Sunday 7 June 2015

The Unofficial Fans' Manics Top 50 2015

The chart below was compiled from 68 different top 50s submitted by Manic Street Preachers fans between February and May 2015.  Points were awarded based on 50 for number one, 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.  The numbers in brackets show the position in the last chart from 2013.  Where songs tied on points in the overall chart, the number of entries in the charts were used first to determine placing, followed by highest placing in an individual chart.  Any that still tied are shown with an "=" sign.  Thank you to all people who took part in, followed or promoted these charts, it has been great fun again!!!

See also the full chart and sub-charts tabs with all manner of Manics-related lists that came out of these selections!!

Manics Fans' Final Top 50
1. (2) Motorcycle Emptiness 2628
2. (1) Faster 2592
3. (3) A Design for Life 2366
4. (4) Yes 1900
5. (13) If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 1685
6. (10) You Love Us 1627
7. (6) Motown Junk 1620
8. (5) La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) 1611
9. (8) Stay Beautiful 1576
10. (7) Little Baby Nothing 1531
11. (11) PCP 1434
12. (9) From Despair to Where 1412
13. (15) Your Love Alone is Not Enough 1313
14. (18) Sleepflower 1239
15. (17) This is Yesterday 1185
16. (14) No Surface All Feeling 1122
17. (58) 1985 1113
18. (12) Roses in the Hospital 1110
19. (23) Revol 1059
20. (16) The Masses Against the Classes 1054
21. (34) Peeled Apples 1041
22. (22) Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky 999
23. (39) Prologue to History 985
24. (19) 4st 7lb 943
25. (55) Tsunami 819
26. (41) Solitude Sometimes Is 817
27. (28) The Everlasting 806
28. (29) ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart 776
29. (37) Archives of Pain 769
30. (43) Die in the Summertime 762
31. (30) Autumnsong 757
32. (20) Life Becoming a Landslide 754
33. (31) Found That Soul 733
34. (44) Of Walking Abortion 728
35. (59) Mausoleum 694
36. (24) Everything Must Go 681
37. (33) Suicide is Painless (Theme from MASH) 675
38. (25) Jackie Collins Existential Question Time 658
39. (45) This Joke Sport Severed 651
40. (NE) 30-Year War 651
41. (71) Rewind the Film 646
42. (NE) Europa Geht Durch Mich 645
43. (NE) Walk Me to the Bridge 644
44. (57) Postcards From a Young Man 642
45. (65) Donkeys 625
46. (152) Show Me the Wonder 623
47. (47) Ready for Drowning 616
48. (40) Enola/Alone 609
49. (27) Some Kind of Nothingness 598
50. (46) Ocean Spray 585

By Era
Generation Terrorists 6
Gold Against the Soul 6
The Holy Bible 11
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 5
Know Your Enemy 2
Lifeblood 2
Send Away the Tigers 2
Journal for Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From a Young Man 2
Rewind the Film 3
Futurology 2
Others 1
By Era By Score
(as in the scores as individual top 50s were scored)
Generation Terrorists 236
Gold Against the Soul 177
The Holy Bible 330
Everything Must Go 130
This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 128
Know Your Enemy 19
Lifeblood 59
Send Away the Tigers 58
Journal for Plague Lovers 55
Postcards From a Young Man 9
Rewind the Film 26
Futurology 17
Others 31

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As an old school fan since 91, I'm always intrigued to hear about other people's take on the Manics story, in particular those that didn't have much choice about whether they were around in those early days.  As one of our younger contributors Gabriel Rutherford offered to write his thoughts about the final top 50.  This was originally written just after the top 50 was announced and through my own negligence has remained unpublished until now......time for that to change then eh?

Top 50 Reaction - Gabriel Rutherford 

1st of March, 2015. I submitted my top 50 chart and waited. And waited. And waited. C’mon guys, who takes 3 months to decide a top 50? Yet, when the chart came out, I was intrigued. So, in this piece I’ll compare the (un)official chart to my personal chart. It will be structured like so:

*Official top 50 place* - Song Name* (*Placing on my chart*)
*Reaction* 


50 - Ocean Spray (33)
Scraping into the Top 50 is Ocean Spray, a melancholy second track on Know Your Enemy. Elegantly sad, a track I feel has been overlooked by much of the Manics community

49 - Some Kind of Nothingness (Not Featured)
Rather deservedly, in my opinion, the first Manics single not to enter the charts above 40 since the Sony deal. If you know me on Twitter, you’ll know that I very much dislike Postcards.. in its entirety, this song being no exception. Very overrated.

