10 best Manic Street Preachers songs since Lifeblood

[tomd2103]

1. Your Love Alone is Not Enough
2. Walk Me to the Bridge
3. It’s Not War Just the End of Love (for a more commercial Greatest Hits album)
4. International Blue
5. The View From Stow Hill
6. Peeled Apples
7. Send Away the Tigers
8. Golden Platitudes
9. Still Snowing in Sapporo
10. Going to go for a line rather than a song - “In between acceptance and rage” from Builder of Routines. Think that sums up the main theme they have wrestled with over the timeframe in question

[Marat Sar]

Songs I really like, random order:

My Drowning World
Welcome To The Dead Zone
Leviathan
The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever
Peeled Apples
The View From Stow Hill
Hold Me Like A Heaven
Building A City (Hughesovka)
Still Snowing In Sapporo
Bag Lady
The Secret He Had Missed
You Know It's Going To Hurt
Last Flight To Moscow

The Feels Like Heaven cover is also very good

[counterlanguage]

The favourites/best are completely interchangeable depending on the mood, but I've had a go:

For future "best-of" compilations - Complicated Illusions
For future "best-of" compilations - Rewind The Film
For all future live sets - Jackie Collins
Defining song of the era - Walk Me To The Bridge

Best songs & personal favourites:
Golden Platitudes
All Is Vanity
She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach
Quest For Ancient Colour
This Joke Sport Severed
Europa Geht Durch Mich

[cameron33]

10 best songs of that era (without the other specific criteria as I’m lazy)

Here are the finalists (what a great album it would make)

Send Away the Tigers
The Second Great Depression
Peeled Apples
Jackie Collins
Marlon JD
Bag Lady
Golden Platitudes
Postcards from a Young Man
30 Year War
Walk me to the Bridge
The next jet to leave Moscow
Divine Youth
Misguided Missile
The View from Stow Hill
International Blue
A Song for the Sadness
Still Snowing in Sapporo
The secret he had missed
Diapause
Afterending

Here are the final 10:
Jackie Collins
Golden Platitudes
30 Year War
The Next Jet to Leave Moscow
Divine Youth
Misguided Missile
International Blue
A Song for the Sadness
The secret he had missed
Diapause

Doing this really shows that “Futurology” is definitely the strongest later Manics album for me.