</div><div>50. Hazelton Avenue</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 6</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 6</div><div>Everything Must Go 11</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5</div><div>Know Your Enemy 0</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 4</div><div>Rewind The Film 0</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div><div>Others 2</div><div><br /></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Tolerate takes the honours in this chart, while the By Era split is possibly the most even we've had so far - two album eras with five entries, four with four entries and six with three entries.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But my little eyes light up at three songs appearing for the first time - so say hello to My Drowning World, A Secret Society and Dying Breeds, which bring the number of no-vote songs down to 39.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Philip Marsh @PhilipM04217017</b></div><div>1. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>2. Faster</div><div>3. A Design For Life</div><div>4. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</div><div>5. Archives Of Pain</div><div>6. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>7. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>8. There By The Grace Of God</div><div>9. Golden Platitudes</div><div>10. Afterending</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Let Robeson Sing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. 30-Year War</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Intravenous Agnostic</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Misguided Missile</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Motorcycle Emptiness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Black Dog On My Shoulder</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Rewind The Film</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</span></div><div>21. Yes</div><div>22. 4st 7lb</div><div>23. Some Kind Of Nothingness</div><div>24. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>25. Sepia</div><div>26. As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)</div><div>27. Judge Yr'self</div><div>28. Let's Go To War</div><div>29. 1985</div><div>30. Europa Geht Durch Mich</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Gold Against The Soul</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. A Song For Departure</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Buildings For Dead People</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Solitude Sometimes Is</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. My Drowning World</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Midnight Sun</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Imperial Bodybags</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Complicated Illusions</span></div><div>41. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>42. Peeled Apples</div><div>43. Marlon JD</div><div>44. Diapause</div><div>45. Hold Me Like A Heaven</div><div>46. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>47. A Secret Society</div><div>48. Dying Breeds</div><div>49. Tennessee</div><div>50. All Is Vanity</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 5</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 3</div><div>The Holy Bible 5</div><div>Everything Must Go 4</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 4</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 3</div><div>Rewind The Film 3</div><div>Futurology 4</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 4</div><div>Others 3</div></div><div><br /></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-16204363481671340182021-11-28T05:46:00.000-08:002021-11-28T05:46:13.224-08:00Manics Top 50s - 27th Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">It was a one chart day on Saturday and that person was....oh, it was me. So I didn't even have to pull rank to move myself to the top of the blog. For anyone who has been following along on Twitter you'll know that I ranked all 338 of the songs, you'll find the link below if you want to dive in deeper than the 50 and see my story and all the associated sub-charts, similar to what you'll get for the top 50s once we've finished.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But my By Era chart is exclusive to this blog, so don't say you don't get treats here. And it was a tie at the top for Generation Terrorists, The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go with eight each, which feels oddly satsifying.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Ian @Pyfbrown</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">(My full chart can be found here <a href="https://harmonycorruption.blogspot.com/2021/11/big-manics-chart-2021-update.html">https://harmonycorruption.blogspot.com/2021/11/big-manics-chart-2021-update.html</a>)</div><div style="text-align: center;">1. Motown Junk<br />2. A Design For Life<br />3. Stay Beautiful<br />4. From Despair To Where<br />5. Motorcycle Emptiness<br />6. This Is Yesterday<br />7. Faster<br />8. You Love Us<br />9. Still Snowing In Sapporo<br />10. The Masses Against The Classes<br /><span style="color: blue;">11. </span><span style="color: blue;">No Surface All Feeling</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">12. </span><span style="color: blue;">Sleepflower</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">13. Firefight</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">14. Empty Souls</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">15. </span><span style="color: blue;">La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">16. </span><span style="color: blue;">Enola/Alone</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">17. Australia</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">18. </span><span style="color: blue;">Yes</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">19. </span><span style="color: blue;">Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">20. </span><span style="color: blue;">Little Baby Nothing</span><br />21. Tsunami<br />22. The Everlasting<br />23. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next<br />24. Together Stronger (C'mon Wales)<br />25. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough<br />26. Complicated Illusions<br />27. People Give In<br />28. Found That Soul<br />29. Archives Of Pain<br />30. PCP<br /><span style="color: blue;">31. Show Me The Wonder</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">32. Baby Elian</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">33. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">34. </span><span style="color: blue;">Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">35. Everything Must Go</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">36. </span><span style="color: blue;">Revol</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">37. Imperial Bodybags</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">38. </span><span style="color: blue;">1985</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">39. </span><span style="color: blue;">Postcards From A Young Man</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">40. </span><span style="color: blue;">Sepia</span><br />41. This Joke Sport Severed<br />42. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love<br />43. New Art Riot<br />44. Donkeys<br />45. 4st 7lb<br />46. The Secret He Had Missed<br />47. International Blue<br />48. Walk Me To The Bridge<br />49. Judge Yr'self<br />50. Sorrow 16</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 8</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 8</div><div>Everything Must Go 8</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 3</div><div>Others 3</div><div><br /></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-31581256811447788752021-11-27T10:21:00.000-08:002021-11-27T10:21:50.786-08:00Manics Top 50s - 26th Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">Yesterday was another three chart day, bringing the total number of top 50s up to 92, and my own is already sat waiting to be published as number 93.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's appropriate that these charts are from yesterday as This Is Yesterday took its second number 1, with Everything Must Go hitting double figures in the By Era chart with 10 entries. Firefight reached its highest position so far at number 7.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Christian Oldcorn @oldcornc</b></div><div>1. This Is Yesterday</div><div>2. A Design For Life</div><div>3. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>4. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</div><div>5. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>6. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div>7. Firefight</div><div>8. From Despair To Where</div><div>9. Faster</div><div>10. You Love Us</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Motown Junk</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Die In The Summertime</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Enola/Alone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Yes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Australia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Golden Platitudes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. You Stole The Sun From My Heart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head</span></div><div>21. Complicated Illusions</div><div>22. International Blue</div><div>23. Show Me The Wonder</div><div>24. This Is The Day</div><div>25. To Repel Ghosts</div><div>26. Found That Soul</div><div>27. Kevin Carter</div><div>28. Ocean Spray</div><div>29. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>30. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Further Away</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Broken Algorithms</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Futurology</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Peeled Apples</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Life Becoming A Landslide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Little Baby Nothing</span></div><div>41. Everything Must Go</div><div>42. This Sullen Welsh Heart</div><div>43. Underdogs</div><div>44. Rewind The Film</div><div>45. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>46. Distant Colours</div><div>47. Horses Under Starlight</div><div>48. There By The Grace Of God</div><div>49. Sepia</div><div>50. Some Kind Of Nothingness</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 6</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 5</div><div>The Holy Bible 4</div><div>Everything Must Go 10</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 3</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div><div>Others 3</div><div><br /></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It was A Design For Life's turn to triumph in the second chart, with Australia in second reaching its highest position so far. Anthem For A Lost Cause finally managed to reach the top 10 too after a couple of 11th place finishes.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This Is My Truth just edged out Everything Must Go in the By Era chart, although there were also relatively good showings from Rewind The Film and Resistance Is Futile with five each.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Sarah Eyles @SarahEyles1</b></div><div>1. A Design For Life</div><div>2. Australia</div><div>3. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>4. Ready For Drowning</div><div>5. Autumnsong</div><div>6. Let Robeson Sing</div><div>7. International Blue</div><div>8. Everything Must Go</div><div>9. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>10. Anthem For A Lost Cause</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Revol</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Complicated Illusions</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Little Baby Nothing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. William's Last Words</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Hold Me Like A Heaven</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Distant Colours</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Show Me The Wonder</span></div><div>21. Some Kind Of Nothingness</div><div>22. Rewind The Film</div><div>23. Sepia</div><div>24. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>25. Afterending</div><div>26. Running Out Of Fantasy</div><div>27. Orwellian</div><div>28. Found That Soul</div><div>29. The Secret He Had Missed</div><div>30. PCP</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. 4 Ever Delayed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Archives Of Pain</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Liverpool Revisited</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. You Stole The Sun From My Heart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. People Give In</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Golden Platitudes</span></div><div>41. The Everlasting</div><div>42. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>43. This Sullen Welsh Heart</div><div>44. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div>45. Prologue To History</div><div>46. Further Away</div><div>47. My Little Empire</div><div>48. You Love Us</div><div>49. You're Tender And You're Tired</div><div>50. Born A Girl</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 4</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 1</div><div>The Holy Bible 3</div><div>Everything Must Go 7</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 8</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 3</div><div>Rewind The Film 5</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 5</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 4</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's A Design For Life in top spot again in the third chart of this batch, this time it's 4st 7lb and Be Natural that match their highest placings so far. This Is My Truth and The Holy Bible share the spoils in the By Era chart with eight each.