Saturday, 20 November 2021

Manics Top 50s - 19th Nov 2021

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!

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.

Dai Howells @Dai_Howells
1. A Design For Life
2. Faster
3. The Masses Against The Classes
4. Motorcycle Emptiness
5. Vision Blurred
6. Found That Soul
7. To Repel Ghosts
8. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)
9. Firefight
10. Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel
11. Judge Yr'self
12. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
13. Sleepflower
14. Archives Of Pain
15. No Surface All Feeling
16. Kodawari
17. Sepia
18. Removables
19. Tsunami
20. Prologue To History
21. Mausoleum
22. Automatik Teknicolour
23. All We Make Is Entertainment
24. Of Walking Abortion
25. From Despair To Where
26. Walk Me To The Bridge
27. Ostpolitik
28. Door To The River
29. Anorexic Rodin
30. In Eternity
31. PCP
32. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
33. The Vorticists
34. Everything Must Go
35. You Love Us
36. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
37. Send Away The Tigers
38. This Joke Sport Severed
39. Montana/Autumn/78
40. Nobody Loved You
41. International Blue
42. The Ghost Of Christmas
43. Some Kind Of Nothingness
44. Fearless Punk Ballad
45. Autumnsong
46. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
47. Still Snowing In Sapporo
48. Empty Souls
49. Comfort Comes
50. Sculpture Of Man

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

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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!

Dr Gary P Marriner @DrGaryMarriner
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. Everything Must Go
3. No Surface All Feeling
4. Prologue To History
5. Divine Youth
6. Faster
7. Motown Junk
8. You Love Us
9. Sepia
10. Black Holes For The Young

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.

11. Stay Beautiful
12. From Despair To Where
13. Kevin Carter
14. Removables
15. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
16. A Design For Life
17. Little Baby Nothing
18. Europa Geht Durch Mich
19. Slash N' Burn
20. In Eternity

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.

21. Yes
22. First Republic
23. Nobody Loved You
24. Pedestal
25. Intravenous Agnostic
26. Sleepflower
27. Enola/Alone
28. Show Me The Wonder
29. Hold Me Like A Heaven
30. Donkeys

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.

31. Socialist Serenade
32. Further Away
33. The Masses Against The Classes
34. Leviathan
35. Masking Tape
36. Golden Platitudes
37. This Joke Sport Severed
38. Be Natural
39. Valley Boy
40. Afterending

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.

41. Spectators Of Suicide
42. Red Sleeping Beauty
43. Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel
44. People Give In
45. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
46. Morning Comrades
47. A Song For The Sadness
48. We Her Majesty's Prisoners
49. Patrick Bateman
50. Heyday Of The Blood

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.

By Era
Generation Terrorists 8
Gold Against The Soul 4
The Holy Bible 3
Everything Must Go 9
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7
Know Your Enemy 4
Lifeblood 0
Send Away The Tigers 3
Journal For Plague Lovers 1
Postcards From A Young Man 1
Rewind The Film 1
Futurology 2
Resistance Is Futile 4
The Ultra Vivid Lament 1
Others 2

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Friday, 19 November 2021

Manics Top 50s - 18th Nov 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Thursday, 18 November 2021

Manics Top 50s - 17th Nov 2021

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

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

I'd can can if I could @gloomyok

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

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

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

BOB CARIDAD @deporbags


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Tuesday, 16 November 2021

Manics Top 50s - 15th - 16th Nov 2021

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: 

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.

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.

Richey Jones @RicheyJones1234
1. From Despair To Where
2. A Design For Life
3. Motorcycle Emptiness
4. Yes
5. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
6. Faster
7. Roses In The Hospital
8. This Is Yesterday
9. Found That Soul
10. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
11. Life Becoming A Landslide
12. Enola/Alone
13. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
14. Show Me The Wonder
15. PCP
16. Everything Must Go
17. Peeled Apples
18. Kevin Carter
19. Australia
20. 4st 7lb
21. Complicated Illusions
22. Revol
23. Archives Of Pain
24. Ready For Drowning
25. Blank Diary Entry
26. Intravenous Agnostic
27. Anthem For A Lost Cause
28. Ocean Spray
29. The Everlasting
30. No Surface All Feeling
31. Methadone Pretty
32. Tennessee
33. Motown Junk
34. Stay Beautiful
35. Die In The Summertime
36. We Her Majesty's Prisoners
37. Diapause
38. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)
39. She Is Suffering
40. You Love Us
41. The Masses Against The Classes
42. Of Walking Abortion
43. Journal For Plague Lovers
44. Marlon JD
45. Door To The River
46. Further Away
47. So Why So Sad
48. 1985
49. Sleepflower
50. Underdogs

