Personal Top Lists & Rankings

7 absolute worst songs to strum on an acoustic guitar at a party (random order):

1. Walking on Sunshine
2. Wild World
3. To Be With You
4. Jolene
5. Hotel California
6. Knockin'
7. '74-'75

🥳

My definitive ranking of favorite veggies:
1. tomatoes
2. eggplant
3. spinach
4. bell peppers
5. radishes

Where'd the carrots go? 😉 😁

Top 10 Hard Liquors

1. Four Roses
2. Remy Martin
3. Four Roses
4. Local fig brandy
5. Hennessy
5. Courvoisier
6. Jack Daniel's
8. Captain Morgan
9. Jameson
10. Griego P

My top 10 short animated films

1. Dar Mar Holms
2. Danko Bananko Bananamen
3. A Je To
4. Knights of the Orient
5. Vummy
6. Gustav
7. Linea
8. Stripy
9. Eustahije Brzić
10. Gogs

My top seven worst ways to wake up:
1. Waking up with a sudden jolt
2. Being jolted awake far too early
3. That groggy, mindless waking where you just don't care about anything🙂
4. Coming out of a particularly nasty nightmare
5. Waking up and feeling completely disoriented about where you actually are
6. Realizing you missed the bed entirely and ended up on the floor
7. Waking up squeezed in a bed full of people—though I suppose that might be funny in some contexts...😁

I guess this thread took an unexpected turn... 😬

Nicole Baker said:7. Waking up surrounded by a crowd of people (honestly, that can be pretty hilarious sometimes...😁 )

😲 🙂 😬

Nicole Baker said:6. waking up and realizing you missed the bed by like two feet and spent the whole night on the floor.

yeah, that’s pretty rough 😬

1. Williams Christ Destillat
2. Olivia 2002 extra Vergina
3. Fenchelschinken (bought at the local butcher shop)
4. trattoria Amica Miei-Paris (an excellent pizzeria near Bastille)
5. Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2000
6. Saffron at Vicoletto-Via del Falisci 1a Rome (an outstanding seafood restaurant)
7. a wedge of artisanal cheese (thumb-sized!)

My ultimate pie ranking

1. Meat-stuffed potato pie
2. Boiled potato pie
3. Burek
4. Pumpkin pie (the sweet version)
5. Classic potato pie
6. Spinach and cheese pie
7. Cheese pie

Err... I guess we should probably switch over to some record geek topics before they kick us out of here🙂

Revisiting the Wake-Up Call - my definitive list of worst albums to use as an alarm clock, tried and tested:

1. XTC - English Settlement
2. Pere Ubu - New York City Time
3. The Fall - band Sinister
4. Mance - blue bar / Man from Katanga
5. Kinks - any standard compilation

Top 10 albums to spin on a Friday night at home with your first beer to get hyped before heading out

1. Afghan Whigs - 1965
2. Ramones - Ramones
3. LCD Soundsystem
4. Faith No More - Angel Dust
5. Franz Ferdinand
6. Pulp - Different Class
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
8. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
9. Detroit Cobras - any of them
10. QOTSA - Rated R

Top 10 albums to listen to after getting home from a night out, wasted and grumpy because nothing actually happened except finishing the bottle😁

1. Ryan Adams - Gold
2. Damien Rice - 0
3. David Gray - White Ladder
4. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
5. Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
6. Joy Division - Closer
7. Arab Strap - The Red Thread
8. Morphine - The Night
9. Elliott Smith - XO
10. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Mojave

hollowangler68 said:My top 10 albums for a Friday night at home, paired with that first beer to get you hyped before heading out...

The Clash "The Clash"
The Steve McQueens "Got a Mission!"
Gang of Four "Solid Gold" supernova
Ages 3 and up "Talking Heads" "Speaking in Tongues" "Pixies" "Bossanov" "Rancid"
Rancid "and out Come The Wolves" "Sleater-Kinney"
Sleater-Kinney "Dig Me Out"
Dinosaur Jr. "Green Mind"
Screeching Weasel "Boogadaboogadaboogad"

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Here are the top 5 expenses that absolutely should NOT have hit my bank account this week:

1. Buying a new passenger-side control arm for the car
2. Annual vehicle registration fees
3. Car insurance premiums
4. Back-to-school season costs
5. A fresh batch of mobile and landline bills
🙂

My personal top 9 bassists

1. Lemmy (Motörhead)
2. Peter Hook (Joy Division / New Order)
3. Klaus Flouride (Dead Kennedys)
4. Glenn Matlock (Sex Pistols)
5. Billy Gould (Faith No More / Brujeria)
6. David Wm. Sims (The Jesus Lizard)
7. maybe someone like a session pro from a classic US punk outfit
8. John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)
9. Jah Wobble (PiL / solo)

top 3 cocktails

long island ice tea
local grape brew
homebrew with a vodka triple shot

top 5 most hardcore metalheads on this board

1. Arathorn
2. catatonic beaver
3. L. NimoyInvadesMetal
4. Kex Doomlich
5. Kevin Chavez3

Top 5 tracks featuring a bird in the title

1 Arab Strap - New Birds
2 Cohen - Bird on the Wire
3 Pulp - Birds in Your Garden
4 Sparklehorse - More Yellow Birds
5 SFA - Fuzzy Birds

Top 10 coolest seniors from TV and film

1 Jerry Stiller in Seinfeld
2 The old sensei in Kill Bill Vol. 2
3 That old piano player in Rio Bravo
4 Desmond Llewelyn in the James Bond films
5 Grandpa from Alf
6 The veteran commentators on ESPN
7 Richard Harris in Unforgiven
8 Alec Guinness in Star Wars
9 Gene Hackman in The Royal Tenenbaums
10 Junior Soprano

1. boards of canada
2. prefuse73
3. four tet

Here are my top 7 favorite Madness tracks:

-embarrassment
-my girl
-tomorrow`s just another day
-the prince
-one step beyond
-baggy trousers
-cardiac arrest