TOP 5's

since this band are trending.

top 5 m people songs

1) don't look any further (i know it's a cover but they nailed it tbh )
2) sight for sore eyes
3) one night in heaven
4) how can i love you more
5) search for the hero

Top 5 Pretenders songs:

1. Brass in Pocket
2. Back on the Chain Gang
3. Dont Get Me Wrong
4. 2000 Miles
5. I'll Stand by You

top 5 jeff beck albums

1) blow by blow
2) truth
3) wired
4) beck-ola
5) jeff beck's guitar shop

rod stewart is trending for his good deed.

bit of a soft spot for him over the years.

top 5 albums

1) every picture tells a story
2) never a dull moment
3) atlantic crossing
4) a night on the town
5) tonight i'm yours

top 5 songs

1) mandolin wind
2) every picture tells a story
3) maggie may
4) you wear it well
5) young turks

and the mtv unplugged is pukka.

young turks is the greatest song ever recorded in the history of recorded music.

Top 5 Stone Roses tracks from the much ridiculed Second Coming:

1) Breaking Into Heaven
1) Ten Storey Love Song
3) How Do You Sleep?
4) Tears
5) Love Spreads

I hadn't played this album for 15 years but it really is fucking GREAT. Just not as great as the debut, obviously. Love Spreads is seemingly hailed as the classic from this but I'm saying the songs I mentioned are better. I had to leave off Driving South and the super sweet Your Star Will Shine which felt bad, but probably right. Daybreak and Straight To The Man are a bit similar and always feel I'm waiting for the next track with these, but fook it, there's no awful track and Tightrope is slightly cheesy but listenable.

If I get to heaven and the gates are locked, I'm gonna smash open the padlock and break in, given I've come all this way. I only just hear this, and I love the swaggerness in the message. YEAH.

Just noticed I accidentally put two no.1s haha, but you know, Ten Storey Love Song is majestic and brings me to tears. Or should that be Tears. So it's staying as joint best tune.

How Do You Sleep got a question mark when it doesn't have even one. For that I feel bad. AS I FUCKING ADORE THIS TUNE. HOPE YOU CAN TELL I'VE HAD A FEW DRINKS.

I've seen your severed head
At a banquet for the dead

💕

top 5 - second coming

1) ten storey love song
2) good times
3) love spreads
4) tightrope
5) daybreak

breaking into heaven is pretty good tbh.

but who the fuck listens to that 4 and a half minute intro bit.

If you were down the discotheque having a shandy the intro would be tedious, but in the context of being the opening track after a five year hiatus then I love the build up of it.

The melody of the 'How many times will I have to tell you' line is so good, the only awful thing being they only used it once in the tune!

Cwlass, as Andy Gray would say, on Bein sports

top 5 doctor in the title songs

1) doctor wu - steely dan
2) doctor robert - the beatles
3) doctor my eyes - jackson 5 (better than jackson browne's version)
4) doctor feelgood - motley crue
5) i'm the doctor - motorhead

thompson twins just miss out.

Thanks for this, I didn't know it.

In honour of the great man’s passing, my personal top five Gordon lightfoot songs.

1. Canadian railroad trilogy (arguably my favourite song, period.)
2. The watchman’s gone
3. Race among the ruins
4. Song for a winter’s night
5. Beautiful (played at my wedding reception)

fully realised perfection from the motown session players.

what record is best to start with? I've shown no interest in him now for 39 years, but now he's dead I've decided I wish to hear him!

I’m partial to “the way I feel” for the early folkie stuff, “summertime dream” for his 70s peak and “waiting for you for his late years. But start with “gord’s gold”. Just about a perfect ‘best of’

Whose version of If you could ready my mind is the one I know?

From Gord or a cover? There’s a famous disco version and there was a dance one from the late 90s (stars on 54) that I recall being on the radio a lot. And Johnny cash did it on one of the American albums.