Okay. You can list your top 5 of anything. Top 5 favorite albums of all-time, Top 5 debut albums, Top 5 first songs on an album. It can be anything you want, kind of like on the movie High Fidelity. Mine are mostly about relationship related issues. What's in your Top 5?

Top 5 Songs By Bands from New York
The Strokes “Hard to Explain”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps”
Interpol “Stella was a Diver”
The Liars “Mr. You’re on Fire Mr.”
The Walkmen “The Rat”

Top 5 Songs that Sound Like Sex (The Sweet and Romantic Kind)
Dusty Springfield “Son of a Preacher Man”
Chris Isaak “Wicked Game”
Kate Bush “This Woman’s Work”
Peter, Paul, and Mary “Leaving on a Jet Plane”
The Roots “Seed 2.0”

Top 5 Songs that Sound Like Sex (The One-Night Stand Kind)
Ludicras “What’s Your Fantasy?”
TV on the Radio “Staring at the Sun”
Liz Phair “Flower”
Bright Eyes “Lover I Don’t Have to Love”

Top 5 Songs about Love (The Kind that You Wish Would Last Forever)
Beat Happening “Indian Summer”
Sade “By Your Side”
Dinosaur Jr “Freak Scene”
Mazzy Star “Fade Into You”
OMD “If You Leave”

Top 5 Songs about Love (The Kind that You Know Will Last Forever)
The Beatles “Two of Us”
Indigo Girls “Power of Two”
Love “Alone Again Or”
Marvin Gaye “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”
Shania Twain “You’re Still the One”

Top 5 Songs about Love (The Kind that Ruins Your Life)
Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
The Cure “Lovesong”
Interpol “Slow Hands”
Johnny Cash “I Still Miss Someone”
Lauryn Hill “Ex-Factor”

Top 5 Songs about getting rid of your loser boyfriend
Kathleen Edwards “In State”
Mariah Carey “Shake It Off”
Kelly Clarkson “Since U Been Gone”
Ani Difranco “Untouchable Face”
Leann Womack “He Oughta Know that By Now”

Grittiest albums (a top 5):

1. Lightnin' Hopkins - The Herald Recordings
2. Hound Dog Taylor - Natural Boogie
3. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
4. Electric Eels - Eyeball of Hell
5. Sonics - Here Are the Sonics!

Honourable mention to Amebix - Arise!

Top five songs definitely or possibly about Michigan, my home state, not recorded by Sufjan Stevens:

1. Panic in Detroit - David Bowie
2. Detroit Rock City - Kiss
3. Great Lake - Joe Henry
4. Saginaw, Michigan - Lefty Frizzel
5. Motor City Baby - The Dirtbombs

Top 5 Songs "I can't wait to Hear on Wilco's Live Double Album":
1. Muzzle Of Bees
2. Spiders(kidsmoke)
3.Wishful Thinking
4.Heavy Metal Drummer
5.I'm The Man Who Loves You

Top 5 'Live Recordings' I have :
1.The Police - Next To You
2.Indigo Girls - Down By THe River
3.Radiohead - Everything In It's Right Place
4.Wilco - At Least That's What You Said
5.Bjork - All Is Full Of Love

Top 5 Songs to Dance To-Released 2005

Art Brut “Emily Kane”
Rihanna “Pon de Replay”
Franz Ferdinand “Do You Want To”
Gorillaz “Feel Good Inc.”
Damian Marley “Welcome to Jamrock”

Top 5 Versions of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction":

1. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - Devo
2. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - Cat Power
3. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - Rolling Stones
4. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - Otis Redding
5. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - Britney Spears

Top five "nineties bands" (bands that were at their apex in the nineties) i wish would still make albums (original group only, no new bands, or solo material)
1. The Afghan Whigs
2. The Verve
3. Semisonic
4. The Verve Pipe (honestly, i love them)
5. The Stone Roses

I liked the I Can't Get No Satisfaction List, did you know Television also did a remake of the song?

Top 5 Songs that Make me Dislike Listening to the Radio-Released 2005

Nickelback “Photograph”
Black-Eyed Peas “My Humps”
Trace Adkins “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk”
Cowboy Troy “I Play Chicken with the Train”
Lindsay Lohan “Rumors”

Top Five Songs by Live:

1. Mother Earth is a Viscious Crowd
2. The Dam at Otter Creek
3. Lightning Crashes
4. Graze
5. Mirror Song

Top five songs by Guns N' Roses:

1. November Rain
2. Live and Let Die
3. Sweet Child of Mine
4. Patience
5. Don't Cry

Top five songs by Sufjan Stevens

1. Predatory Wasp of the Palisades
2. Romulus
3. Vito's Ordination Song
4. Chicago
5. The Dress Looks Nice on You

Top five songs by Nick Drake

1. Who can know the thoughts of Mary Jane
2. From the Morning
3. Time has told Me
4. Poor Boy
5. Which Will

Top five songs by The Doors

1. Shaman's Blues
2. The Soft Parade
3. The End
4. Soul Kitchen
5. Horse Latitudes

Top five songs by Vashti Bunyan

1. I'd like to walk around in your mind
2. Love Song
3. Winter is Blues
4. Diamond Day
5. Where I like to Stand

Top 5 songs by Devendra Banhart (from the two albums I own):

