Manics Top 50s - 30th August 2013

So, from a conversation between 3 or 4 people on Twitter to the grand total of 50 charts!!  And by the sounds of it a few more last minute entries to come as well!!  Our 50th slot was taken by another special guest in the form of the second chart here today....but more on that shortly.

Our first chart today has managed to be unique in a number of ways!  First of all another new number one but secondly we had two songs which had been in all 48 charts so far.....neither of them made it here!  But saying that, it's another one of those incredibly even charts across the albums and nice to see a few different songs getting their day in the higher reaches of a chart.

And so to our 50th chart contributed by Ben Myers, a journalist for a number of major music publications over the years and author of, among other things, the novel 'Richard'.  To quote another quote about the book itself - "A sympathetic and sad imagining of the boy who became a reluctant pop idol".  The boy in question of course being Richey Edwards.  Stupid me only just heard of this book while talking to other fans through these charts, so I will definitely be finding myself a copy in the near future.

Ben admitted to me that his chart may be weighted towards the earlier albums and it proved to be so!!  As with another chart along similar lines last week though I personally love seeing some of the older songs taking their turn in the chart, especially some of the old B-sides.  And I'm certainly not going to argue with his choice of number one, with it being the same as mine!!

Thanks to Hannah Bevan for originally approaching Ben to take part, I'm sure she's still on cloud 9 from having her question answered by Nicky Wire on the NME Twitter page yesterday (as did fellow top 50 contributors Monkey Marl, KB2X and Lenchik)!!

Final reminder if you are taking part - get your charts to me by the end of tomorrow, Saturday 31st, if you want to be included in the final chart and a big thank you to everyone who has taken part so far!!!!

Harriet Hey @harriet_hey

(also found at http://b-tchfork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/manics-top-50.html?m=1)

1. Cardiff Afterlife

2. PCP

3. Enola/Alone

4. Glasnost

5. Me and Stephen Hawking

6. Roses in the Hospital

7. Judge Yr'self

8. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

9. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love

10. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach

11. I Think I Found It

12. Yes

13. This Is Yesterday

14. 1985

15. Nobody Loved You

16. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

17. Another Invented Disease

18. Nostalgic Pushead

19. Hazelton Avenue

20. A Design For Life

21. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

22. Socialist Serenade

23. There by the Grace of God

24. Williams Last Words

25. Suicide Alley

26. Crucifix Kiss

27. Born a Girl

28. Always/Never

29. Loves Sweet Exile

30. Tsunami

31. The Masses Against The Classes

32. Life Becoming a Landslide

33. Lady Lazarus

34. The Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel

35. Out of Time

36. Rewind the Film

37. Teenage 20/20

38. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun

39. Black Dog on my Shoulder

40. The Second Great Depression

41. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

42. Virginia State Epileptic Colony

43. Can't Take My Eyes Off You

44. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

45. Take The Skinheads Bowling

46. The Year of Purification

47. Intravenous Agnostic

48. Your Love Alone is Not Enough

49. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds

50. Underdogs

By Era

Generation Terrorists 6

Gold Against the Soul 4

The Holy Bible 5

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 5

Know Your Enemy 4

Lifeblood 4

Send Away the Tigers 4

Journal for Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From a Young Man 4

Others 4

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 14)

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Benjamin Myers @BenMyers1
1. Motown Junk
2. Faster
3. Suicide Alley
4. Spectators Of Suicide
5. Yes
6. You Love Us
7. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
8. Stay Beautiful
9. RP McMurphy
10. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
11. From Despair To Where
12. A Design For Life
13. PCP
14. Soul Contamination
15. This Is Yesterday
16. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
17. Revol
18. Yourself
19. Love’s Sweet Exile
20. Sleepflower
21. Die in the Summertime
22. UK Channel Boredom
23. Motorcycle Emptiness
24. No Surface All Feeling
25. 4st 7lb
26. New Art Riot
27. Little Baby Nothing
28. Slash N’ Burn
29. Sculpture of Man
30. Kevin Carter
31. Repeat
32. Tennessee
33. Judge Yr’self
34. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
35. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
36. Strip It Down
37. A Vision Of Dead Desire
38. Us Against You
39. Teenage 20/20
40. Born to End
41. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
42. Mausoleum
43. You Stole the Sun from My Heart
44. Nat West–Barclays–Midlands–Lloyds
45. Of Walking Abortion
46. Drug Drug Druggy
47. Crucifix Kiss
48. Comfort Comes
49. Archives of Pain
50. Another Invented Disease