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Andrew J Taylor @A_J_T_1970</b></div><div>1. A Design For Life</div><div>2. 4st 7lb</div><div>3. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>4. Be Natural</div><div>5. Yes</div><div>6. Life Becoming A Landslide</div><div>7. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</div><div>8. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>9. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>10. From Despair To Where</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Born A Girl</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. You're Tender And You're Tired</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Intravenous Agnostic</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Ocean Spray</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Autumnsong</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Black Dog On My Shoulder</span></div><div>21. Sepia</div><div>22. Revol</div><div>23. Faster</div><div>24. Nobody Loved You</div><div>25. PCP</div><div>26. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>27. Everything Must Go</div><div>28. She Is Suffering</div><div>29. The Convalescent</div><div>30. Peeled Apples</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. The Year Of Purification</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Golden Platitudes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Postcards From A Young Man</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. This Sullen Welsh Heart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Show Me The Wonder</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Walk Me To The Bridge</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Donkeys</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Indian Summer</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. This Is Yesterday</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. You Love Us</span></div><div>41. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</div><div>42. Dylan & Caitlin</div><div>43. Quest For Ancient Colour</div><div>44. Let Robeson Sing</div><div>45. Kevin Carter</div><div>46. So Why So Sad</div><div>47. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>48. Prologue To History</div><div>49. Between The Clock And The Bed</div><div>50. All We Make Is Entertainment</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 3</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 8</div><div>Everything Must Go 7</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 8</div><div>Know Your Enemy 6</div><div>Lifeblood 0</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 3</div><div>Rewind The Film 2</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 0</div><div><br /></div></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-35818961462986657922021-11-27T03:34:00.000-08:002021-11-27T03:34:40.088-08:00Manics Top 50s - 25th Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">As the charts come streaming in, these three are from Thursday 25th and we start with another top spot for Motorcycle Emptiness. I Live To Fall Asleep and William's Last Words both achieve their highest placing so far, while Generation Terrorists just pips This Is My Truth to top spot in the By Era chart.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Chris Bickley @ChrisBickley1</b></div><div>1. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>2. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>3. I Live To Fall Asleep</div><div>4. From Despair To Where</div><div>5. Faster</div><div>6. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</div><div>7. A Design For Life</div><div>8. Black Dog On My Shoulder</div><div>9. William's Last Words</div><div>10. Hold Me Like A Heaven</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Archives Of Pain</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Motown Junk</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Spectators Of Suicide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. The Masses Against The Classes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Golden Platitudes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Some Kind Of Nothingness</span></div><div>21. A Song For Departure</div><div>22. Tsunami</div><div>23. Intravenous Agnostic</div><div>24. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>25. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>26. Yes</div><div>27. Peeled Apples</div><div>28. A Song For The Sadness</div><div>29. Love's Sweet Exile</div><div>30. Rewind The Film</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Roses In The Hospital</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Miss Europa Disco Dancer</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. 4st 7lb</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Let Robeson Sing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Between The Clock And The Bed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Further Away</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. My Little Empire</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Slash N' Burn</span></div><div>41. The Vorticists</div><div>42. This Is Yesterday</div><div>43. Sorrow 16</div><div>44. Marlon JD</div><div>45. The Everlasting</div><div>46. Sleepflower</div><div>47. We Are All Bourgeois Now</div><div>48. I'm Not Working</div><div>49. Revol</div><div>50. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 8</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 6</div><div>Everything Must Go 6</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7</div><div>Know Your Enemy 4</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 0</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's a second number 1 for Tsunami in the second chart of this batch, while Donkeys also takes it second number 2 slot. Valley Boy hits the top 10 in its highest placing so far, while a few of the lesser-loved album tracks manage to get some much needed points on the board. Generation Terrorists, Gold Against The Soul and This Is My Truth all tie at the top of the By Era chart with 7 each.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Jack @jackmansavfc</b></div><div>1. Tsunami</div><div>2. Donkeys</div><div>3. Archives Of Pain</div><div>4. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>5. Sepia</div><div>6. Valley Boy</div><div>7. From Despair To Where</div><div>8. Send Away The Tigers</div><div>9. Faster</div><div>10. Sleepflower</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Motorcycle Emptiness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. A Design For Life</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Comfort Comes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Golden Platitudes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Removables</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. PCP</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. So Dead</span></div><div>21. Nostalgic Pushead</div><div>22. The Convalescent</div><div>23. Tennessee</div><div>24. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>25. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun</div><div>26. Intravenous Agnostic</div><div>27. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div>28. 1985</div><div>29. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</div><div>30. I Think I Found It</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Be Natural</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Autumnsong</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Rewind The Film</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. The Descent (Pages 1 & 2)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Empty Souls</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Walk Me To The Bridge</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Epicentre</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. The Year Of Purification</span></div><div>41. Ocean Spray</div><div>42. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier</div><div>43. Sorrow 16</div><div>44. Montana/Autumn/78</div><div>45. Slash N' Burn</div><div>46. The Secret He Had Missed</div><div>47. This Sullen Welsh Heart</div><div>48. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>49. Anthem For A Lost Cause</div><div>50. (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 7</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 7</div><div>The Holy Bible 3</div><div>Everything Must Go 4</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7</div><div>Know Your Enemy 5</div><div>Lifeblood 3</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 0</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 4</div><div>Rewind The Film 4</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 0</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 0</div><div><br /></div></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span>Last but not least in this batch is an emailed entry and possibly my favourite Manics origin story so far. Born A Girl makes its debut in the 50 point club and Generation Terrorists takes the honours by era, but it's over to Daisy to explain the background in more detail:</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I’m a relatively new Manics fan, having gotten into them just over a year ago now. I started listening to them because my dad told me he wasn’t a fan and that was my form of teenage rebellion, but after getting hooked on The Holy Bible I am now a bonafide Manics obsessive, with posters on my wall and Larkin on my shelf like every other teenage girl.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Born A Girl is my favourite Manics song because I think it’s so beautifully melancholic and sad, and it’s some of Nicky’s best lyricism for sure. It’s hugely underrated even with Manics fans.</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Daisy via email</b></div><div>1. Born A Girl</div><div>2. Yes</div><div>3. 4st 7lb</div><div>4. Archives Of Pain</div><div>5. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>6. Faster</div><div>7. My Little Empire</div><div>8. Tsunami</div><div>9. Motown Junk</div><div>10. Be Natural</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. This Sullen Welsh Heart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Little Baby Nothing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. From Despair To Where</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Diapause</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Motorcycle Emptiness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. A Design For Life</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Miss Europa Disco Dancer</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div>21. This Is Yesterday</div><div>22. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>23. Repeat</div><div>24. Slash N' Burn</div><div>25. Intravenous Agnostic</div><div>26. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>27. Afterending</div><div>28. I Live To Fall Asleep</div><div>29. You Love Us</div><div>30. Kevin Carter</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Sorrow 16</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. All Is Vanity</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Wattsville Blues</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Facing Page: Top Left</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Complicated Illusions</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Enola/Alone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Still Snowing In Sapporo</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Yourself</span></div><div>41. Me And Stephen Hawking</div><div>42. Quest For Ancient Colour</div><div>43. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</div><div>44. International Blue</div><div>45. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>46. The Love Of Richard Nixon</div><div>47. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</div><div>48. So Why So Sad</div><div>49. Door To The River</div><div>50. Mr Carbohydrate</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 9</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 5</div><div>The Holy Bible 6</div><div>Everything Must Go 5</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6</div><div>Know Your Enemy 4</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 0</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 4</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 0</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 5</div><div>Others 2</div><div><br /></div></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-56917374183893097472021-11-25T08:25:00.000-08:002021-11-25T08:25:18.772-08:00Manics Top 50s - 24th Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">It was another one chart day yesterday from a top 50 ever-present, albeit in a different guise than usual. But it was a new number 1 both in terms of comparing with his previous charts and with the current batch of charts in general, as Die In The Summertime claimed its first 50 points. It's So Easy is the next song to get off the mark with its first vote.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It was also a trademark By Era chart as only three songs from beyond Everything Must Go made the cut and four from the Everything Must Go-era itself, leaving Generation Terrorists (and before) and The Holy Bible with 36 entries between them.