Manics Top 50s - 16th April 2015

A solitary chart for you today from another chart first-timer but, despite being a little different from the norm, not a new number 1 as it appeared once last time around.  A nice mixture of regulars and some of those more individual choices (number 18 I'm looking at you!), there's only one album that misses out.

Another plug for my own chart of all 307 of the songs as it counts down in reverse order over at http://harmonycorruption.blogspot.co.uk/.  Of course only my top 50 (when I get there) will be included here, it's always interesting to see people picking off their favourites as they are announced, most major songs have their champion in one form or another regardless of how I (or anyone else) rate it.

For anyone that hasn't started yet there is still plenty of time, but don't take too long, the deadline looms 6 weeks away!  No pressure obviously.....

Baby I'm Bored @JoHartless

1. 1985

2. Autumnsong

3. Stay Beautiful

4. Mausoleum

5. Solitude Sometimes Is

6. This is the Day

7. Slash N' Burn

8. Door to the River

9. This is Yesterday

10. Motown Junk

11. Revol

12. You Love Us

13. Futurology

14. Motorcycle Emptiness

15. The Everlasting

16. Dreaming a City (Hughesovka)

17. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

18. Wattsville Blues

19. A Design for Life

20. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

21. The Girl Who Wanted to be God

22. Of Walking Abortion

23. Peeled Apples

24. Black Dog on my Shoulder

25. Europa Geht Durch Mich

26. Royal Correspondent

27. Everything Must Go

28. Walk Me to the Bridge

29. 4 Ever Delayed

30. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

31. Prologue to History

32. William's Last Words

33. Mr Carbohydrate

34. Sepia

35. Tennessee

36. Yes

37. Theme From MASH (Suicide is Painless)

38. Send Away the Tigers

39. A Song for Departure

40. Marlon JD

41. Epicentre

42. Donkeys

43. The Masses Against the Classes

44. 4st 7lb

45. Judge Yr'self

46. Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky

47. You Stole the Sun from my Heart

48. Show Me the Wonder

49. Patrick Bateman

50. There By the Grace of God

By Era

Generation Terrorists 7

Gold Against the Soul 3

The Holy Bible 8

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 4

Know Your Enemy 3

Lifeblood 3

Send Away the Tigers 2

Journal for Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From a Young Man 0

Rewind the Film 1

Futurology 4

Others 5

Manics Top 50s - 13th April 2015

Two charts today from a couple of chart regulars and coincidentally both Liverpool supporters.....but we won't hold that against them!  First up, after a stir with Nostalgic Pushead being his number one last time, it gets knocked off its perch by a familiar favourite.  What on earth can we tease him about now until the next time we do the charts?!

The second chart sees an even bigger surprise with a number 1 that wasn't even in his chart last time!  Apart from one album not making an appearance it's also a very even chart and plenty of underdogs in there getting their chance in the spotlight.

Tonight also saw the debut of my own monster Manics chart, which I will be blogging as I go at http://harmonycorruption.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/the-big-manics-chart.html.  The first batch are up now with a handy guide underneath to show where the songs are taken from, so make sure you follow the tweets on #ManicsChartIan or the blog as it counts down!