By Era
Generation Terrorists 22
Gold Against the Soul 7
The Holy Bible 13
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 2
Know Your Enemy 0
Lifeblood 0
Send Away the Tigers 1
Journal for Plague Lovers 0
Postcards From a Young Man 0
Others 0

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 27)

Manics Top 50s - 29th August 2013

Well, I won't get too carried away, but with this being the 48th chart and two more currently counting down it appears we have hit the magic target of 50 Top 50s!!!  Hopefully we still have a few more to come in the last couple of days too, so if you're still working on yours let me have it before the end of Saturday or give your friends a nudge if they are submitting too!!

And so onto today's selection and 'Yes' is back again in the number one slot!!  Another 'Holy Bible'-heavy chart with 'Generation Terrorists' also featuring favourably and we're still getting those no-vote songs in on the action, this time around it's 'What's my Name' picking up its first points.  Another favourable entry for one of our B-side candidates too!

Emma L. @ElectricEmma

1. Yes

2. Judge Yr'self

3. Archives of Pain

4. A Design For Life

5. Prologue To History

6. Bag Lady

7. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

8. Kevin Carter

9. Die in the Summertime

10. The Masses Against The Classes

11. It's So Easy

12. Rewind The Film

13. The Convalescent

14. Sleepflower

15. Peeled Apples

16. Motorcycle Emptiness

17. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

18. The Intense Humming of Evil 

19. Faster

20. You Stole The Sun from my Heart

21. Slash N' Burn

22. Black Dog on My Shoulder

23. Comfort Comes

24. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

25. What's My Name?

26. My Little Empire 

27. Mausoleum

28. Sorrow 16

29. Motown Junk

30. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

31. PCP

32. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

33. Sculpture of Man

34. Of Walking Abortion

35. Australia

36. Everything Must Go

37. Close My Eyes 

38. Roses in the Hospital

39. She Is Suffering

40. New Art Riot

41. Little Baby Nothing

42. Stay Beautiful

43. Ocean Spray

44. Mr. Carbohydrate

45. This is the Day

46. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

47. Journal For Plague Lovers

48. Donkeys

49. Sepia

50. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

By Era

Generation Terrorists 8

Gold Against the Soul 6

The Holy Bible 12

Everything Must Go 7

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 5

Know Your Enemy 3

Lifeblood 0

Send Away the Tigers 1

Journal for Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From a Young Man 0

Others 4

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 29)

Manics Top 50s - 27th August 2013

And here we are again with our 46th and 47th top 50....with two still unfinished the doors are open for someone to be the lucky 50th person!!!  Sorry, no prizes, but we'll break out a banner and get Sean to do a trumpet fanfare if you really want to?!!

Another chart from the US first up, leaning more towards the older material, but with a decent slice of 'This is my Truth...' in there as well.  An ever popular number one too, and a top 10 which will all surely have a good shout at their place in the final 50.  The top spot contrasts with our second chart which contains another new number one in 'Love's Sweet Exile'.  A very classic top 10 as well, with the personal touch of 'Firefight' creeping in there for its second top 10 placing.

I'm getting increasingly tempted to add up those totals, but still holding out!!!  Who knows how close it will be in the end, maybe we already have a winner, but maybe YOUR chart will be the one that decides it so be sure to submit it if you want to make the difference!

