The Top 5 List Thread

[Vegard Pompey]

Top 5 Hammers of Misfortune songs:

1. The Grain
2. Butchertown
3. The Locust Years
4. Trot Out the Dead
5. You Should Have Slayed Me

Top 5 Hammers, Scalzi years:

1. The Locust Years
2. Trot Out the Dead
3. Election Day
4. The Trial and the Grave
5. You Should Have Slain Me

Top 5 Hammers, post-Scalzi:

1. The Velvet Inquisition
2. Fields suite
3. The Day the City Died
4. The Grain
5. Butchertown

 

[CiG]

Top 5 TV series that debuted in 1987:



1. Married with Children
2. The New Statesman (another great show overshadowed by The Young Ones)
3. Filthy Rich & Catflap (same as above except more lowbrow and understandably unknown lol)
4. TMNT 1987
5. French and Saunders



Classic intro!

Honourable mention to Rage (Aussie night time music show), Remote Control (Colin Quinn rules), My Pet Monster (loved it as a kid) and a big shoutout to Fox News because apparently that shitshow debuted in 1987 too. I really need to watch that Ken Wahl crime series Wiseguy, looks awesome.

 

[Burkhard]

5 of the dumbest-sounding band names in existence:

Velvet Acid Christ - Bryan took acid and the 3 words came to him, probably imagined those big titty goth girls wearing the velvet.

Com'nrail - How to make an engine part reference sound as stupid as possible I guess?

Fur Patrol

When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water

Pomegranate Tiger - I'd still be WTFing if someone hadn't pointed out that Dalí put these two items in a painting based on a surreal dream, albeit with a rockfish in between. Otherwise it'd be one desperate tiger who resorted to eating pomegranates. I imagine it'd be a bit like biting a piñata. The band's original name was arguably even sillier: Rock-a-saurus Rex.

01101111011101100110111001101001 is up there.

We Butter the Bread with Butter

Some German band names I'd like to add:

Ostzonensuppenwürfelmachenkrebs
Ackerbau & Viehzucht
Hunde Hacken Holz
Arzt & Pfusch

 

[zerostatic]

Top 5 Artist I listened to on Spotify in 2020:

1) Alestorm
2) Judas Priest
3) David Bowie
4) Beach Boys
5) Frank Sinatra

Over 70,000 minutes of listening/playing.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i had about 51k on there this year, top 5 were katatonia varathron voivod autopsy and radio birdman. fuckin’ discography rankings and song survivors are the reason for some of those lol. top song was james carr’s ‘the dark end of the street’.

 

[zerostatic]

My summer listening habits and pool friendly playlists are what put Beach Boys and Alestorm in my top 5.

 

[Bloopy]

My top 5 listened to in 2020 per Last.fm:
1. Sepultura
2. Ripship
3. Wax Chattels
4. Metallica
5. Black Sabbath

Top 5 Budgie songs:
1. Hammer and Tongs
2. Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman
3. Parents
4. Panzer Division Destroyed
5. Breadfan

Top 5 Björk songs:
1. Jóga
2. Bachelorette
3. Mutual Core
4. Hunter
5. Earth Intruders

 

[CiG]

Top 5 2020 practical effects scenes:

1. The Debt Collector 2: That whole alleyway fight scene that's a very obvious homage to They Live. CGI fight scenes are fucking lame and shaky cam fight scenes are almost as lame.

2. Color Out of Space: That scene where the mother's body slowly envelopes the son's body and they're both breathing weirdly as they're conjoined. I think besides the pink eyes that's a practical effect?

3. Birds of Prey: When Harley Quinn jumps on the guy's legs and breaks them while he's sitting down. Rewound that scene several times lol.