48 - Enola/Alone (22)
A rather magnificent EMG song, shockingly overlooked by the band as a single. A bit low perhaps, but no complaints with this song.

47 - Ready For Drowning (NF)
This track is boring. Typical, bland stuff from This is My Truth Tell Me Yours. Why is it here guys?

46 - Show Me The Wonder (NF)
In February I did not think this was top 50 material. But now I am totally converted to the powers of nostalgia, working men's clubs, and (of course) trumpets in rock music.

45 - Donkeys (Honourable Mention)
I feel this song is just outside my personal top 50, but I did give it an honourable mention. Unlike some songs mentioned before, it does have its place here.

44 - Postcards From A Young Man (NF)
I hate it. Next!

43 - Walk Me to The Bridge (50)
A more recent  Manics classic, but nonetheless wonderful and spiky.

42 - Europa Geht Durch Mich (21)
Europe did indeed pass through the Manics on Futurology, as this krautrock stomp featuring Nina Hoss shows. A bold, whirring song, in its Top 50 position.  But maybe a bit low..
 
41 - Rewind the Film (NF)
A surprise entry in my opinion. I didn’t think many people enjoyed Richard Hawley clashing with ..Hawaiian guitar?

40 - 30 Year War (NF) 
Clichéd, yet enjoyable rant about Tory government.  Particularly relevant in recent months… 

39 - This Joke Sport Severed (NF) 
People tell me this song is beautiful. I just don’t hear it. Sorry, thumbs down from me. 

38 - Jackie Collins Existential Question Time (NF) 
What a great title. What a good song. What the hell is it doing here though?  

37 - Suicide is Painless (Theme From MASH) (43) 
A fantastic song that avoids falling into the trap of either sounding exactly like the original or nothing like it at all. 

36 - Everything Must Go (25) 
A wonderfully expansive, sweeping declaration that the Manics are carrying on, just not as we knew them before. 

35 - Mausoleum (11) 
Criminally underrated Holy Bible track. Beginning with a shimmer that soon warps into a thrash; an examination of the Holocaust. 

34 - Of Walking Abortion (19) 
Another Holy Bible track. Admittedly one of the weaker songs on that album, yet it should be higher.  

33 - Found That Soul (HM) 
Another honourable mention. The heavy opener to Know Your Enemy, perhaps overrated due to the weakness of that album as a whole.  

32 - Life Becoming a Landslide (NF) 
A genuine surprise. I can offer no explanation for its presence other than lots of people liking it better than I do.  

31 - Autumnsong (26) 
Pure rock. Wonderful guitar work in particular. One small complaint I have is that it lacks force. 

30 - Die in The Summertime (23)
Morbid lyrics seep from this Holy Bible track. One of the songs the BBC (perhaps wisely for their sakes) cut from their coverage of the Cardiff Castle concert.

29 - Archives of Pain (6)
#ToolowJimBob. The second best song on the Holy Bible is shockingly lobbed into mere 29th.

28 - ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthoronedayitsworldwouldfallapart (42)
Brilliant riffs. Fucking annoyance of a title to type out though..

27 - The Everlasting (NF)
A glaring omission from my chart. I apologise for my clear stupidity.

26 - Solitude Sometimes Is (NF)
My response to this is the same phrase missing in the chorus to Stay Beautiful.

25 - Tsunami (17)
A wonderful song. The performance of this song at the Corn Exchange in 2014 sends shivers down my spine when I remember it.

24 - 4st 7lb (9)
Jesus guys, come on! This is at least top 20 quality!

23 - Prologue to History (NF)
It’s reached the stage where if I defame the songs too much I will face a barrage of abuse on Twitter. So, this song is decent. It’s harmless.

22 - Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky (32)
A beautiful, tragic song. A song that can claim the honour of being the only song to reduce me to tears, ever.

