Your Weekly Top Five (songs) Thread

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[sub] I miss the top six threads…maybe this thread could be perpetual in its absence[/sub]

What are the five best songs you’ve heard this week? Preferably songs you heard on the radio/tv, but MP3s will do as well. They don’t need to be songs you’ve just heard for the first time, but ones you liked best this week.

my picks for the week ending April 3rd:

  1. Jem “They”
  2. The Stills “Still in Love”
  3. Ivy " Worry About You" (the Kingdom Hospital theme, btw)
  4. The Offspring " (Can’t Get My) Head Around You"
  5. Gary Jules " Mad World"
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  1. The Unicorns - Tuff Ghost
  2. Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh, Comely
  3. Air - Alpha Beta Gaga
  4. The Beatles - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
  5. Grandaddy - I’m On Standby (they sound like the band in the goldfish crackers commercial, it’s kind of funny)
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  1. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes by Paul Simon
  2. A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash
  3. The Banana Boat Song by Harry Belafonte
  4. Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues by Jim Croce
  5. A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow by Mitch and Mickey
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Great song. I just picked up Logic Will Break Your Heart a few weeks ago and it’s been in heavy rotation since.

  1. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
  2. Billy Talent -Beach Balls
  3. Tom Waits - Romeo is Bleeding
  4. The Stills - Animals and Insects
  5. Kathleen Edwards - One More Song the Radio Won’t Like
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  1. “Worry About You,” Ivy
  2. “Soir de Fete,” Yann Tiersen (from the Amelie soundtrack)
  3. “Last Dance for Mary Jane,” Tom Petty
  4. “Moon River,” Audrey Hepburn (from the Breakfast at Tiffany’s soundtrack)
  5. “I Believe in a Thing Called Love,” The Darkness
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Showbag - Perish Union
Sufjan Stevens - Flint (For The Unemployed and Underpaid)
Mates of State - Gotta Get A Problem
Freeway - What We Do
Sia - Breathe Me

7

The Streets - Fit But You Know It
Captain Beefheart - Trust Us
Guns and Roses - Paradise City
Frank Zappa - Dancin’ Fool
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World

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The Stills rock. Here’s hoping some kind soul gets me Logic Will Break Your Heart for my birthday.

  1. “In This Atmosphere” - Young and Sexy
  2. “It’s Gonna Take an Airplane” - Destroyer
  3. “Lola Stars and Stripes” - The Stills
  4. “Take Me Out” - Franz Ferdinand
  5. “Pancho Villa” - Sun Kil Moon
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It’s funny. The Stills seem to have a nice following if these boards are any indication, yet I have never heard them on the radio, and both the stations I listen to are indie stations that play things top 40s stations wouldn’t dream of. If it wasn’t for a video played on The N a month ago, I never would have heard of them. Go figure.

my picks for the week ending April 10th:

  1. Econoline Crush " Digging the Heroine"
  2. The Strokes " Reptilia" (aka the only Strokes song that doesn’t suck)
  3. Nirvana " Rape Me"
  4. Muse " Time is Running Out"
  5. Garbage " Hammering in My Head"
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Right now in no order …

  1. BT - Animals
  2. Neuropa - Standing Still in Time
  3. Joy Machine - Water’s Edge
  4. Anything Box - Stillness
  5. Kenna - Freetime
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That is one fantastic song. I adore that whole album.

My picks:

  1. Sufjan Stevens - In The Devil’s Territory
  2. Neil Young - Walk On
  3. Modest Mouse - Float On
  4. Prefuse 73 - Busy Signal
  5. The Smiths - Asleep
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Echo and the Bunnymen- Bring on the Dancing Horses
New Order- Bizarre Love Triangle
Morrissey- Everyday is Like Sunday
Glen Phillips- Darkest Hour
Peter Murphy- I’ll Fall With Your Knife

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  1. Maps by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I must have listened to this song at least 50 times this week, I’m absolutely fascinated by it.
  2. Big Brat by Phantom Planet
  3. Cause=Time by Broken Social Scene
  4. Still in Love Song by The Stills. I’m anal retentive about this. It’s called Still in Love Song.
  5. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand

Worst song of the week?

Cold Hard Bitch by Jet

Just awful.

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  1. Tank Commander (Hung Up in a Warehouse Town) - The Constantines
  2. Game of Pricks - Guided By Voices
  3. The Moon by - The Microphones
  4. Teen Age Riot - Sonic Youth
  5. Miss Modular - Stereolab
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My top five:

1-“Black To Comm”-Lord Sterling-From the Sucking In The 70s" stoner Rock comp. an awesome cover of one of the greatest songs ever.

2-" Rock ‘N’ Roll Drummer Straight From The Hospy-Tel"-Jonathan Richman.

3-“30 Seconds Over Tokyo”-Rocket From The Tombs. 30 years after the fact, Cheetah Chrome and Dave Thomas get together to make the album that should have been made in 1975, with Richard Lloyd replacing Peter Laughner, who couldn’t make it due to being dead. Get this album NOW!

4-“Atheist Peace”-Bad Religion. From the new album The Empire Strikes First. I was all prepared to hate this album, since they’ve sucked ass since generator, but dammit…this album is really good.

5-“Made In Hell”-Halford. My two year old likes to bang his head to this song. This is just like Stained Class era Judas Priest, and it’s got me looking forward to the reunion.

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I saw Bobby Blue Bland thursday, so he’s #1 right now…

  • Yolanda - Bobby Blue Bland
  • Liar, Liar - The Castaways
  • Just like Me - Paul Revere and The Raiders
  • Incense and Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
  • Double Yellow Line - The Music Machine
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Finch- Perfection Through Silence
TranceControl- Perfecto
Asian Dub Foundation- Fortress Europe
Strong Bad- Theme from Dangeresque II: This Time It’s Not Dangeresque I
Dean Martin- Ain’t Love a Kick in the Head

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Tere Bin Nahin Lagda Dil
Malkit Singh - Mithe Ganne
Crass - Where Next Columbus?
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Shahbaaz Qalander
Punjabi MC - Jogi

I have bizarre, disocnnected musical tastes.

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Patty Griffin - Rain
Nellie McKay - The Dog Song
Aretha Franklin - Think
Roseanne & Johnny Cash - September When It Comes
Jonatha Brook with Neil Finn - New Dress

A chick-music bonanza.

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Here’s to Love - Ewan MacGregor and Renee Zellweger
Wheel’s on Fire - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Go to Hell - Nina Simone
Let The Sun Shine In - Army of Lovers
Carioca - Esquivel!

And… one to grow on:

Stick Around - Julian Lennon