Ranking The Manics Songs – Generation Terrorists!

Here we go again. You’ve read me harp on about the band long enough on the blog. But it’s still. Not. Sinking. In. My beautiful subscribers – it’s down to you to make the band big – bigger. Click the links. Buy the albums. Tell your friends. Lets Make Music Great Again! The more attention bands like this get, then the more bands like this will surface and the charts with be changed forever! Or more likely, none of that will happen. Still, give them a shot – you might like them. Probably not.

I’ve listed my favourite songs by them. I’ve reviewed their albums. I’ve been going through every effing song they’ve ever made and dedicating individual posts to those. I post my favourite lyrics by them most Mondays. As I look out the window at the uncharacteristically blue Belfast sky on the 15th of July 2019, I wonder what other scrapings are left at the bottom of the barrel. And it comes to me – ranking each song from each album. It’s just pointless and clickable enough to make for a five minute read on the shitter, and a frothy response in the comments. Please do both.

Below I present my ranking of the songs of Generation Terrorists. It’s not definitive, but shows my general feelings about the thing. There’s only one song here I don’t like – Repeat USA – and it’s barely a song anyway. I’m going to do the same for each album, at least until I get bored. Make sure to scroll to the bottom for a bonus list! Blisstus!

1. Condemned To Rock And Roll
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Little Baby Nothing
4. You Love Us
5. Crucifix Kiss
6. So Dead
7. Repeat UK
8. Stay Beautiful
9. Spectators Of Suicide
10. Another Invented Disease
11. Slash N Burn
12. Damn Dog
13. Born To End
14. Methadone Pretty
15. Natwest Barclays Midlands Lloyds
16. Tennessee
17. Love’s Sweet Exile
18. Repeat (Stars And Stripes)

Next, my list of the album as a single rather than a double:

1. Slash N Burn
2. Motorcycle Emptiness
3. Motown Junk
4. You Love Us
5. Little Baby Nothing
6. Stay Beautiful
7. So Dead
8. Repeat
9. Spectators Of Suicide
10. Suicide Is Painless
11. Crucifix Kiss
12. Condemned To Rock n Roll

And finally, my list of how the album really should have looked in all its 18 track glory:

1. Slash N Burn
2. New Art Riot
3. Motorcycle Emptiness
4. Motown Junk
5. You Love Us
6. Little Baby Nothing
7. Never Want Again
8. Stay Beautiful
9. Democracy Coma
10. So Dead
11. Repeat
12. Spectators Of Suicide
13. Suicide Is Painless
14. Starlover
15. Crucifix Kiss
16. Sorrow 16
17. Dead Yankee Drawl
18. Condemned To Rock n Roll

Let us know your rankings and extras in the comments!