Monkey Marl @MonkeyMarl

1. Motorcycle Emptiness

2. Nostalgic Pushead

3. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

4. Yes

5. Sleepflower

6. Intravenous Agnostic

7. No Surface All Feeling

8. Found That Soul

9. From Despair to Where

10. Of Walking Abortion

11. Mr Carbohydrate

12. Peeled Apples

13. 1985

14. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

15. A Design For Life

16. The Masses Against the Classes

17. Donkeys

18. Door to the River

19. Faster

20. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach

21. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

22. Archives of Pain

23. PCP

24. Autumnsong

25. Futurology

26. Golden Platitudes

27. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

28. Die in the Summertime

29. I Live To Fall Asleep

30. Bored Out Of My Mind

31. Symphony of Tourette

32. Sepia

33. There By the Grace of God

34. Me And Stephen Hawking

35. 30-Year War

36. Stay Beautiful

37. To Repel Ghosts

38. Dead Trees and Traffic Islands

39. Marlon JD

40. Virginia State Epileptic Colony

41. RP McMurphy

42. Hibernation

43. Little Baby Nothing

44. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

45. Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky

46. Ready For Drowning

47. Suicide Alley

48. Tennessee

49. William's Last Words

50. Drug Drug Druggy

By Era

Generation Terrorists 7

Gold Against the Soul 8

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 6

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 2

Know Your Enemy 2

Lifeblood 3

Send Away the Tigers 2

Journal for Plague Lovers 7

Postcards From a Young Man 1

Rewind the Film 1

Futurology 1

Others 3

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KB2X @KB2X

1. Golden Platitudes

2. Solitude Sometimes Is

3. Futurology

4. Revol

5. Show Me the Wonder

6. Motorcycle Emptiness

7. Your Love Alone is Not Enough

8. Peeled Apples

9. Pretension/Repulsion

10. 1985

11. Prologue to History

12. Broken Up Again

13. Comfort Comes

14. We Were Never Told 

15. Europa Geht Durch Mich

16. Slash N' Burn

17. Send Away the Tigers

18. Journal For Plague Lovers

19. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

20. PCP

21. 30-Year War

22. Stay Beautiful

23. I Live To Fall Asleep

24. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time

25. Mausoleum

26. Everything Will Be

27. Interiors (Song For Willem de Kooning)

28. Empty Souls

29. 4 Ever Delayed

30. The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever

31. Anorexic Rodin

32. Dreaming a City (Hughesovka)

33. Everything Must Go

34. Nobody Loved You

35. Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier

36. The Next Jet To Leave Moscow

37. Of Walking Abortion

38. Patrick Bateman

39. Further Away

40. Drug Drug Druggy

41. Underdogs

42. Red Rubber

43. You Love Us

44. Roses in the Hospital

45. This Sullen Welsh Heart

46. Ready For Drowning 

47. 3 Ways To See Despair

48. Removables

49. I'm Just a Patsy

50. Anthem For a Lost Cause

By Era

Generation Terrorists 4

Gold Against the Soul 4

The Holy Bible 5

Everything Must Go 5

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 0

Lifeblood 5

Send Away the Tigers 5

Journal for Plague Lovers 4

Postcards From a Young Man 4

Rewind the Film 5

Futurology 4

Others 2

Manics Top 50s - 6th April 2015

Manics top 50s are a bit like buses, wait a while for another one to come along and......yeah, you get the picture.  Both charts have number 1s which I expect will again feature highly in the final chart, but both have a good mix of traditional classics and personal favourites.

Another thing that struck me while doing the By Era charts was how differently the two contributors view SATT and PFAYM (sister albums of sorts in my eyes), always interesting to see how people can love the same band but have such contrasting views on isolated sections of the back catalogue.

Both contributors are returning from last time, so thanks again for giving up your time to compile the charts!  We've still got the rest of April and May to go and I know there are plenty of people who haven't been yet, my own will be coming up shortly, so keep spreading the word so we can get as many charts as we can!

Heather @heather1917

(You can also view it at http://wattsville.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/manics-top-50-version-2-2015-so-heres.html)

1. Faster

2. A Design for Life

3. Motorcycle Emptiness

4. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

5. 4st 7lb

6. Yes

7. You Love Us

8. PCP

9. No Surface All Feeling

10. All is Vanity

11. Prologue to History

12. The Girl Who Wanted to Be God

13. Enola/Alone

14. Further Away

15. Socialist Serenade

16. Motown Junk

17. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

18. Sepia

19. Bored Out of my Mind

20. Just a Kid

21. Donkeys

22. Mr Carbohydrate

23. Peeled Apples

24. Spectators of Suicide

25. Sleepflower

26. Intravenous Agnostic

27. Wattsville Blues

28. Take the Skinheads Bowling

29. Found That Soul

30. Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head

31. Glasnost

32. Solitude Sometimes Is

33. Me and Stephen Hawking

34. This Joke Sport Severed

35. Facing Page: Top Left

36. Epicentre

37. Journal for Plague Lovers

38. There By the Grace of God

39. William’s Last Words

40. 1985

41. Freedom of Speech Won’t Feed My Children

42. Let’s Go To War

43. Ready For Drowning

44. This is Yesterday

45. Futurology

46. Black Square

47. Australia

48. Tsunami

49. Show Me the Wonder

50. Stay Beautiful

By Era

Generation Terrorists 6

Gold Against the Soul 3

The Holy Bible 5

Everything Must Go 10

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 5

Know Your Enemy 6

Lifeblood 3

Send Away the Tigers 0

Journal for Plague Lovers 7

Postcards From a Young Man 0

Rewind the Film 1

Futurology 3

Others 1

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Nick Tait @ApolloScream

1. Yes

2. Faster

3. Some Kind of Nothingness

4. Love's Sweet Exile

5. Autumnsong

6. Imperial Bodybags

7. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

8. All We Make Is Entertainment

9. ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

10. Europa Geht Durch Mich

11. As Holy As The Soil (That Buries Your Skin)

12. First Republic

13. Stay Beautiful

14. You're Tender and You're Tired

15. The Masses Against The Classes

16. You Love Us

17. I Think I Found It

18. Show Me The Wonder

19. Nobody Loved You

20. Golden Platitudes

21. A Vision of Dead Desire

22. Judge Yr'self

23. From Despair To Where

24. Ready For Drowning

25. 4st 7lb

26. Don't Be Evil

27. Love Letter To The Future

28. Caldey

29. This Sullen Welsh Heart

30. Underdogs

31. Life Becoming A Landslide

32. Found That Soul

33. Of Walking Abortion

34. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun

35. Intravenous Agnostic

36. Motown Junk

37. Walk Me To The Bridge

38. Postcards From A Young Man

39. 30-Year War

40. Groundhog Days

41. The Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel

42. Let Robeson Sing

43. Heyday of the Blood

44. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)

45. Little Baby Nothing

46. This Is Yesterday

47. Slash N' Burn

48. No One Knows What It's Like To Be Me

49. So Dead

50. Die In The Summertime 

By Era

Generation Terrorists 9

Gold Against the Soul 3

The Holy Bible 7

Everything Must Go 2

This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours 3

Know Your Enemy 5

Lifeblood 0

Send Away the Tigers 6

Journal for Plague Lovers 0

Postcards From a Young Man 7

Rewind the Film 4

Futurology 3

Others 1