21 - Peeled Apples (NF)
Bizarrely, this song finds itself closer than Archives of Pain and 4st 7lb to the top 20. Harmless.

20 - The Masses Against the Classes (NF) 
I can’t excuse this. In no way, shape or form should this be in any top 20 (or top 10!) 

19 - Revol (13)  
Fans favourite. Post-punk, caustic riffage. How the hell was this considered a commercially viable single? An amazing song. 

18 - Roses in the Hospital (HM) 
The album version, of course. A good enough song, but not one I would personally have in my top 20, or even my top 50. Honourable mention! 

17 - 1985 (NF) 
Why? 

16 - No Surface All Feeling (12) 
Perhaps a send-off to Richey. A wonderful, soaring riff introduces a wonderful, soaring song. 

15 - This Is Yesterday (NF) 
Shockingly, I left this out of my top 50. I have no idea why, upon reflection. 

14 - Sleepflower (15) 
Just about perfect placement in my opinion. Very, very rarely played live. A fantastic song that‘s loved by many fans evidently.  

13 - Your Love Alone is Not Enough (NF) 
It’s okay, I guess. I never got the massive hullabaloo surrounding it. 

12 - From Despair to Where (8) 
An amazing howl of melancholy set in screeching guitars. A-grade Manics. 

11 - PCP (14) 
Snarling condemnation of political correctness. A fantastic closer to a masterpiece of an album. 

10 - Little Baby Nothing (NF)
It’s strange to see something so high up that I didn’t even give a mention to. Ah, well. James duets with ex-pornstar Traci Lords about female exploitation. An enchanting, rather poppy song.

9 - Stay Beautiful  (20)
A manifesto, a declaration of being from the early years of the Manics.  Driven by James’s guitar more than anything else. Bears small resemblance to You Love Us.

8 - La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) (7)
“The last great baggy song”, ironically. A tale of war veterans being ignored and taken for granted until the 11th November. Then forgotten again on the 12th.

7 - Motown Jumk (10)
A punk call-to arms. The song that started the great media circus around the young Preachers, which still continues today, to an extent. Debut songs don’t get much better than this.

6 - You Love Us (5)
A provocative sneer at journalists and ordinary people who decried or mocked the Manics. The fans seem to be split over whether the Sony version, which went on Generation Terrorists, or the Heavenly version, which featured an Iggy Pop-sampling outro.

5 - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (4)
The Manics first number one.  A fantastic song inspired perhaps partly by the Manics own Leftist beliefs, partly by their heroes The Clash’s Spanish Bombs. A wonderful, song even better live.

4 - Yes (16)
The explosive introduction to the hatred of the Holy Bible tells of deprivation and lowlife. Perhaps a little high (switch it with Archives of Pain in my opinion).

3 - A Design For Life (2)
A song ubiquitous to the Manics that introduced their great return after the trauma of Richey’s disappearance. A proud espousing of working-class values, heritage and culture. It is second only to one song, in my opinion.

2 - Faster (3)
The declaration of greatness from Richey before his inevitable collapse is magnificent. A military-style, disciplined riff, self-appreciating lyrics, powerhouse drumming and the largest number of complaints to the BBC have helped immortalize this song as a firm favourite of Manics fans. Which leaves only one song to count..

1 - Motorcyle Emptiness (1)
What can be said? A masterpiece. The deserved, absolute number one Manics song. This passionate anti-capitalist track has earned its place in the heart of almost every Manics fan across the globe. To have this song on a debut album is astounding.  The video is amazing, shot while the band and director were constantly on the run from the police in Tokyo, having neglected to obtain permission to film. An epic, soaring riff takes the song skyward, soaring into the top spot.

So, that was my reaction to the Manics top 50. Big thanks to Pyf for letting me do this piece and for organizing the Unofficial Manics Top 50.  If you wish to shout at me for any opinions voiced in this article, go to my twitter. 
@gabe_writes 

Thank you for reading!

