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Next, Top 5 songs about food:
If we're talking strictly food and not drinks:

A Tribe Called Quest - Ham n' Eggs ("I don't eat no ham n' eggs, cuz they're high in cholesterol")
Presidents of the USA - Peaches
The Beatles - Savoy Truffle
Tom Waits - Eggs and Sausage
The Wiggles - Hot Potato

Top 5 "supergroup" (at least 3 people famous from other bands/solo work) songs, limited to one song from each band:
 

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Top 5 "supergroup" (at least 3 people famous from other bands/solo work) songs, limited to one song from each band:
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights (Ben Gibbard of Death Cab, Jenny Lewis in her own right, Jimmy from Dntel)
Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit (every second good Canadian musician was in this thing at least once; to be specific though, Arcade Fire, Metric, Stars, Owen Pallett...)
Damon Albarn - Heavy Seas of Love (Damon Albarn, Brian Eno, Richard Russell, Leytonstone Mission Choir)
The Last Shadow Puppets - Meeting Place (Al Turner from Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, Owen Pallett, producer James Ford)
Atoms for Peace - Ingenue (Thom Yorke, Flea, Nigel Godrich, perennial helper Mauro Refosco)

God I kind of forgot how beautiful Lover's Spit, sprawling and the kind of epic that somehow shouldn't be because you know it's all about something so not public. Stunnin

Top 5 one album-band albums
 
1. The Wind In The Willows - sefl-titled
2. Derek and The Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
3. Snakefarm - self-titled
4. The La's - self-titled
5. The Law - self-titled

Next, Top 5 songs by artists you otherwise hate:
 

Next, Top 5 songs by artists you otherwise hate:

1. My Chemical Romance - Drowning Lessons
2. Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
3. 50 Cent - Your Life's On The Line
4. Limp Bizkit - Lonely World
5. Hawthorne Heights - Ohio is for Lovers

Harder to think i artists i actually hate than i thought it would be.
Actually used to listen to some of these artists as a 13yr old but my music tastes improved thankfully lol

Top 5 songs by Japanese Artists/bands?
 
No one ever plays violins in rock, it's fiddles or strings like this Neil Young song.



No one ever wants to be labelled a violinist in rock, you'd rather be called a fiddler.


Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
 
Top 5 Heavy Psych tracks
1. Stray - All In Your Mind
2. Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
3. Spiritualized - Come Together
4. 13th Floor Elevators - Roller Coaster
5. Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla

Top five rap/hip hop songs without swear words
 
1. Stray - All In Your Mind
2. Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
3. Spiritualized - Come Together
4. 13th Floor Elevators - Roller Coaster
5. Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla

Top five rap/hip hop songs without swear words
01 Dinninit - De La Soul
02 Rapper's Delight - The Sugarhill Gang
03 Step to my Girl - Souls of Mischief
04 Check the Rhyme - A Tribe Called Quest
05 Carmel City - Pete Rock & CL Smooth

Top 5 instrumentals by typically non-instrumental artists
 
1. Machine Gun - Commodores
2. Europa - Blondie
3. Albatross - Fleetwood Mac
4. Brian Buro's March - Loreena McKennitt
5. Follow Your Bliss - The B52's

Next, Top 5 songs that were released in your year of birth:
 
1. Machine Gun - Commodores
2. Europa - Blondie
3. Albatross - Fleetwood Mac
4. Brian Buro's March - Loreena McKennitt
5. Follow Your Bliss - The B52's

Next, Top 5 songs that were released in your year of birth:
Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot
The Pixies - Gigantic
Public Enemy - Bring the Noise
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York (album released in 88 although single in 87)

Top 5 songs you would want playing if you were involved in a high speed car chase. I'll let you decide whether you're flying through the city or out on the open road, but either way you're being chased by cops.
 

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Top 5 songs you would want playing if you were involved in a high speed car chase. I'll let you decide whether you're flying through the city or out on the open road, but either way you're being chased by cops.

1. Yello- Si Senor the Hairy Grill
2. Spiderbait - Buy me a Pony
3. Hawkwind - Hassan I Sahba
4. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
5. Rammstein - Du Hast

5 Best Ambient tracks.
 
1. 1/1 (Music For Airports) - Brian Eno
2. Autobahn - Kraftwerk
3. Misty - Kate Bush
4. Balloon - Wendy & Lisa
5. Everywhen - Massive Attack

Next, Top 5 songs that you would play to a novice to introduce them to five of your favourite artists:
 
Next, Top 5 songs that you would play to a novice to introduce them to five of your favourite artists:

1. Bettye LaVette - Let Me Down Easy
2. The Killer - Whole Lotta Shakin'
3. Dyke & The Blazers - We Got More Soul
4. Endless Boogie - The Savagist
5. Cosmic Psychos - Custom Credit

Top 5 old lovesick blues country numbers
 
Top 5 old lovesick blues country numbers

1. Blind Willie McTell - You Was Born To Die
2. The Pretty Things - I Can Never Say
3. Bob Dylan - Girl of the North Country
4. Hank Williams - Your Cheatin' Heart
5. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman

Top 5 songs that have a slow build up and a big finish
 
1. Blind Willie McTell - You Was Born To Die
2. The Pretty Things - I Can Never Say
3. Bob Dylan - Girl of the North Country
4. Hank Williams - Your Cheatin' Heart
5. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman

Top 5 songs that have a slow build up and a big finish

1. Feed The Rhino - Tides
2. Korn - Kill You
3. Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
4. Mike Koglin - The Silence
5. Lower Than Atlantis - Another Sad Song

Top 5 1990s Eurobeat/Europop songs
 
Top 5 1990s Eurobeat/Europop songs

1. Snap - Rhythm is a Dancer
2. Black Eva - Turn the Beat Around
3. Culture Beat - Mr Vain
4. ATC - My Heart Beats Like a Drum
5. Silent Circle - Night Train

Next: Top 5 Motown songs
 
Next: Top 5 Motown songs

Motown!! Woo hoo, I'm jumping in here!

1. Uptight - Stevie Wonder
2. The Tracks Of My Tears - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
3. My Girl - The Temptations
4. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
5. Baby I Need Your Lovin' - Four Tops

Next, and keeping with record labels, how about the 5 best songs from Stax.
 
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1. Steppin' In Her I. Miller Shoes - Betty Davis
2. Hell On High Heels - Motley Crue
3. China Shoes - Blondie
4. These Boots Are Made For Walking - Nancy Sinatra
5. Boogie Shoes - K.C. & The Sunshine Band

Next, Top 5 about Australia:
 
Top 5 songs about murder

1. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
3. Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
4. Pulp - The Night that Minnie Timperley Died
5. Elton John - Empty Garden

Next: Top 5 songs by reality show contestants(Australian Idol etc)
 

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