Ten Best Manics B Sides

[lukkkas]

1-Donkeys
2-Dead Yankee Drawl
3-Automatik Teknicolour
4-Mr Carbohydrate
5-Judge Y'rself
6-Boxes and Lists
7-Hibernation
8-Masking Tape
9-Prologue To History
10-Sculpture of man

[Zee]

I can't believe I read through this entire thread and nobody listed:

MOTOWN JUNK

[Zee]

Ok so this was difficult. In no particular order some of my 10 favorites are:

Motown Junk
Comfort Comes
Donkeys
Sepia
Prologue To History
Little Trolls
Close My Eyes
Boxes and Lists
Judge Yourself
Sculpture Of Man

This can change depending on days and moods though. ;-)

[Pedro8]

Motown Junk isn't generally considered a b-side. Tbh I wouldn't count Judge Yourself or Door To The River b-sides either, since they clearly don't have corresponding a sides. But meh, t doesn't really matter anyway, choosing ten favourite b-sides is just for fun really anyway, as for most people including your opinions on songs vary and you can like things virtually equally for different reasons, it would be like ranking your friends or favourite colours, fun but arbitrary mostly

[Dext37 Fielding]

forgot to put in mine black holes for the young, or YLAINE instrumental.

[Zee]

Originally Posted by Pedro8

Motown Junk isn't generally considered a b-side. Tbh I wouldn't count Judge Yourself or Door To The River b-sides either, since they clearly don't have corresponding a sides. But meh, t doesn't really matter anyway, choosing ten favourite b-sides is just for fun really anyway, as for most people including your opinions on songs vary and you can like things virtually equally for different reasons, it would be like ranking your friends or favourite colours, fun but arbitrary mostly

Wasn't aware of this. I realize a b-side needs to have a corresponding a-side, but in my opinion any song that doesn't appear on a proper studio album can be considered a "b-side".

[Radiomanic]

In no particular order...


Boxes & Lists
Groundhog Days
Pedestal
Noone Knows What it's Like to be Me
Sepia
Montana/Autumn 78
Automatic Technicolour
Heyday of The Blood
Valley Boy
Hanging On

[Bryce]

Can't actually name 10 off the top of my head, yet these are the ones I've listened to most.

1. Prologue To History
2. Sculpture of Man
3. Donkeys
4. 4Ever Delayed
5. Are Mothers Saints

just saw on wiki that there is 185 B sides, this is going to take me ages to get all them

[lloyddhr]

1 - sculpture of man
2 - a prologue to history
3 - comfort comes
4 - charles windsor
5 - judge y'rself
6 - democracy coma
7 - first republic
8 - you know it's going to hurt
9 - dead yankee drawl
10 - patrick bateman

These choices often change!

Donkeys x10

[wireobsessed]

What a brilliant but tough question, I'm off to think... but know picking 10 will be really hard.

[wireobsessed]

Looking at some of these I think I love the b-sides better than a lot of the a-sides.

[BrianPowell]

Originally Posted by wireobsessed

Looking at some of these I think I love the b-sides better than a lot of the a-sides.

The standard of manics bsides are brilliant!

[Zee]

Originally Posted by BrianPowell

The standard of manics bsides are brilliant!

I have to agree. I've created 6 complete CDs worth of Manics b-sides now since I've filled in my missing collection, each with around 18 tracks on it. That doesn't include the 7th of just acoustic versions of songs. I got tons of Manics music to tide me over.