Su @dharmacide

1. Motorcycle Emptiness

2. Roses in the Hospital

3. Yes

4. Little Baby Nothing 

5. From Despair to Where

6. Faster

7. Your Love Alone is not Enough

8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

9. A Design for Life

10. Motown Junk

11. Stay Beautiful

12. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

13. Life Becoming a Landslide

14. Suicide is Painless (Theme from MASH)

15. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

16. Cardiff Afterlife

17. Sepia 

18. Send Away the Tigers

19. Some Kind of Nothingness

20. William's Last Words

21. Die in the Summertime

22. Epicentre

23. PCP

24. The Convalescent

25. Of Walking Abortion

26. Autumnsong

27. Ocean Spray

28. She is Suffering

29. Slash N' Burn

30. No Surface All Feeling

31. 4st 7lb

32. Prologue to History

33. You Stole the Sun from my Heart

34. Virginia State Epileptic Colony

35. The Masses Against the Classes

36. Australia

37. His Last Painting

38. Love's Sweet Exile

39. Tsunami

40. This is Yesterday

41. Removables

42. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

43. RP McMurphy

44. Ready for Drowning

45. I Live to Fall Asleep 

46. You Love Us

47. Solitude Sometimes Is

48. Nobody Loved You

49. Mausoleum

50. My Little Empire

By Era

Generation Terrorists 9

Gold Against the Soul 4

The Holy Bible 10

Everything Must Go 5

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 7

Know Your Enemy 5

Lifeblood 3

Send Away the Tigers 3

Journal for Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From a Young Man 1

Others 1

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 35)

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Shannon Fletcher @TheSpiderShan

1. Love’s Sweet Exile

2. Faster

3. Stay Beautiful

4. Yes

5. Little Baby Nothing

6. Empty Souls

7. Firefight

8. Judge Yr’self

9. Motorcycle Emptiness

10. From Despair To Where

11. Archives Of Pain

12. Of Walking Abortion

13. Die In The Summertime

14. Tsunami

15. Solitude Sometimes Is

16. A Design For Life

17. Prologue To History

18. Roses In The Hospital

19. Further Away

20. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

21. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

22. You Love Us

23. No Surface All Feeling

24. My Little Empire

25. Found That Soul

26. 4st 7lb

27. Ready For Drowning

28. All Is Vanity

29. Pretension/Repulsion

30. Ocean Spray

31. Everything Must Go

32. Born to End

33. Mr Carbohydrate

34. Enola/Alone

35. Dead Martyrs

36. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)

37. Marlon JD

38. Intravenous Agnostic

39. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever

40. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

41. Wattsville Blues

42. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

43. (It’s Not War) Just The End Of Love

44. Can’t Take My Eyes Off You

45. Repeat

46. Sleepflower

47. Slash N’ Burn

48. The Masses Against The Classes

49. William’s Last Words

50. The Second Great Depression

By Era

Generation Terrorists 8

Gold Against the Soul 4

The Holy Bible 8

Everything Must Go 7

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 6

Lifeblood 2

Send Away the Tigers 2

Journal for Plague Lovers 5

Postcards From a Young Man 2

Others 2

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 32)

Manics Top 50s - 26th August 2013

Just the one chart today coming all the way from South Korea!  With the Manics having fans all over the world it's great to get representation from people in different locations to make it a truly global chart :)  And we also have another new number one in 'Underdogs'!!  I found it interesting that there are two songs from 'Send Away the Tigers' in the chart and they come in at 1 and 3!!  Another one of those songs-appearing-for the-first-time as well, even at this late stage we still have plenty of B-sides and tracks from compilations feeling all unloved!!

As if you haven't heard me say it enough, just a reminder that 31st August is the deadline for charts to be considered, so if you or anyone you know is planning on submitting a selection there are only a few days left....is it going to be like transfer deadline day?!!

ㅇㅅ @eggshell15
1. Underdogs
2. 4st 7lbs
3. Indian Summer
4. Faster
5. Some Kind of Nothingness
6. Life Becoming a Landslide
7. Judge Yr'self
8. Prologue to History
9. A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun
10. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
11. Ready for Drowning
12. She is Suffering
13. From Despair to Where
14. Sorrow 16
15. The Girl Who Wanted to be God
16. Roses in the Hospital
17. Starlover
18. Australia
19. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever
20. William's Last Words
21. The Instrumental
22. Kevin Carter
23. Motown Junk
24. Crucifix Kiss
25. Postcards From a Young Man
26. PCP
27. The Masses Against the Classes
28. Black Dog on my Shoulder
29. His Last Painting
30. Show Me the Wonder
31. Black Garden
32. No Surface All Feeling
33. Motorcycle Emptiness
34. The Love of Richard Nixon
35. Enola/Alone
36. You're Tender and You're Tired
37. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
38. Never Want Again
39. Nobody Loved You
40. Emily
41. So Why So Sad
42. Stay Beautiful
43. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
44. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
45. Little Baby Nothing
46. Let Robeson Sing
47. Marlon JD
48. Be Natural
49. Auto-Intoxication
50. You Love Us