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Wrestling 20 Years Ago Podcast @Wrestling20Yrs</b></div><div>1. Die In The Summertime</div><div>2. Stay Beautiful</div><div>3. Of Walking Abortion</div><div>4. Yes</div><div>5. So Dead</div><div>6. Archives Of Pain</div><div>7. Sleepflower</div><div>8. Faster</div><div>9. Patrick Bateman</div><div>10. Mr Carbohydrate</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Mausoleum</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. The Intense Humming Of Evil</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Democracy Coma</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Revol</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. 4st 7lb</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Methadone Pretty</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Love's Sweet Exile</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Slash N' Burn</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span></div><div>21. Repeat</div><div>22. Hibernation</div><div>23. Love Torn Us Under</div><div>24. New Art Riot</div><div>25. Motown Junk</div><div>26. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>27. Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel</div><div>28. Sculpture Of Man</div><div>29. All Is Vanity</div><div>30. Prologue To History</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Life Becoming A Landslide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Crucifix Kiss</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Comfort Comes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Judge Yr'self</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Removables</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Born To End</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div>41. Spectators Of Suicide</div><div>42. Sorrow 16</div><div>43. It's So Easy</div><div>44. We Her Majesty's Prisoners</div><div>45. Strip It Down</div><div>46. Another Invented Disease</div><div>47. Drug Drug Druggy</div><div>48. PCP</div><div>49. Symphony Of Tourette</div><div>50. Dead Yankee Drawl</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 22</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 7</div><div>The Holy Bible 14</div><div>Everything Must Go 4</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 1</div><div>Know Your Enemy 1</div><div>Lifeblood 0</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 0</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 0</div><div>Futurology 0</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 0</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 0</div><div>Others 0</div><div><br /></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-31108706095751786862021-11-24T10:35:00.000-08:002021-11-24T10:35:37.215-08:00Manics Top 50s - 23rd Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">It's a one chart day today but it has a nice background to brighten up the blog a bit. Yes grabs another number 1 slot, while there's a relatively rare outing for The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever which takes its highest placing so far at 15.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The first four albums all battle it out for supremacy in the By Era chart with 6 or 7 each, Gold Against The Soul and Everything Must Go just edging it. We're now up to chart number 85!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Iain Taylor @Raindogtaylor</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDpuXFY6BAkkqpokWMWKqYGlgft-0lDvHPAuExs3xzo76DgNDCDuGCqc1txQVDm2aRjW_UeU3K8hyphenhyphenvqYhqTTFmJ2O9ZEDzsB1cN8S0bAsqahQXbklihuZj3Up36lL9OQegm1J1hb13uAji/s668/Raindogtaylor.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="668" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDpuXFY6BAkkqpokWMWKqYGlgft-0lDvHPAuExs3xzo76DgNDCDuGCqc1txQVDm2aRjW_UeU3K8hyphenhyphenvqYhqTTFmJ2O9ZEDzsB1cN8S0bAsqahQXbklihuZj3Up36lL9OQegm1J1hb13uAji/w400-h283/Raindogtaylor.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 6</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 7</div><div>The Holy Bible 6</div><div>Everything Must Go 7</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 3</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 3</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 0</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-32592806844469833262021-11-23T11:39:00.000-08:002021-11-23T11:39:18.314-08:00Manics Top 50s - 22nd Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Paul Barnsley @Barnspaul31</b></div><div>1. A Design For Life</div><div>2. Faster</div><div>3. 1985</div><div>4. You're Tender And You're Tired</div><div>5. Yes</div><div>6. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>7. Some Kind Of Nothingness</div><div>8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>9. I Live To Fall Asleep</div><div>10. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Mausoleum</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Life Becoming A Landslide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Cardiff Afterlife</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Doors Closing Slowly</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Peeled Apples</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Die In The Summertime</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. There By The Grace Of God</span></div><div>21. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier</div><div>22. Nobody Loved You</div><div>23. William's Last Words</div><div>24. A Song For Departure</div><div>25. Diapause</div><div>26. The Second Great Depression</div><div>27. Glasnost</div><div>28. You Love Us</div><div>29. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>30. Prologue To History</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. International Blue</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Rewind The Film</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. This Joke Sport Severed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Indian Summer</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. From Despair To Where</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. This Sullen Welsh Heart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. So Why So Sad</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. 4st 7lb</span></div><div>41. Black Square</div><div>42. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>43. Ocean Spray</div><div>44. Let's Go To War</div><div>45. 3 Ways To See Despair</div><div>46. Motown Junk</div><div>47. The Left Behind</div><div>48. PCP</div><div>49. People Give In</div><div>50. Enola/Alone</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 3</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 3</div><div>The Holy Bible 6</div><div>Everything Must Go 6</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 5</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 5</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 3</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 2</div><div><br /></div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Michael Lee @yekim_mikey</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQNv7v3u_uzeDCBtcyrNi5MDby8agm7PX5dzqjYHmkMn_Vkd3_2jThu9AzuQoS9v6fByasuVLUST6rA0yytFlc9x8yBXdZ1dn_R-TxeMX5HNK_ejNAXHMknQ310x9wmlZvKxmjGOMz01Z8/s680/yekim+mikey.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQNv7v3u_uzeDCBtcyrNi5MDby8agm7PX5dzqjYHmkMn_Vkd3_2jThu9AzuQoS9v6fByasuVLUST6rA0yytFlc9x8yBXdZ1dn_R-TxeMX5HNK_ejNAXHMknQ310x9wmlZvKxmjGOMz01Z8/w400-h400/yekim+mikey.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 3</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 6</div><div>The Holy Bible 8</div><div>Everything Must Go 6</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 3</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 5</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 5</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 0</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><div><b>Steven Drake @sdrake767</b></div><div>1. You Love Us</div><div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">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</span></div></div><div>2. A Design For Life</div><div>3. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>4. Fear Of Motion</div><div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">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)</span></div></div><div>5. Ready For Drowning</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Assisted by the DVD extra on the Millennium Stadium DVD and John Cale duet</span></div><div>6. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>7. Archives Of Pain</div><div>8. Kevin Carter</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Possibly unusual to be this high up but the song that got me in to the band in guitar lessons in the late 90s</span></div><div>9. International Blue</div><div>10. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The excitement of listening to Radio 1 to hear it announced as number 1</span></div></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. You Stole The Sun From My Heart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Found That Soul</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Show Me The Wonder</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. 1985</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><div>Should have been the first single....</div></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Roses In The Hospital</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Vision Blurred</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><div>Similar to Fear of Motion, this just sounds like a band doing what they want, and I love that</div></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Sepia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Be Natural</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Australia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. From Despair To Where</span></div><div>21. Montana/Autumn/78</div><div>22. Everything Must Go</div><div>23. Intravenous Agnostic</div><div>24. Judge Yr'self</div><div>25. Comfort Comes</div><div>26. Vivian</div><div>27. All Alone Here</div><div>28. The Instrumental</div><div>29. Tsunami</div><div>30. This Joke Sport Severed</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Masking Tape</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Locust Valley</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Automatik Teknicolour</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. The Long Goodbye</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Heyday Of The Blood</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. 3 Ways To See Despair</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Europa Geht Durch Mich</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Peeled Apples</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Afterending</span></div><div>41. The Last Time I Saw Paris</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The mystery of who the female voice is adds to the appeal</span></div><div>42. Send Away The Tigers</div><div>43. Faster</div><div>44. To Repel Ghosts</div><div>45. Rewind The Film</div><div>46. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Perhaps lower than most people, I've never really loved it</span></div></div><div>47. Sleepflower</div><div>48. Some Kind Of Nothingness</div><div>49. Complicated Illusions</div><div>50. The Ghost Of Christmas</div><div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Always a pleasure having this as the first Christmas song I play in December</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 2</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 3</div><div>Everything Must Go 6</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6</div><div>Know Your Enemy 5</div><div>Lifeblood 3</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 2</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 3</div><div>Futurology 3</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 5</div><div><br /></div></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Chorizo Garbanzo @ChorizoGarbanzo</b></div><div>1. My Little Empire</div><div>2. 4st 7lb</div><div>3. This Is Yesterday</div><div>4. Rendition</div><div>5. Faster</div><div>6. Found That Soul</div><div>7. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>8. Distant Colours</div><div>9. Kevin Carter</div><div>10. Little Baby Nothing</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Of Walking Abortion</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Ready For Drowning</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Motorcycle Emptiness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Complicated Illusions</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. The Convalescent</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Donkeys</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. From Despair To Where</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Love Letter To The Future</span></div><div>21. A Design For Life</div><div>22. All Is Vanity</div><div>23. Yes</div><div>24. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)</div><div>25. Let Robeson Sing</div><div>26. Diapause</div><div>27. Mr Carbohydrate</div><div>28. