The Top 5 List Thread

I was keeping my list to places I haven't been (in the last 5 days even, suuck itt). Well, I haven't been inside anyone else's house lately. Who needs friends in this information age?
 
TBH None of it applies to me either, unless you can actually define "anywhere".
 
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

1. Wax Chattels - Clot
2. Dopelord - Sign of the Devil
3. Bleed This Earth - Bleed This Earth
4. Unruly - Unruly
5. Vader - Solitude in Madness


Top 5 words I use that aren't on Wiktionary:

overponder
gilguy
querafancible
maltuned
diagraphephobia

I worked out that last one with the help of a Greek friend and it's been funny seeing it develop a life of its own online, as usually nothing I ever come up with takes off at all. Someone even used it in a RapPad battle. :lol:
 
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.
 
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Top 5 cover sorta songs that aren't straight forward situations:

1. April March - Chick Habit (cover of France Gall - Laisse tomber les filles but with quite different English lyrics)
2. April March - While We're Young (cover of Françoise Hardy - Le temps de l'amour, also somewhat different English lyrics)
3. Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused (inspired by Jake Holmes - Dazed and Confused)
4. The Flashbulb - Chik Habit (could be a remix of the already non-straightforward Chick Habit above but changed so much it sounds like a cover)
5. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (a Grace Slick song that Jefferson Airplane released first, but her previous band The Great Society recorded it live earlier)


Top 5 cover songs that are more straight forward:

1. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Arrows cover)
2. Headless Chickens - Inside Track (Stridulators cover)
3. Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (Cher cover)
4. The Clash - Armagideon Time (Willie Williams cover)
5. Metallica - Commando (Ramones cover)
 
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
 
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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
 
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.
 
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
 
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’.
 
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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
 
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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.