Lifeblood Survivor - Forever Delayed

WhatsAManic · #1 28-03-2018, 19:22

It's that time again...
...and it's time to find the superior cuts from a firm fan favourite.

There is, of course, a B-side survivor, featuring the single (and DVD) b-sides, plus Japanese bonus tracks and the God Save the Manics EP.

Choose your least favourites!
The album survivor has now ended: the winner was 1985.
The B-side survivor has also ended: the winner was All Alone Here.

SONGS FALLING DOWN LIKE APRIL SHOWERS:

Album:
12. Always / Never 29%, 12 votes
11. Fragments 38%, 13 votes
10. Emily
9. To Repel Ghosts 28%, 7votes
8. The Love Of Richard Nixon 28%, 9 votes
7. Glasnost 32%, 6 votes
6. I Live to Fall Asleep 28%, 8 votes
5. Cardiff Afterlife 34%, 10 votes
4. Solitude Sometimes Is 35%, 6 votes
3. Empty Souls 41%, 9 votes
2. A Song for Departure 58%, 15 votes
1. 1985 42%, 11 votes

B-sides:
15. Failure Bound 39%, 9 votes
14. Dying Breeds 19%, 4 votes
13. No Jubilees
12. Everyone Knows/Nobody Cares 24%, 4 votes
11. Voodoo Polaroids 21%, 4 votes
10. Askew Road 33%, 4 votes
9. Litany 27%, 4 votes
8. Antarctic 31%, 5 votes
7. Everything Will Be 44%, 4 votes
6. A Secret Society 45%, 5 votes
5. Picturesque 42%, 5 votes
4. The Soulmates 54%, 7 votes
3. Quarantine (In My Place Of) 46%, 6 votes
2. Firefight 53%, 10 votes
1. ALL ALONE HERE 47%, 9 votes

Leave rant below.

hummingbird · #2 28-03-2018, 19:59

Fragments and errrrrr I don't know which to pick for the b side

Marconi Delorian · #3 28-03-2018, 20:04

This is gonna be a blood bath!

Son of Stopped · #4 28-03-2018, 20:10

If my favourite goes (which is currently in the lead) I'm just going to close my eyes next time, tap whatever option I get and go with that.

Suicide Aldi · #5 28-03-2018, 20:34

First ones easy!
Always / Never and Dying Breeds

hummingbird · #6 28-03-2018, 22:07

Always/Never ??????

NEVER!!

River Boy · #7 29-03-2018, 10:29

Their best gigs and most unappreciated album but marked Nicky's return to form lyrically.

Despite how good the gigs were, I remember JDB looking sheepishly at the crowd a few songs in at the NEC and confessing 'Erm... I've had 4 pints!'

Europa Gluten Free · #8 29-03-2018, 11:35

I can’t handle these anymore.

WhatsAManic · #9 29-03-2018, 21:58

Always / Never is letting someone down. Don't know who exactly.
Failure Bound is in the evening sun it is intensely sad.

Day 2 albums: https://www.strawpoll.me/15391081
B-sides: https://www.strawpoll.me/15391105

hummingbird · #10 29-03-2018, 22:59

Why is fragments still there? And who the hell is voting for everything will be?

Son of Stopped · #11 29-03-2018, 23:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by hummingbird

Why is fragments still there? And who the hell is voting for everything will be?

Last one was due to my blind voting tactic. It was the first thing I hit after the black border on the left and thought "No, aim slightly more to the right. There you go. Oh I like that one. Ah well, you made a commitment to doing that!".
Apologies for any inconvenience.

hummingbird · #12 30-03-2018, 00:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Son of Stopped

Last one was due to my blind voting tactic. It was the first thing I hit after the black border on the left and thought "No, aim slightly more to the right. There you go. Oh I like that one. Ah well, you made a commitment to doing that!".
Apologies for any inconvenience.

Out.Rageous.

Europa Gluten Free · #13 30-03-2018, 08:46

Imagine this album with Automatic Technicolor on it. Or Everything Will Be. Or really any songs to replace Fragments or Glasnost. Still one of my fav Manics eras. The leather. The white guitars. Sean's great hair. The Lifeblood and PPF gigs. Good times.

Symmanine · #14 30-03-2018, 09:40

How can Voodoo Polaroids still be there?!

Automatik · #15 30-03-2018, 18:12

Imagine: Litany was the working title of Lifeblood and was probably intended as a single. One of my favourite b-sides, really.