The Top 5 List Thread

[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

 

[zerostatic]

Top 5 songs on the Hamilton Soundtrack:
1) You'll Be Back
2) Right Hand Man
3) What Comes Next?
4) One Last Time
5) Yorktown

Top 5 Beatles Albums:
1) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2) White Album
3) Magical Mystery Tour
4) Abbey Road
5) Revolver

 

[CiG]

My top 5 animated shows growing up, probably:

1. Dragon Ball Z
2. TMNT
3. The Simpsons
4. Pokémon
5. The Transformers

I also watched the shit out of Beast Wars. Never heard of 2 Stupid Dogs, will have to look it up.

 

[Slammed]

Top 5 animated shows when growing up

1. Flintstones.
2. Bugs Bunny.
3. Whatever the ABC had because we only had 2 channels.

 

[CiG]

Damn I loved Flintstones growing up too, I have it all on DVD these days and still throw it on occasionally. From that era of 'toons I was also obsessed with Top Cat and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You.

 

[Slammed]

Oh yeah we had Top Cat occasionally but it wasn't very often, kind of like a fill in program. Scooby was kind of the same it definitely wasn't a regular show. Because we only had one commercial station it was a mix of the three commercial channels from the city, a bit like what Imapaja is in central Aus these days. Who decided what that mix was obviously wasn't a kid. The ABC was always the ABC and shows what the city did with the exception of a few shows that were country only. I watched Top Cat with my kids more than I watch it as a kid...but I do love that troublesome cat.

 

[CiG]

Makes sense since I would have been obviously watching re-runs of those shows. I believe they used to have those 'toons all back-to-back but for some reason I only remember a few of them, until I got older and started tracking them all down on DVD and watched the shit out stuff like Hong Kong Phooey (still watch this one occasionally), The Yogi Bear Show, Wacky Races, The Magilla Gorilla Show, The Hair Bear Bunch etc. For some reason I could never get into The Jetsons, even these days I just get nothing out of it. :/

 

[Slammed]

Flintstones was a Saturday night after the news thing for us. For about 6 months of the year we got Flintstones and then the other 6 months we got Wonderful World Of Disney, which at the time was movies like Herbie etc. I think the ABC played Magilla Gorilla, but I don't remember it on often and Wacky Races turned up from time to time in Bugs Bunny, or some other cartoon show. I never got into the Jetsons either but I reckon there is more enjoyment in cartoons as an adult, I think cartoons are wasted on kids.

 

[CiG]

Some cartoons are best left to kids at the same time, got a buddy who swears by Captain Planet even now that we're in our 30's and man is that show trash. It must be pure nostalgia for him because it really sucks.