Monday 1 June 2015

Manics Top 50s - 31st May 2015 part 2

And so to the last batch of charts and the first participant here is my Manics blog buddy and mastermind behind the B-Side Battle and the Ultimate Manics album, JamGaw (@starsfrighten).  Like myself, he took on the mammoth task of ordering the whole back catalogue (although he left out the covers, pffft) and after a long countdown ended it all with a top 10 face-off between his choices and mine.  It was a fun end to the whole top 50 voting process (who will ever forget #TooLowJimBob?) and thanks to the voting public my top 10 emerged victorious.....but it was close!  So thanks again and I'm sure his wife, the fellow chart-er Sarah E (@starkitten8), will be hoping he doesn't start up something new when this is finished!! :)

And it's that song again......it takes four of the top slots again here.  But is it enough?  Did it muscle its way into the top spot in a photo finish?  Or is it too little, too late to take the title?  There are some pretty diverse charts in this bunch and the bigger songs didn't all get their own way, so it's anyone's guess as to which way it might be going.  It seems just as exciting to look at the battle to actually make the 50 itself as to the top spot.

I'm just about to go and add a total column to my spreadsheet and click on sort......I'll know for a few days before you do and will be throwing random facts your way via Twitter until next weekend when the big reveal will take place in two parts.  If you're going to the gigs this week (or have already been) have a great time, thanks for your support in the top 50s and I'll see you at the weekend!!!!

JamGaw @starsfrighten
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. Show Me the Wonder
3. Postcards From a Young Man
4. Motown Junk
5. A Design For Life
6. The Masses Against the Classes
7. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love
8. Little Baby Nothing
9. This Sullen Welsh Heart
10. Faster
11. Sepia
12. From Despair to Where
13. No Surface All Feeling
14. PCP
15. Europa Geht Durch Mich
16. Walk Me to the Bridge
17. Life Becoming a Landslide
18. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
19. You Love Us
20. Donkeys
21. Sorrow 16
22. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
23. Autumnsong
24. Yes
25. Revol
26. As Holy as the Soil (That Buries Your Skin)
27. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
28. 1985
29. Cardiff Afterlife
30. Stay Beautiful
31. Hibernation
32. This Joke Sport Severed
33. Peeled Apples
34. 30-Year War
35. Prologue to History
36. This is Yesterday
37. Slash N' Burn
38. William's Last Words
39. Further Away
40. You're Tender And You're Tired
41. Fearless Punk Ballad
42. Some Kind of Nothingness
43. Sleepflower
44. 4st 7lb
45. Me And Stephen Hawking
46. Futurology
47. Rewind the Film
48. Leviathan
49. Patrick Bateman
50. Golden Platitudes

By Era
Generation Terrorists 7
Gold Against the Soul 6
The Holy Bible 6
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3
Know Your Enemy 0
Lifeblood 2
Send Away the Tigers 2
Journal for Plague Lovers 5
Postcards From a Young Man 4
Rewind the Film 5
Futurology 3
Others 2

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Tranmere Steve @Tranmeresteve
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. A Design For Life
3. Your Love Alone is not Enough
4. Prologue to History
5. Futurology
6. Little Baby Nothing
7. Sleepflower
8. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
9. Stay Beautiful
10. 30-Year War
11. From Despair to Where
12. 1985
13. Die in the Summertime
14. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
15. Everything Must Go
16. Faster
17. She is Suffering
18. Autumnsong
19. Archives of Pain
20. Solitude Sometimes Is
21. Some Kind of Nothingness
22. Peeled Apples
23. Anthem For a Lost Cause
24. This is Yesterday
25. Baby Elian
26. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach
27. Europa Geht Durch Mich
28. Rewind the Film
29. You Stole the Sun from my Heart
30. (I Miss the) Tokyo Skyline
31. No Surface All Feeling
32. Roses in the Hospital
33. Divine Youth
34. My Guernica
35. Yes
36. Manorbier
37. Ready For Drowning
38. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
39. There By the Grace of God
40. Me And Stephen Hawking
41. 4 Lonely Roads
42. This Sullen Welsh Heart
43. Golden Platitudes
44. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
45. Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head
46. Send Away the Tigers
47. Kevin Carter
48. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love
49. Enola/Alone
50. As Holy as the Soil (That Buries Your Skin)

By Era
Generation Terrorists 3
Gold Against the Soul 4
The Holy Bible 7
Everything Must Go 7
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 2
Lifeblood 2
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From a Young Man 3
Rewind the Film 8
Futurology 3
Others 1

