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Old 21-11-2018, 16:42
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So over four years ago I made the following list:

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Journal For Plague Lovers (9.5/10)
Lifeblood (9/10)
Gold Against The Soul (8.5/10)
Futurology (8/10)
This Is My Truth (8/10)
Rewind The Film (8/10)
Send Away The Tigers (8/10)
Postcards From A Young Man (7/10)
The Holy Bible (6.5/10)
Know Your Enemy (6/10)
Everything Must Go (6/10)
Generation Terrorists (5/10)
This is my updated list with the inclusion of RIF and without a score attached -

1. Lifeblood
2. Send Away The Tigers
3. Journal For Plague Lovers
4. Resistance Is Futile
5. This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
6. Rewind The Film
7. Gold Against The Soul
8. Postcards From A Young Man
9. Generation Terrorists
10. Know Your Enemy
11. Everything Must Go
12. The Holy Bible
13. Futurology

So, in the last few years I've completely gone off Futurology, apart from Walk Me To The Bridge, Dreaming A City and The Next Jet to Leave Moscow, it's a poor album overall (in my opinion, of course). I'm totally bored to tears with EMG and THB.

I think Lifeblood has solidified itself now as my favourite Manics album, even if it does contain probably my most disliked album track (Glass Snot) - but it does have Cardiff Afterlife on it which has been my favourite Manics song for the last 14 years. SATT doesn't have a duff track on it but it doesn't have the same edge as Lifeblood overall. JFPL is great, but has a couple of poor tracks that I just can't get into.

RIF is a really good album but I find myself skipping Vivian, Dylan & Caitlin and Liverpool Revisited (and Broken Algorithms), but the rest of the album is absolutely superb with special mentions to Distant Colours and People Give In.

The rest of the albums on the list will always fluctuate up and down the middle order, I've always admired TIMT and GATS so they're much more likely to stay in the top half of that bit than say, GT or KYE.
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