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04-08-2011, 21:21
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Ultimate Manics album: Track vs. track
Ok I really am bored but here it goes.
Was thinking the other day of making a Manics playlist for a mate and found myself falling into the issue of making MY Manics album (i.e. my fav songs) vs. THE Manics album (i.e. including the classics even though I might be bored with them). So I thought about this: I would make a 12 song album by putting each corresponding track up against each other, e.g. Slash n Burn vs. Sleepflower vs. Yes vs. Elvis, etc etc etc. So this is my album: 1. Yes 2. Design For Life 3. Your Love Alone 4. Motorcycle Emptiness 5. Archives of Pain 6. My Little Empire 7. Facing Page Top Left 8. Marlon J.D. 9. Faster 10. Solitude Sometimes Is 11. Die In The Summertime 12. No Surface All Feeling Pretty standard Nicky set-list really. Maybe there is a method to his madness. These are the main findings (acknowledgements given in brackets) - Track no.2 probably has the strongest Manics songs - all the Manics No.8s (bar Marlon) are cack - Journal's opening 4 song sequence is by far the strongest 4 songs in any album (and yet none make it onto my album) - The Bible's no. 9,10,11 sequence is by far the strongest 'towards the end of the album' sequence - 12 seems to be the perfect number for a Manics album. Go past song 12 and you're into murky waters. - Postcards from a Young Man, in my objective analysis, is by far their weakest album. By far. - [Ermintrude the Cow] both of their most obvious "this one's about Richey, you can all cry now" tracks are no. 12's. - Seemingly the hardest song to leave out is Peeled Apples. - No.7 has the most split vote. Last edited by Europa Gluten Free; 06-08-2011 at 11:15. 
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04-08-2011, 21:37
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Disagree with the analysis of Postcards!
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04-08-2011, 23:03
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My list by this method (more often a favorite choice than a best): 1. Peeled Apples 2. A Design for Life 3. You Stole the Sun From My Heart 4. Motorcycle Emptiness 5. Archives of Pain 6. Love's Sweet Exile 7. Wattsville Blues 8. Marlon J.D. 9. Born a Girl 10. All is Vanity 11. Die in the Summertime 12. No Surface All Feeling
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05-08-2011, 08:30
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It was tough leaving some out - Motorcycle Emptiness for example - I just love Enola / Alone! But here is mine...
Yes Design For Life Me and Stephen Hawking Enola / Alone Life Becoming A Landslide Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky Facing Page: Top Left Marlon JD A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun Solitude Sometimes IS Die In The Summertime No Surface / All Feeling
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05-08-2011, 10:51
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This was hard. Really, really difficult. I ended up having to make a spreadsheet
 Anyway: 1. Yes 2. From Despair to Where 3. Some Kind of Nothingness 4. Enola/Alone 5. Archives of Pain 6. Love's Sweet Exile 7. Little Baby Nothing 8. Marlon JD 9. Faster 10. All is Vanity 11. Stay Beautiful 12. Nobody Loved You Oh, and I'd disagree that no. 8's are the weakest tracks, choosing between Marlon and Removables was heart-wrenching. Agree re Postcards being the weakest album, although I've included one from that and nothing from SATT or Lifeblood, both of which I'm more likely to listen to than Postcards. Very odd, though I guess some things just work better in context? My observation - both of their most obvious "this one's about Richey, you can all cry now" tracks are no. 12's.
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05-08-2011, 12:00
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This is a belter of a thread! Here's mine
1. Peeled Apples 2. A Design For Life 3. Kevin Carter 4. She Is Suffering 5. Everything Must Go 6. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach 7. Golden Platitudes 8. Marlon JD 9. Faster 10. This Is Yesterday (acoustic) 11. Black Dog On My Shoulder 12. No Surface All Feeling Found tracks 6 and 7 very difficult. Had to leave off SBFTGITS and 4st&lbs
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05-08-2011, 12:09
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This is a major project - still working on mine...superb thread
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05-08-2011, 17:12
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I was thinking maybe we could have an 'Bizzarro-Ultimate Manics album' where we pick our least favourite / worst tracks per track number too?
Several tracks might well be different every day, but for today at least... Ultimate 1. Sleepflower 2. A Design for Life 3. Intravenous Agnostic 4. Motorcycle Emptiness 5. Tsunami 6. To Repel Ghosts 7. 4st 7lb 8. You're Tender and You're Tired 9. Faster 10. All We Make Is Entertainment 11. Die in the Summertime 12. No Surface All Feeling A track of KYE and nothing off JFPL?! I know, right?!  Bizzarro 1. Slash 'n' Burn 2. Underdogs 3. Born to End 4. The Descent (Pages 1 & 2) 5. You Love Us 6. Love's Sweet Exile 7. Wattsville Blues 8. Repeat (Stars and Stripes) 9. Tennessee 10. Another Invented Disease 11. My Guernica 12. So Dead Not kind to GT when I do that! And Wattsville Blues stops me putting Autumnsong in ... gah, decisions! lol.
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#9
05-08-2011, 17:51
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1. The Everlasting
2. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time 3. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 4. So Why So Sad 5. You Love Us 6. Revol 7. Roses In The Hospital 8. Removables 9. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun 10. Solitude Sometimes Is 11. The Masses Against The Classes 12. Sculpture Of Man
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05-08-2011, 18:10
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1. It's Not War (Just The End Of Love)
2. A Design For Life 3. Intravenous Agnostic 4. Indian Summer 5. Archives Of Pain 6. To Repel Ghosts 7. Roses In The Hospital 8. You're Tender And You're Tired 9. Faster 10. This Is Yesterday 11. My Guernica 12. Virginia State Epileptic Colony I think I've won the thread.
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05-08-2011, 18:38
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1) Elvis Impersonator
2) A Design for Life 3) Empty Souls 4) Motorcycle Emptiness 5) You Love Us 6) To Repel Ghosts 7) 4st 7lbs 8) Marlon J.D. 9) Faster 10) All is Vanity 11) Further Away 12) The Convalescent
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#12
05-08-2011, 18:42
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No way I can do this. Too many songs I'd want on there!
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05-08-2011, 18:50
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Yeah, you're gonna have Gutless contemplating this one for the rest of her life.
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I need a remedy, of diesel and dust. Something I can taste, with a fix I can trust. Another high, more potent than lust. Eating and repeating like the workings of rust and time.
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05-08-2011, 19:48
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it took me a while to understand the rules, but I got it! (that wasn't hard anyway
)I'll be back with my choices!
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05-08-2011, 20:20
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Quote:
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"Former glam-punk rocker James Dean Bradfield now looks like your friendly, slightly rumpled Welsh uncle who always brings you chocolate when he visits. That's not a bad thing." - Allister Thompson aka The Gateless Gate (Canadian musician)
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