Give me your top 5...

[Engimal]

Thought of an idea for a thread after watching High Fidelity for the 1000th time last time.

Basically, the poster above you sets out a mood, genre or theme and you have to give your top 5 songs in that mood/genre/theme. Then, you set the mood/genre for the poster below you. For example:

Top 5 Chillout Songs

1. Summer Breeze - Kool and the Gang
2. Today Was A Good Day - Ice Cube
3. Lovely Day - Bill Withers
4. 93 'til Infinity - Souls of Mischief
5. Aruarian Dance - Nujabes

Next poster, give me your top 5 classic rock songs.

 

[raskolnikov]

1. Imagine - John Lennon
2. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
3. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
4. Hotel California - The Eagles
5. Space Oddity - David Bowie

Next Person: Top 5 songs with a female lead

 

[thurmanmunson]

L7 "Pretend We're Dead"
X-Ray Spex "Oh Bondage Up Yours"
Bikini Kill "Rebel Girl"
Swans "In My Garden"
Coldplay "Paradise"

 

[4evablues]

Next Person: Top 5 songs with a female lead

1. No Doubt - Don't Speak
2. Moloko - Time Is Now
3. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
4. Texas - Inner Smile
5. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams

Next: Top 5 80's rock

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

1. GOD - My Pal
2. Husker Du - Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely
3. Cosmic Psychos - Custom Credit
4. Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
5. Mark Of Cain - Battlesick.

Next: Top 5 70s Easy Listening

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Next: Top 5 70s Easy Listening

1. John Denver - Sunshine On My Shoulders
2. Carole King - It's Too Late
3. The Cars - Just What I Needed
4. Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me
5. The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe

Next: Top 5 Instrumental tracks

 

[Engimal]

Next: Top 5 Instrumental tracks

1. Overture (Okay, so it has backing vocals but whatever) - The Who
2. Summer Madness - Kool and the Gang
3. Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners - Foo Fighters
4. Aruarian Dance - Nujabes
5. Overdrive - Lazerhawk

Next: Top 5 songs from 2000-now.

 

[JD11]

1/ Hard To Explain - The Strokes
2/ The Rat - The Walkmen
3/ Get Innocuous! - LCD Soundsystem
4/ Idioteque - Radiohead
5/ Figaro - Madvillian

Best 5 covers?

 

[Kyptastic]

1) All along the Watchtower (Hendrix)
2) Twist and Shout (The Beatles)
3) The man who sold the World (Nirvana)
4) Hurt (Johnny Cash)
5) Feeling Good (Muse)

Top 5 punk rock songs.

 

[kid_a]

La femme d-argent (air)
Svefn-g-englar (sigur ros)
teardrop (massive attack)
white foxes (susanne sundfor)
the transfiguration (sufjan stevens)

 

[kid_a]

whoops soz only read the first post and thought it was about ur top 5 'chill out' songs, my computer is being a bit dodge so couldn't delete my above post, just ignore it, will delete when i get this lap-top fixed or mods can delete at will

 

[PACatter]

Top 5 punk rock songs.

1) Rise Above (Black Flag)
2) Institutionalized (Suicidal Tendencies)
3) Personality Crisis (New York Dolls)
4) White Man in Hammersmith Palais (The Clash)
5) Smash It Up (The Damned)

Top 5 Songs from whiteboy rappers.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Top 5 Songs from whiteboy rappers.

1. Beastie Boys - Get It Together
2. Brother Ali - Uncle Sam Goddamn
3. The Streets - Geezers Need Excitement
4. Groove Terminator - You Can't See
5. Regurgitator - Couldn't Do It

...

6. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

Top five songs from African artists

 

[nicky]

African African? Not american African?

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I meant African African but you might have found a loophole!

 

[nicky]

No keep it as you intended.

But that actually counts me out

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

I meant African African but you might have found a loophole!

1. Wallias Band - Musicawe Silt (best ethiofunk ever!)



2. Fela Kuti - He Miss Road
3. The Funkees - Akula Owe Onyeara
4. Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight
5. Geraldo Pino - Let Them Talk.

The only african music I know is AfroFunk

Next Top 5 Soul tunes. Hit it!

 

[AtomicBlonde]

So hard to pick just five but:

1. Standing in the Shadows of Love - The Four Tops
2. You Send Me - Sam Cooke
3. A Fool in Love - Ike & Tina Turner
4. Remember Me - Diana Ross
5. Ain't Givin' Up No Love - The Isley Brothers


Next, Top 5 loe songs.

 

[JP Sauce]

Next, Top 5 loe songs.

Very, very tough...

1. The Beatles - Something
2. Al Green - Let's Stay Together
3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
4. Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
5. Radiohead - True Love Waits

Top 5 folk songs.

 

[The old campaigner]

Very, very tough...



Top 5 folk songs.

1. Suzanne---Leonard Cohen
2. Blowin' in the Wind---Bob Dylan
3. This Land is Your Land---Woody Guthrie
4. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down---The Band
5. Alice's Restaurant ---Arlo Guthrie.

Top 5 Australian songs from the 60's.

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Top 5 Australian songs from the 60's.

1. Ever Lovin' Man - The Loved Ones
2. All I Want - The Missing Links
3. Fortune Teller - The Throb
4. Undecided - The Maters Apprentices
5. Sad Dark Eyes - The Loved Ones

Top 5 songs about masturbation

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Top 5 songs about masturbation

1. The Cure - Close To Me
2. Greenday - Longview
3. Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun
4. Australian Crawl - Boys Light Up
5. The Fauves - Self Abuser

Top 5 songs that are completely different to the band/artists usual style

 

[Twoslabs]

Top 5 songs that are completely different to the band/artists usual style

Okay I'll have a crack

1. The Damned - Torture me (piano based ballad)
2. U2 - October (piano based again)
3. Cold Chisel - No sense (almost a ska feel to it)
4. Blur - Song 2 (heavy number from the Britpop boys)
5. The Clash - Cut the Crap album (previous albums were good )

Next challenge "Top 5 Ska Songs"
(pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, pick it up)

 

[little graham]

Return of Django - Upsetters
Ugly - Fishbone
Deeper Shade of Soul - Urban Dance Squad
Juice Box - Jackie Mittoo
Israelites - Desmond Dekker

top 5 songs about std's

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Return of Django - Upsetters
Ugly - Fishbone
Deeper Shade of Soul - Urban Dance Squad
Juice Box - Jackie Mittoo
Israelites - Desmond Dekker

top 5 songs about std's

Good selection there little graham (Mohair Slim'd give his thumbs up)

1. The Jack - AC/DC
2. Poison Ivy - The Coasters
3. Stars In Her Eyes - Hank Williams
4. Ring Of Fire - Johnny Cash
5. Look Who's Burnin' - Ice Cube

Top 5 disco tracks