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>29. Removables</div><div>30. Epicentre</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Black Holes For The Young</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. You're Tender And You're Tired</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Between The Clock And The Bed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Enola/Alone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. In Eternity</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. The Year Of Purification</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. RP McMurphy</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Mausoleum</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Show Me The Wonder</span></div><div>41. Distractions</div><div>42. Die In The Summertime</div><div>43. Be Natural</div><div>44. Revol</div><div>45. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever</div><div>46. William's Last Words</div><div>47. Bored Out Of My Mind</div><div>48. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>49. Winterlovers</div><div>50. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 5</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 3</div><div>The Holy Bible 8</div><div>Everything Must Go 7</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6</div><div>Know Your Enemy 5</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 4</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 2</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Jack Kavanagh Homan @jkhoman</b></div></div><div><div>1. A Design For Life</div><div>2. Faster</div><div>3. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>4. The Everlasting</div><div>5. Everything Must Go</div><div>6. Motown Junk</div><div>7. Yes</div><div>8. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>9. You're Tender And You're Tired</div><div>10. Rewind The Film</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Tsunami</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Love's Sweet Exile</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. 4st 7lb</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Comfort Comes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. This Is Yesterday</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. 1985</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Enola/Alone</span></div><div>21. Hold Me Like A Heaven</div><div>22. Door To The River</div><div>23. Black Dog On My Shoulder</div><div>24. Sepia</div><div>25. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</div><div>26. Sleepflower</div><div>27. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>28. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)</div><div>29. Ocean Spray</div><div>30. 4 Ever Delayed</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. People Give In</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. The Second Great Depression</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Spectators Of Suicide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Let Robeson Sing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. William's Last Words</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Life Becoming A Landslide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Empty Souls</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. This Is The Day</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Patrick Bateman</span></div><div>41. The Year Of Purification</div><div>42. Anthem For A Lost Cause</div><div>43. Some Kind Of Nothingness</div><div>44. Indian Summer</div><div>45. I Live To Fall Asleep</div><div>46. 30-Year War</div><div>47. The Convalescent</div><div>48. All Is Vanity</div><div>49. Between The Clock And The Bed</div><div>50. Send Away The Tigers</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 7</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 4</div><div>Everything Must Go 8</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4</div><div>Know Your Enemy 4</div><div>Lifeblood 3</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 3</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 0</div><div>Others 3</div><div><br /></div></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-60418444820835622812021-11-22T11:06:00.001-08:002021-11-22T11:10:01.384-08:00Manics Top 50s - 21st Nov 2021 part 2<div style="text-align: left;">The charts have kept rolling in today but here we're catching up with a couple from last night so the blogs don't get too crowded! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">First up it was a nicely presented chart that deserves to be shown on the blog, but unfortunately the image sizes meant either relatively small or too big for the blog frame, so I've reproduced it below too! Show Me The Wonder is the latest song to join the 50 point club and International Blue at number 2 also claims its highest placing so far.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It's a close-run thing in the By Era chart as This Is My Truth just edges out Everything Must Go by seven to six, with a few other albums sharing the load to make it to five and four. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Tink Holloway @TinkHolloway</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoQEvkUXKzv99Ye0sJi6FAXyZWfqXFVUVh-98m9bcTmugtAk6jVfAHUJaYB7ORkpTASE0RkbQVu9u6q0PvtCjTxlZOK0u0QAX0RNhSevfqk3J8grgC18TJJYHjZrHtA2qLqRmwpOzg3J_o/s680/TinkHolloway.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="680" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoQEvkUXKzv99Ye0sJi6FAXyZWfqXFVUVh-98m9bcTmugtAk6jVfAHUJaYB7ORkpTASE0RkbQVu9u6q0PvtCjTxlZOK0u0QAX0RNhSevfqk3J8grgC18TJJYHjZrHtA2qLqRmwpOzg3J_o/w400-h225/TinkHolloway.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">1. Show Me The Wonder</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">2. International Blue</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">3. Peeled Apples</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">4. A Design For Life</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">5. As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">6. Archives Of Pain</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">7. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">8. Diapause</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">9. A Song For Departure</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">10. Motown Junk</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Little Baby Nothing</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Between The Clock And The Bed</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. You're Tender And You're Tired</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. The Secret He Had Missed</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. The Masses Against The Classes</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Enola/Alone</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Be Natural</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. 30-Year War</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Die In The Summertime</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Black Dog On My Shoulder</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">21. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">22. Sleepflower</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">23. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">24. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">25. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">26. PCP</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">27. The Everlasting</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">28. We Were Never Told</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">29. Send Away The Tigers</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">30. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. The Love Of Richard Nixon</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Afterending</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Love Letter To The Future</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Further Away</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Ready For Drowning</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Sepia</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. This Sullen Welsh Heart</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. So Why So Sad</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Always/Never</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Faster</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">41. Stay Beautiful</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">42. Nobody Loved You</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">43. Quest For Ancient Colour</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">44. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">45. People Give In</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">46. Automatik Teknicolour</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">47. I Live To Fall Asleep</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">48. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">49. Door To The River</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">50. Masking Tape</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>By Era</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Generation Terrorists 5</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Gold Against The Soul 1</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Holy Bible 4</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Everything Must Go 6</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Know Your Enemy 2</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Lifeblood 4</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Rewind The Film 4</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Futurology 2</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Ultra Vivid Lament 5</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Others 4</div><div><br /></div></div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The second chart in this batch sees A Design For Life reclaim another top spot, with I Live To Fall Asleep and Interiors both claiming their highest placing so far.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Seven different albums get at least four picks, but it's The Holy Bible that's out in front with eight. Postcards fails to get a single selection in either of the charts of the day.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>LaLaLaMurph @LaMurphF1</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div>1. A Design For Life</div><div>2. Faster</div><div>3. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>4. I Live To Fall Asleep</div><div>5. Donkeys</div><div>6. Sepia</div><div>7. From Despair To Where</div><div>8. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)</div><div>9. Diapause</div><div>10. This Sullen Welsh Heart</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. All Is Vanity</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Be Natural</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Let's Go To War</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Yes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Empty Motorcade</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Judge Yr'self</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Motown Junk</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Die In The Summertime</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Still Snowing In Sapporo</span></div><div>21. Stay Beautiful</div><div>22. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>23. You Love Us</div><div>24. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>25. She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach</div><div>26. Sleepflower</div><div>27. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>28. Send Away The Tigers</div><div>29. Peeled Apples</div><div>30. Builder Of Routines</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Glasnost</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. 1985</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Of Walking Abortion</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Europa Geht Durch Mich</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. The Year Of Purification</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. 30-Year War</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. My Guernica</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Comfort Comes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. 4st 7lb</span></div><div>41. This Joke Sport Severed</div><div>42. Slash N' Burn</div><div>43. I'm Just A Patsy</div><div>44. Archives Of Pain</div><div>45. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</div><div>46. (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline</div><div>47. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>48. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</div><div>49. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div>50. International Blue</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 5</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 5</div><div>The Holy Bible 8</div><div>Everything Must Go 5</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 2</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 4</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 5</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 4</div><div>Futurology 3</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 1</div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div><br /></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-44967558185646614602021-11-21T10:37:00.001-08:002021-11-21T10:46:16.124-08:00Manics Top 50s - 21st Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">One single top 50 in this blog and it's Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll that takes it's second 50 point haul so far and Bag Lady 'bags' its highest spot at number 5, its second top 10 placing. Vivian gets a relatively rare outing too with only its third selection.