Ten Best Manics B Sides

Good thread, made me remember a lot of manics b-sides I ain't heard in a while, so here's 10 I think are up there as the 'best'

Prologue to History
Ain't Going Down
Sepia
Comfort Comes
Patrick Bateman
Love Torn Us Under
Never Want Again
Sculpture Of Man
Dead Trees and Traffic Islands
Last Exit on Yesterday

See you at Camden on Saturday!

[MarilynRoxie]

Yaaay, knew there had to be a list thread like this somewhere if I searched around! Spent the night listening over the Manics' b-sides and I think I've come up with something (more like favorites than technical best choices; also I've not included 4Ever Delayed, Comfort Comes, Are Mothers Saints, or Donkeys, which I see have been popular than people's lists, eep!):
1. Close My Eyes
2. Black Garden
3. The Soulmates
4. Bored Out of My Mind
5. It's All Gone
6. Too Cold Here
7. Sepia
8. Socialist Serenade
9. Groundhog Days
10. Welcome to the Dead Zone

[Slideling]

In no particular order (and not necessarily representative of all the best, I could probably make a list of 20: )

1. Too Cold Here
2. Donkeys
3. Comfort Comes
4. Unstoppable Salvation
5. Prologue To History
6. The Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel
7. Are Mothers Saints?
8. Building For Dead People
9. Close My Eyes
10. Love Torn Us Under

[franny]

Hard but in no real order

Too Cold Here
The Vorticists
Failure Bound
Welcome To The Dead Zone
Sorrow 16
Prologue To History
Black Garden
We Her Majesty's Prisoners
Everything Will Be
Pedestal

[Slideling]

I wanted Failure Bound too, I did say 10 was too short!

[dthomas850]

Hard to pick only 10!

Just A Kid
Mr. Carbohydrate
Anorexic Rodin
Bored Out of My Mind
Automatik Teknicolour
Boxes & Lists
No One Knows What Its Like To Be Me
Hanging On
Pedestal
It's All Gone

[exopotamie]

Hm, I'm going to say (no particular order):

1. Prologue to History
2. Welcome to the Dead Zone
3. Sepia
4. Automatik Teknicolour
5. Black Garden
6. Unstoppable Salvation
7. 4 Ever Delayed
8. Anorexic Rodin
9. Masking Tape
10. Sorrow 16

[nocultureicons]

My favourite bside/none UK track from each album in chronological order,

GT> Sorrow 16
GATS> Hibernation
THB> Sculpture of Man
UMG> Sepia
TITMT> Prologue to History
KYE> Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel
FD> Automatik Teknicolour
L> Voodoo Polaroids
SATT> Boxes and Lists
and space for one from the new album.

[Loz]

1. Black Garden
2. Automatik Teknicolour
3. Sepia
4. Fearless Punk Ballad
5. Black Holes For The Young
6. Comfort Comes
7. Primitive Painters
8. Hanging On
9. Out of Time
10. Groundhog Days

[Mr Richey]

Sorry guys but I can't manage 10, so here's a top 20 of my favourite b-sides/non-album tracks.

In alphabetical order:

1. 4 Ever Delayed
2. Are Mother's Saints?
3. Automatik Teknicolour
4. Boxes and Lists
5. Bored Out Of My Mind
6. Close My Eyes
7. Comfort Comes
8. Democracy Coma
9. Fearless Punk Ballad
10. Judge Yr'self
11. Just A Kid
12. Litany
13. Mr Carbohydrate
14. Never Want Again
15. Prologue To History
16. Red Sleeping Beauty
17. Sepia
18. Sorrow 16
19. Unstoppable Salvation
20. We Ain't Going Down

[franny]

Originally Posted by Richian

I wanted Failure Bound too, I did say 10 was too short!

Yeah, a fellow Failure Bound fan, who cares how silly it is?

[Slideling]

It sounds like one of Patrick's tracks, I like the 'spoken word' feeling, he can go on about burnt toast, for all I care!

[franny]

Originally Posted by Richian

he can go on about burnt toast, for all I care!

Don't give him ideas, his voice is hypnotic in that track though

[Symmanine]

Sepia
Black Garden
Prologue To History
Too Cold Here
Love Torn Us Under
Heyday Of The Blood
Automatik Teknicolor
Montana/Autumn/78
Starlover
Fear Of Motion

[fedex]

are the lyrics to donkeys richey or nicky?
alot of it seems very nicky, like the first two lines, but the line "jerusalem saw off" seems pretty richey