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david wells @davidwells661
1. Yes
2. Faster
3. Patrick Bateman
4. Motorcycle Emptiness
5. Stay Beautiful
6. Motown Junk
7. Little Baby Nothing
8. You Love Us
9. Suicide is Painless (Theme From MASH)
10. A Design For Life
11. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
12. Too Cold Here
13. Me And Stephen Hawking
14. 4st 7lb
15. No Surface All Feeling
16. Let Robeson Sing
17. Hibernation
18. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
19. Of Walking Abortion
20. Prologue to History
21. Your Love Alone is not Enough
22. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love
23. The Masses Against the Classes
24. Revol
25. Ocean Spray
26. PCP
27. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
28. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
29. Umbrella
30. Mr Carbohydrate
31. The Everlasting
32. You Stole the Sun from my Heart
33. She is Suffering
34. Tsunami
35. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach
36. Show Me the Wonder
37. Virginia State Epileptic Colony
38. Rock and Roll Music
39. Imperial Bodybags
40. Take the Skinheads Bowling
41. Marlon JD
42. The Love of Richard Nixon
43. Some Kind of Nothingness
44. (I Miss the) Tokyo Skyline
45. Working Class Hero
46. The Last Time I Saw Paris
47. Further Away
48. Walk Me to the Bridge
49. Anthem For a Lost Cause
50. Empty Souls

By Era
Generation Terrorists 6
Gold Against the Soul 3
The Holy Bible 8
Everything Must Go 6
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 5
Know Your Enemy 2
Lifeblood 2
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 5
Postcards From a Young Man 2
Rewind the Film 3
Futurology 2
Others 3

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Vague McLarity @VagueMcLarity
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. Autumnsong
3. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
4. Spectators of Suicide
5. Faster
6. Europa Geht Durch Mich
7. You Love Us
8. A Design For Life
9. Motown Junk
10. Golden Platitudes
11. Judge Yr'self
12. The Love of Richard Nixon
13. Underdogs
14. Walk Me to the Bridge
15. Prologue to History
16. Revol
17. From Despair to Where
18. The Masses Against the Classes
19. The Intense Humming of Evil
20. Ocean Spray
21. The Everlasting
22. Roses in the Hospital
23. 1985
24. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
25. Velocity Girl
26. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
27. Yes
28. Anthem For a Lost Cause
29. Kevin Carter
30. 4st 7lb
31. Australia
32. Working Class Hero
33. Found That Soul
34. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love
35. Let Robeson Sing
36. She is Suffering
37. Show Me the Wonder
38. Everything Must Go
39. No Surface All Feeling
40. I'm Just a Patsy
41. Little Baby Nothing
42. You Stole the Sun from my Heart
43. PCP
44. Donkeys
45. Sepia
46. Postcards From a Young Man
47. Been a Son
48. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
49. Journal For Plague Lovers
50. This is Yesterday

By Era
Generation Terrorists 5
Gold Against the Soul 4
The Holy Bible 9
Everything Must Go 8
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 2
Send Away the Tigers 4
Journal for Plague Lovers 2
Postcards From a Young Man 3
Rewind the Film 2
Futurology 2
Others 2

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Dom Hirsz @DomHirsz
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. Little Baby Nothing
3. Faster
4. Life Becoming A Landslide
5. Yes
6. Empty Souls
7. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
8. A Design For Life
9. 4st 7lb
10. 30-Year War
11. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
12. PCP
13. Ocean Spray
14. This Is Yesterday
15. Roses in the Hospital
16. Stay Beautiful
17. Peeled Apples
18. Prologue to History
19. Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky
20. Archives Of Pain
21. 1985
22. The Everlasting
23. Solitude Sometimes Is
24. No Surface All Feeling
25. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
26. From Despair To Where
27. Autumnsong
28. 4 Ever Delayed
29. Firefight
30. Send Away the Tigers
31. Facing Page: Top Left
32. Futurology
33. Some Kind of Nothingness
34. Anthem For A Lost Cause
35. Everything Must Go
36. Further Away
37. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
38. Walk Me to the Bridge
39. Motown Junk
40. Underdogs
41. The Masses Against the Classes
42. Patrick Bateman
43. This Sullen Welsh Heart
44. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow
45. As Holy As the Soil (That Buries Your Skin)
46. My Little Empire
47. Australia
48. Marlon JD
49. Suicide Alley
50. Postcards From a Young Man

