The Top 5 List Thread

[Dog Hates Us All]

1. Madonna
2. Whitney Houston
3. Lady Gaga
4. Lena Del Rey
5. Britney Spears (hard to deny the sheer immense fun-ness and nostalgia of her first two albums which are filled with hits)

Delta Goodrem (I don't mind her early schmaltzy piano-pop in a nostalgic kind of way - the fake good girl theme of late 90's pop was hilarious)

Adele doesn't get a top 5 ranking?

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Debbie Harry's solo career isn't really punk though. Hell, only really the earliest Blondie records could even be perceived as punk.

I might edit out someone for Lena.
You probably won't like Delta but yeah where's Whitney at!?

Yea I guess Debbie should count based on songs like Heart of Glass. She kind of falls in the same realm as Patti Smith where they're both icons of Punk without having much in the way of Punk songs.

No excuse for forgetting Whitney though.



edit: Isn't it Lana Del Ray?

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Adele doesn't get a top 5 ranking?

I feel like Adele doesn't have enough club bangers to make the list.

 

[CiG]

Adele doesn't get a top 5 ranking?

Meh. If I were going to include pop artists like that I'd sooner put Aretha Franklin right at the very top.

She kind of falls in the same realm as Patti Smith where they're both icons of Punk without having much in the way of Punk songs.

Weird comparison, I don't really see it.

edit: Isn't it Lana Del Ray?

Oops cheers.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Weird comparison, I don't really see it.

I just feel like they were punk icons more by attitude than their music.

 

[CiG]

I just feel like they were punk icons more by attitude than their music.

For me that will always be what punk is so I guess that's why I'm confused. Whereas Blondie shifted blatantly into disco-influenced rock/pop, Patti Smith always kept that whole folksy urban punk rock thing well into the 90's.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

For me that will always be what punk is so I guess that's why I'm confused. Whereas Blondie shifted blatantly into disco-influenced rock/pop, Patti Smith always kept that whole folksy urban punk rock thing well into the 90's.

Fair enough. I actually met Patti Smith at a show a year or so ago in Bushwick. She's starting to look more and more like Bobby Liebling everyday

 

[CiG]

Fair enough. I actually met Patti Smith at a show a year or so ago in Bushwick. She's starting to look more and more like Bobby Liebling everyday

That's awesome. But yeah, she's definitely devolving into:

 

[EspaDa]

1. You Fail Me
2. No Heroes
3. Jane Doe
4. Axe to Fall
5. When Forever Comes Crashing

Haven’t heard The Dusk in Us yet.

It's a great album. I really liked it.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Top 5 trance artists:

1: Paul van Dyk



2: Art of Trance



3: Shpongle



4: Infected Mushroom



5: Electric Universe

 

[CiG]

Top 5 grindcore albums from 1994:

1. Regurgitate - Effortless Regurgitation of Bright Red Blood
2. Agathocles - Black Clouds Determinate
3. Anal Blast - Puss Blood Pentagram
4. Brutal Truth - Need to Control
5. Anal Cunt - Everyone Should Be Killed

Top 5 death metal EPs from 2017:

1. Autopsy - Puncturing the Grotesque
2. Iron Flesh - Worship the Necrogod
3. Nekro Drunkz - Sleaze Metal Slaughter
4. Phrenelith - Chimaerian Offspring
5. Disma - The Graveless Remains

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Inspired by the 1995 thread - top 5 songs from the C&C and Red Alert soundtracks:

1. Hell March
2. Crush
3. C&C Thang
4. Full Stop
5. Target

 

[EspaDa]

top 5 Pentagram songs revisited

1. 20 Buck Spin
2. Be Forewarned
3. Last Days Here
4. Relentless
5. Forever My Queen

 

[Vilden]

No Act on Instinct?

Edit: @zabu of nΩd

 

[zabu of nΩd]

It's an honorable mention I guess

 

[CiG]

Favourite metal EPs from 1994:

1. Armoured Angel - Mysterium
2. Sadistic Intent - Resurrection
3. Winter - Eternal Frost
4. Vader - Sothis
5. Forgotten Sunrise - Forever Sleeping Greystones

Since I don't like to include EPs in the main games, I might start doing these for each year we do and 5 is a nice tight format for something like EPs (though this year could've easily gone for 10 without scraping the bottom or anything).

 

[EspaDa]

top 5 tracks on Somewhere in Time

1. Stranger in a Strange Land
2. Alexander the Great
3. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
4. Deja-Vu
5. Wasted Years

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Alexander the Great
Stranger in a Strange Land
Sea of Madness
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Heaven Can Wait

 

[EspaDa]

Heaven Can Wait is so mundane. Easily the worst track on the album.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Deja-Vu
Caught Somewhere in Time
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.)
Wasted Years