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Holy Bible hits double figures with ten picks breaking down By Era, with half of the chart coming from either The Holy Bible, Generation Terrorists or Everything Must Go eras.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Rich @richierabs</b></div><div>1. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</div><div>2. A Design For Life</div><div>3. Yes</div><div>4. You Love Us</div><div>5. Bag Lady</div><div>6. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>7. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>8. Archives Of Pain</div><div>9. From Despair To Where</div><div>10. Kevin Carter</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Die In The Summertime</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Of Walking Abortion</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Peeled Apples</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Faster</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Life Becoming A Landslide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Imperial Bodybags</span></div><div>21. Stay Beautiful</div><div>22. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>23. Too Cold Here</div><div>24. Afterending</div><div>25. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>26. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</div><div>27. Enola/Alone</div><div>28. The Intense Humming Of Evil</div><div>29. PCP</div><div>30. Slash N' Burn</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Winterlovers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Miss Europa Disco Dancer</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Ocean Spray</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. My Little Empire</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. I'm Just A Patsy</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Found That Soul</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands</span></div><div>41. This Sullen Welsh Heart</div><div>42. She Is Suffering</div><div>43. 30-Year War</div><div>44. Vivian</div><div>45. Doors Closing Slowly</div><div>46. Diapause</div><div>47. This Joke Sport Severed</div><div>48. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>49. Bored Out Of My Mind</div><div>50. 4st 7lb</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 8</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 10</div><div>Everything Must Go 7</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 0</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 4</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 4</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 2</div><div>Futurology 0</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 3</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-75309997116245840792021-11-20T05:50:00.001-08:002021-11-20T05:50:50.346-08:00Manics Top 50s - 19th Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">So I went through my spreadsheet last night and worked out how many no-vote songs were remaining overall (48 if you were wondering), only to find afterwards that an email had gone into my junk folder with two no-vote songs selected!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So alongside A Design For Life at number 1 and first top 10 finishes for Vision Blurred, Firefight and Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel, Dai has given Kodawari and Ostpolitik their first points to bring that total down to 46. There were 36 back in 2015 so let's see if we can get below that total this time. The Holy Bible just edged out Send Away The Tigers in the By Era chart by 7 to 6, meaning there was a more even spread across the albums.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Dai Howells @Dai_Howells</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div>1. A Design For Life</div><div>2. Faster</div><div>3. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>4. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>5. Vision Blurred</div><div>6. Found That Soul</div><div>7. To Repel Ghosts</div><div>8. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</div><div>9. Firefight</div><div>10. Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Judge Yr'self</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Archives Of Pain</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Kodawari</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Sepia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Removables</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Tsunami</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Prologue To History</span></div><div>21. Mausoleum</div><div>22. Automatik Teknicolour</div><div>23. All We Make Is Entertainment</div><div>24. Of Walking Abortion</div><div>25. From Despair To Where</div><div>26. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>27. Ostpolitik</div><div>28. Door To The River</div><div>29. Anorexic Rodin</div><div>30. In Eternity</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. PCP</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. The Vorticists</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. This Joke Sport Severed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Montana/Autumn/78</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Nobody Loved You</span></div><div>41. International Blue</div><div>42. The Ghost Of Christmas</div><div>43. Some Kind Of Nothingness</div><div>44. Fearless Punk Ballad</div><div>45. Autumnsong</div><div>46. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</div><div>47. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>48. Empty Souls</div><div>49. Comfort Comes</div><div>50. Sculpture Of Man</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 3</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 7</div><div>Everything Must Go 5</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 6</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 2</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 3</div><div>Rewind The Film 0</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div><div>Others 6</div><div><br /></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The second chart in this batch comes with extensive notes, so I'll leave it to Dr Gary to explain in his own words in batches of ten!</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Dr Gary P Marriner @DrGaryMarriner</b></div><div><div>1. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>2. Everything Must Go</div><div>3. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>4. Prologue To History</div><div>5. Divine Youth</div><div>6. Faster</div><div>7. Motown Junk</div><div>8. You Love Us</div><div>9. Sepia</div><div>10. Black Holes For The Young</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Classic track for the top spot, no surprises there. Few oddities in my top 10 including Prologue to History, just can’t beat that damn harsh rock piano, something about the anger in the song gets me every time. Divine Youth and Sepia both ache of melancholic beauty and nostalgic sorrow in very different ways. Black Holes for the Young is not an amazing track but the contrast between JDB and SEB is. Her class-ridden droll juxtaposed to his unashamedly Welsh statements creates something that speaks to the absolute heart of what the later 20th century was about for me.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. From Despair To Where</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Kevin Carter</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Removables</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. A Design For Life</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Little Baby Nothing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Europa Geht Durch Mich</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Slash N' Burn</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. In Eternity</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">More obvious classics with the two biggest hitters (Tolerate & Design for Life) making my top 20. Stay Beautiful, From Despair to Where and Slash ‘n’ Burn all make it in for their absolute banger status when the music is turned up loud and we shout along. Every Manics fan deserves to have heard Stay Beautiful live at least once. Kevin Carter was one of the first tracks that led me to find out more about the people behind the songs. Removables is just so damn sad but speaks of an appealing movement of emotions that gives it something more. Funny the Little Baby Nothing and Europa ended up next to each other. Two very good duets, the first of which is another simple classic and tells a perfect story. Europa should have been the anthem that prevented Brexit.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div>21. Yes</div><div>22. First Republic</div><div>23. Nobody Loved You</div><div>24. Pedestal</div><div>25. Intravenous Agnostic</div><div>26. Sleepflower</div><div>27. Enola/Alone</div><div>28. Show Me The Wonder</div><div>29. Hold Me Like A Heaven</div><div>30. Donkeys</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Yes, First Republic and Intravenous Agnostic are all fantastic rock songs with excellent lyrics. All examples of songs that again made me learn and research. Nobody Loved You builds and builds to that moment and is heartbreaking every time. If it is possible to detach the song from Richey I almost feel like it stands stronger as a pure song of loss. Show me the Wonder was the first Manics song my wife liked and we still sing it together in the car, a very good reason to have it in there. Sleepflower will always remind me of being a teenager pogoing around in my bedroom whereas Hold me Like A Heaven will always remind me of meeting my wife and falling in Love. The opening line to Donkeys is one of the greatest lyrics ever written.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Socialist Serenade</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Further Away</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. The Masses Against The Classes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Leviathan</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Masking Tape</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Golden Platitudes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. This Joke Sport Severed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Be Natural</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Valley Boy</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Afterending</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The dog barking at the start of Socialist Serenade is just fab, the song speaking of the contradictions in modern socialism really helped me hone my personal politics whereas Masses is just an absolute banger that deserves to be remembered more and I’ll always love that it was the first new No1 of this entire millennium. Leviathan is my 6th form Philosophy class in a nutshell, and I’ll always love it for that. Masking Tape provided me with the perfect metaphor for my own feelings and is an underrated gem. Golden Platitudes has the colonise the moon lyric but is also a grand old anthem of disaffection. Valley Boy gets a mention for being so beautifully European long before Futurology. I’ve always seen myself as European and when I started travelling more that song came with me. Afterending sneaks in as my favourite track from TUVL and for its brilliant lyrics.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div>41. Spectators Of Suicide</div><div>42. Red Sleeping Beauty</div><div>43. Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel</div><div>44. People Give In</div><div>45. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</div><div>46. Morning Comrades</div><div>47. A Song For The Sadness</div><div>48. We Her Majesty's Prisoners</div><div>49. Patrick Bateman</div><div>50. Heyday Of The Blood</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Final 10 are mostly all songs that appeal to different parts of my character. The opening speech on Spectators of Suicide Heavenly Version is another touchstone from where I learnt a lot, same with Heyday of the Blood. Red Sleeping Beauty led me to find McCarthy and become a huge fan of their work too. People Give in was the anthem of the latter stages of my PhD along with A Song for the Sadness. Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel feels raw and dirty and exotic and ridiculous, kind of like my experience in Bangkok. We Her Majesty’s Prisoners and Patrick Bateman brim with a ridiculous confidence lyrically and I adore them for it. So crass, so offensive and so bloody arrogant.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 8</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 3</div><div>Everything Must Go 9</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7</div><div>Know Your Enemy 4</div><div>Lifeblood 0</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 4</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div><div>Others 2</div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div></div></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-78609340783063503042021-11-19T06:54:00.000-08:002021-11-19T06:54:42.656-08:00Manics Top 50s - 18th Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Nick Tait @ApolloScream</b></div><div>1. Faster</div><div>2. Autumnsong</div><div>3. Some Kind Of Nothingness</div><div>4. Yes</div><div>5. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>6. Love's Sweet Exile</div><div>7. Imperial Bodybags</div><div>8. You're Tender And You're Tired</div><div>9. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</div><div>10. As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Europa Geht Durch Mich</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. All We Make Is Entertainment</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. First Republic</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. 