Top 5 Favorite surf instrumental songs:

1. "Baja"- The Blue Hawaiians
2. "Mystery At the Startower Hill"- The Surfin' Spacemen
3. "Nineteen"- The Surf Coasters
4. "The Whales Are Coming, And Boy Are They Pissed"- The Mermen
5. "The Phasing Spider Menace"- Daikaiju

Top five albums of all time for me right now:

1. Just Another Diamond Day - Vashti Bunyan
2. You Are Free - Cat Power
3. Cripple Crow - Devendra Banhart
4. Fisherman's Woman - Emiliana Torrini
5. Extraordinary Machine - Fiona Apple

Top 5 ways I find music I like:

1. Amazon recommendations based on earlier purchases and other things I own
2. Allmusic.com biographies and reviews
3. Metacritic.com reviews
4. Browsing yourmusic.com genres
5. iTunes: checking out celebrity and iTunes essential playlists or just tracking down a song that's on my mind.

Top 5 "Train Songs"

1. "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" by GOrdon Lightfoot
2. "Pilot" by the Notwist
3. "Belgrade Train" by David Francey
4. "Born On A Train" by Magnetic Fields
5. "Asleep On A Train/Awake On A Train" by Mum

Hon. Mention:
"Railway" by Dispatch
"Devil's Train" by Crooked Fingers
"Broken Train" by Beck
"The L Train Is A Swell Train and I don't Want to Hear You Indies Complain" by Out Hud
"Trucks and Trains" by Alkaline Trio
"Railroad Man" by Eels

Top 5 River Songs

1. "River Man" by Nick Drake
2. "The River Song: by Extra Glenns
3. "Caught By the River" by Doves
4. "River" by Joni Mitchell
5. "Bend in the Water" by Gordon Lightfoot

Hon. Mention:

"River" by Jackopierce
"Sawkill River" by Devendra Banhart
"Okkervil River Song" by Okkervil River
"Where the River Flows" by Collective Soul
"The River" by Virginia Coalition

Top 5 Songs That Make Me (Want to) Take Off My Clothes and Dance:

1. "Laura," Scissor Sisters
2. "Lady Cab Driver," Prince
3. "Song to the Siren," The Chemical Brothers
4. "Wild, Sweet and Cool," The Crystal Method
5. "Hot Ride," by The Prodigy

Yowza!!

What about "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" by the Beatles?

First five music websites I visit each weekday morning:

1. Tinymixtapes
2. Stylusmagazine
3. Pitchforkmedia
4. Metacritic
5. Popmatters

(Bonus: cokemachineglow on Thursdays, themilkfactory each month)

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First five music websites I visit each weekday morning:

1. Tinymixtapes
2. Stylusmagazine
3. Pitchforkmedia
4. Metacritic
5. Popmatters

(Bonus: cokemachineglow on Thursdays

Ha. Exact same ones for me (though maybe a different order).

Top 5 songs for a snowy day:

Aim- Cold Water Music
The Flaming Lips- One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Four Tet- Spirit Fingers
Explosions in the Sky- Six Days @ the Bottom of the Ocean
Broken Social Scene- Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl

Top Five songs I don't want people to know I sing along to in the car.

1. "Big Empty" by the Stone Temple Pilots (What can I say? Child of the '90s)
2. Anything by Tom Waits (Especially after I start coughing)
3. "The Bad Touch" by the Bloodhound Gang (I have no excuse for this)
4. "Think" by Aretha Franklin (I'm so white it hurts)
5. "Ping Pong" by Stereolab (Think mumbled French)

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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”

Ahahah. That was so on the money it hurts. You could make a whole list of only Nickelback, haha.

Top five albums whose quality don't remotely match their ambition:

1) Flaming Lips - Zareika
2) Clash - Sandanista
3) The Who - Tommy
4) Mike Keanelly - The Universe Will Provide
5) Smashing Pumpkins - MACHINA

Top 5 coolest names in music:

1. Fiona Apple
2. Sufjan Stevens
3. Emiliana Torrini
4. Cat Power
Tied for 5th: Devendra Banhart, Vashti Bunyan

Beefheart for your brains:

1. I Love You, You Big Dummy

Love has no body
I love you, you big dummy
No body has love
No body has love
Breathe deep
Breathe high
Breathe life
Don't breathe ah lie
I love you, you big dummy

If you get his, you'll never hear music the same way.

2. Frownland

My smile is stuck
I cannot go back to your Frownland

3. Veteran's Day Poppy

I cry but I can't buy
Your Veteran's Day poppy

4. Apes-Ma

Apes-Ma, Apes-Ma
You're eating too much
And going to the bathroom too much Apes-Ma
And Apes-Ma, your cage isn't getting any bigger Apes-Ma

The Don at his most poignant? (or is it "One Red Rose That I Mean" by his band)

5. There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evenin' Stage

Every second on the evenin’ stage
There’s ah soul die’n ‘n rottin’ ‘n pickin’
Some new kinda cotton
With his fingers broken ‘n his heart ‘n back forgotten
There ain’t no Santa Claus on the evenin’ stage

Bonus for his declarations:

"A squid eating dough in a polythene bag is fast 'n' bulbous. Got me?"
or
" Mister Zoot Horn Rollo, hit that long lunar note, and let it float."

Best band names resulting from a murdered president-

1. The Dead Kennedys
2. The Lee Harvey Oswald Band
3. The Jack Rubies
4. The Grassy Knoll
5. Single Bullet Theory

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Top five albums whose quality don't remotely match their ambition:

1) Flaming Lips - Zareika
2) Clash - Sandanista
3) The Who - Tommy
4) Mike Keanelly - The Universe Will Provide
5) Smashing Pumpkins - MACHINA

Don't forget Rehearsing My Choir, Bob.

My top five Pearl Jam songs (at the moment):

1. Grievance
2. Better Man
3. Green Disease
4. Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
5. Red Mosquito

My top five songs covered by Pearl Jam:

1. Master of War - Bob Dylan
2. Begin the Begin - REM
3. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - Beatles
4. Fuckin' Up - Neil Young
5. Baba O'Riley - The Who

Top Five Reasons Why Canadian Music is the Coolest:

1. The Arcade Fire
2. Wolf Parade
3. The New Pornographers
4. Rufus and Martha Wainwright
5. Hot Hot Heat

Top Five Reasons Why Canadian Music is the Lamest:

1. Nickleback
2. Bryan Adams
3. Celine Dion
4. Diana Krall
5. Avril Lavigne

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Originally posted by Peewee:
Top Five Reasons Why Canadian Music is the Coolest:

1. The Arcade Fire
2. Wolf Parade
3. The New Pornographers
4. Rufus and Martha Wainwright
5. Hot Hot Heat

Top Five Reasons Why Canadian Music is the Lamest:

1. Nickleback
2. Bryan Adams
3. Celine Dion
4. Diana Krall
5. Avril Lavigne

I like your fair and balanced approach.