By Era

Generation Terrorists 9

Gold Against the Soul 4

The Holy Bible 6

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 6

Know Your Enemy 4

Lifeblood 2

Send Away the Tigers 2

Journal for Plague Lovers 3

Postcards From a Young Man 5

Others 3

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 26)

Manics Top 50s - 25th August 2013

A bumper crop of three charts for your viewing pleasure today, two of which have been counting down gradually over the last week or so.  The first chart is definitely one of our most unique charts, being heavily weighted towards the first 3 albums/eras, but that allows some of those great early B-sides to have their day in the sun.  And I do believe 'Archives of Pain' has earned its first number one slot - that will be another chart by the way, the number one chart!!!  And no matter how much you love the later songs, you have to admit it's a damn fine chart, a glowing comment on the depth of the material available to us when making our selections.

I know I keep saying that some charts are equally spread between the albums when looking at the mini-charts, but our second chart is probably the closest we're going to get to actually being equal!!  I expect Clair herself may be surprised by this too :)  It is interesting to see whether your perceived favourite/not-so-favourite albums actually come out where you expect them to, mine were about right, although I have had other people say otherwise for theirs.  But a good mix in Clair's choices of the chart regulars and some of those that don't appear as often, including at least one no-vote song in there.

The third chart today has another new entry in our list of number ones and a whole host of different songs muscling their way in on the top ten too.  Many of the songs featured are in plenty of charts, but definitely some of their higher placings here.  Also a slight leaning away from the first two albums to balance out with our first selection!!  We've now hit chart number 44, within touching distance of 50, so as always keep them coming!!

RMcNamara @RorsDM

1. Archives of Pain

2. Of Walking Abortion

3. Die in the Summertime

4. Yes

5. Sleepflower

6. Patrick Bateman

7. Stay Beautiful

8. Repeat

9. Faster

10. Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel

11. Mausoleum

12. Condemned to Rock 'N' Roll

13. The Intense Humming of Evil

14. Revol

15. PCP

16. 4st 7lb

17. Motorcycle Emptiness

18. Slash N' Burn

19. Motown Junk

20. Democracy Coma

21. Love Torn Us Under

22. Life Becoming a Landslide

23. Mr Carbohydrate

24. Suicide is Painless (Theme from MASH)

25. All is Vanity

26. Hibernation

27. Comfort Comes

28. From Despair to Where

29. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

30. Love's Sweet Exile

31. Prologue to History

32. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky

33. New Art Riot

34. Judge Yr'self

35. It's So Easy

36. Sculpture of Man

37. Removables

38. Crucifix Kiss

39. Methadone Pretty

40. Gold Against the Soul

41. Sorrow 16

42. Symphony of Tourette

43. Drug Drug Druggy

44. Nat West - Barclays - Midlands - Lloyds

45. Doors Closing Slowly

46. Ocean Spray

47. So Dead

48. We Her Majesty's Prisoners

49. Another Invented Disease

50. Yourself

By Era

Generation Terrorists 18

Gold Against the Soul 10

The Holy Bible 14

Everything Must Go 3

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 1

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 0

Send Away the Tigers 0

Journal for Plague Lovers 2

Postcards From a Young Man 0

Others 0

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 21)