By Era
Generation Terrorists 5
Gold Against the Soul 5
The Holy Bible 7
Everything Must Go 6
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 1
Lifeblood 3
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 4
Postcards From a Young Man 2
Rewind the Film 4
Futurology 3
Others 3

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Ross Fairhurst @furbag
1. 4 Ever Delayed
2. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
3. The Love of Richard Nixon
4. A Design for Life
5. From Despair To Where
6. Found That Soul
7. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
8. This Joke Sport Severed
9. Walk Me to the Bridge
10. The Everlasting
11. Sleepflower
12. Peeled Apples
13. Suicide Is Painless (Theme From MASH)
14. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
15. Everything Must Go
16. Sepia
17. Kevin Carter
18. Australia
19. 1985
20. The Masses Against the Classes
21. There by the Grace of God
22. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love
23. Patrick Bateman
24. Cardiff Afterlife
25. Donkeys
26. Democracy Coma
27. Ocean Spray
28. Locust Valley
29. Automatik Teknicolour
30. A Song For Departure
31. Tsunami
32. No Surface All Feeling
33. Roses in the Hospital
34. 30-Year War
35. My Little Empire
36. Red Rubber
37. She Is Suffering
38. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
39. PCP
40. Nostalgic Pushead
41. The Ghost Of Christmas
42. Imperial Bodybags
43. Everyone Knows/Nobody Cares
44. You Stole the Sun from My Heart
45. Judge Yr’self
46. Empty Souls
47. Firefight
48. Motorcycle Emptiness
49. Little Baby Nothing
50. Caldey

By Era
Generation Terrorists 4
Gold Against the Soul 7
The Holy Bible 3
Everything Must Go 6
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 5
Know Your Enemy 4
Lifeblood 6
Send Away the Tigers 2
Journal for Plague Lovers 2
Postcards From a Young Man 2
Rewind the Film 1
Futurology 2
Others 6

Manics Top 50s - 31st May 2015 part 1

So yesterday was deadline day for the top 50s and as with last time we had a massive 12 on the final day.  I've split it into two separate blogs so it isn't too unwieldy.  Will it be significant that four of these charts have the same number one?  Does that represent a late push for the finish line?  Let's see how the other half of the charts on deadline day went a bit later on......

Unfortunately I wasn't able to accept one chart from @Aerodax of "Autumnsong x 25 Australia x 24 and A Design For Life".  But it was a nice try.....and that's two more songs than he normally offers.

The last chart of this section was obviously equal to the others in its own right but was also significant for giving a vote to our last no-vote album track, as with last time a remarkable feat that someone somewhere has love for every single one of them!  More to come......

Fiona Bolland @fionabolland
1. Anthem for a Lost Cause
2. Autumnsong
3. Hibernation
4. Roses in the Hospital
5. Golden Platitudes
6. This Sullen Welsh Heart
7. Mausoleum 
8. Stay Beautiful
9. Hazelton Avenue
10. Donkeys
11. A Design For Life
12. This is Yesterday
13. Motorcycle Emptiness
14. Divine Youth
15. Faster
16. Tsunami
17. This Joke Sport Severed
18. From Despair to Where
19. You Love Us
20. Of Walking Abortion
21. Some Kind of Nothingness
22. Yes
23. The Second Great Depression
24. Send Away the Tigers
25. 1404
26. Show Me the Wonder
27. Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head
28. Prologue to History
29. Can't Take My Eyes Off You
30. Morning Comrades
31. Umbrella
32. Black Square
33. Facing Page: Top Left
34. Postcards from a Young Man
35. Between the Clock and the Bed
36. Indian Summer
37. Red Sleeping Beauty
38. Suicide is Painless (Theme From MASH)
39. Bright Eyes
40. Red Rubber
41. Little Baby Nothing
42. We Were Never Told
43. Doors Closing Slowly
44. You're Tender and You're Tired
45. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
46. Europa Geht Durch Mich
47. Black Holes for the Young
48. Yourself
49. Walk Me to the Bridge
50. Futurology

