This week's NME - Page 7 - Forever Delayed

MarilynRoxie · #91 04-10-2011, 23:10

"SPOILER", for those who want to wait to read it in the magazine...
The Manics rank their singles in NME:

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"The Manics' Top 40"
1. Faster
2. A Design for Life
3. Your Love Alone is Not Enough
4. Motorcycle Emptiness
5. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
6. Motown Junk
7. The Masses Against the Classes
8. (It's Not War) Just the End of Love
9. The Love of Richard Nixon
10. Suicide Alley
11. You Love Us
12. La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)
13. Found that Soul
14. Kevin Carter
15. Ocean Spray
16. Some Kind of Nothingness
17. Roses in the Hospital
18. Love's Sweet Exile
19. Let Robeson Sing
20. You Stole the Sun From My Heart
21. Australia
22. Stay Beautiful
23. Postcards From a Young Man
24. Everything Must Go
25. Tsunami
26. Indian Summer
27. Theme from Mash (Suicide is Painless)
28. This is the Day
29. From Despair to Where
30. The Everlasting
31. Slash 'n' Burn
32. Life Becoming a Landslide
33. Autumnsong
34. Strip it Down
35. Little Baby Nothing
36. Empty Souls
37. So Why So Sad
38. She is Suffering
39. Revol
40. There By the Grace of God

franny · #92 04-10-2011, 23:12

Grr, TBTGOG at the bottom is not on.

riot_star · #93 04-10-2011, 23:12

I'm very surprised to see TLORN in the top 10!

Nature's Discontent · #94 04-10-2011, 23:30

Bloody hell. They still hate Revol a lot then. Don't know how they can put TLORN in the top 10 and then in comparison completely disregard Empty Souls. Bizarre.

Bobafettish · #95 04-10-2011, 23:31

They can be deluded. Your Love Alone that high? They only like it cos it gave them the illusion they were still relevant. Don't get me wrong, It's half decent, but I fucking hate the love it receives as it is so undeserving. Mmm, grumpy, past my bedtime.
23 > 16

mfadaptor · #96 04-10-2011, 23:32

Need to find effective graph to compare their ratings against mine, too pissed now! Horrified by some of the placings. The position of 'There By The Grace Of God' sums up my latter-day frustrations in microcosm. And if 'Autumnsong' is that shit, why continue to torture us with it?

riot_star · #97 04-10-2011, 23:50

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Originally Posted by mfadaptor

Need to find effective graph to compare their ratings against mine, too pissed now! Horrified by some of the placings. The position of 'There By The Grace Of God' sums up my latter-day frustrations in microcosm. And if 'Autumnsong' is that shit, why continue to torture us with it?

May be they think fans like it?

mfadaptor · #98 04-10-2011, 23:55

STOP PRESS!!! In what world is 'YLAINE' better than 'Motorcycle Emptiness'??? Gordon Bennett, they were better in their Welsh take on a nihilistic, alienated scuzzy glam-metal band any day of the cunting week. What manner of delusion is taking place here?!!

Nature's Discontent · #99 05-10-2011, 00:11

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Originally Posted by mfadaptor

STOP PRESS!!! In what world is 'YLAINE' better than 'Motorcycle Emptiness'??? Gordon Bennett, they were better in their Welsh take on a nihilistic, alienated scuzzy glam-metal band any day of the cunting week. What manner of delusion is taking place here?!!

Yeah, I didn't notice that first time. Jesus H...

Mr Richey · #**100** 05-10-2011, 00:13

I think "Strip It Down" deserved to be higher.

mfadaptor · #**101** 05-10-2011, 00:14

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Originally Posted by Nature's Discontent

Yeah, I didn't notice that first time. Jesus H...

I'm seriously considering my position as a long-suffering Manics fan. For all their talk of danger and excitement, they hate their most innovative work!

Mr Richey · #**102** 05-10-2011, 00:44

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Originally Posted by mfadaptor

For all their talk of danger and excitement, they hate their most innovative work!

mfadaptor · #**103** 05-10-2011, 00:57

'Journal For Plague Lovers' is a fantastic, meaning-loaded album that they seemed to want to draw a line under two seconds after it came about, in case it undermined the direction they were almost aggressively trying to promote between 2007 and now. They've never seemed particularly proud of it, which is insane considering it incorporates their first real sense of unnerving, sinister bite since the backbone of their band buggered off. They'll begrudgingly play 'JCEQT' once in a blue moon, and that's your lot.

Mr Richey · #**104** 05-10-2011, 01:08

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Originally Posted by mfadaptor

'Journal For Plague Lovers' is a fantastic, meaning-loaded album that they seemed to want to draw a line under two seconds after it came about, in case it undermined the direction they were almost aggressively trying to promote between 2007 and now. They've never seemed particularly proud of it, which is insane considering it incorporates their first real sense of unnerving, sinister bite since the backbone of their band buggered off. They'll begrudgingly play 'JCEQT' once in a blue moon, and that's your lot.

I've been saying it for the last 2 years mate. Easily the best album they've done since TIMTTMY.

marrs-guitar · #**105** 05-10-2011, 01:10

Your Love Alone in the top 25 at all, urgh! Cut from the same bland repetitive radio-orientated cloth as You Stole the Sun...

Suicide Alley in the top 10 is the token "we're edgy though, we are" gesture, while poor Revol, one of their most fantastically bizarre singles, is left at the depths?!