Your ultimate Manics album

[Europa Gluten Free]

Ok. I'm finding myself getting stupidly excited about the EMG20 gigs so I've been listening to the Manics again.

I wanted to make my "ultimate" Manics album for a road trip so I set myself the following rules to make it interesting.

Give it a go. If there is any overlap (if your fav opening track is also your favourite live song, for example, then just choose your 2nd fav)

1. Your favourite opening track
2. Your favourite "hit"
3. Your favourite album track
4. Your favourite "Richey" lyric
5. Your favourite B-side
6. Your favourite Jimbo guitar solo
7. Your favourite song when seeing them live
8. Your favourite song the Manics seem to hate
9. Your favourite acoustic track
10. Your favourite "Wire" lyric
11. Your favourite track that no one seems to appreciate
12. Your favourite closing track

I'm gonna have a think today and get back to you guys.

Should be fun!

[junkymotown]

Ooooh, interesting!
OK, here goes...

1. Peeled Apples
2. Kevin Carter
3. Mausoleum
4. Faster
5. Close My Eyes
6. Patrick Bateman
7. Motown Junk
8. There By The Grace of God
9. This is Yesterday
10. Tsunami
11. Gold Against the Soul
12. Condemned to Rock N Roll

That took a bit of thinking!

[zaza_3121]

1. Found That Soul
2. Roses In The Hospital
3. Of Wlking Abortion
4. Faster
5. Hibernation
6. S.Y.M.M.
7. Motown Junk
8. Love Of Richard Nixon
9. Can't Take My Eyes Off You
10. My Little Empire
11. Golden Platitudes
12. William's Last Words

[Mr Richey]

Sure, this sounds like a fun idea. Let's give it a go:

1. "Yes" or "Peeled Apples" - can't quite decide
2. "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next"
3. "Marlon J.D."
4. "Faster"
5. "Donkeys"
6. "Archives Of Pain"
7. "Motown Junk"
8. "S.Y.M.M."
9. "1404"
10. "Ready For Drowning"
11. "Be Natural"
12. "Condemned To Rock 'n' Roll"

Each individual choice seems to make sense to me but, when you put them together, that's a very random playlist!

[darkanddivine]

Great idea, and nice structure to it instead of one big naff off list. I shall return to do mine laters!

[Suicide Aldi]

Yes ( US mix )
Design for life
Miss europa disco dancer
4st 7ib
Dead yankee drawl
Archives of pain
Tsunami
The love of Richard Nixon
Running out of fantasy
The everlasting
Be natural
Cardiff afterlife

I really like the way this flows togeather!

[darkanddivine]

1. Peeled Apples
2. Australia
3. Die in the Summertime
4. La Tristesse Durera
5. Locust Valley
6. Archives of Pain
7. Motorcycle Emptiness
8. To Repel Ghosts (simply on account of the fact that it's on Lifeblood)
9. Love Torn Us Under
10. My Little Empire
11. ForeverDelayed
12. No Surface All Feeling

[Son of Stopped]

1. 1985
2. So Why So Sad
3. 4st 7lb
4. VSEC (Virginia State Epileptic Colony)
5. Montana Autumn '78
6. A Song For Departure
7. Archives Of Pain
8. Love's Sweet Exile
9. This Sullen Welsh Heart
10.Indian Summer
11. ENGAGE WITH YOUR SHADOW (Goes off to listen)
12. No Surface All Feeling

[handbag]

opening track - Sleepflower
"hit" - Faster
album track - Condemned to Rock n Roll
"Richey" lyric - Jackie Collins Existential QT (unedited)
B-side - Patrick Bateman
Jimbo guitar solo - Condemned to Rock N Roll*
song the Manics seem to hate - I don't know what they seem to hate
acoustic track - This Is Yesterday
"Wire" lyric - n/a
track that no one seems to appreciate - Hibernation
closing track - Condemned to Rock n Roll*


*Edit because my comprehension skills are poor ("If there is any overlap (if your fav opening track is also your favourite live song, for example, then just choose your 2nd fav")
Jimbo guitar solo - (Sleepflower also gone, so...) Comfort Comes
I can't do the closing track one, because there is no alternative to Condemned. Sorry for fucking up the list.

[Littlesue]

I will do mine when I have had time to write all the questions down!

[Europa Gluten Free]

Title: Nicky Wire, what you wanna be?

1. 1985
2. Tolerate
3. Peeled Apples
4. 4st 7lbs
5. Prologue To History
6. Comfort Comes
7. Masses Against the Classes (baby!)
8. The Love of Richard Nixon
9. Baby Elian
10. Mr Carbohydrate
11. Close My Eyes
12. No Surface All Feeling

[Symmanine]

1. Yes
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Further Away
4. This Joke Sport Severed
5. Sepia
6. Faster
7. A Design For Life
8. To Repel Ghosts
9. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
10. You're Tender And You're Tired
11. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
12. No Surface All Feeling

[Glass Angel]

1. Yes
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. No Surface All Feeling
4. She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach
5. Donkeys
6. Faster
7. Mausoleum
8. Empty Souls
9. Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
10. This Is Yesterday
11. Sleepflower
12. Condemned To Rock N Roll

[Donkey]

1. Peeled Apples
2. A Design for Life
3. 4st 7lb
4. Donkeys
5. Comfort Comes
6. Archives of Pain
7. All is Vanity
8. Hibernation
9. Facing Page: Top Left
10. The Love of Richard Nixon
11. Solitude Sometimes Is
12. No Surface All Feeling

Japanes Bonuses: Empty Souls, Just a Kid
i-tunes bonus: Die in the Summertime
free download: Doors Closing Slowly

[Dac X Lee]

Originally Posted by Littlesue

I will do mine when I have had time to write all the questions down!

Thinking about my answers is the harder part for me. I guess I'd need more than one album to write down.

But this is indeed a cute idea. May even give an inspiration for a playlist.