The Top 5 List Thread

[Slammed]

Shit, I couldn't tell you the individual episodes but I liked both those. Although I did think Burn Notice got a bit boring in the end, whereas the Psych movies were quite good after the series ended.

 

[zerostatic]

I am due to start a rewatch of burn notice. The last season was a lot darker but I am satisfied with how they ended the show.

 

[Slammed]

I don't have the time or inclination to watch things twice but I do remember thinking that Burn Notice held me interested early but I only watched the last series because I'd watched the rest.

 

[zerostatic]

Top 5 ZZ Top Albums:
1) Deguello
2) Tres Hombres
3) Eliminator
4) Fandango
5) Rio Grande Mud

 

[Bloopy]

Top 5 ZZ Top Albums:

Mine, probably:

1. Degüello
2. Eliminator
3. Tres Hombres
4. Afterburner
5. Recycler

I also had their 1st album, Rio Grande Mud and Tejas in my top 10s in the non-metal polls. They don't have a bad album really.

 

[Baroque]

I need to listen to more ZZ Top, pretty much only listened to Eliminator, Greatest Hits and Tres Hombres as a kid, but liked all three. Which album would be the next logical step?

 

[zerostatic]

Deguello or Fandango

 

[CiG]

Top 5 female actors:

1. Ingrid Bergman
2. Gena Rowlands
3. Pam Grier
4. Faye Dunaway
5. Sissy Spacek

 

[no country for old wainds]

seen 3 women? has sissy spacek, is from 1977, is pretty great

 

[CiG]

No but it's def in my high priorities to see before I post my list along with The American Friend.

 

[challenge_everything]

Top 5 female actors:

1. Ingrid Bergman
2. Gena Rowlands
3. Pam Grier
4. Faye Dunaway
5. Sissy Spacek

Interesting, I have no idea who I would pick for this. Dunaway and Spacek seem solid choices. Rowlands I'm not sure I've seen enough of, but A Woman Under the Influence is amazing. Intrigued why Bergman is your No 1 though?

 

[CiG]

Intrigued why Bergman is your No 1 though?

Partly nostalgia, she was about the first female actor that really made an impression on me growing up beyond "she's hot" or whatever. Casablanca of course is a classic but I'm a huge fan of her Joan of Arc and also The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, especially early on. My grandma had a whole bunch of her movies on VHS so when I'd visit my grandparents' farm I'd always watch the same movies over and over and she was in a lot of them.

I think given enough time though, Gena Rowlands will be #1.

 

[CiG]

seen 3 women? has sissy spacek, is from 1977, is pretty great

No but it's def in my high priorities to see before I post my list along with The American Friend.

I just realized I have seen 3 Women quite recently derp. I was thinking of A Woman Under the Influence which I really wanna see.

 

[no country for old wainds]

that’s even better!

 

[CiG]

Top 5 metal releases of April 2021:

1. Nekromantheon - Visions of Trismegistos
   
   
   
2. Meshum - Enigmatic Existential Essence
   
   
   
3. Derailment - Come Clean in Death
   
   
   
4. Fleshtorture - Grotesca Doctrina de la Perversidad
   
   
   
5. Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
   

 

[zerostatic]

Digging that Nekromantheon album! Thanks for the recommendation.

 

[CiG]

Top 5 non-metal releases of January 2021:

1. Needlepoint - Walking Up That Valley
   
   Scorching Canterbury sound prog rock out of Norway.
   
   
2. Blind Golem - A Dream of Fantasy
   
   FFO Ken Hensley-era Uriah Heep and yeah he even features on a track.
   
   
3. Steve Earle & The Dukes - J.T.
   
   His best in a few years, awesome good vibes Americana.
   
   
4. Pearl Charles - Magic Mirror
   
   Massive 70's soft rock vibes here, with pinches of ABBA. Only just listened to it today, feels like a grower.
   
   
5. R.A.P. Ferreira - Bob's Son: R.A.P. Ferreira in the Garden Level Cafe of the Scallops Hotel
   
   Definitely one of the more interesting figures to emerge in hip hop lately. Very abstract and deconstructionist.

Top 5 non-metal releases of February 2021:

1. Tusmørke - Nordisk Krim
   
   Very sly and weird Norwegian progressive folk rock. <3
   
   
2. Roosevelt - Polydans
   
   Beautifully produced dance pop with synthpop and nu-disco vibes. One of the best pop albums of recent memory.
   
   
3. Penetrode - Penetrode
   
   Screechy scratchy hardcore punk from Philly with a real loose and dingy style, fronted by a pretty deranged sounding brown chick. Sorta sounds like 7 Year Bitch + Flipper.
   
   
4. SG Lewis - Times
   
   Awesome nu-disco/dance pop, straight outta the 80's.
   
   
5. Reek Minds - Rabid
   
   Heavy as fuck hardcore bordering on powerviolence.

 

[CiG]

Top 5 non-metal releases of March 2021:

1. Litku Klemetti - Kukkia muovipussissa
   
   Current obsession, hypnagogic pop and nu-disco mixed together perfectly. Always returning to these guys, along with Tusmørke.
   
   
2. Trettioåriga kriget - Till horisonten
   
   Swedish prog rock heroes still going strong. This album has big hermit vibes, dark and introspective.
   
   
3. The Meteors - Skull N Bones
   
   Just when I thought psychobilly was effectively dead, The Meteors unleash a fucking killer album! Still sounds fresh and 80's somehow, with a perfect production for the style. Legends.
   
   
4. Electric Chair - Social Capital
   
   9 minutes of ferocious old school USHC---no bullshit to be found here!
   
   
5. Brotha Lynch Hung - Fatal
   
   This shit surprised me because I'm not the hugest fan of modern Brotha Lynch Hung but damn is this EP killer, with a brutal diss track that I wish I knew the background story on. Grimy as fuck horrorcore, hopefully he puts out a whole album with this vibe.

Top 5 non-metal releases of April 2021:

1. Alan Vega - Mutator
   
   This moody post-industrial material was originally recorded in the mid-90's and then shelved because Vega was such an impatient workhorse and had already moved onto another album before this was even completed. Recently exhumed and remastered, fucking amazing and a must have for Suicide fans.
   
   
2. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
   
   London af post-punk newcomers, basically sarcastic sounding spoken word vocals over scratchy janky bass-driven punk. Such a crisp sound, I think the only point against them is the style is a bit much for 40+ minutes.
   
   
3. Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space
   
   Yeah yeah same old DJr. but the "filler" tracks surrounding the immediately good songs are really growing on me.
   
   
4. Wędrowcy~Tułacze~Zbiegi - Futurista
   
   Definitely still unlocking this one, there's so much here, from post-punk to coldwave to synthpop to neofolk to krautrock and more. Just wild and inventive shit featuring people who play in many more recent Polish black metal bands. Almost feels like the soundtrack to some fucked up fictional psychological horror movie.
   
   
5. Jakprogresso - Untitled
   
   Jak's new EP does what Jak usually do and that's make some mentally deranged experimental hip hop. The track "Ruddie Yards" is especially a banger. That beat maaaan!

 

[Bloopy]

5 bands I had tickets to who cancelled:
- Testament
- Sleep
- Satyricon
- Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
- Danzig (as part of the cancelled Soundwave Revolution festival w/ Van Halen and more, what a fuckup)

The first time I had a ticket to Judas Priest they cancelled too, but they made up for it by visiting here twice since. Be like Priest.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Top 5 Dodheimsgard songs:

1. Shiva Interfere
2. Sonar Bliss
3. Aphelion Void
4. Traces of Reality
5. Mournful, Yet and Forever