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

[pax]

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

 

[coemgen]

Ok pax, this was tough, but here's mine:
1. Sunday Bloody Sunday
2. Tomorrow
3. I Will Follow
4. New Year's Day
5. 40

Seconds and Two Hearts would be six and seven, and The Ocean would be eight just for its lyrics being prophetic. Cool thread!

 

[pax]

It doesn't have to be just what I came up with--it can be any music-related top 5.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

top 5 concerts attended

1. u2- fulton ferry state park, how to dismantle an atomic bomb promo tour
2. u2- madison square garden, elevation tour
3. pearl jam- madison square garden, riot act tour
4. bruce springsteen- giants stadium, rising tour
5. billy joel- nassau coliseum, new year's eve

 

[Dutch Partygirl]

5 Disco/pop-songs that are too horrible to be true, but are great to play before a night on the town (does that makes sense??)!

1. King - Love And Pride
2. Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
3. Wham! - The Edge of Heaven
4. Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round
5. The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

 

[TheFly84138]

Top five albums in the last five years:

005. American Idiot - Green Day
004. All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2
003. Hot Fuss - The Killers
002. Hail to the Theif - Radiohead
001. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

5 songs I heard on the radio last night that I love:

1. "Take Me To The River"-Talking Heads
2. "Breaking Us In Two"-Joe Jackson
3. "In God's Country"-U2
4. "Crush"-Dave Matthews Band
5. "Stray Cat Strut"-Stray Cats

Angela

 

[thesuburbskill]

top 5 songs i'd want to hear at a funeral (not necessarily mine)

1. how to disappear completely - radiohead
2. atmosphere - joy division
3. is that all there is ? - pj harvey's version of the classic peggy lee song
4. do you realize? - the flaming lips (for like a parade procession)
5. death is not the end - nick cave & friends (depressingly fun)

 

[Popmartijn]

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

Ooh, High Fidelity!
(yes, I'm one of those stereotypes portaited in that movie )

1. I Will Follow
2. Tomorrow
3. Drowning Man
4. Sunday Bloody Sunday
5. Out Of Control

Probably.

 

[Popmartijn]

top 5 concerts attended

1. U2 - Elevation, Cologne (2nd concert)
2. U2 - Elevation, Antwerp (1st concert)
3. Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band, Barcelona (Reunion Tour opening)
4. Tröckener Kecks, Leusden (their next to last concert)
5. Jasper Steverlinck, Amsterdam (December last year)

Honorary mentions should go to R.E.M., Utrecht (2003 tour opening, in a small club!), Elvis Costello, Amsterdam (North tour) and Emmylou Harris, Amsterdam (Stumble Into Grace tour).

I think...

 

[Popmartijn]

Top 5 Elvis Costello songs:

1. I Want You
2. Riot Act
3. Town Cryer
4. New Amsterdam
5. Goon Squad

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

4. New Amsterdam

I like that song .

thesuburbskill, I agree, "Atmosphere" would definitely be a good funeral song. And speaking of Nick Cave and them, I heard another song by them recently. Can't remember what the name of it was right now, but it wasn't bad .

Angela

 

[coemgen]

Top five numbers:
1. one
2. two
3. three
4. four
5. seventeen.

 

[IWasBored]

top 5 ducky boys songs:

1. do you wrong
2. boston, USA
3. pride
4. misfit
5. for the underdogs

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

The List Thread

Top 5 Stone Roses tunes:

1. She Bangs The Drums
2. Made Of Stone
3. I Am The Resurrection
4. Love Spreads
5. Fools Gold

 

[Lancemc]

Top 5 artists (if you can call them that) that I hate:

1. Jimmy Buffett
2. Bon Jovi
3. Maroon 5
4. Linkin Park
5. Good Charlotte

 

[IWasBored]

Top 5 artists (if you can call them that) that I hate:

1. Jimmy Buffett
2. Bon Jovi
3. Maroon 5
4. Linkin Park
5. Good Charlotte

funniest thing i've ever heard was when i was home the other day and my brother said he hated "jon bovi". ok maybe not the funniest thing ever, but it cracked me up.


i think creed/nickelback are far worse than jimmy buffet.

