Secret Histories - the b-sides albums

[Phil C]

It's pretty common for Manics fans to prefer various b-sides to tracks that actually made their parent album. Occasionally though it's commented (especially about the SATT b-sides) that the b-sides album would be better than the album they actually released.

Below I've listed the b-sides from the albums that have enough to make up an album, and made up rough track-listings (you can of course make your own). If they were actual albums, what would you think of them? What singles would you have released? And are any of them genuinely good enough to stand as albums?

'Fear Of Motion'

1) Locust Valley
2) Little Trolls
3) Just A Kid
4) Masking Tape
5) Pedestal
6) Fear Of Motion
7) Ballad Of The Bangkok Novotel
8) Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
9) Morning Sun
10) Groundhog Days

'Litany'

1) Everyone Knows/Nobody Cares
2) Litany
3) All Alone Here
4) No Jubilees
5) Firefight
6) Everything Will Be
7) Picturesque
8) Askew Road
9) Antarctic
10) The Soulmates
11) Dying Breeds
12) Quaratine (In My Place Of)
13) Voodoo Polaroids
14) A Secret Society
-Hidden Track - Failure Bound

Love Letter To The Future (or Welcome To The Dead Zone)

1) The Vorticists
2) Heyday Of The Blood
3) Anorexic Rodin
4) Morning Comrades
5) Boxes And Lists
6) Welcome To The Dead Zone
7) The Long Goodbye
8) Love Letter To The Future
9) Little Girl Lost
10) 1404
11) Lady Lazarus
12) Fearless Punk Ballad
13) You Know It's Going To Hurt
- Hidden track- Ghosts Of Christmas

'Lost Voices'

1) Red Rubber
2) Broken Up Again
3) Distractions
4) Kiss My Eyes For Eternity
5) Lost Voices
6) I Know The Numbers
7) The Passing Show
8) I'm Leaving You For Solitude
9) Inky Fingers
10) Ostpolitik
11) Slow Reflections / Strange Delays
12) Engage With Your Shadow
13) Evidence Against Myself