4. Becky: The infamous eyeball scene.

5. VFW: The scene when William Sadler keeps stomping on a guy's head until it's crushed into what looks like a dropped pizza.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Top 5 American songs/compositions from the first half of the 20th century:

1. George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
2. Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man
3. Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings
4. Raymond Scott - Powerhouse
5. Glenn Miller - In the Mood

Top 5 from other countries:

1. Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
2. Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune
3. Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
4. Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
5. Gustav Holst - Mars, the Bringer of War

 

[Bloopy]

5 favourite Led Zeppelin songs:
1. Dazed and Confused
2. Trampled Under Foot
3. In the Evening
4. Good Times Bad Times
5. Since I've Been Loving You

5 favourite New Model Army songs:
1. Ballad of Bodmin Pill
2. No Rest
3. I Love the World
4. Christian Militia
5. The Hunt (notably covered by Sepultura)

5 favourite Plasmatics songs:
1. Mistress of Taboo
2. Lightning Breaks
3. The Damned
4. Doom Song
5. No Class (Motörhead cover) ...or Sex Junkie if only listing originals

 

[CiG]

Top 5 2020 releases by genre:

Doom metal:

1. Isengard - Vårjevndøgn
2. Void Moon - The Autumn Throne
3. The Wizar'd - Subterranean Exile
4. Pallbearer - Forgotten Days
5. Cardinals Folly - Defying the Righteous Way

Thrash metal:

1. Körgull the Exterminator - Sharpen Your Spikes
2. Warbringer - Weapons of Tomorrow
3. Front - Antichrist Militia
4. Zoldier Noiz - Merci
5. Amorphia - Merciless Strike

*Black metal:

1. Gjendød - Angrep
2. Malokarpatan - Krupinské ohne (The Fires of Krupina)
3. Nechochwen / Panopticon - Nechochwen / Panopticon
4. Serpent Column - Kathodos
5. Maquahuitl - At the Altar of Mictlampa

Heavy/"trad" metal:

1. White Magician - Dealers of Divinity
2. Freeways - True Bearings
3. Cirith Ungol - Forever Black
4. Ironsword - Servants of Steel
5. Wytch Hazel - III: Pentecost

Sludge metal:

1. Slave Hands - No More Feelings
2. Fistula - The Process of Opting Out
3. Come to Grief - Pray for the End
4. Flesh Mother - Perverse
5. Crust - ...and a Dirge Becomes an Anthem

Progressive/avant-garde metal:

1. !T.O.O.H.! - Free Speech
2. Sweven - The Eternal Resonance
3. Hail Spirit Noir - Eden in Reverse
4. Fates Warning - Long Day Good Night
5. Psychotic Waltz - The God-Shaped Void

Progressive rock:

1. Wobbler - Dwellers of the Deep
2. Ring van Möbius - The 3rd Majesty
3. Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble - The Red Planet
4. Karfagen - Birds of Passage
5. Hällas - Conundrum

Grindcore:

1. Macabre - Carnival of Killers
2. Gut - Disciples of Smut
3. Internal Rot - Grieving Birth
4. Final Exit - ノイズの若大将 (Young Guy of Noize)
5. Houkago Grind Time - Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore)

Folk:

1. Adrianne Lenker - Songs
2. Cinder Well - No Summer
3. Josephine Foster - No Harm Done
4. Boktingan - Sorgens jul
5. Wudewuse - Northern Gothic

Country:

1. Margo Price - Perfectly Imperfect at the Ryman
2. Colter Wall - Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs
3. Charley Crockett - Welcome to Hard Times
4. Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started
5. The Hanging Stars - A New Kind of Sky

Punk:

1. Died - Less Life
2. Touché Amoré - Lament
3. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today
4. Ona Snop - Intermittent Damnation
5. Android - Chapter 001

Hip hop:

1. Ancient Oak - Ye Olde Wisdom
2. Ramirez & Rocci - Tha Playa$ Manual
3. R.A. the Rugged Man - All My Heroes Are Dead
4. Ramson Badbonez - Death Mask
5. Apoc Krysis & Robscire - Buckwild Threat Vol. 1

Pop:

1. Kylie Minogue - Disco
2. Donny Benét - Mr Experience
3. Ulver - Flowers of Evil
4. Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine
5. Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated Side B

Electronic:

1. Rein - Reincarnated
2. Cabaret Voltaire - Shadow of Fear
3. Dan Terminus - Last Call for All Passengers
4. E-Musikgruppe Lux Ohr - Non Plus Ultra
5. Crypt Vapor - Theta Blocker

By no means have I heard everything on my wishlist but I doubt these will change very much over time.