1. Queen Bee
2. Hey Mama Wolf
3. Now that I Know
4. Canela
5. I Feel just like a Child

Top five Bob Marley Songs:

1. Concrete Jungle
2. So Much Trouble in the World
3. Jump Nyabinghi
4. Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
5. Get Up, Stand Up

Top 5 Fiona Apple songs not counting Tidal:

1. Window
2. Mistake
3. Paper Bag
4. Extraordinary Machine
5. O' Sailer

Top five pearl jam songs:

1. I am Mine
2. Even Flow
3. Jeremy
4. Last Kiss
5. Do the Evolution



In My Opinion

For the number 4 live song I meant Ghost not Graze.

My top 5 Pearl Jam songs:
1.corduroy
2.nothing as it seems
3.dissident
4.black
5.jeremy

Top 5 for those of us who suffer from low self-esteem:

1. Loser - Beck
2. Creep - Radiohead
3. In My Place - Coldplay
4. Dumb - Nirvana
5. Self Esteem - The Offspring

My list of top five favorite pearl jam songs:
1. Love Boat Captain
2. Breakerfall
3. Alive
4. Yellow Leadbetter (so obvious, but so good)
5. Habit

Since this is turning into a top 5 pearl jam songs thread:

1. State of Love and Trust
2. Yellow Leadbetter
3. Spin the Black Circle
4. Hail, Hail
5. Better Man

Top 5 2005 albums that achieved some mainstream success in America.

White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
System of a Down - Mezmerize
Kanye West - Late Registration
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better

Top 5 bands/artists whose 2005 albums suggest potential to make greater albums in the future.

Antony & The Johnstons
Thee More Shallows
Akron/Family
Iron & Wine
Sons & Daughters

Top Five songs featuring the numbers One through Five:

1. "One" - U2
2. "Two Headed Boy Part 1." - Neutral Milk Hotel
3. "Three Days" - Jane's Addiction
4. "Free Four" - Pink Floyd
5. "Five Days" - David Bowie

Bonus Track: "Five to One" - The Doors



Worst Five songs featuring the numbers One through Five:

1. "One More Night" - Phil Collins
2. "Two Hearts" - Phil Collins
3. "Three Little Pigs" - Green Jelly
4. "Four Seasons of Loneliness" - Boyz II Men
5. " The Power of Five" - Spice Girls

Bonus Track: "9 to 5" - Dolly Parton

Top five personal record buys in 2005:
1. My Morning Jacket-Z
(I could not be happier with this record. yeah, they are getting a lot of press right now, but they probably deserve it. radiohead + skynard+kermit)
2. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club-HOWL
(I don't care about the complete sub-genre shift, this sounds like the type of record The Band might make in 2005. Think about it.)
3. Oasis-Don't Believe the Truth
(It's always been about the swagger with their records, and you can feel it on this one.)
4. The White Stripes-Get Behind Me Satan
(A different sounding record compared to the delta blues played through an amp on 10 records. Tremendous.)
5. The Rolling Stones-A Bigger Bang
(Seriously. I love it. Surprisingly consistent throughout.)

Coolest juvenile song-titles:

1. Bongzilla - 666 lb. bong session
2. The Rotters - Sit on my face, Stevie Nicks
3. Mojo Nixon - Don Henley Must Die
4. Bal-Sagoth - And Lo, When The Imperium Marches Against Gul-kothoth, Then Dark Sorceries Shall Enshroud The Citadel Of The Obsidian Crown
5. A.C - I Respect Your Feelings as a Woman and a Human (actually for their standards)

TOp 5 Electronic/Pop songs:

1. "Pick Up the Phone" by the Notwist
2. "Scary Worlds Theory" by Lali Puna
2. "Teach Me How To Fight" by Junior Boys
4. "Solid Ground" by Ms. John Soda
5. "District Sleeps Alone Tonight" by Postal Service

Hon. Mention:
"May Banners" by Tree Wave
"Electricity in Pine Boxes" by Psapp

Top 5 "Rain" songs:

1. "Save It For A Rainy Day" by the Jayhawks
2. "Early Morning Rain" by Gordon Lightfoot
3. "Dry the Rain" by the Beta Band
4. "Why Does It Always Rain On Me?" by Travis
5. "Come Rain or Shine" by David Francey

Hon. Mention:
"Rainy Day" by Guster
"Rainbow Sign" by Fruit Bats
"Rain Man" by Counting Crows
"Rain" by Evan Dando
"Rain" by Jackopierce