Your Top 5

[LewisStonehouse]

Good idea! Hard to narrow it down to five!

TOOL - 10,000 Days
Archspire - Bleee the future
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Lamb if God - Sacrament
Decapitated - Nihility

[Joberwocky]

Current top 5 albums:

Interpol - Antics
Muse - Absolution
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Lord Huron - Strange Trails
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News

I'd say my musical sensibilities are very stuck, for the most part, in the early 2000's.  It's when I met my wife, we were both heading off to college, and we were really into listening to music together.  She and I both came from a primarily classic rock/pop background, me with Floyd and her with The Beatles, so it was cool to find something new we were both stoked on.

[Joberwocky]

Books would be tough 

[Giles]

It was easy for me.  Those are the only ones I can remember reading more than once…..

[mclaincausey]

@Joberwocky:

Current top 5 albums:

Interpol - Antics
Muse - Absolution
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Lord Huron - Strange Trails
Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News

Some random humblebrags / cool stories bro intersecting with this:

One of my friends used to go to school with the main Interpol guy. When they played Minneapolis, we hung out with them and went to an afterparty. It was fun!

Another of my friends used to be the lighting manager for Lord Huron.

I will need to think more on top 5 stuff… Too many holes in my brain I guess.

[jerkules]

Albums:

Fugazi - The Argument
Swans - The Seer
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Converge - Jane Doe

Honourable mentions:

Deftones - White Pony
Charles Mingus - Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
…trail of dead - Source Tags & Codes
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want

[jerkules]

@LewisStonehouse TOOL! Right on, should’ve added Lateralus or Aenema to my list - such a great band

[Giles]

What I am loving about this thread is that Spotify is getting worn out here…....

[LewisStonehouse]

@jerkules:

@LewisStonehouse TOOL! Right on, should’ve added Lateralus or Aenema to my list - such a great band

For sure man, I could have had 4/5 of my top five be TOOL albums to be fair. Going to see them in May 22

[Giles]

And I should have had some Red Hot's….

[Paul9221]

Great thread!

Books!

• Bible:  shapes my life, probably the book I've re-read the most times

• The Stand - Stephen King:  such an epic novel!

• Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson:  has a whole chapter on how the protagonist eats Capt. Crunch cereal!

• Neuromancer - William Gibson:  has one of the best opening lines ever:  "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

• Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut: I found myself writing down quotes from this book like every 3 pages – just brilliant!

[Giles]

Oh shit, now I need to start reading more too…...

I'm sorry The Bible is out, I read it every night for years hoping it would tell me something or make me a better person it didn't (not a religious rant or stance). But Slaughterhouse-Five is a must....

[jerkules]

Books:

Haruki Murakami - Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Margaret Atwood - Oryx & Crake
Christopher Priest - The Affirmation

Honourable mentions:

Han Kang - The Vegetarian
Iris Murdock - The Sea, The Sea
Richard House - The Kills
Lars Saabye Christensen - The Half Brother
Rupert Thomson - Katherine Carlyle

[jerkules]

@Paul9221:

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

A personal fav!!

[Paul9221]

@jerkules:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

OH MY GOODNESS, I totally forgot this book!  I've re-read it 3 times!  IT'S SO BRILLIANT!

[jerkules]

@LewisStonehouse:

@jerkules:

@LewisStonehouse TOOL! Right on, should’ve added Lateralus or Aenema to my list - such a great band

For sure man, I could have had 4/5 of my top five be TOOL albums to be fair. Going to see them in May 22

Awesome! I was looking the other day and tickets still available, need to convince the wife either to tag along or give me the night off.

[mclaincausey]

Can get down with Kurt, Marquez, Stephenson, and especially William Fucking Gibson. I still have a cool Porter bag signed by him courtesy of @Snowy (thank you again my friend) and he is a big fan of Iron Heart and Acronym (just like me–couldn't be much more different brands but somehow we share a love for them)

The Sprawl trilogy is polarizing, as a lot of people struggle to follow it or perhaps just find it uninteresting. I'm not sure why. I love its dark noir style, and indeed that is IMO the best opening live I've read.

I am expecting to hear Cormac McCarthy at some point. Not among my very favorites but he's great and I know there are some fans here.

I really enjoy Terry Pratchett and Carl Hiaasen as well.

Still struggling on the album front, but I know WRONG by NOMEANSNO is on there somewhere.

[Giles]

@jerkules:

Converge - Jane Doe

Oh shit.  Sorry @riffblaster general , Jane Doe is obvs my #1….

[LewisStonehouse]

@mclaincausey:

I really enjoy Terry Pratchett

Me too, on my tenth discworld novel in a row 

[Joberwocky]

@mclaincausey that's pretty wild, man!

I saw Muse play with Cold Wat Kids at the festival pier in Philadelphia when they went on tour to promote Black Holes and Revelations.  My wife and i managed to get right up front in a crowd of 6k+, which was awesome for CWK's stripped down opening set.  Then Muse hit the stage and I think the electric bill at Penn's Landing doubled…
We didn't make it through their opener (Knights of Cydonia) before bowing out and moving back a bit, it was nuts