4st 7lb</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Judge Yr'self</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. The Masses Against The Classes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Don't Let The Night Divide Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Found That Soul</span></div><div>21. This Is Yesterday</div><div>22. Slash N' Burn</div><div>23. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>24. Life Becoming A Landslide</div><div>25. Nobody Loved You</div><div>26. Underdogs</div><div>27. I Think I Found It</div><div>28. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>29. A Vision Of Dead Desire</div><div>30. No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Welcome To The Dead Zone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Afterending</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Happy Bored Alone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Groundhog Days</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. From Despair To Where</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Die In The Summertime</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Golden Platitudes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Show Me The Wonder</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Futurology</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. William's Last Words</span></div><div>41. Of Walking Abortion</div><div>42. Buildings For Dead People</div><div>43. Ready For Drowning</div><div>44. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>45. Ain't Going Down</div><div>46. Let Robeson Sing</div><div>47. I Live To Fall Asleep</div><div>48. 30-Year War</div><div>49. Anthem For A Lost Cause</div><div>50. Heyday Of The Blood</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 7</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 3</div><div>The Holy Bible 8</div><div>Everything Must Go 2</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 6</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 4</div><div>Rewind The Film 4</div><div>Futurology 3</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 0</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 3</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Dom Gourlay @domlikesrabbits</b></div><div>1. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>2. Faster</div><div>3. Stay Beautiful</div><div>4. A Design For Life</div><div>5. Motown Junk</div><div>6. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</div><div>7. Judge Yr'self</div><div>8. Revol</div><div>9. Sorrow 16</div><div>10. Sleepflower</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Orwellian</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. All Is Vanity</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. There By The Grace Of God</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. 4 Ever Delayed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Archives Of Pain</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Found That Soul</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Australia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Starlover</span></div><div>21. Yourself</div><div>22. Interiors (Song For Willem De Kooning)</div><div>23. Yes</div><div>24. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</div><div>25. Ready For Drowning</div><div>26. Kevin Carter</div><div>27. Enola/Alone</div><div>28. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>29. International Blue</div><div>30. Of Walking Abortion</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Roses In The Hospital</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Sculpture Of Man</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. From Despair To Where</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Don't Let The Night Divide Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Dead Yankee Drawl</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Drug Drug Druggy</span></div><div>41. Repeat</div><div>42. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>43. Patrick Bateman</div><div>44. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>45. Peeled Apples</div><div>46. Die In The Summertime</div><div>47. Europa Geht Durch Mich</div><div>48. Tsunami</div><div>49. Marlon JD</div><div>50. Slash N' Burn</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 9</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 7</div><div>The Holy Bible 9</div><div>Everything Must Go 8</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3</div><div>Know Your Enemy 1</div><div>Lifeblood 0</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 1</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 4</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 0</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 3</div><div>Others 3</div><div><br /></div></div><div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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!</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Dan Smith @dansm1th3</b></div><div>1. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>2. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>3. Life Becoming A Landslide</div><div>4. A Design For Life</div><div>5. 4st 7lb</div><div>6. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands</div><div>7. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>9. Enola/Alone</div><div>10. Yes</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Black Dog On My Shoulder</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Australia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Faster</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. My Little Empire</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Let Robeson Sing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. His Last Painting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Further Away</span></div><div>21. Prologue To History</div><div>22. This Is Yesterday</div><div>23. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>24. This Joke Sport Severed</div><div>25. Nobody Loved You</div><div>26. I Live To Fall Asleep</div><div>27. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>28. Born A Girl</div><div>29. We Are All Bourgeois Now</div><div>30. Ocean Spray</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Ready For Drowning</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Patrick Bateman</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. International Blue</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. So Why So Sad</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Are Mothers Saints</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Of Walking Abortion</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Slash N' Burn</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Dead Martyrs</span></div><div>41. Tsunami</div><div>42. Mr Carbohydrate</div><div>43. PCP</div><div>44. Stay Beautiful</div><div>45. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun</div><div>46. Bag Lady</div><div>47. Found That Soul</div><div>48. All We Make Is Entertainment</div><div>49. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>50. Miss Europa Disco Dancer</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 6</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 5</div><div>The Holy Bible 7</div><div>Everything Must Go 7</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 9</div><div>Know Your Enemy 8</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 0</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 0</div><div>Futurology 0</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 0</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div></div></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Rick @rickl80</b></div><div>1. Faster</div><div>2. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>3. A Design For Life</div><div>4. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>5. This Is Yesterday</div><div>6. Slash N' Burn</div><div>7. Life Becoming A Landslide</div><div>8. Yes</div><div>9. No Surface All Feeling</div><div>10. Peeled Apples</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. The Masses Against The Classes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Sepia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Door To The River</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Australia </span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Motown Junk</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. 4 Ever Delayed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Montana/Autumn/78</span></div><div>21. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</div><div>22. Automatik Teknicolour</div><div>23. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love</div><div>24. Europa Geht Durch Mich</div><div>25. Intravenous Agnostic</div><div>26. Stay Beautiful</div><div>27. Rendition</div><div>28. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>29. Prologue To History</div><div>30. There By The Grace Of God</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Enola/Alone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Tsunami</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. I Know The Numbers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. This Joke Sport Severed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Black Square</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Be Natural</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Walk Me To The Bridge</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Broken Algorithms</span></div><div>41. Donkeys</div><div>42. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands</div><div>43. Love Letter To The Future</div><div>44. Misguided Missile</div><div>45. Locust Valley</div><div>46. I'm Just A Patsy</div><div>47. The Everlasting</div><div>48. From Despair To Where</div><div>49. Never Want Again</div><div>50. Too Cold Here</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 6</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 5</div><div>The Holy Bible 4</div><div>Everything Must Go 8</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 0</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 4</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 2</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 0</div><div>Futurology 5</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 0</div><div>Others 5</div></div><div><br /></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-1811065425871123362021-11-18T10:44:00.001-08:002021-11-18T10:44:09.767-08:00Manics Top 50s - 17th Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">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?!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>I'd can can if I could @gloomyok</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0S-BYNVgl9pj_1NyrC43DsKdVG-V67v-5KYNPkvpm4Sj97urTvlWlXyGs-wjH3256Fxm8G71O9c0yAHdKbajZklnpiPMFuF2ulyD4TmHMkhSaAJcwJWEgHXJJa-mHhpO4UiG2JaibD7U7/s680/gloomyok.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="549" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0S-BYNVgl9pj_1NyrC43DsKdVG-V67v-5KYNPkvpm4Sj97urTvlWlXyGs-wjH3256Fxm8G71O9c0yAHdKbajZklnpiPMFuF2ulyD4TmHMkhSaAJcwJWEgHXJJa-mHhpO4UiG2JaibD7U7/w517-h640/gloomyok.jpg" width="517" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>By Era</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Generation Terrorists 3</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Gold Against The Soul 1</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Holy Bible 5</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Everything Must Go 6</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Know Your Enemy 8</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Lifeblood 4</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Send Away The Tigers 3</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Journal For Plague Lovers 4</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Rewind The Film 4</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Futurology 2</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Others 0</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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?</div><div><br /></div><div><b>BOB CARIDAD @deporbags</b></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT289iOBKqGMxku2SF7X2YtyR4nyHPKXUfW1r43iefyxG1VeLYXA8gO55OGKQgj9E1TTa2Bx8qnPmg1VoFpAoFGclzBcVf1OMKO5u8QgFcwZpuIUQBw6IT2apy9y550nXvA496TwYTHloW/s680/deporbags+50.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="534" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT289iOBKqGMxku2SF7X2YtyR4nyHPKXUfW1r43iefyxG1VeLYXA8gO55OGKQgj9E1TTa2Bx8qnPmg1VoFpAoFGclzBcVf1OMKO5u8QgFcwZpuIUQBw6IT2apy9y550nXvA496TwYTHloW/w502-h640/deporbags+50.jpg" width="502" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 5</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 7</div><div>The Holy Bible 11</div><div>Everything Must Go 5</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4</div><div>Know Your Enemy 1</div><div>Lifeblood 4</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 4</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 0</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 0</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div><b>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There's a good spread across the albums in the By Era chart, with The Holy Bible just nudging ahead with seven.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>a lot of miles from home @ofmilesfromhome</b></div><div>1. Motown Junk</div><div>2. A Design For Life</div><div>3. