Manics Top 50 – version 2, 2015

So here's my updated top 50, post-Rewind the Film, post-Futurology, post-The Holy Bible live gigs.  This is so hard to do, because you realise how much you love them, and how it's a complete outrage that you can't get everything in that you want to get in, and how there's some tracks you really know shouldn't be in there, but you can't let them go without sobbing.  Anyway, the only real changes are, 3 Futurology tracks and one RTF sneak in between 40 and 50, and for some reason Peeled Apples has rocketed up, because hell, that album has lasted, and the opening track is like having the electric paddles applied direct to your sluggish but still twitching disaffected rocker's heart, and realising you're still alive.   

1-10: Absolute classics 

1. Faster

2. Design for Life

3. Motorcycle emptiness

4. La Tristesse Durera

5. 4st 7lb

6. Yes

7. You love us

8. PCP

9. No surface, all feeling

10. All is vanity

11-20: The ones that just get you

11. Prologue to History

12. The Girl Who Wanted to Be God

13. Enola/alone

14. Further Away

15. Socialist serenade

16. Motown Junk

17. If you tolerate this

18. Sepia

19. Bored out of my mind

20. Just a kid

21-30: The strange, slightly perverse ones

21. Donkeys

22. Mr Carbohydrate

23. Peeled apples

24. Spectators of Suicide

25. Sleepflower

26. Intravenous agnostic

27. Wattsville Blues

28. Take the skinheads bowling

29. Found that soul

30. Raindrops keep falling on my head

31-40: Late-flowering lovelies

31. Glasnost

32. Solitude Sometimes Is

33. Me and Stephen Hawking

34. This joke sport severed

35. Facing page top left

36. Epicentre

37. Journal for Plague Lovers

38. There by the grace of God

39. William’s last words

40. 1985

41-50: No surrender

41. Freedom of speech won’t feed my children

42. Let’s go to war

43. Ready for drowning

44. This is yesterday

45. Futurology

46. Black Square

47. Australia

48. Tsunami

49. Show me the wonder

50. Stay beautiful