Friday 23 August 2013

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)


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