Anybody who likes Jakprogresso/Jak Tripper check out Ancient Wisdom, it's an album that was recorded in the mid-00's and recently recovered and polished for consumption. Good shit!

Power metal was definitely my biggest blind-spot for 2020 metal (while death metal was a hyper-focus hence not bothering to list it here). Judicator's Let There Be Nothing album was the only proper (ie non-USPM) power metal album I checked out and liked.

Anybody with any 2020 power metal recommendations (or any other genre) please hit me up and enlighten me.

*NOT INCLUDING BLACK/DEATH

 

[Burkhard]

Anybody with any 2020 power metal recommendations (or any other genre) please hit me up and enlighten me.

Lovebites - Electric Pentagram
Not exactly a pure power metal album, because it also contains two thrash metal songs ("Set the World on Fire" being their heaviest thus far), "Raise Some Hell" and "Dancing With the Devil" are heading in the direction of hard rock, "Golden Destination" sounds a bit Maiden-ish and I don't really know how to classify "A Frozen Serenade". Since they are even better live and 8 out of the 12 songs on "Electric Pentagram" also made it onto the "Five of a Kind"-live album/DVD/Blu-ray, I also recommend the latter.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

@CiG How about a top 5 2020 releases for all genres combined?

 

[CiG]

That's a tough one! I struggled just getting my top 10 metal ordered.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Is that what you posted in the 2020 metal thread yesterday? I didn't think to check there before asking, but looking now it seems there isn't much overlap with your top fives by genre. No worries either way, I was just looking for a condensed list of shit to check out.

 

[CiG]

Yeah most of my top 10 is death metal (which I excluded here) but now that I think about it, my top 5 of all genres would be the same as the upper 5 of my metal top 10 anyway. There was a lot of amazing non-metal released last year but nothing that would crack my overall top 5.

 

[EchoForever]

Yeah most of my top 10 is death metal (which I excluded here) but now that I think about it, my top 5 of all genres would be the same as the upper 5 of my metal top 10 anyway. There was a lot of amazing non-metal released last year but nothing that would crack my overall top 5.

whats your top 5 death metal?

 

[zerostatic]

Top 5 Followers in Fallout Games:
1) Nick Valentine
2) Boone
3) Dogmeat
4) Fawkes
5) ED - E

Top 5 Fallout DLC:
1) Far Harbor
2) Honest Hearts
3) The Pitt
4) Broken Steel
5) Point Lookout

 

[CiG]

whats your top 5 death metal?

1. Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
2. Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus
3. Dead and Dripping - Profane Verses of Murderous Rhetoric
4. Undergang - Aldrig i livet
5. Gorephilia - In the Eye of Nothing

(Excluding Imperial Triumphant and Khthoniik Cerviiks because they're pretty much beyond "death metal.")

You?

 

[Bloopy]

My top 5 animated shows growing up, probably:
1. 2 Stupid Dogs
2. SpongeBob SquarePants
3. South Park
4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
5. Rocket Power

Top 5 in my Last.fm chart that got there by releasing a fuckton of material to binge on (as opposed to me calling 'em faves):
Motörhead (#10)
Judas Priest (#21)
Slayer (#27)
The Residents (#28)
Overkill (#31)

Top 5 Girlschool songs:
1. Yeah Right
2. C'mon Let's Go
3. Going Under
4. Following the Crowd
5. On My Way