 

[thesuburbskill]

top 5 song that have kind of scared me while listening to my personal player late at night and wasn’t expecting them to come on…

1. skinny puppy – knowhere?
2. skinny puppy – stairs & flowers
3. nine inch nails – pinion
4. nine inch nails – happiness in slavery
5. kate bush – under ice
and no im not a scaredy cat =p

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

funniest thing i've ever heard was when i was home the other day and my brother said he hated "jon bovi". ok maybe not the funniest thing ever, but it cracked me up.

Jon Bovi?

Hahaha...I'll have to share that one with my sister . That's good.

I'll do that top 5 U2 one...let's see here:

1. Tomorrow
2. I Will Follow
3. 40
4. Shadows And Tall Trees
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday

Angela

 

[financeguy]

The List Thread

Top 5 Stone Roses tunes:

1. She Bangs The Drums
2. Made Of Stone
3. I Am The Resurrection
4. Love Spreads
5. Fools Gold

Mine would be:

(1) This is the One

(2) Elephant Stone

(3) How do you Sleep?

(4) Tears

(5) Sally Cinnamon

Wow, totally different choices.

Good to see another Roses fan here.

 

[financeguy]

Top 5 artists (if you can call them that) that I hate:

1. Jimmy Buffett
2. Bon Jovi
3. Maroon 5
4. Linkin Park
5. Good Charlotte

Well there's worse things in the world than poor old Jimmy Buffett, at least he has a sense of humour about himself (or seems to anyway), something Jon Poodle Hair Bon Jovi lacks.

I agree on (2) and (4) though.

 

[Lancemc]

Hmmm, how could I have forgotten about Nickleback. Damn. Oh well...they are definitely in the top 5 then. And it's not so much Jimmy Buffett himself that I hate, it's just the insanely stupid, huge amount of people in my school that worship the man. They just totally instill me with the greatest contempt for him. They are just so dumb...

 

[financeguy]

Hmmm, how could I have forgotten about Nickleback. Damn. Oh well...they are definitely in the top 5 then. And it's not so much Jimmy Buffett himself that I hate, it's just the insanely stupid, huge amount of people in my school that worship the man. They just totally instill me with the greatest contempt for him. They are just so dumb...

Oh right, I can see how that could get annoying, maybe they should lay off the waccy baccy

 

[pax]

Top 5 Stone Roses tunes:

4. Love Spreads

 

[pax]

Top 5 songs out of my current random mp3 playlist:

5.) "Waiting for the Moon to Rise" Belle and Sebastian
4.) "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" R.E.M.
3.) "Cannonball" Damien Rice
2.) "The Saddest Vacant Lot in the World" Grandaddy
1.) "Such Great Heights" Iron and Wine

 

[IWasBored]

Jon Bovi?

Hahaha...I'll have to share that one with my sister . That's good.

I'll do that top 5 U2 one...let's see here:

1. Tomorrow
2. I Will Follow
3. 40
4. Shadows And Tall Trees
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday

Angela

yeah, jon bovi. it took me a couple minutes to figure out what he was talking about...






top 5 best albums i bought this year so far:
ducky boys - dark days
street dogs - back to the world
far from finished - east side of nowhere
mike ness - cheating at solitare
the replacements - tim

 

[IWasBored]

my top 5 favorite boston bands at the moment:
dirty water
ducky boys
sinners & saints
blood for blood
far from finished

 

[Jack In The Box]

top 5 albums for a Monday morning

5. Rogue Wave - Out Of The Shadow
4. Doves - The Last Broadcast
3. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
2. U2 - The Joshua Tree
1. Kings Of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

5 Squeeze songs I've been listening to a hell of a lot lately:

1. Tempted
2. Another Nail In My Heart
3. Cool For Cats
4. Hourglass
5. 853-5937

Angela

 

[beau2ifulday]

Top 5 songs that took me ages to figure out what they were:

1. Mint Royale feat. Lauren Laverne - Don't Falter
2. The Caesars - Jerk It Out
3. DNA and Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
4. Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful
5. Venus Hum - Montana