Ultimate Manics album: Track vs. track

[cricri]

Ok, here's mine...gosh, that was hard!

1. Peeled Apples
2. If you tolerate this then your children will be next
3. You stole the sun/Your love alone/Some kind of nothingness (I can't choose...I just can't)
4. Motorcycle Emptiness
5. You love us
6. My little empire
What? Do I really have to choose between Little Baby Nothing and Autumnsong?

Ok, I give up.

[The Gutless Wonder]

Have just worked out what the rules of this are!

[glitterbaby]

I'm currently stuck on the first track... This might take a while!

[glitterbaby]

1. Yes (DAMN that was tough)
2. ADFL
3. Of Walking Abortion
4. Enola/Alone
5. Journal For Plague Lovers
6. (I can't choose. Seriously. I just can't!)
7. 4st 7lb
8. Repeat (oh yeah!)
9. Faster (followed closely by Balconies/I.B)
10. All Is Vanity
11. Stay Beautiful
12. VSEC

That is possibly the toughest thing I have ever done And I feel dirty thinking about some of the songs I sacrificed
#6 was tough, though. Revol/Small Black Flowers/MLE/To Repel Ghosts/SBHIABOB. Impossible. Oh, and EMG. And TIY. How about 'Marlon J.D'? And I adore 'I'm Not Working' and 'You Love Us'...okay, I'll stop here and go cry into my mug of tea.

[Phil C]

Ok, doing this quickly;

1) Yes
2) If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
3) Intravenous Agnostic
4) Motorcycle Emptiness
5) You Love Us
6) Small Black Flowers That Grown In The Sky
7) Golden Platitudes
8) Marlon J.D.
9) Faster
10) Interiors (Song For Willem D Kooning)
11) Black Dog On My Shoulder
12) No Surface All Feeling

The songs that were most difficult to leave out were 'Peeled Apples', 'Design For Life', 'Postcards', 'Some Kind Of Nothingness' and 'Let Robeson Sing'.

[Blixa]

1. Yes
2. ADFL
3. Of Walking Abortion
4. Ready For Drowning
5. You Love Us
6. Small Black Flowers
7. I'm Not Working
8. Marlon JD
9. Faster
10. All Is Vanity
11. Stay Beautiful
12. Nobody Loved You

That was quite difficult. I've noticed in my list and others SATT doesn't get much of a look in (or at all in mine). The hardest ones to leave out were Pretension / Repulsion, Peeled Apples, Postcards, Life Becoming A Landslide and To Repel Ghosts.

[The Quatercircle]

1. Yes
2. Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldf allapart
3. Of Walking Abortion
4. She Is Suffering
5. Archives of Pain
6. Revol
7. 4st 7lb
8. Mausoleum
9. Faster
10. Winterlovers
11. Die in the Summertime
12. The Intense Humming of Evil

[Europa Gluten Free]

Originally Posted by The Quatercircle

1. Yes
2. Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldf allapart
3. Of Walking Abortion
4. She Is Suffering
5. Archives of Pain
6. Revol
7. 4st 7lb
8. Mausoleum
9. Faster
10. Winterlovers
11. Die in the Summertime
12. The Intense Humming of Evil

There's a joke in there somewhere...

[Inglorious]

1. Sleepflower
2. From Despair To Where
3. Of Walking Abortion
4. Motorcycle Emptiness
5. Archives Of Pain
6. Smalll Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky
7. Roses In The Hospital
8. Removables
9. imperial Bodybags
10.Interiors
11. Stay Beautiful
12. No Surface All Feeling

If 13 was allowed it would be PCP and Condemned To Rock N Roll for 18.

[benwalton]

1. Yes
2. Postcards/Despair to Where
3. Your Love Alone
4. Enola/Indian Summer
5. EMG/2nd Great Depression
6. Small Black Flowers
7. Golden Platitudes
8. Glasnost/Patsy
9. Faster
10. His Last Painting/SSI
11. Fragments/Further Away
12. No Surface All Feeling

SO difficult. I suppose where it was difficult to make a choice, we'd need some b-sides to the singles right?

[French Dog Rhymer]

HAD to make two

1. Yes
2. A Design For Life
3. Of Walking Abortion
4. Motorcycle Emptiness
5. Archives Of Pain
6. Loves Sweet Exile
7. Roses In The Hospital
8. Marlon JD
9. Faster
10. All Is Vanity
11. Further Away
12. Nobody Loved You

1. Peeled Apples
2. If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
3. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
4. Elona/Alone
5. Tsunami
6. She Bathed In A Bath Of Bleach
7. Golden Platitudes
8. Nostalgic Pushead
9. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun
10. Solitude Sometimes Is
11. Black Dog On My Shoulder
12. The Convalecent

[The Quatercircle]

Originally Posted by proevpete

There's a joke in there somewhere...

You think my Ultimate Manics album is a joke?

[glitterbaby]

Originally Posted by benwalton

SO difficult. I suppose where it was difficult to make a choice, we'd need some b-sides to the singles right?

Of course! We need: CD1, CD2, DVD single, 2-disc extended/bonus track edition of the whole compilation. And then there's the Download-only version, vinyl, USB, radio-edit collection...

Oh, not forgetting a collector's shoebox version, either!

[The Gutless Wonder]

I must just go for a load of b-sides to be obscure!

[ZiZi]

Well, never done this before so this is mine:

1. 1985 (well, how fucking tough was this choice!!!)
2. If You Tolerate This
3. Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
4. Motorcycle Emptiness
5. Archives Of Pain
6. She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach
7. Golden Platitudes
8. Marlon JD
9. Faster
10. Solitude Sometimes Is
11. Stay Beautiful
12. No Surface All Feeling.

Still can't believe I could not include Design For Life, Peeled Apples, ... in this list.

And the idea of a Bizarro tracklisting is fun as well. Mind, some of these tracks are still good imo:

1. Elvis Impersonator
2. NatWest- Barclays- Midlands- Lloyds
3. Born To End
4. The Descent
5. Life Becoming A Landslide
6. Drug Drug Druggy
7. I'm Not Working
8. Nostalgic Pushead
9. A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun
10. Winterlovers
11. Fragments
12. So Dead