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clair horne @clairhorne
1. Yes
2. This is Yesterday
3. A Design for Life
4. Too Cold Here
5. This Joke Sport Severed
6. Your Love Alone is not Enough
7. Little Baby Nothing
8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
9. A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun
10. Ocean Spray
11. A Song for Departure
12. Doors Closing Slowly
13. His Last Painting
14. Ready for Drowning
15. Born a Girl
16. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
17. The Love of Richard Nixon
18. Faster
19. Motorcycle Emptiness
20. Life Becoming a Landslide
21. Solitude Sometimes Is
22. Door to the River
23. To Repel Ghosts
24. No Surface All Feeling
25. From Despair to Where
26. Bag Lady
27. Some Kind of Nothingness
28. You Know it's Going to Hurt
29. Facing Page: Top Left
30. Sleepflower
31. All is Vanity
32. I Think I Found It
33. Rewind the Film
34. Journal for Plague Lovers
35. Fragments
36. So Why So Sad
37. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
38. Found that Soul
39. Roses in the Hospital
40. Fearless Punk Ballad
41. Underdogs
42. You Love Us
43. The Masses Against the Classes
44. Endless Plain of Fortune
45. Yourself
46. Suicide is Painless (Theme from MASH)
47. William's Last Words
48. Imperial Bodybags
49. Let Robeson Sing
50. Stay Beautiful

By Era

Generation Terrorists 5

Gold Against the Soul 5

The Holy Bible 4

Everything Must Go 4

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 5

Lifeblood 5

Send Away the Tigers 5

Journal for Plague Lovers 7

Postcards From a Young Man 3

Others 4

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 25)

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Claire @clarahopscotch

1. This Joke Sport Severed

2. Further Away

3. My Little Empire

4. Some Kind of Nothingness

5. Golden Platitudes

6. Solitude Sometimes Is

7. Everything Must Go

8. Motorcycle Emptiness

9. Yes

10. No Surface All Feeling

11. Postcards From a Young Man

12. Faster

13. Peeled Apples

14. The Everlasting 

15. A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun

16. This is Yesterday

17. Show Me the Wonder

18. A Song for Departure

19. Hazelton Avenue

20. My Guernica

21. Little Baby Nothing

22. A Design for Life

23. Donkeys

24. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky

25. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

26. Cardiff Afterlife

27. 4 Ever Delayed

28. Revol 

29. Ready for Drowning

30. Prologue to History 

31. Life Becoming a Landslide

32. Nobody Loved You

33. 4st 7lb

34. PCP

35. Ocean Spray

36. Underdogs

37. Empty Souls

38. Glasnost

39. Judge Yr'self

40. Epicentre 

41. Me and Stephen Hawking

42. Baby Elian

43. Facing Page: Top Left

44. Enola/Alone

45. Can't Take My Eyes Off You

46. Doors Closing Slowly

47. Freedom of Speech Won't Feed my Children

48. This is the Day

49. New Art Riot

50. Umbrella

By Era

Generation Terrorists 3

Gold Against the Soul 2

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 7

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 6

Know Your Enemy 5

Lifeblood 5

Send Away the Tigers 1

Journal for Plague Lovers 5

Postcards From a Young Man 5

Others 4

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 24)

Manics Top 50s - 24th August 2013

One week to go before the Manics Top 50s officially close for business!!!  In terms of the overall chart that is, if anyone happens to miss the deadline but still wants to share their chart I will put them up here for everyone to gaze at in wonder.  Which leads me on nicely to today's chart from one of our overseas contributors (or America as it is more commonly known) which contains a very popular number one and an interesting number 7 - one of the songs people tended to suggest to me first if they were previously trying to guess any zero vote songs!!!  It wasn't true even then of course, but a healthy score of 44 points does it no harm at all.  A pretty healthy showing from 'Know Your Enemy' in general too, as well as a decent share from 'Lifeblood'.

Another feature of the final chart that I've come up with is the one person who ends up sharing the most songs in their chart with the final chart.  Now everyone's chart is just as valid as the next person, so I'm not going to make a big deal of this as if that person 'wins' because that's blatantly not true, but I think it will be interesting!!