By Era
Generation Terrorists 8
Gold Against The Soul 5
The Holy Bible 10
Everything Must Go 8
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 3
Know Your Enemy 4
Lifeblood 1
Send Away The Tigers 1
Journal For Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From A Young Man 0
Rewind The Film 2
Futurology 0
Resistance Is Futile 0
The Ultra Vivid Lament 3
Others 2

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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:

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.

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.

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.

Andrew Chinnick @AChinnick90
1. You Love Us
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Born A Girl
4. From Despair To Where
5. Little Baby Nothing
6. Let Robeson Sing
7. Of Walking Abortion
8. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
9. Gold Against The Soul
10. Faster
11. The Secret He Had Missed
12. Yes
13. You’re Tender And You’re Tired
14. No Surface all Feeling
15. International Blue
16. This Is Yesterday
17. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
18. Roses In The Hospital
19. Die In The Summertime
20. Sleepflower
21. Walk Me To The Bridge
22. Prologue To History
23. Love's Sweet Exile
24. Another Invented Disease
25. Slash N' Burn
26. A Design For Life
27. Europa Geht Dirch Mich
28. Solitude Sometimes Is
29. The Masses Against The Classes
30. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
31. She Is Suffering
32. Archives Of Pain
33. Imperial Bodybags
34. Empty Souls
35. Rewind The Film
36. Ocean Spray
37. Everything Must Go
38. Enola/Alone
39. PCP
40. This Joke Sport Severed
41. This Sullen Welsh Heart
42. Revol
43. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God
44. Motown Junk
45. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)
46. Complicated Illusions
47. I’m Just A Patsy
48. Underdogs
49. Divine Youth
50. Umbrella

By Era
Generation Terrorists 8
Gold Against The Soul 4
The Holy Bible 9
Everything Must Go 6
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 2
Lifeblood 2
Send Away The Tigers 4
Journal For Plague Lovers 1
Postcards From A Young Man 0
Rewind The Film 2
Futurology 3
Resistance Is Futile 1
The Ultra Vivid Lament 2
Others 2

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Manics Top 50s - 14th Nov 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Thursday, 11 November 2021

Manics Top 50s - 10th Nov 2021

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.

My ridiculous pattern-spotting senses were on overdrive here as Empty Souls and Found That Soul sat together, Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky and Black Dog On My Shoulder were in consecutive places, as were Last Christmas and The Ghost Of Christmas!  Spooooky.  The two Christmas songs were only the second and fourth votes respectively for those tracks.

Mild Manics @MildManics
1. Sleepflower
2. Judge Yr'self
3. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
4. Stay Beautiful
5. Faster
6. Slash N' Burn
7. Motown Junk
8. Motorcycle Emptiness
9. This Joke Sport Severed
10. You Love Us
11. Roses In The Hospital
12. From Despair To Where
13. A Design For Life
14. Yes
15. PCP
16. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
17. Empty Souls
18. Found That Soul
19. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
20. Black Dog On My Shoulder
21. The Masses Against The Classes
22. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
23. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
24. Little Baby Nothing
25. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
26. Tsunami
27. Ocean Spray
28. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God
29. Sorrow 16
30. Spectators Of Suicide
31. Sculpture Of Man
32. To Repel Ghosts
33. Everything Must Go
34. The Everlasting
35. 4st 7lb
36. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds
37. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
38. Bored Out Of My Mind
39. Born A Girl
40. Autumnsong
41. A Song For Departure
42. Door To The River
43. Still Snowing In Sapporo
44. Me And Stephen Hawking
45. Diapause
46. Hold Me Like A Heaven
47. Socialist Serenade
48. Working Class Hero
49. Last Christmas
50. The Ghost Of Christmas

By Era
Generation Terrorists 10
Gold Against The Soul 4
The Holy Bible 7
Everything Must Go 4
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 7
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 3
Send Away The Tigers 2
Journal For Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From A Young Man 0
Rewind The Film 0
Futurology 0
Resistance Is Futile 1
The Ultra Vivid Lament 2
Others 4

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Tuesday, 9 November 2021

Manics Top 50s - 8th - 9th Nov 2021

After a whole two weeks of no charts, we're suddenly back in action.  The early birds had finally finished and now we're back with a second wind for the people where the deadline feels like it's looming ever larger!

