Your Top 5

[flannel slut]

@T4920 ha! I gifted TNotW one of my good friends about 10, 15 years or so ago. Back when I was young and impressionable and believed authors to be good people who would never create such enjoyable works of art, earn legions can of fans and then abandon them (that goes for you too GRR Martin cough)

My apologies on the early morning rant!

[popvulture]

@flannel-slut I just knocked out 50 pages of The Name of the Wind — really killer so far, and I know I’m just getting started. Looking forward to getting into this one.

[flannel slut]

@popvulture just put a big smile on my face. Enjoy your escape pal

[weftyarn]

My top 5 3 x 5 music albums in no particular order.
Yes, I’m a hip hop head.

Old School:

InI / Pete Rock - Center of Attention
Funkdoobiest - Brothas Doobie
Guru - Jazzmatazz Volume 1
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II

New school

Yelawolf - Love Story
Dr Dre - 2001
Dem Atlas - Bad Actress
Eminem - The Eminem Show
Cunninlynguists - Will Rap for Food

Dang, so many missing… Honorable mentions

Slick Rick - Behind Bars
Masta Ace - Disposable Arts
Poor Righteous Teachers - Black Business
Digable Planets - Reachin‘
Nas & Damian Marley - Distant Relatives

Could go on for hours haha.. Any other Hip Hop heads here?

[Sir_Cuffs-a-Lot]

Operation Ivy - Energy (easily my top)
Sublime - Sublime
Leftöver Crack - Fuck World Trade
Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead….

[ddtrash]

Top 5 fiction books ( this weeks choice at least ).

The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Snow falling on Cedars - David Guterson
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

[HeavyGenes]

Top 5 Music Albums

1. Outkast - Aquemini
2. Killer Mike - Michael
3. Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
4. Kanye - Graduation
5. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

[Matt]

I had a lot of time behind the wheel driving from Albuquerque to Baltimore this week so I’m pretty sure this is definitive…

1. Kid A
2. Ace of Spades
3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4. The White Album
5. Enter The 36 Chambers

[popvulture]

Man I wouldn’t even know where to start with an ever list but I can get behind that one.

[Matt]

I was pretty impressed with myself when I came up with it somewhere in Oklahoma.

[GraemeE]

I'm in the same camp as Pop but that is a fucking solid top 5

[SKT]

@Matt man…some of my favorites here too. I like how you’ve got a lot of genres covered.

[Lemoorrissey]

Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Cro Mags - Age of Quarrel
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
AZ - Doe or Die
Townes Van Zandt - Flying Shoes

[Bridger]

Not in order. Too hard.

PE - Nation of Millions
Coltrane - Supreme
Zep – Four
The garden – Badmotorfinger
Amos – To Venus and Back
Tool - Aenima
Tribe - Low End

[Bridger]

@weftyarn said in Your Top 5:

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

This was next on my list. Masterpiece.

[flannel slut]

Talking Dexter on the TV thread made me think how some of my favorite television started w some very high highs and ended with low lows… in no particular order, my top 5 TV bipolar runs:
Dexter
Game of Thrones
Lost
Carnival
Heroes

[seawolf]

@flannel-slut Heroes had so much potential! Man, that show had such a great first season.

[Tago Mago]

@seawolf 110% this

[flannel slut]

[Matt]

@flannel-slut that’s a solid list. Carnival was good it just ended abruptly imo. Twin Peaks famously had bad 2nd season but that third season, flawless.

I think any show with a complex plot has trouble extending beyond the first couple seasons. X-Files is another good example.

I loved West Wing, terrible after Aaron Sorkin left.