The Top 5 List Thread

[no country for old wainds]

Spoiler

1980​

Times Square, Allan Moyle

1981​

Blow Out, Brian De Palma

1982​

The Thing, John Carpenter

1983​

Sweet Bunch, Nikos Nikolaidis

1984​

Blood Simple, Joel & Ethan Coen

1985​

After Hours, Martin Scorsese

1986​

The Fly, David Cronenberg

1987​

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Todd Haynes

1988​

Dead Ringers, David Cronenberg

1989​

Vampire's Kiss, Robert Bierman
​

 

[CiG]

Vampire's Kiss is an unhinged choice.

 

[no country for old wainds]

it's an unhinged everything

 

[Bloopy]

Out the gate, down the street and around the corner as far as 'top 5 lists' go. Could've been a whole new thread.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Spoiler

1990​

Miller's Crossing, Joel & Ethan Coen

1991​

Point Break, Kathryn Bigelow

1992​

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, David Lynch

1993​

Naked, Mike Leigh

1994​

Exotica, Atom Egoyan

1995​

Heat, Michael Mann

1996​

Crash, David Cronenberg

1997​

Career Girls, Mike Leigh

1998​

Perfect Blue, Satoshi Kon

1999​

Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick
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[no country for old wainds]

Spoiler

2000​

Battle Royale, Kinji Fukasaku

2001​

The Man Who Wasn't There, Joel & Ethan Coen

2002​

The Son, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne

2003​

Dogville, Lars Von Trier

2004​

Mysterious Skin, Gregg Araki

2005​

The New World, Terrence Malick

2006​

Miami Vice, Michael Mann

2007​

There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson

2008​

Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman

2009​

Two Lovers, James Gray
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[no country for old wainds]

Spoiler

2010​

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, David Yates

2011​

Margaret, Kenneth Lonergan

2012​

Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg

2013​

Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel & Ethan Coen

2014​

Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2, Johnnie To

2015​

Aaaaaaaah!, Steve Oram

2016​

A Bride for Rip Van Winkle, Shunji Iwai

2017​

Marjorie Prime, Michael Almereyda

2018​

First Reformed, Paul Schrader

2019​

Long Day's Journey Into Night, Bi Gan
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[no country for old wainds]

Spoiler

not doing 2020s yet, a lot to catch up on (my project for this year and probably beyond). instead, here's a couple misc stats about the above:

Directors with the most mentions
----5----
Charles Chaplin
----4----
Nicholas Ray
Coen Brothers
David Cronenberg
----3----
John Ford
Ernst Lubitsch
Howard Hawks
Terrence Malick
----2----
Buster Keaton
F. W. Murnau
Josef Von Sternberg
Powell & Pressburger
Alfred Hitchcock
John Frankenheimer
John Cassavetes
David Lynch
Mike Leigh
Michael Mann

Top 40 not to make the list
All That Jazz, Bob Fosse
The Apartment, Billy Wilder
The Beach Bum, Harmony Korine
Blade Runner, Ridley Scott
Bringing Out the Dead, Martin Scorsese
Bubba Ho-Tep, Don Coscarelli
Drowning By Numbers, Peter Greenaway
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson
Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh
Hazard, Sion Sono
Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk
In A Year of 13 Moons, R. W. Fassbinder
Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg
The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese
Kings and Queen, Arnaud Desplechin
The Last Days of Disco, Whit Stillman
The Last Laugh, F. W. Murnau
Little Malcolm, Stuart Cooper
Love Exposure, Sion Sono
McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Robert Altman
Memories of Murder, Bong Joon-Ho
Mikey and Nicky, Elaine May
Morvern Callar, Lynne Ramsay
Mulholland Drive, David Lynch
Out of the Blue, Dennis Hopper
Ran, Akira Kurosawa
Repo Man, Alex Cox
Romancing in Thin Air, Johnnie To
The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson
The Straight Story, David Lynch
Stranger Than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch
The Stranger, Satyajit Ray
Tokyo Sonata, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Touch of Evil, Orson Welles
Trust, Hal Hartley
Twixt, Francis Ford Coppola
When Pigs Fly, Sara Driver
Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze
Wild At Heart, David Lynch
A Zed & Two Noughts, Peter Greenaway

Weakest winner (year needs more exploration)
probably 1922 (Nosferatu) or 1929 (A Cottage on Dartmoor)

 

[CiG]

Okay now let's see Vegard's.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

1950
Night and the City
1951
Uhh

 

[CiG]

Meanwhile that fool started in the 1920's. We have no chance.

 

[Slammed]

Meanwhile this fool couldn't even do a list starting from 2020.

