The Top 5 List Thread

[CiG]

Top 5 Pentagram albums:

1-5: The shortest ones

Ironic considering Day Of Reckoning is their shortest and it happens to be my favourite.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Same fam. Shorter albums are usually the best. Many of the best albums seem to hover right around 47 +/- 1 minutes though.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Not directly related to album length, but I've always felt the ideal number of tracks on a full-length was 5. In the Court, Watching From a Distance, Saint Vitus, Mirage, etc. Less than 5 and the songs start to feel less like songs and more like suites.

 

[CiG]

Never paid much attention to amount of tracks, years of listening to grindcore will do that to you.

 

[Krow]

I dont get much out of most grindcore when they blow through songs in 0:32. I guess I have a few exceptions like Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope but that shit is just insanity.

 

[CiG]

I'm a fan of Meatshits, Nekro Drunkz, Anal Blast, Laserguys, Endwarfment, who aren't exactly the 100 track album types, but they're also not the less than 10 types either.

Scum has 28 tracks.

 

[EspaDa]

Top 5 tracks on Scum

1. Scum
2. Instinct of Survival
3. Life?
4. Siege of Power
5. Human Garbage

 

[EspaDa]

Top 5 best perfomances (of all bands I've seen live) that had the biggest impact on me:

1. Grand Magus / Clutch
2. Gojira
3. Dawn of Disease
4. Amon Amarth
5. Napalm Death

 

[Vilden]

Top 5 NES-game songs:

1. The Guardian Legend - intro
2. Mega Man II - Dr. Wily stage 1
3. Journey to silius stage 1(almost tied with stage 2)
4. Batman stage 3
5. Mega Man III Spark Man

 

[The Ozzman]

Top 5 Rush albums:

1) Grace Under Pressure
2) Moving Pictures
3) Hemispheres
4) Counterparts
5) Vapor Trails

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'd go with

1. Permanent Waves
2. Hemispheres
3. Moving Pictures
4. Fly by Night
5. A Farewell to Kings

Something like that.

I'll have to think about NES songs, I have an autistic list of vidya soundtracks from various platforms but haven't picked out too many specific songs.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

NES songs are too short for me to rank, but I'll do a top 5 soundtracks:

1. Mega Man 2
2. Battletoads
3. Little Nemo: The Dream Master
4. Solar Jetman
5. Double Dragon

 

[Talos of Atmora]

Top 5 Bathory albums:

1. Hammerheart
2. The Return...
3. Under the Sign of the Black Mark
4. Nordland I
5. Blood Fire Death

Man, it's hard to choose with this band.

As for favorite Rush albums

1. Hemispheres
2. Moving Pictures
3. Counterparts
4. 2112
5. Farewell to Kings

 

[EspaDa]

Hmmm. Who to side with...



Getting in on this. Awesome list by the way! The fact that a track from The Hunt is your number 1 pick (or if not in order, it's in your top 5) makes me really want to hurry up and buy that shit.

5 favourite Grand Magus songs, in order:

• Silver Into Steel
• I, Jury
• Kingslayer
• On Hooves Of Gold
• Northern Star

Holy shit, I just saw your list. Silver Into Steel is really your fav GM song? I mean it's a good song, but your picks number 2 and 3 are much better. Well, after seeing them live my list is slightly altered it would be like this for me:

1. Mountains Be My Throne
2. Hammer of the North
3. Kingslayer
4. Varangian
5. Iron Will / Like the Oar Strikes the Water

 

[The Ozzman]

3. Counterparts

Sup fam? Underrated album but one I would choose as representative of the progression of Rush's sound over the years.

 

[CiG]

Holy shit, I just saw your list. Silver Into Steel is really your fav GM song? I mean it's a good song, but your picks number 2 and 3 are much butter. Well, after seeing them live my list is slightly altered it would be like this for me:

1. Mountains Be My Throne
2. Hammer of the North
3. Kingslayer
4. Varangian
5. Iron Will / Like the Oar Strikes the Water

Not surprising, you and I rarely see eye-to-eye on music. For example, Hammer Of The North is a fine enough album, but to have two tracks from it dominating the upper tier of your list is questionable to me. That album is mega cheese, rather entry level. Good tunes, but empty.

 

[EspaDa]

Not surprising, you and I rarely see eye-to-eye on music. For example, Hammer Of The North is a fine enough album, but to have two tracks from it dominating the upper tier of your list is questionable to me. That album is mega cheese, rather entry level. Good tunes, but empty.

I don't agree, Hammer of the North is a great album of theirs, to me it's right at the top together with The Hunt and Iron Will. Those 3 are all magnifiicent albums, I'm a bit disappointed with their most recent Sword Songs as it's the really cheesy album here.

 

[CiG]

I don't agree, Hammer of the North is a great album of theirs, to me it's right at the top together with The Hunt and Iron Will. Those 3 are all magnifiicent albums, I'm a bit disappointed with their most recent Sword Songs as it's the really cheesy album here.

I think their only bad album is the debut, just to be clear. They're consistent as a fuck in my eyes. But I just find Hammer... to be very pedestrian, still I included "I, Jury" as I do think it's a good album.

What's wrong with my number one pick anyway? It's a fucking beautiful track, pure metal mastery.

 

[EspaDa]

I think their only bad album is the debut, just to be clear. They're consistent as a fuck in my eyes. But I just find Hammer... to be very pedestrian, still I included "I, Jury" as I do think it's a good album.

What's wrong with my number one pick anyway? It's a fucking beautiful track, pure metal mastery.

It's good as the entire album, but I just can't see a reason for not including Like the Oar Strikes the Water when it comes to Grand Magus. If I were to rate tracks from Iron Will it would be like this:

1. Like the Oar Strikes the Water 5/5
2. Fear Is the Key 5/5
3. Hovding N/A
4. Iron Will 5/5
5. Silver Into Steel 4.5/5
6. The Shadow Knows 5/5
7. Self Deceiver 4.5/5
8. Beyond Good and Evil 3.5/5
9. I Am the North 4/5

 

[CiG]

Well I am sure that's a good generalised list that a majority could agree on, but if all you want to see is a variation on the narrow confines of popular opinion, why bother doing this at all?

Every turd fan under the sun would have some variation of "Like The Oar..." or "Kingslayer" in the number one slot. It's an easy, unthinking choice reached comfortably, with little disagreement.

I like to think my list is much more personal to me and my own experiences regarding the band in question and thus, my choices are a mixture of unexpected and obviousness.