Twitter Fans' Top 50 Songs Poll - 'New Chart Riot'

[The Gutless Wonder]

Shurrup Mr Bradfield dissing Glasnost!

[mar]

Originally Posted by The Gutless Wonder

Shurrup Mr Bradfield dissing Glasnost!

It is the first time I see you use a mad smiley!

[The Gutless Wonder]

Originally Posted by mar

It is the first time I see you use a mad smiley!

I've used it loads of times!

[mar]

Yes, but I never saw it before!

[tzb]

Originally Posted by amnesic

60 participants is a crap number. Given the sheer number of songs the variance must have been huge. If I was to plot the means and standard deviations the SDs would be huge and there would be no significant difference any of the songs. And no details on who participated? If all 60 are of the mentality that the manics have done nothing decent since holy bible then this is the kind of list that would appear

Bloody hell, a bit strong perhaps? Fan site poll, not clinical study.

[Pyf]

Originally Posted by amnesic

60 participants is a crap number. Given the sheer number of songs the variance must have been huge. If I was to plot the means and standard deviations the SDs would be huge and there would be no significant difference any of the songs. And no details on who participated? If all 60 are of the mentality that the manics have done nothing decent since holy bible then this is the kind of list that would appear

I think you need to look at the individual charts a bit closer, a lot of the participants had at least one song from each album in their chart, but the ones that finished consistently high and therefore were placed higher overall tended to be the older songs. I was fully expecting that to be honest and I think the final chart wouldn't change drastically whether you had 60 or 6000 participants. As other people have said it was only meant to be a bit of fun among like-minded people!!

[Lancashire Potter]

I think the list is very good, it's what I would expect from "ordinary" Manics fans like me. If the ones from this forum would make a list it would be statistically worse, even if twice as many people would participate. Simply because here on the forum are those who are still the biggest fans which means that they over-appreciate the newer stuff, otherwise they weren't here. And there are some really strange opinions here: What's this "Stole" bashing? It's (together with NLY) the best song on TIMT, the only one that has a bit of life in it. What about Lifeblood? Nobody likes it except the people on this forum. IMO you can only like Lifeblood if you hate the Manics (and you can only like RTF if you hate not only the Manics but music in general).
I just made my personal top 50, and there is nothing from Lifeblood or RTF in it, 2 from TIMT, and nothing from Postcards. But I had 61 im the list first, and there were 4 from Postcards between 50 and 60. That's another mystery to me: If you swallow Lifeblood or RTF, why do you hate Postcards or even SATT which are both far superior? TIMT, Lifeblood, and RTF are sleeping pills compared to SATT and Postcards. I simply don't understand it.

1 Elvis Impersonator
2 Yes
3 Life Becoming A Landslide
4 Faster
5 Sleepflower
6 Motown Junk
7 Revol
8 Ifwhiteamerica
9 She Is Suffering
10 Enola/Alone
11 Mausoleum
12 Sorrow 16
13 Firefight
14 NatWest
15 Archives Of Pain
16 Methadone Pretty
17 Stay Beautiful
18 Strip It Down
19 Send Away The Tigers
20 Nobody Loved You
21 Interiors
22 Everything Must Go
23 Of Walking Abortion
24 Teenage 20/20
25 Love's Sweet Exile
26 Masses Against The Classes
27 Groundhog Days
28 Drug Drug Druggy
29 Baby Elian
30 Automatik Teknicolor
31 Us Against Ypu
32 Jackie Collins
33 This Is Yesterday
34 Australia
35 Imperial Bodybags
36 Peeled Apples
37 You Stole The Sun From My Heart
38 Ocean Spray
39 Motorcycle Emptiness
40 A Design For Life
41 Prologue To History
42 I'm Just A Patsy
43 Little Baby Nothing
44 Die In The Summertime
45 Doors Closing Slowly
46 From Despair To Where
47 Removables
48 Dead Martyrs
49 Distractions
50 Me And Stephen Hawking

[lovinrunnin]

I have no idea how to post here being new but i must emphasise that the top 50 was just for fun and not major statistical evidence. Everyone was interested in each others choices having chatted for a while over a common bond
I love Lifeblood, I love Rewind the Film , in fact I love all the albums, some songs more than others.
To say you can only like Lifeblood if you hate the Manics is infantile .
To have a chart that contains no Lifeblood songs is fine .

[Lancashire Potter]

Originally Posted by lovinrunnin

To say you can only like Lifeblood if you hate the Manics is infantile.

True, but I couldn't resist. I just wanted to defend that list which is much closer to my personal taste than what can be read here.

[Pyf]

I would have to add that I personally really like Lifeblood, but in terms of a chart there are a lot of songs that I like more.

I am going to add an area on the blog for top 50s which people worked on after the main chart was compiled as they still make for interesting reading, so Lancashire Potter are you happy for me to add yours when I do this?

[lovinrunnin]

Originally Posted by Lancashire Potter

True, but I couldn't resist. I just wanted to defend that list which is much closer to my personal taste than what can be read here.

Your list is, as all lists were ,really interesting , we share at least 13 tracks btw

[hummingbird]

lists are never going to please everyone but they always make interesting reading. I would expect GT, the GATS singles and EMG, Truth songs to feature pretty highly. My favourite albums are THB JFPL Lifeblood, EMG and RTF. When you listen to the manics so much you get so used to the older singles, radio always playing them, that you forget how brilliant they really are.

Never leave the compilation of a best of to die hard fans. They'd never sell any copies

[Grant]

Tennessee is my favourite Manics song. Stupid list.

[hummingbird]

Originally Posted by crush_my_bones

Tennessee is my favourite Manics song. Stupid list.

snob

[Grant]

Originally Posted by hummingbird

snob

Fair assessment.......