 

[Slammed]

Don't be sad, I just couldn't stay awake long enough to watch that many movies.
It would take me 100 years to watch enough movies to cover a list that long.

 

[CiG]

Meanwhile this fool couldn't even do a list starting from 2020.

That's okay, neither can Wainds.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Top 5 AoE2 players

1. DauT
2. Lyx
3. TatoH
4. TheViper
5. MbL

Not that anyone here cares about the greatest esport on the planet, so let's move on

Top 5 songs on Automatic Midnight (R.I.P. Rick Froberg)

1. 10th Planet
2. Automatic Midnight
3. Mystery Boy
4. Let it Come
5. If Credit's What Matters I'll Take Credit

Top 5 songs on Suicide Invoice

1. Suicide Invoice
2. I Hate the Kids
3. Why Does it Hurt?
4. Unlisted
5. Ben Guiron

Top 5 songs on Audit in Progress

1. Hair and DNA
2. Audit in Progress
3. Reflex
4. Hatchet Job
5. Kreative Kontrol

Top 5 songs on Jericho Sirens

1. I Need a Doctor
2. Death Camp Fantasy
3. Six Wave Hold-Down
4. Candid Cameras
5. Death Doula

Top 5 artists, ranked according to the quality of their best album:

1. Adramelch
2. Warning
3. Modest Mouse
4. The Chasm
5. King Crimson

Top 5 artists, ranked according to the aggregate quality of their 3 best albums:

1. Modest Mouse
2. The Chasm
3. Meiko Kaji
4. Voivod
5. Hot Snakes

Top 5 artists, ranked according to the aggregate quality of their 5 best albums:

1. The Chasm
2. Iron Maiden
3. Voivod
4. Manilla Road
5. Eloy

Great idea, conceived by a very smart person. 2024 update:

1 album:

1. Adramelch
2. Warning
3. Modest Mouse
4. King Crimson
5. Flames of Hell

3 albums:

1. Modest Mouse
2. King Crimson
3. Hammers of Misfortune
4. Hot Snakes
5. Voivod

5 albums:

1. The Chasm
2. Iron Maiden
3. Voivod
4. Hammers of Misfortune
5. Manilla Road

 

[no country for old wainds]

ranking is too hard, and there are a few i might swap out on another day, but...

one album:
- elend
- richard dawson
- the chasm
- at the gates
- mad river

three albums:
- the chasm
- elend
- slayer
- richard dawson
- wipers

five albums:
- the chasm
- elend
- burzum
- dead moon
- iron maiden

(alphabetical)
one song:
- alyans
- lee moses
- naked raygun
- velvet underground
- wipers

two songs:
- at the gates
- the cure
- the national
- slayer
- the velvet underground

one album:
- adramelch
- at the gates
- the chasm
- elend
- richard dawson

three albums:
- the chasm
- dead moon
- gravenhurst
- satan
- slayer

five albums:
- aesop rock
- the chasm
- dead moon
- iron maiden
- satan

directors
one movie:
- coen brothers
- david cronenberg
- dardenne brothers
- charlie kaufman
- mike leigh

three movies:
- coen brothers
- david cronenberg
- mike leigh
- david lynch
- terrence malick

five movies:
- john cassavetes
- coen brothers
- david cronenberg
- terrence malick
- johnnie to

seven movies:
- john ford
- david lynch
- nicholas ray
- martin scorsese
- johnnie to

 

[Bloopy]

Ranked in order (or attempted to). My top artists based only on best:

1 song: April March, Metallica, Plasmatics, Killing Joke, Saint Vitus

3 songs: Metallica, The Runaways, Black Sabbath, Danzig, Budgie

1 album: Metallica, Danzig, Anti-Nowhere League, Black Sabbath, Sticky Filth

3 albums: Metallica, Danzig, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Budgie

My 5 albums list would be the same as for 3 albums. Interestingly Megadeth & Budgie are matched album for album in my ratings, until Budgie runs out of albums and Megadeth indisputably loses for making another 5 turds.

 

[CiG]

And y'all niggas call me autistic.

 

[Bloopy]

5 most played artists in my Last.fm chart that aren't in RateYourMusic:

1. Nefarious (NZ punk band)
2. Bloopmongler (my own noise project, album started in 2009 is about 75% done )
3. Necrolatry (NZ solo bedroom death metal project)
4. The Stungrenades (NZ punk band)
5. Foamy Ed (NZ punk band)

The world's punk bands don't get documented quite so thoroughly as its metal bands ...thanks to Encyclopaedia Metallum and the OCD of metal fans. I add a few missing artists here and there but the pile will always be endless.