The Top 5 List Thread

Trivium is like the Metallica of contemporary times, like it or not. It's not even a controversial opinion anymore. They've accomplished so much.

Top 5 songs off Trivium's new record, What the Dead Men Say

1. What the Dead Men Say
2. Sickness unto You
3. Amongst the Shadows and the Stones
4. Catastrophist
5. Bending the Arc to Fear
 
Trivium is like the Metallica of contemporary times, like it or not. It's not even a controversial opinion anymore. They've accomplished so much.
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Revisited the NES Mega Man soundtracks tonight, here's the verdict:
  1. MM2: Dr. Wily's Fortress
  2. MM6: Blizzard Man
  3. MM3: Snake Man
  4. MM2: Flash Man
  5. MM6: Mr. X's Fortress
 
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What's everybody's top 5 Swedish black metal albums/EPs/demos/whatever?

I feel like I don't know much about that scene at all.

Top 5 would be mostly classics...
Dawn - Nær sólen gar niþer for evogher
Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ (much prefer this to their older stuff)
Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane

I don't really count Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence as BM but it has obvious elements and is an absolute pinnacle of that scene too.
 
List making motherfucker today. Top 5 current favorite female vocalists based on recent listening habits:

1. Lee Douglas (Anathema)
2. Ann-Mari Edvardsen (The 3rd and the Mortal)
3. Synne "Soprana" Larsen (In the Woods...)
4. Monika Edvardsen (Atrox)
5. Sara (Messa)

Top 5 late-career masterpieces by veteran bands:

1. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
2. Iron Maiden - Brave New World
3. Godflesh - Post Self
4. Rush - Clockwork Angels
5. Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar

Top 5 music videos directed by feature directors:

1. Mylene Farmer - California (Abel Ferrara)
2. Laura Branigan - Self Control (William Friedkin)
3. Melvins - Bar-X the Rocking M (Gregory Dark)
4. Los Planetas - Himno Generacional Nº 83 (Jess Franco)
5. Pandora's Box - It's All Coming Back to Me Now (Ken Russell)
 
What's everybody's top 5 Swedish black metal albums/EPs/demos/whatever?

I feel like I don't know much about that scene at all.

i'll throw another 5 gooduns in there that weren't mentioned yet:
nastrond - toteslaut
cromlech - and darkness fell
sigrblot - blodsband (blood religion manifest)*
vargavinter - frostfodd
every nifelheim album

sacramentum and vinterland are my top 2 though, with probably storm of the light's bane in third these days. i'm irrationally hyped for the new sacramentum album ever since they claimed it's gonna be their sequel to FAFTS.

*trigger warning: may hate jews and commies
 
Fewest IMDb ratings among my favourite films. Appreciate if anyone else can do this as it could be good for recs.

74 - Plastic Utopia
99 - My Dog Vincent
178 - Milk & Money
309 - Últimas imágenes del naufragio
361 - God's Puzzle

Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds tried hard but even it has over 500 ratings


Top 5 songs my significant other introduced me to:

1. PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
2. The Coathangers - Squeeki Tiki
3. Julie London - Cry Me a River
4. The Gun Club - Mother of Earth
5. True Moon - Poison
 
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Fewest IMDb ratings among my favourite films. Appreciate if anyone else can do this as it could be good for recs.

74 - Plastic Utopia
99 - My Dog Vincent
178 - Milk & Money
309 - Últimas imágenes del naufragio
361 - God's Puzzle

131 - fatal pulse
187 - when pigs fly
327 - candy mountain
426 - romancing in thin air

only ones i can find with under 500
 
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Cheers for all the black metal responses, added them all to my wishlist and will slowly chip away at that.

Top 5 current favorite female vocalists based on recent listening habits:

1. Anne Byrne
2. Radie Peat (Lankum)
3. Sharon Bascovsky (Derkéta)
4. Clarisa Bermudez-Eredia (Dipygus)
5. Dana Duffey (Mythic)

Top 5 late-career masterpieces by veteran bands:

1. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
2. Voïvod - Post Society
3. Vader - The Art of War
4. Gorguts - Colored Sands
5. Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows

Fewest IMDb ratings among my favourite films. Appreciate if anyone else can do this as it could be good for recs.

67 - The Transfiguration
128 - Suzaku
169 - Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
172 - Le Dernier Combat (aka The Last Battle)
196 - Versus

Surprised to see Versus not even sitting at 200 ratings yet.

1. PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love

Sounds like you caught yourself a good one.
 
yeah i just decided on that arbitrary cut-off point tbh. i'd highly recommend both 'when pigs fly' and 'candy mountain' to fans of early jarmusch, the former is directed by his wife. and 'romancing in thin air' is my favourite chinese movie ever, as great as meta-cinema can get.
 
Fewest IMDb ratings among my favourite films. Appreciate if anyone else can do this as it could be good for recs.
63 - Angels With Burnt Wings (1970)
72 - Doctor Glas (1968)
124 - The Brutal Hopelessness of Love (2007)
143 - Frustration (1971)
152 - The Exquisite Cadaver (1969)

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Top 5 My Dying Bride songs:

1. A Sea to Suffer In
2. The Songless Bird
3. Sear Me MCMXCIII
4. The Thrash of Naked Limbs
5. Base Level Erotica
 
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Top 5 2020 releases so far...

1. Khthoniik Cerviiks - Æequiizoiikum
2. Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
3. Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus
4. Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
5. Thecodontion - Supercontinent