First up we have a chart headed by Motorcycle Emptiness and has Spectators Of Suicide making its third top 10 so far, possibly buoyed by its recent outing on the tour.  With those two in mind, Generation Terrorists takes the top spot in the By Era chart with eleven entries with GATS and The Holy Bible taking seven each and half of the chart amongst the three of them.

Matthew Richard Nixey @Matt_Nixey_1985
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
3. A Design For Life
4. Motown Junk
5. Faster
6. Yes
7. Ready For Drowning
8. Europa Geht Durch Mich
9. Little Baby Nothing
10. Spectators Of Suicide
11. Life Becoming A Landslide
12. Rewind The Film
13. Walk Me To The Bridge
14. This Is Yesterday
15. Still Snowing In Sapporo
16. Of Walking Abortion
17. Dreaming A City (Hughesovka)
18. Democracy Coma
19. International Blue
20. Marlon JD
21. We Her Majesty's Prisoners
22. Tsunami
23. Diapause
24. This Sullen Welsh Heart
25. Mausoleum
26. Crucifix Kiss
27. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
28. No Surface All Feeling
29. Door To The River
30. Golden Platitudes
31. Let's Go To War
32. From Despair To Where
33. Show Me The Wonder
34. Roses In The Hospital
35. This Joke Sport Severed
36. Archives Of Pain
37. The Secret He Had Missed
38. The Intense Humming Of Evil
39. Slash N' Burn
40. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
41. William's Last Words
42. Sleepflower
43. You Love Us
44. Comfort Comes
45. 4 Lonely Roads
46. 4 Ever Delayed
47. Donkeys
48. My Little Empire
49. Born To End
50. Last Exit On Yesterday

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

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The second chart sees the promise of one of our remaining no-vote songs come into being, as 3 Ways To See Despair grabs its first points and now leaves only two album tracks pointless.  Tolerate takes top spot, with two top 10 places for The Ultra Vivid Lament, Complicated Illusions at 4 and The Secret He Had Missed at 6, both of which are their highest placings to date.

Caldey picked up only its second vote, while Fearless Punk Ballad and The Vorticists both got their third.  This Is My Truth took the honours in the By Era chart with eight.

Marcus James @diapause78
1. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
2. Hold Me Like A Heaven
3. A Design For Life
4. Complicated Illusions
5. Ready For Drowning
6. The Secret He Had Missed
7. People Give In
8. Prologue To History
9. Solitude Sometimes Is
10. Peeled Apples
11. There By The Grace Of God 
12. A Song For Departure
13. Quest For Ancient Colour
14. Golden Platitudes
15. Motorcycle Emptiness
16. Ocean Spray
17. Rewind The Film
18. 4 Ever Delayed
19. Montana/Autumn/78
20. Door To The River
21. 1985
22. Automatik Teknicolour
23. Die In The Summertime
24. Black Holes For The Young
25. Still Snowing In Sapporo
26. Between The Clock And The Bed
27. You're Tender And You're Tired
28. Futurology
29. Nobody Loved You
30. Virginia State Epileptic Colony
31. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)
32. Stay Beautiful
33. Yes
34. Sepia
35. Fearless Punk Ballad
36. Winterlovers
37. I Live To Fall Asleep
38. Misguided Missile
39. Spectators Of Suicide
40. Firefight
41. Running Out Of Fantasy
42. Black Dog On My Shoulder
43. A Song For The Sadness
44. Caldey
45. The Vorticists
46. Motown Junk
47. 3 Ways To See Despair
48. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow
49. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
50. Sleepflower

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

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