Andrea Greene Myers @sleepflower_

1. Motorcycle Emptiness

2. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

3. Yes

4. Solitude Sometimes Is

5. Faster

6. The Everlasting

7. Wattsville Blues

8. Love's Sweet Exile

9. From Despair to Where

10. You Stole the Sun from my Heart

11. Black Dog on my Shoulder

12. I Live to Fall Asleep

13. Marlon JD

14. This is the Day

15. Autumnsong

16. Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head

17. The Love of Richard Nixon

18. All We Make is Entertainment

19. Miss Europa Disco Dancer

20. The Year of Purification

21. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love

22. There by the Grace of God

23. A Song for Departure

24. Some Kind of Nothingness

25. Stay Beautiful

26. Dead Martyrs

27. Intravenous Agnostic

28. Virginia State Epileptic Colony

29. Ocean Spray

30. Yourself

31. Pretension/Repulsion

32. Die in the Summertime

33. Tsunami

34. Ready for Drowning

35. 1985

36. Another Invented Disease

37. Postcards from a Young Man

38. Drug Drug Druggy

39. Motown Junk

40. You Love Us

41. Revol

42. This is Yesterday

43. PCP

44. Slash N' Burn

45. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

46. Found that Soul

47. Suicide is Painless (Theme from MASH)

48. To Repel Ghosts

49. Enola/Alone

50. Show Me the Wonder

By Era

Generation Terrorists 8

Gold Against the Soul 4

The Holy Bible 6

Everything Must Go 2

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 5

Know Your Enemy 7

Lifeblood 6

Send Away the Tigers 1

Journal for Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From a Young Man 4

Others 3

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 26)

Manics Top 50s - 23rd August 2013

I have great pleasure in announcing today's top 50 from respected journalist Keith Cameron, no doubt in good spirits following his coffee and croissant with Nicky Wire recently!!  As well as a distinguished and continuing career with a number of top music magazines over the years, Keith may also be familiar to you as the author of the piece inside the booklet of the Holy Bible 10th Anniversary Edition.  As you'll see from the chart, his association with that album is no coincidence, coming out on top in the mini-chart by era.  His choice of number one is certainly a very popular one in these charts, although a surprise placing at number 2 for 'Prologue to History', which has been putting in a decent showing recently in a bid to be the highest placed B-side.

Thanks to Keith for taking the time out to contribute to our chart and also to JamGaw for his excellent recruiting skills, who incidentally suggests that we go and read Keith's just published Mudhoney biography as a thank you.  And as this is a place to celebrate words and music, and not product placement, we're sure he wouldn't mind if you just got it out of the library!  They do give us power after all.....

We are now up to 40 charts, so our goal of at least 50 top 50s is getting closer, especially considering we have 5 on the go at the moment!!

Keith Cameron @KeithCameron2

1. Faster

2. Prologue To History

3. Motorcycle Emptiness

4. Motown Junk

5. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

6. Archives Of Pain

7. Marlon JD

8. A Design For Life

9. Mausoleum

10. Yes

11. Little Baby Nothing

12. Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

13. Rewind The Film

14. Die In The Summertime

15. She Is Suffering

16. Slash N’ Burn

17. No Surface All Feeling

18. Enola/Alone

19. Of Walking Abortion

20. The Masses Against The Classes

21. All Is Vanity

22. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

23. Comfort Comes

24. Peeled Apples

25. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

26. Some Kind Of Nothingness

27. Mr Carbohydrate

28. The Love Of Richard Nixon

29. Pretension/Repulsion

30. Kevin Carter

31. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun

32. 1985

33. You Love Us

34. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

35. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

36. Send Away The Tigers

37. Ocean Spray

38. Judge Yr’self

39. You Stole The Sun From My Heart

40. Revol

41. From Despair To Where

42. Spectators Of Suicide

43. The Intense Humming Of Evil

44. Sleepflower

45. Dead Passive

46. Never Want Again

47. Empty Souls

48. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God

49. Virginia State Epileptic Colony

50. Repeat

By Era

Generation Terrorists 8

Gold Against the Soul 4

The Holy Bible 11

Everything Must Go 8

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 1

Lifeblood 3

Send Away the Tigers 2

Journal for Plague Lovers 6

Postcards From a Young Man 2

Others 2

(Number shared with Final Top 50 - 33)