By Era
Generation Terrorists 5
Gold Against the Soul 5
The Holy Bible 5
Everything Must Go 5
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 4
Know Your Enemy 0
Lifeblood 0
Send Away the Tigers 7
Journal for Plague Lovers 3
Postcards From a Young Man 5
Rewind the Film 3
Futurology 6
Others 2

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Adam Marshall @MarshFactor
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. Faster
3. A Design For Life
4. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
5. Yes
6. La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A Sigh)
7. From Despair To Where
8. This Is Yesterday
9. Motown Junk
10. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
11. Rewind The Film
12. Life Becoming A Landslide
13. You Love Us
14. Solitude Sometimes Is
15. Walk Me To The Bridge
16. Die In The Summertime
17. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
18. Marlon J.D.
19. Little Baby Nothing
20. 1985
21. No Surface All Feeling
22. Prologue To History
23. Australia
24. 4st 7lb
25. Send Away The Tigers
26. P.C.P.
27. This Joke Sport Severed
28. Stay Beautiful
29. All Is Vanity
30. Suicide Is Painless (Theme From MASH)
31. Archives Of Pain
32. The Second Great Depression
33. Found That Soul
34. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
35. Roses In The Hospital
36. A Song For Departure
37. Condemned To Rock 'N' Roll
38. Futurology
39. Revol
40. 30 Year War
41. Slash N' Burn
42. Let Robeson Sing
43. Peeled Apples
44. Tsunami
45. Everything Must Go
46. Europa Geht Durch Mich
47. Of Walking Abortion
48. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow
49. This Sullen Welsh Heart
50. Sleepflower

By Era
Generation Terrorists 8
Gold Against the Soul 5
The Holy Bible 9
Everything Must Go 4
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3
Know Your Enemy 2
Lifeblood 3
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 5
Postcards From a Young Man 1
Rewind the Film 3
Futurology 4
Others 0

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Daughter of @LonRANDALL
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. Love`s Sweet Exile
3. Between The Clock and The Bed
4. Sleepflower
5. PCP
6. Life Becoming A Landslide
7. You Love Us
8. Misguided Missile
9. Tsunami
10. Motown Junk
11. My Little Empire
12. Further Away
13. Teenage 20/20
14. Intravenous Agnostic
15. The Masses Against The Classes
16. Stay Beautiful
17. Spectators Of Suicide
18. Solitude Sometimes Is
19. Wattsville Blues
20. Sorrow 16
21. This Sullen Welsh Heart
22. Condemned To Rock `N` Roll
23. Born To End
24. Send Away The Tigers
25. Imperial Bodybags
26. Strip It Down
27. Faster
28. 30-Year War
29. I`m Just A Patsy
30. Die In The Summertime
31. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun
32. Slash N' Burn
33. The Girl Who Wanted To Be God
34. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
35. Running Out Of Fantasy
36. She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach
37. Born A Girl
38. This Joke Sport Severed
39. Let’s Go To War
40. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
41. Methadone Pretty
42. A Design For Life
43. Yes
44. Dying Breeds
45. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
46. Show Me The Wonder
47. (It`s Not War) Just The End Of Love
48. Dead Yankee Drawl
49. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
50. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky

By Era
Generation Terrorists 14
Gold Against the Soul 2
The Holy Bible 4
Everything Must Go 4
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 5
Know Your Enemy 3
Lifeblood 2
Send Away the Tigers 4
Journal for Plague Lovers 2
Postcards From a Young Man 2
Rewind the Film 4
Futurology 3
Others 1

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clair @clairhorne
This chart need some explanation.  Clair split them into six groups, within those groups all the songs were of equal importance to her and she requested I blog them in this way.  For the purpose of scoring, however, I needed to assign the usual 50 for 1st place, 49 for 2nd etc. therefore the scores were distributed based on the order I received them in which Clair was happy with.
1st
1. Yes
2. This is Yesterday
3. A Design for Life
4. Too Cold Here
5. This Joke Sport Severed

2nd
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. Divine Youth

3rd
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. Running Out Of Fantasy
25. The Endless Plain of Fortune

