Top five "tightest" harmonies in a rock/pop song.
"Because" The Beatles; Abbey Road
"One (is the lonliest number)" Three Dog Night
"No Matter What" Badfinger
"Cecilia" Simon and Garfunkle
"Wake Up Little Suzie" The Everly Brothers

I know; they're all old, but I still love to listen to them for the harmony.

Oh, I've got to include Los Lonely Boys "How Far is Heaven" somewhere in the mix

Top 5 Live Albums:

1. Throwing Copper
2. Mental Jewelry
3. Secret Samadhi - Some rather weak songs, but some very good songs make up for it.
4. The Distance to Here
5. V

Top 5 Doors Albums:

1. The Doors
2. Morrison Hotel
3. Strange Days
4. L.A. Woman
5. The Soft Parade - Two of the best Doors songs here, (Shaman's Blues, The Soft Parade) but sadly also the absolute three worst Doors songs as well (Touch Me, Tell All the People, Wishful Sinful)

Top 5 Sufjan Stevens Albums:

1. Seven Swans
2. Illinois
3. Michigan
4. A Sun Came!
5. Enjoy Your Rabbit

"Touch Me" is one of the three worst Doors songs? Hoky Smoke, Batman!

I'm sorry, it's just that those are the only three Doors songs that I skip every time I come to them. Maybe some day I'll see things differently.

Also I just decided that I like The Distance to Here better than Secret Samadhi after listening to the first 4 TDTH songs, so I'll flip flop them on my top five list.

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Top 5 Sufjan Stevens Albums:

1. Seven Swans
2. Illinois
3. Michigan
4. A Sun Came!
5. Enjoy Your Rabbit

I don't know if you've heard them, but taken together, I would actually throw Sufjan's 3 Christmas EP's ahead of A Sun Came and Enjoy Your Rabbit. I think I might've put up a link in the Sufjan thread to where you can download all three of them.

I haven't heard the Christmas EP's yet. I'll have to check those out.

The top 5 online music shops I purchase the most cds from:

1. Dusty Groove
2. Not Lame
3. Double Crown
4. deepdiscountcd and ebay/half.com (tie)
5. Miles of Music

Greatest acoustic guitar players (non-acoustic blues):
1. Leo Kottke
2. John Fahey
3. Bert Jansch
4. Richard Thompson
5. Jorma Kaukonen

Top number of CDs in my collection, by artist:

1. Bob Dylan (34)
2. Rolling Stones (20)
3. The Beatles, Van Morrison (tie - 19)
4. Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell (tie-18)
5. The Fall, David Bowie, Frank Sinatra, Emmylou Harris (tie -16)

top five list of rock artists, trends, movements, or events that shaped popular culture

number one - The Beatles

the latest version of Rolling Stone's Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll summed it up best: "Their contribution to popular culture and western society is simply incalculable." Indeed.

number two - Elvis

same as the Beatles; I just didn't feel like having a debatable two-way tie for first.

number three - MTV

mtv is a significant movement unto itself which, like the rock genre, has seen its share of trends come and go (and yes, it sucks nowadays) but remains an undeniable force in popular culture.

number Four - Woodstock

number Five* - The Rap Subgenre



*didn't make the cut: The Stones; Zeppelin; The Grunge Subgenre; The Heavy Metal Subgenre; The Punk Subgenre; Thriller.

**didn't make the list: Net Aid; Jewel.

Top 5 Hawkwind albums (excluding Space Ritual):
1. Doremi Fasol Latido
2. In Search of Space
3. Quark, Strangeness & Charm
4. Hawkwind
5. Hall of the Mountain Grill

Best of British psych:
1. Pink Floyd - Piper At the Gates of Dawn
2. Soft Machine - Vol. 2
3. Yardbirds - Roger The Engineer
3. Tomorrow - Tomorrow
4. Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream

Guilty for leaving out: Bevis Frond - Miasma, Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Top 5 "famous" American psych:
1. Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
2. Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation
3. 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
4. United States of America - United States of America
5. Electric Prunes - Mass in F Minor

Guilty feelings for: Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday, Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?, Country Joe & the Fish - Electric Music For the Mind and Body...plus tons of live Grateful Dead that are better, John Cippolina and QMS etc.

Top 5 Saddest Songs of All Time for me right now:

1. Fruit Tree
2. Place to Be
3. Which Way
4. Fly
5. Man in a Shed

They are all by Nick Drake. His music is so real and heartfelt. It's very sad to think that someone with his talent and beauty would want to end his life at an early age. Depression can leave a person feeling so down that death seems the only way out.

Off the top of my head this very moment, my top 5 favorite bands(not individual artists) that begin with:

P

The Postal Service("the" doesn't count)
Pernice Brothers
Pavement
Pulp
Polyphonic Spree

A

Arcade Fire
Art Brut
Antony and The Johnsons
Air
The Animals

T

Talking Heads
Traffic
Trash Can Sinatras
Teenage Fanclub
Tenacious D

R

Rolling Stones
Rage Against The Machine
Rosebuds
Raveonettes
The Roots

I

Interpol
Iron & Wine(I know some might argue this is not a band, but cut me come slack, "I" is a tough letter)
Idlewild
I Am Kloot
Isolee

C

Cream
The Clash
Cat Power
The Clientele
Calexico

K

King Crimson
Kraftwerk
Kinks
The Kills
Kings of Convenience

Top 5 Tracks to chill out to while you puff puff pass the stickiest of the icky around:

5. Breath from Another - Esthero
4. Trigger Hippie - Morcheeba
3. Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
2. Pack The Pipe - The Pharcyde
1. 2Wicky - Hooverphonic

First 5 concerts I attended-

1. Johnny Cash
2. Sergio Mendez & Brasil '77
3. Elton John
4. Seals & Croft
5. Stevie Wonder

Last 5 concerts I attended-

1. North Mississippi All-Stars
2. White Stripes
3. Santana
4. Iron & Wine
5. Brian Wilson

Top 5 jazz Arts
1. Art Blakey
2. Art Pepper
3. Arthur Blythe
4. Artie Shaw
5. Art Farmer

Top 5 Other Arts
1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. Art Garfunkle
3. The Art of Cooking
4. Artichokes
5. Art School

Top five songs I liked around the time I was in 5th grade:

1. Emotions - Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
2. Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C & C Music Factory
3. (Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
4. I'll Be There - The Escape Club
5. Make It Happen - Mariah Carey

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Originally posted by Nathan25:
3. (Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams
5. Make It Happen - Mariah Carey

Ouch...

I only listen "great" music since 5 or 6 years. Before i listened Creed-like bullshit

Top five albums that I can always guarantee will cause "outrage" and extreme hostility whenever I suggest they are over-rated:

1. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" -- The Flaming Lips
2. "Van Lear Rose" -- Loretta Lynn
3. "Sea Change" -- Beck
4. "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" -- Wilco
5. Anything by The Doors.

No hostility at all, but I think you're wrong about 2. and 3. They were both my No. 1's of their years, so what d'ya expect?