The Top 5 List Thread

[zabu of nΩd]

top 5 Tiamat songs

1. Whatever That Hurts
2. The Ar
3. Gaia
4. Do You Dream of Me?
5. Vote for Love

Wildhoney

 

[Sirjack]

I remember buying Wildhoney on CD when it came out in.....? 93? 94? And being totally disappointed. I still read today about how great that album is but..maybe Tiamat have better albums? Any recs or is it a case of if you didn't like that don't bother?

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Their later albums are more goth rock-oriented, so I'm not sure that would be what you're looking for. I've only listened to one other album in its entirety besides Wildhoney, and that's the previous one, Clouds, which is death/doom at its core.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Because I'm on a kick at the moment:

Top 5 Gabriel-era Genesis (Foxtrot heavy) songs:

1. Colony of Slippermen
2. Supper's Ready
3. Watcher of the Skies
4. Get 'em Out By Friday
5. The Fountain of Salmacis

Collins era:

1. Mama
2. Dance on a Volcano
3. Afterglow
4. Home By the Sea/Second Home By the Sea
5. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Top 5 King Crimson songs:

1. In the Wake of Poseidon
2. The Court of the Crimson King
3. Starless
4. Epitaph
5. Fallen Angel

 

[Sirjack]

oh man. that's wayy too hard. i'd need a week to think KC through. Very good pick's tho.

 

[EspaDa]

top 5 King Crimson songs

1. The Court of the Crimson King
2. Starless
3. Epitaph
4. Cirkus
5. Book of Saturday

Fuck, I failed to include Fallen Angel and Larks' Tongues in Aspic. Top 5 is too short list when it comes to King Crimson.

 

[The Ozzman]

Top 5 King Crimson songs:

Frame by Frame
Elephant Talk
Neal and Jack and Me
Heartbeat
Sleepless

 

[no country for old wainds]

'starless', 'epitaph' and 'fallen angel' are my jams, but i have a lot of deaf spots with king crimson. i've been intimately familiar with their two biggest albums for over a decade and have acquainted myself with a couple others, but i'm yet to really explore their discog in depth.

 

[Phylactery]

I remember buying Wildhoney on CD when it came out in.....? 93? 94? And being totally disappointed. I still read today about how great that album is but..maybe Tiamat have better albums? Any recs or is it a case of if you didn't like that don't bother?

Sumerian Cry and The Astral Sleep are pretty much essential OSDM. If you like those then you should also look into the compilation material from what they did under the name Treblinka.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

My King Crimson would probably be something like

5. Dinosaur
4. Starless
3. Cirkus
2. One More Red Nightmare
1. Indiscipline

 

[EspaDa]

TV series I've seen in entirety:

1. Breaking Bad
2. Game of Thrones
3. Vikings
4. The Pacific
5. Ranch

 

[CiG]

2. Game of Thrones
3. Vikings

Have these shows ended?

 

[EspaDa]

No, but in the entirety so far.

 

[CiG]

So not in their entirety?

Anyway, 5 best Stephen King novels:

• 'Salem's Lot
• The Shining
• The Stand
• Skeleton Crew
• Night Shift

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Anyway, 5 best Stephen King novels:

• 'Salem's Lot
• The Shining
• The Stand
• Skeleton Crew
• Night Shift

1. Under the Dome
2. The Stand
3. Needful Things
4. 'Salem's Lot
5. The Eyes of the Dragon

My favorite kind of Stephen King novel is the kind where he just builds up a large cast and then lets chaos unfold for a thousand pages. He's written it a few times.

 

[Vilden]

I haven't read Under the Dome, but if the tv series is any indication it is waaay to similar to the comic book "Girls" by the Luna brothers. Boarderline rip off imo.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Don't know anything about Girls but the TV series is an extremely inaccurate adaptation. And also terrible.

Also he started writing the book in the 70s iirc

 

[Vegard Pompey]

To elaborate on my top pick; Under the Dome is the King novel I've read the most recently and although I've always been a fan of his work, it's the first one to truly awe me. I don't know if this is due to him developing as a writer or me developing as a reader. I remember thinking that he'd truly mastered the American small town setting, it was so vividly realized and his prose was so goddamn natural. It's totally formulaic yeah, but it's like watching some guy who's been drawing circles all his life draw a perfect circle. It also suffers from shit villains and a shit ending, but both those flaws are King hallmarks so I wasn't expecting otherwise.

 

[CiG]

From wiki:

Under the Dome is a partial rewrite of a novel King attempted to write first in 1972 under the same title and then a second time in 1982 as The Cannibals. As King stated on his official site, these two unfinished works "were two very different attempts to utilize the same idea, which concerns itself with how people behave when they are cut off from the society they've always belonged to. Also, my memory of The Cannibals is that it, like Needful Things, was a kind of social comedy. The new Under the Dome is played dead straight." From the material originally written, only the first chapter is included in the new novel.

According to Stephen J. Spignesi's 1998 book The Lost Work of Stephen King, The Cannibals (originally titled Under the Dome) is an unpublished unfinished 450-page handwritten novel written in 1982, while King was filming Creepshow. This work later served as inspiration to King's new novel Under the Dome. In 1982, King said: "I've got about four-hundred-and-fifty pages done and it is all about these people who are trapped in an apartment building. Worst thing I could think of. And I thought, wouldn't it be funny if they all ended up eating each other? It's very, very bizarre because it's all on one note. And who knows whether it will be published or not?" In Douglas E. Winter's book The Art of Darkness, Stephen King is also quoted, talking around the time of Creepshow, about the origins of Under the Dome: "I worked on a book called The Cannibals—I had started it five years before, but it was called Under the Dome then. It didn't get finished either time."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome_(novel)#The_Cannibals_connection