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>4. Send Away The Tigers</div><div>5. Prologue To History</div><div>6. Automatik Teknicolour</div><div>7. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>8. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</div><div>9. 4 Ever Delayed</div><div>10. Faster</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Tsunami</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Roses In The Hospital</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Some Kind Of Nothingness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Futurology</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Australia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. PCP</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Yes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. 1985</span></div><div>21. Found That Soul</div><div>22. All Is Vanity</div><div>23. Peeled Apples</div><div>24. Sleepflower</div><div>25. The Convalescent</div><div>26. International Blue</div><div>27. Door To The River</div><div>28. Judge Yr'self</div><div>29. Boxes & Lists</div><div>30. From Despair To Where</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Enola/Alone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Empty Motorcade</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. A Song For The Sadness</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Love Letter To The Future</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. You're Tender And You're Tired</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Archives Of Pain</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. 30-Year War</span></div><div>41. My Little Empire</div><div>42. Epicentre</div><div>43. In Eternity</div><div>44. This Is Yesterday</div><div>45. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</div><div>46. Of Walking Abortion</div><div>47. Patrick Bateman</div><div>48. Starlover</div><div>49. The Secret He Had Missed</div><div>50. Broken Up Again</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 6</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 7</div><div>Everything Must Go 6</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 4</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 2</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 2</div><div>Rewind The Film 1</div><div>Futurology 2</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 1</div><div>Others 4</div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div><div><div><b>Cadw'r ffydd @WelshDragonHQ</b></div><div>1. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>2. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div>3. This Is Yesterday</div><div>4. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</div><div>5. Ready For Drowning</div><div>6. His Last Painting</div><div>7. Caldey</div><div>8. Mausoleum</div><div>9. This Sullen Welsh Heart</div><div>10. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. 1985</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Black Dog On My Shoulder</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. What Happened To The Blue Generation</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Anthem For A Lost Cause</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. The Intense Humming Of Evil</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Rewind The Film</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Yes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. People Give In</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. 4st 7lb</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Donkeys</span></div><div>21. Send Away The Tigers</div><div>22. Miss Europa Disco Dancer</div><div>23. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>24. Dylan And Caitlin</div><div>25. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love</div><div>26. Sleepflower</div><div>27. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</div><div>28. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>29. Comfort Comes</div><div>30. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Yourself</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Peeled Apples</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Askew Road</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Firefight</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Slash N' Burn</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Gold Against The Soul</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. A Song For Departure</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. A Design For Life</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll</span></div><div>41. Teenage 20/20</div><div>42. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun</div><div>43. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands</div><div>44. Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children</div><div>45. Wattsville Blues</div><div>46. Glasnost</div><div>47. Autumnsong</div><div>48. Hazelton Avenue</div><div>49. T.E. Lawrence On A Bike</div><div>50. My Guernica</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 5</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 7</div><div>The Holy Bible 6</div><div>Everything Must Go 4</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3</div><div>Know Your Enemy 5</div><div>Lifeblood 5</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 3</div><div>Rewind The Film 5</div><div>Futurology 1</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 2</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 0</div><div>Others 1</div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-28504430123021835202021-11-16T11:22:00.002-08:002021-11-16T11:22:34.557-08:00Manics Top 50s - 15th - 16th Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">Two more charts to add to the pile as we're almost up to the magic number of 68 that we had last time. From Despair To Where joins the 50 point club in the first chart, while Blank Diary Entry picks up only its second pick....and the first one was the very first new chart so it's had quite a wait! But both charts here have an 'in their own words' section, so take it away: </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Between Lifeblood and Send Away The Tigers (I’m 18 there, ‘06), there was a Canadian alt-music radio show that, after a segment about Richey, played ‘A Design For Life’. The song blew me away, and I looked into the band. ‘The Bible’ is/was a very important album for me personally, I got it on white vinyl. I always liked ‘Everything Must Go’ a lot, though I was really blown away by TUVL, I found it very interesting musically. The melancholia, the disco tinge, so much there.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">When I’m playing the guitar and singing, I often go to the Manics’ songs. Complicated Illusions is one I've been polishing up recently. I’ve learned most of them through the years.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Richey Jones @RicheyJones1234</b></div><div>1. From Despair To Where</div><div>2. A Design For Life</div><div>3. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>4. Yes</div><div>5. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>6. Faster</div><div>7. Roses In The Hospital</div><div>8. This Is Yesterday</div><div>9. Found That Soul</div><div>10. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Life Becoming A Landslide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Enola/Alone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Show Me The Wonder</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. PCP</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Peeled Apples</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Kevin Carter</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Australia</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. 4st 7lb</span></div><div>21. Complicated Illusions</div><div>22. Revol</div><div>23. Archives Of Pain</div><div>24. Ready For Drowning</div><div>25. Blank Diary Entry</div><div>26. Intravenous Agnostic</div><div>27. Anthem For A Lost Cause</div><div>28. Ocean Spray</div><div>29. The Everlasting</div><div>30. No Surface All Feeling</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Methadone Pretty</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Tennessee</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Motown Junk</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Stay Beautiful</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Die In The Summertime</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. We Her Majesty's Prisoners</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Diapause</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. She Is Suffering</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. You Love Us</span></div><div>41. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>42. Of Walking Abortion</div><div>43. Journal For Plague Lovers</div><div>44. Marlon JD</div><div>45. Door To The River</div><div>46. Further Away</div><div>47. So Why So Sad</div><div>48. 1985</div><div>49. Sleepflower</div><div>50. Underdogs</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 8</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 5</div><div>The Holy Bible 10</div><div>Everything Must Go 8</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3</div><div>Know Your Enemy 4</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 1</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 2</div><div>Futurology 0</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 0</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 3</div><div>Others 2</div><div><br /></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>The second chart sees You Love Us at number 1, perhaps surprisingly for only the second occasion. But The Holy Bible just pips Generation Terrorists in the By Era chart by 9 to 8. Again, Andrew has pulled a few words together:</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I must say that delving back into the back catalogue and listening to tracks I haven't heard in ages has been a breath of fresh air. Getting away from the bog standard playlist I created god knows how long ago, and listening to the albums in full has given me a renewed love for the Manics.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">As a background, I was born in 1990 and was never a music lover as a child, hence I was a latecomer to the Manics. My first experience was SATT so this album always holds a special place in my heart even though it isn't necessarily their standout. I was hooked from this point, bought all the back catalogue etc etc.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I think my list has a fair spread across the albums but ultimately, my list is weighted towards my experiences of their live gigs. That's definitely what swung my No1 anyway, I've got some brilliant memories of screaming You Love Us over and over again in hot sweaty arenas.</span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Andrew Chinnick @AChinnick90</b></div><div><div>1. You Love Us</div><div>2. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>3. Born A Girl</div><div>4. From Despair To Where</div><div>5. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>6. Let Robeson Sing</div><div>7. Of Walking Abortion</div><div>8. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>9. Gold Against The Soul</div><div>10. Faster</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. The Secret He Had Missed</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Yes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. You’re Tender And You’re Tired</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. No Surface all Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. International Blue</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. This Is Yesterday</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Roses In The Hospital</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Die In The Summertime</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Sleepflower</span></div><div>21. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>22. Prologue To History</div><div>23. Love's Sweet Exile</div><div>24. Another Invented Disease</div><div>25. Slash N' Burn</div><div>26. A Design For Life</div><div>27. Europa Geht Dirch Mich</div><div>28. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div>29. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>30. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. She Is Suffering</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Archives Of Pain</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Imperial Bodybags</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Empty Souls</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Rewind The Film</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Ocean Spray</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Enola/Alone</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. PCP</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. This Joke Sport Severed</span></div><div>41. This Sullen Welsh Heart</div><div>42. Revol</div><div>43. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</div><div>44. Motown Junk</div><div>45. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</div><div>46. Complicated Illusions</div><div>47. I’m Just A Patsy</div><div>48. Underdogs</div><div>49. Divine Youth</div><div>50. Umbrella</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 8</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 9</div><div>Everything Must Go 6</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 2</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 4</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 1</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 2</div><div>Futurology 3</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 2</div></div><div><br /></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-58413212481221418202021-11-16T03:01:00.001-08:002021-11-16T03:01:58.265-08:00Manics Top 50s - 14th Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Jennifer, Mother of @Pyfbrown</b></div><div>1. