TOP 5

what a question. i couldn't answer it easily, maybe not at all.

oh there's 100s of them.

jess = whore for lists.

5. Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader

4. Pixies - Debaser

3. Pere Ubu - Heart of Darkness b/w 30 Seconds Over Tokyo (tied with) Final Solution

2. Omni Trio - Renegade Snares (Foul Play VIP Mix)

1. Ronettes - Be My Baby

Stop reading High Fidelidty, and read something good instead, like the ingredients on a cornflakes packet

hawhaw. (keep these threads coming. and we may actually get that rant outta him yet.)

I just made a top 50 greatest-songs-ever list for some friends and I made the top five entries:

1. Donna Summer, "I Feel Love" 2. The Stooges, "Search and Destroy" 3. Acen, "Trip II The Moon" 4. Pulp, "Common People" 5. Chic, "Good Times"

But I think that's not right. I think the top 5 should have been:

1. Jay-Z feat Missy Elliott, "Is That Your Bitch?" 2. Pixies, "Debaser" 3. Saint Etienne, "He's On The Phone" 4. Joy Division, "Atmosphere" 5. TLC, "No Scrubs"

1 A Day in the Life 2 Little Savage -Elvis Costello 3 Evangeline - Cocteau Twins 4 The American SCene -High Llamas 5 Passacaglia and Fuge in Cm - Bach

1. Stereolab "Lo Boob Oscillator"
2. Jodeci "Lately"
3. Belle & Sebastian "The State I Am In"
4. The Coup "Fat Cats, Bigga Fish"
5. Black Tambourine "Throw Aggi Off the Bridge"
yay! lists are fun. I also briefly considered r.kelly's "bump n' grind (old skool remix)"

1. My Bloody Valentine, "Soon"

*pause*

What, you wanted more? This is the type of list I'll never be able to create beyond the pole position spot.

no order

ne me quittes pas - jacques brel et al

I just don't know what to do with myself - dusty springfield (bacharach)

American Trilogy - elvis presly

1000 hurts - shellac

coney island babe - lou reed

the music from dr pepper. the music from Will & Grace. the theme tune to Quincy. everybody lets fuck. inmates from the institution.

fuck, i forgot the incidental music in Dawsons

goody -- it's been weeks and weeks, so what is it now...

To Here Knows When -- MBV Dancing Queen -- Abba Transmission -- Joy Division

(not much change there)

ummm... probably a Pulp song, errr Dusty Springfield... help

"Big Yellow Taxi" Joni M
"Bad Reputation" dBs
"Welcome to the working week" Elvis Costello
"Je suis venue de dire que je m'envais" Jo Lemaire
"Unfinished Sympathy" Massive Attack

Oh add "Walk on By" to the list. Dionne Warwick? Must be her.

All time - I can't possibly answer that because tastes are far too schizophrenic to narrow it down that much blah de blah blah blah etc etc. But I can name five that I rilly rilly like right now, as in if I put my MP3s on random play I will never skip them regardless of mood, but it's a dishonest list if I call it top five, so: Pinback - Crutch (or Loro, maybe..), Finn Brothers - Only Talking Sense, Jonathan Richman - I'm Straight, Rheostatics - Claire, Pixies - Velouria, I guess that's five isn't it... Can I add that the oddest song I cannot resist is either Ween's Baby Bitch, or their live cover of Hot For Teacher. I hate top fives, I want to add fifty more songs...

'London Belongs To Me' - Saint Etienne.
'Hand In Glove' - the Smiths.
'Dancing Queen' - ABBA.
'Atmosphere' - Joy Division.
'Silly Games' - Janet Kay.

songs that have been imprinted onto my brain due to a great deal of past listening:
1) "My Favorite Things" from the Sound of Music
2) Pachelbel's Canon in D
3) Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
4) "Change Your Mind," Neil Young
5) "One Headlight," Wallflowers

I just started lists of songs that I've really loved in the last two years (since I started hearing music from places other than my parents and the radio) and songs that are my current favorites but that was too much for now.

1. Pyki Vvepx - "Around the World (La La La La La)"
2. Turbonegro - "The Age of Pamparius"
3. Daft Punk - "One More Time"
4. Danzig - "Mother"
5. New Order - "Bizarre Love Triangle"

As I couldn't narrow down the list to less than 100...I've come up with my five favourite songs lasting less than 90 seconds...

1) Anytime You Want - Eric's Trip
2) Till the Morning Comes - Neil Young
3) Wake the World - Beach Boys
4) Ohio Arts - Number One Cup
5) The Frigtened Singers - Elfpower

Tomorrow, I shall provide my fave 7 min 30 second+ songs...

Why Debaser?

Because it is perfect.

5. Black Tambourine "Throw Aggi Off the Bridge"

In leiu of difficult list-making, I'll just point out how amazed I am to see that up there.

Seismic Waves, "Go to a Party and Act Like an Asshole"

Summer Part I - by Crude; King Kong - by Daniel Johnston; Shouting out loud - by the Raincoats; the wind blows in your hair - by The Seeds; philosophy of the world - by the Shaggs.

Such questions are always bollocks, but we like it. Until I answer this question again...

5 - "Le Mal de Vivre" - Barbara
4 - "Personality Crisis" - NYD
3 - "Be My Baby" - The Ronettes
2 - "Hand in Glove" - The Smiths
1 - "Gimme Shelter" - Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones!

Don't you people know that my list changes every time I even think about this sort of question? Goddamnit.

ummmm..."Yes", Manic Street Preachers. "Live To Tell", Madonna. "Can I Get A...", Jay-Z. "He's On The Phone", St. Etienne. "Atmosphere"/"Love Will Tear Us Apart" (depends on the day", Joy Division.

edwin starr, "25 miles"; nick drake, "northern sky"; left banke, "she may call you up tonight"; erasure, "a little respect"; elton john, "curtains"

So that's three each for Atmosphere and Be My Baby, and two apiece for Hand In Glove, Debaser and He's On The Phone. Isn't This Exciting?

All of those might have made my top 5 but, simply to be different:
I heard it through the grapevine - Marvin Gaye ... Feed Me With Your Kiss - My Bloody Valentine ... Lost In Music - Sister Sledge ... Good Vibrations - Beach Boys ... Heart Of The Sunrise - Yes

grrrrrrr

you are all in my book

No order: First Time E'er I Saw Your Face by Ewan McColl, my favourite version is Roberta Flack on First Take. Women Of The World Take Over by Jim O'Rourke, which uses an Ivor Cutler poem to open his Eureka album. Bruce Springsteen: Fourth of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) especially the version on Live 75-85 with different lyrics (if it was a top 10 there'd be 2 or 3 more Bruce songs). On A Motel Six by Yo La Tengo, from Painful, though I'd find other YLT songs I prefered if I looked hard enough. The Writing Of Tipperary/A Long Way To Tipperary combined on June Tabor's album A Quiet Eye, which was a publicly funded (lottery!) collaboration with the Creative Jazz Orchestra.

― chris, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

>>> 5. Black Tambourine "Throw Aggi Off the Bridge" / In leiu of difficult list-making, I'll just point out how amazed I am to see that up there.

Me too. It's definitely not my favourite Black Tambourine song.

I could answer this but it would have changed the second I pressed submit, so instead I'll just use this anality to say that I'm in the process of making a tape consisting entirely of bands beginning with P. It RoX0r.