Official "Top 5 favorite" list thread

1. Teenage Lobotomy
2. Rockaway Beach
3. Glad to See You Go
4. Blitzkrieg Bop
5. Commando

 

Top 5 Sappy Songs I Like Which Probably Aren't Loved By The Critics

1. My Love -- Paul McCartney (wedding song, I have always LOVED it)
2. I Saw The Light -- Raspberries
3. Take It All -- Badfinger
4. If You Leave Me Now -- Chicago (duh, duh, duh, duh ... duh ... duh, duh, duh-duh ... ping!)
5. One More Night -- Phil Collins

Top 5 Songs I Don't Own Or Make A Point To Buy/Download, But Will Not Turn Off If They Pop Up On The XM ...

1. Polk Salad Annie -- Tony Joe White (fucking awesome, I probably DO need to buy/download this)
2. Outa-Space -- Billy Preston (I'm a total sucker for a funky-ass clavinet)
3. Hard To Handle -- Otis Redding (original version kicks ass)
4. Rise -- Herb Alpert (puts me in place where I'm snorting a Scarface-size plate of blow on a beautiful Sunday morning?)
5. Third Rate Romance -- Amazing Rhythm Aces, written by Sammy Kershaw (funny song)

 

1. I Wanna Be Sedated.
2. I Don't Wanna Grow Up.
3. Blitzkrieg Bop.
4. Rock n Roll Radio.
5. Beat on a Brat.

 

Top 5 KISS songs

5. Dr Love
4. Rock and Roll All Night
3. Christine Sixteen
2. Firehouse
1. Shock Me

 

Top 5 Metallica songs:

* Disposable Heroes
* One
* Shortest Straw
* Enter Sandman
* The Thing That Should Not Be

 

Top five grunge-era songs, female division:
1. Violet, Hole.
2. Seether, Veruca Salt.
3. Connection, Elastica.
4. I Kissed a Girl, Jill Sobule.
5. I'm Only Happy When It Rains, Garbage.

Top five new-wave songs, female division:
1. I Know What Boys Like, Waitresses.
2. Nvr Say Nvr, Romeo Void.
3. Talk of the Town, Pretenders.
4. How Do I Make You, Linda Ronstandt.
5. Money, Flying Lizards.
5a. O Superman, Lori Anderson.

 

Top five Irv Weinstein stories on Eyewitness News:

1. Murder on the East Side.
2. Gangland slaying in South Buffalo
3. City smoke eaters respond to Fruit Belt fire
4. Yeggs rob Tonawanda woman
5. More layoffs in store at (insert manufacturing site of your choice here).

 

Funny stuff and you can add a scandal in Mayor Jimmy Griffin's administration, a scandal at The Sawyer School (whatever the fuck that was) and a closure on the Father Baker Bridge.

 

Fortunately I was gone for the Jimmy Griffin administration. (And for the Tony M. administration too, although I don't think he was an outright crook like JG, just not overly bright).


And I don't think the Father baker Bridge was ever open.

Two more I forgot:

More new Peace Bridge design controversy.

Three men taken to Our Lady of Victory Hospital following a two-car pileup on the Scajaquada ...

 

.....and a fire/shooting/car wreck on Genessee St.

 

Top 5 covers currently on my iPod:

1. "Into The Mystic" - Colin James

2. "Quarter To Three" - Springsteen

3. "Tweeter And The Monkey Man" - Headstones

4. "The House Is Rockin'" - Brian Setzer Orchestra

5. "Travelin' Band" - Jerry Lee Lewis