How do you rank the studio albums?

[Beat Poet]

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

The top three are my favourite albums of all time and probably always will be. From the middle order I pick out the songs I like for playlists, while not even a phrase like "a bad Manics album is better than most bands' best albums" can save the bottom two.

[Radiomanic]

1. This is My Truth Tell Me Yours
2. Know Your Enemy
3. Journal for Plague Lovers
4. Lifeblood
5. Everything Must Go
6. The Holy Bible
7. Send Away the Tigers
8. Gold Against the Soul
9. Postcards for a Young Man
10. Generation Terrorists

[drugdrugdruggy]

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

Something in that order, it changes frecently though.

[hummingbird]

currently:

1. The Holy Bible
2. JFPL
3. Lifeblood
4. Everything Must Go
5. Postcards from a young man
6. This is My truth tell me yours
7. Send Away The Tigers
8. Gold Against the Soul
9. Generation Terrorists (if they remastered it, it would be much higher)
10. Know Your Enemy. (like a lot of the songs individually but as an album its a total mess)

[bleeding pepper]

1 - The Holy Bible
2 - Everything Must Go
3 - This Is My Truth...
4 - Lifeblood
5 - Journal For Plague Lovers
6 - Generation Terrorists
7 - Send Away The Tigers
8 - Gold Against The Soul
9 - Know Your Enemy
10 - Postcards...

[the_hound]

Originally Posted by Beat Poet

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

The top three are my favourite albums of all time and probably always will be. From the middle order I pick out the songs I like for playlists, while not even a phrase like "a bad Manics album is better than most bands' best albums" can save the bottom two.

Surely everyone has the same top 3 - just perhaps in different orders?

The rest of the list is open to debate for me:
1. The Holy Bible
2. Everything Must Go
3. Journal for Plague Lovers
4. Gold Against the Soul.
5. Generation Terrorists
6. Postcards
7. Tiggers
8. This is my Tooth
9. Know Your Enemy
10. Life Blood

[riot_star]

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

Based on how much I listen to them!

[riot_star]

Originally Posted by the_hound

Surely everyone has the same top 3 - just perhaps in different orders?

Not for me, I personally don't think much to EMG, it's ok but I don't listen to it very often

[Beat Poet]

Originally Posted by the_hound

Surely everyone has the same top 3 - just perhaps in different orders?

Maybe just you and me as no one else on the page has the same.

[Nicolas De Staël]

1. EMG (Perfect!)
2. THB (Perfect!)
3. TIMTTMY (Near to perfection...)

4. GT (Seminal work...)
5. JFPL (Great songs & lyrics; productionwise it's a bit deceiving...)
6. SATT (Brilliant standout tracks, coupled with let downs such as "Your Love Alone"...)
7. PFAYM (Poppy all over...)
8. LB (Cold & beautiful)
9. KYE (Too many excellent tracks... too many for one record)
10. GATS (4 excellent songs and a couple of mediocre ones...)

4-10 varies... It's depending on my mood. To be honest: I'm in love with all of the records they've made.

[Littlesue]

1 = Lifeblood
2 = Everything Must Go
3 =Gold against the Soul
4 = Holy Bible
5 = This is My Truth
6 = Send away the tigers
7 = Know Your Enemy
8 = Journal for the Plague
9 = Generation Terrorists
10 = Postcards

[the_hound]

Originally Posted by Littlesue

1 = Lifeblood
2 = Everything Must Go
3 =Gold against the Soul
4 = Holy Bible
5 = This is My Truth
6 = Send away the tigers
7 = Know Your Enemy
8 = Journal for the Plague
9 = Generation Terrorists
10 = Postcards

Now that is a mad list! Its cool though - good you have you own take on things.

[the_hound]

Originally Posted by Beat Poet

Maybe just you and me as no one else on the page has the same.

Well great minds think a like

But for me those three are clearly the stand outs from their career ....

[Littlesue]

Originally Posted by the_hound

Now that is a mad list! Its cool though - good you have you own take on things.

Lol, it will be diferent in a few months, when you have been around as long as me you know them all from when they were actually released so some I've got fed up of and some (like Postcards) have never done it for me from the start

[the_hound]

I like to put the albums in three categories:

Mark 1 - GT, GATS, THB, JFPL
Mark II - EMG, TIMT, KYE, PL
Mark III - SATT, PFAYM

Massive simplification I know - and if you drew these up on a Venn Diagram some albums would over lap - ir EMG would be both in Mark I and Mark II,

but basically from Mark III - I would say PFAYM is a much stronger album than SATT - lyrically, musically and production wise. And songs like ABBFTS, GP, TD and AWMIE are top rate Manic songs.