4th
26. No Surface All Feeling
27. From Despair to Where
28. Bag Lady
29. Some Kind of Nothingness
30. You Know It's Going to Hurt
31. Facing Page: Top Left
32. Black Square
33. Ocean Spray
34. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky

5th.
35. Sleepflower
36. All is Vanity
37. I Think I Found It
38. Rewind the Film
39. Journal for Plague Lovers
40. Fragments
41. So Why So Sad
42. Show Me The Wonder
43. Imperial Bodybags
44. Stay Beautiful

6th
45. Found That Soul
46. Roses in the Hospital
47. Fearless Punk Ballad
48. You Love Us
49. The Masses Against the Classes
50. Yourself

By Era
Generation Terrorists 4
Gold Against the Soul 5
The Holy Bible 4
Everything Must Go 4
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3
Know Your Enemy 4
Lifeblood 5
Send Away the Tigers 4
Journal for Plague Lovers 6
Postcards From a Young Man 3
Rewind the Film 3
Futurology 2
Others 3

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Denbo @densk14
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. From Despair to Where
3. The Everlasting
4. Send Away the Tigers
5. The Girl Who Wanted to be God
6. Suicide is Painless (Theme From MASH)
7. She is Suffering
8. A Design For Life
9. Little Baby Nothing
10. The Love of Richard Nixon
11. Faster
12. Prologue to History
13. PCP
14. Yes
15. The Next Jet to Leave Moscow
16. Drug Drug Druggy
17. Revol
18. Empty Souls
19. Bored Out of My Mind
20. Further Away
21. Peeled Apples
22. Roses in the Hospital
23. Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky
24. Everything Must Go
25. Mr Carbohydrate
26. There By the Grace of God
27. Enola/Alone
28. Between the Clock and the Bed
29. This is Yesterday
30. Kevin Carter
31. Futurology
32. Let Robeson Sing
33. This Joke Sport Severed
34. Dead Trees and Traffic Islands
35. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
36. Underdogs
37. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
38. 30-Year War
39. No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me
40. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love
41. The Masses Against the Classes
42. Always/Never
43. Found That Soul
44. Your Love Alone is not Enough
45. Sleepflower
46. Walk Me to the Bridge
47. Anthem For a Lost Cause
48. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
49. 1985
50. Life Becoming a Landslide

By Era
Generation Terrorists 4
Gold Against the Soul 6
The Holy Bible 6
Everything Must Go 11
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3
Know Your Enemy 2
Lifeblood 4
Send Away the Tigers 3
Journal for Plague Lovers 2
Postcards From a Young Man 1
Rewind the Film 2
Futurology 4
Others 2

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Ricky Crean @RickyCrean
1. Motorcycle Emptiness
2. She is Suffering
3. No Surface All Feeling
4. Enola/Alone
5. A Design For Life
6. From Despair To Where
7. Yes
8. Kevin Carter
9. Faster
10. Little Baby Nothing
11. Glasnost
12. Everything Must Go
13. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
14. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
15. Nobody Loved You
16. We Are All Bourgeois Now
17. Royal Correspondent
18. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
19. 1985
20. Let Robeson Sing
21. Door to the River
22. Close My Eyes
23. Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky
24. So Why So Sad
25. The Love of Richard Nixon
26. Interiors (Song for Willem De Kooning)
27. Die In The Summertime
28. This is Yesterday
29. Born To End
30. Montana/Autumn/78
31. Further Away
32. I Live to Fall Asleep
33. Last Exit on Yesterday
34. Autumnsong
35. The Everlasting
36. Rewind The Film
37. Found That Soul
38. This Joke Sport Severed
39. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier
40. My Little Empire
41. Ocean Spray
42. Yourself
43. Miss Europa Disco Dancer
44. SYMM
45. I'm Not Working
46. Futurology
47. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love
48. Roses in the Hospital
49. Spectators of Suicide
50. Sex, Power, Love and Money

By Era
Generation Terrorists 5
Gold Against the Soul 4
The Holy Bible 5
Everything Must Go 9
This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 7
Know Your Enemy 7
Lifeblood 4
Send Away the Tigers 2
Journal for Plague Lovers 1
Postcards From a Young Man 1
Rewind the Film 1
Futurology 2
Others 2