Your Top 5... (the High Fidelity thread)

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

Top 5 Sexiest Songs on my iTunes at the moment:

This Is Love - PJ Harvey
Night & Day - Billie Holiday
Shag Tobacco - Gavin Friday
Your Blue Room - Passengers
Ball & Biscuit - The White Stripes

 

[~LadyLemon~]

My Top Five Tunes from the Reservoir Dogs Soundtrack:

*Stuck in the Middle with You: Stealers Wheel
*Little Green Bag: George Baker Selection
*Fool For Love: Sandy Rogers
*Coconut: Harry Nillson
*Hooked on a Feeling: Blue Swede

 

[Dutch Partygirl]

Hell yeah! The George Baker Selection!
(sorry, I am a bit drunk at the moment)

 

[JOFO]

top 5 songs from POP and ATYCLB only:

1. beutiful day
2. walk on
3. kite
4. gone
5. please

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

Top 5 CDs for me to listen while on road trips:

1. Coldplay - Parachutes
2. Doves - Lost Souls
3. U2 - Unforgettable Fire
4. John Mayer - Heavier Things
5. Stereophonics - Just Enough Education to Perform

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

Top 5 songs that make me wanna cry:

1. Warning Sign - Coldplay
2. Sparks - Coldplay
3. Blowers Daughter - Damien Rice
4. Bad - U2
5. Why Should I Cry For You - Sting

 

[JOFO]

Top 5 songs that make me wanna cry:

5. Why Should I Cry For You - Sting

there's a song from his cd "brand new day" called "ghost story" that's really good also.

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

yes I love that song.

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

3. Blowers Daughter - Damien Rice

Hell, yes. Beautiful song, but yeah, definitely a tearjerker.

Continuing with that theme, 5 songs that have made me cry/choke up/get misty-eyed/what have you upon hearing them in recent weeks:

1. "This Woman's Work"-Kate Bush
2. "Don't Give Up"-Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush
3. "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own"-U2
4. "Candle In The Wind"-Elton John
5. "Your Wildest Dreams"-Moody Blues

Angela

 

[pax]

Top 5 Belle and Sebastian Songs:

5.) Rollercoaster Ride
4.) Beautiful
3.) Me and the Major
2.) I Fought in a War
1.) Piazza, New York Catcher

 

[thesuburbskill]

Continuing with that theme, 5 songs that have made me cry/choke up/get misty-eyed/what have you upon hearing them in recent weeks:


Angela

here are my 5 that have the same effect on me:

1. redemption song - joe strummer
2. hurt live/radio version - nine inch nails
3. no surprises - radiohead
4. bad live (rattle and hum) - u2
5. letdown - radiohead

 

[Sweet Tart]

favorite song from my top 5 bands:

doves - rise
u2 - gone
oasis - don't look back in anger
coldplay - dont' panic
rem - man on the moon

 

[pax]

Top 5 songs I discovered from Interference mix CDs:

5.) "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" the Postal Service
4.) "Driving Me Mad" Neil Finn
3.) "Love Is Everything" Jane Siberry
2.) "Desire" Ryan Adams
1.) "I've Been High" (acoustic version) R.E.M.

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

favorite song from my top 5 bands:

oasis - don't look back in anger

 

[alexvilagosh]

Top 5 artists I've seen live
1. Polyphonic Spree
2. Coldplay
3. The Streets
4. Radiohead
5. Placebo

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

I love top 5 lists!!!!

Top 5 favorites movies ever:

1. 2001: A Space Odissey
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Goodfellas
4. The Shinning
5. Heat or maybe Dog Day Afternoon

 

[IWasBored]

top 5 best bands i've seen live:
barenaked ladies
street dogs
murphy's law
dropkick murphys
the toasters - andrew wk (tie)


top 5 worst non-local bands i've seen live:
simple plan
river city rebels
the misfits (current lineup)
messhugah
gavin degraw

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

Top 5 Metallica songs:

1. Master Of Puppets
2. Seek And Destroy
3. For Whom he Bell Tolls
4. Fuel
5. Creeping Death

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

Top 5 songs from HTDAAB:

1. City Of Blinding lights
2. Vertigo
3. Love And Peace Or Else
4. Sometimes You Can`t Make It On Your Own
5. Miracle Drug

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

Top 5 Bruce Springsteen records:

1. Born to Run
2. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
3. The Rising
4. Nebraska
5. The River



Top 5 Rolling Stones records (right now):

1. Tattoo You
2. Sticky Fingers
3. Let It Bleed
4. Beggars Banquet
5. Vodoo Lounge



Top 5 favorite riffs to play on the guitar (right now):

1. U2 - Are You Gonna Wait Forever
2. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
3. U2 - All Because Of You
4. The Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash
5. U2 - Xanax And Wine

 

[IWasBored]

top 5 bruce springsteen records:
nebraska
darkness on the edge of town
the rising
ghost of tom joad
lucky town

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

5 Songs that used to annoy but now I really like(In no order and I know I am missing a lot):

1. At the Drive-In-Arcarsenal
2. Incubus-Battlestar Scralatchtica
3. John Fogetry-Nobody's Here Anymore
4. Macy Gray: I Try
5. Jimmy Eat World-Sunday

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

Top 5 Oleander songs:

1. I Walk Alone
2. Why I'm Here
3. Benign
4. Are You There?
5. Candy Store

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

We were playing "Top 5" at the office today, and I think we once had a thread like this, but I couldn't find it, so I'm starting a new one.

Post your top 5 music list. Anything music-related welcome.

I'll start with one I came up with at work--top 5 U2 songs, 1st 3 albums only:

5.) Surrender
4.) Rejoice
3.) New Year's Day
2.) I Will Follow
1.) Out of Control

Here are my top 5 song from U2's 1st and 3rd albums only:

1. New Year's Day
2. Pride (In the Name of Love)
3. Fire
4. An Cat Dubh
5. October

 

[IWasBored]

top 5 songs on the new far from finished album titled "east side of nowhere"
lost in the rain
those never forgotten
seasonal patriot
9 lives
one lifetime

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Five songs that always get me dancing:

1. "Love Shack"-B-52s
2. "Discotheque"-U2
3. "Come On Eileen"-Dexy's Midnight Runners
4. "Hourglass"-Squeeze
5. "Turning Japanese"-The Vapors

Five music channels I enjoy listening to:

1. 80s Hits
2. Coffeehouse Rock
3. Rock & Roll Oldies
4. Alternative
5. Adult Contemporary

Angela

 

[pax]

Top 5 local radio stations:

5.) 102.3 The Mountain (classic rock with some new stuff and local songs mixed in)
4.) 106.5 WFYY (a mix of adult contemporary and classic rock, LOTS of 80s stuff)
3.) 99.5 WUSR (University of Scranton radio--typical college station, plays everything)
2.) 88.5 WRKC (Radio King's College, again, college station but with more of an indie-rock/emo emphasis)
1.) 89.1 WSFX (Luzerne County Community College radio--great mix of more radio-friendly modern rock, punk, garage, indie, emo, some edgy hip-hop thrown in sometimes)

 

[IWasBored]

top 5 local radio stations:
1. WMUA (umass station )
2. 97.1 FM - kix country
3. 95.3 - bear country
4. ....
5. ....

the radio sucks.

 

[knox]

Top five Weezer songs!

1. El Scorcho
2. Falling For You
3. Undone
4. Say It Ain't So
5. No One Else

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Your lists are un-High Fidelity.

Top 5 songs to listen to while fending off the neighbour's dog!

Come on!