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>2. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>3. From Despair To Where</div><div>4. Gold Against The Soul</div><div>5. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>6. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</div><div>7. The Secret He Had Missed</div><div>8. Faster</div><div>9. Enola/Alone</div><div>10. Orwellian</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Afterending</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tsunami</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Send Away The Tigers</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. Little Baby Nothing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">1985</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Sleepflower</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. International Blue</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Distant Colours</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">A Song For Departure</span></div><div>21. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love</div><div>22. You Stole The Sun From My Heart</div><div>23. Be Natural</div><div>24. A Design For Life</div><div>25. Black Dog On My Shoulder</div><div>26. Australia</div><div>27. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)</div><div>28. Everything Must Go</div><div>29. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</div><div>30. Further Away</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Second Great Depression</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Autumnsong</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Indian Summer</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">There By The Grace Of God</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Always/Never</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Diapause</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Kevin Carter</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Don't Let The Night Divide Us</span></div><div>41. So Why So Sad</div><div>42. Yourself</div><div>43. Empty Souls</div><div>44. To Repel Ghosts</div><div>45. Hold Me Like A Heaven</div><div>46. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div>47. Glasnost</div><div>48. The Love Of Richard Nixon</div><div>49. Drug Drug Druggy</div><div>50. Emily</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 3</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 6</div><div>The Holy Bible 1</div><div>Everything Must Go 8</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6</div><div>Know Your Enemy 1</div><div>Lifeblood 9</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 5</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 0</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 0</div><div>Futurology 0</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 6</div><div>Others 1</div><div><br /></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>The Convalescent @EinBleistift</b></div><div>1. A Design For Life</div><div>2. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>3. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>4. Archives Of Pain</div><div>5. Die In The Summertime</div><div>6. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>7. All Is Vanity</div><div>8. The View From Stow Hill</div><div>9. The Convalescent</div><div>10. You Love Us</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Faster</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Yes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. My Little Empire</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. I Live To Fall Asleep</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Mausoleum</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Epicentre</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Life Becoming A Landslide</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Peeled Apples</span></div><div>21. Black Square</div><div>22. Prologue To History</div><div>23. Solitude Sometimes Is</div><div>24. This Joke Sport Severed</div><div>25. Some Kind Of Nothingness</div><div>26. From Despair To Where</div><div>27. Sleepflower</div><div>28. Europa Geht Durch Mich</div><div>29. Groundhog Days</div><div>30. Mirror Gaze</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Ready For Drowning</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Misguided Missile</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. This Sullen Welsh Heart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Little Baby Nothing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Empty Souls</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. Kevin Carter</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Nobody Loved You</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Rewind The Film</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. The Last Time I Saw Paris</span></div><div>41. Send Away The Tigers</div><div>42. Postcards From A Young Man</div><div>43. Pedestal</div><div>44. Walk Me To The Bridge</div><div>45. Distant Colours</div><div>46. 4 Ever Delayed</div><div>47. 30-Year War</div><div>48. Broken Up Again</div><div>49. Hold Me Like A Heaven</div><div>50. Everything Will Be</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 3</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 3</div><div>The Holy Bible 5</div><div>Everything Must Go 3</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 6</div><div>Know Your Enemy 4</div><div>Lifeblood 4</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 1</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 3</div><div>Rewind The Film 4</div><div>Futurology 6</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 3</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 0</div><div>Others 2</div></div><div><br /></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">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.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Monkey Marl @MonkeyMarl</b></div><div>1. Intravenous Agnostic</div><div>2. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>3. Nostalgic Pushead</div><div>4. Faster</div><div>5. Found That Soul</div><div>6. Sleepflower</div><div>7. Stay Beautiful</div><div>8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</div><div>9. Die In The Summertime</div><div>10. From Despair To Where</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Little Baby Nothing</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. Ready For Drowning</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. Peeled Apples</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. The Masses Against The Classes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. 1985</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. Donkeys</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. A Design For Life</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Prologue To History</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. No Surface All Feeling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Dead Trees And Traffic Islands</span></div><div>21. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</div><div>22. Golden Platitudes</div><div>23. Sepia</div><div>24. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>25. Marlon JD</div><div>26. PCP</div><div>27. Yourself</div><div>28. The Intense Humming Of Evil</div><div>29. Enola/Alone</div><div>30. Mr Carbohydrate</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. 4st 7lb</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. Slash N' Burn</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Drug Drug Druggy</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. Yes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. Take The Skinheads Bowling</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. William's Last Words</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Roses In The Hospital</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. You Love Us</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Hold Me Like A Heaven</span></div><div>41. She Is Suffering</div><div>42. Born To End</div><div>43. This Joke Sport Severed</div><div>44. Tennessee</div><div>45. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</div><div>46. RP McMurphy</div><div>47. Of Walking Abortion</div><div>48. Me And Stephen Hawking</div><div>49. Another Invented Disease</div><div>50. Further Away</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 9</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 8</div><div>The Holy Bible 9</div><div>Everything Must Go 8</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3</div><div>Know Your Enemy 2</div><div>Lifeblood 1</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 1</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 6</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 1</div><div>Rewind The Film 0</div><div>Futurology 0</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 0</div><div>Others 1</div></div><div><br /></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538514601162859975.post-60912191984854597412021-11-11T10:41:00.000-08:002021-11-11T10:41:36.774-08:00Manics Top 50s - 10th Nov 2021<div style="text-align: left;">It's a one chart day today with chart number 61, but it's an ever-present in the top 50s and fantasy setlists that makes a comeback, with a Mild shake-up of her previous chart seeing Sleepflower leapfrog to number 1, the third time it has taken top spot so far. Only This Joke Sport Severed managed to break the first three albums' grip on the top ten, with Generation Terrorists taking top spot in the By Era chart with ten.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">My ridiculous pattern-spotting senses were on overdrive here as Empty <b>Soul</b>s and Found That <b>Soul</b> sat together, Small <b>Black</b> Flowers That Grow In The Sky and <b>Black</b> Dog On My Shoulder were in consecutive places, as were Last <b>Christmas</b> and The Ghost Of <b>Christmas</b>! Spooooky. The two Christmas songs were only the second and fourth votes respectively for those tracks.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><b>Mild Manics @MildManics</b></div><div>1. Sleepflower</div><div>2. Judge Yr'self</div><div>3. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)</div><div>4. Stay Beautiful</div><div>5. Faster</div><div>6. Slash N' Burn</div><div>7. Motown Junk</div><div>8. Motorcycle Emptiness</div><div>9. This Joke Sport Severed</div><div>10. You Love Us</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">11. Roses In The Hospital</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">12. From Despair To Where</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">13. A Design For Life</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">14. Yes</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">15. PCP</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">16. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">17. Empty Souls</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">18. Found That Soul</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">19. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">20. Black Dog On My Shoulder</span></div><div>21. The Masses Against The Classes</div><div>22. Miss Europa Disco Dancer</div><div>23. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time</div><div>24. Little Baby Nothing</div><div>25. You Stole The Sun From My Heart</div><div>26. Tsunami</div><div>27. Ocean Spray</div><div>28. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God</div><div>29. Sorrow 16</div><div>30. Spectators Of Suicide</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">31. Sculpture Of Man</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">32. To Repel Ghosts</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">33. Everything Must Go</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">34. The Everlasting</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">35. 4st 7lb</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">36. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">37. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">38. Bored Out Of My Mind</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">39. Born A Girl</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">40. Autumnsong</span></div><div>41. A Song For Departure</div><div>42. Door To The River</div><div>43. Still Snowing In Sapporo</div><div>44. Me And Stephen Hawking</div><div>45. Diapause</div><div>46. Hold Me Like A Heaven</div><div>47. Socialist Serenade</div><div>48. Working Class Hero</div><div>49. Last Christmas</div><div>50. The Ghost Of Christmas</div><div><br /></div><div><b>By Era</b></div><div>Generation Terrorists 10</div><div>Gold Against The Soul 4</div><div>The Holy Bible 7</div><div>Everything Must Go 4</div><div>This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7</div><div>Know Your Enemy 3</div><div>Lifeblood 3</div><div>Send Away The Tigers 2</div><div>Journal For Plague Lovers 3</div><div>Postcards From A Young Man 0</div><div>Rewind The Film 0</div><div>Futurology 0</div><div>Resistance Is Futile 1</div><div>The Ultra Vivid Lament 2</div><div>Others 4</div><div><br /></div></div>Pyfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11193608622745005042noreply@blogger.com0