Top 5... Go!!!!!!

[jillybean]

Please list your top five for each category. I'll go 1st:

Top Five movies (for today, mine change daily):
1. Say Anything
2. Requiem For A Dream
3. Dog Fight
4. What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
5. Psycho

Top Five albums (again, for today):
1. Sign O The Times, Prince
2. Lovesexy, Prince
3. OK Computer, Radiohead
4. Exile In Guyville, Liz Phair
5. Supernatural, dc talk

Top Five songs (yadda, yadda):
1. Adore, Prince
2. Forever In My Life, Prince
3. On and On, Kevin Max
4. She's Always In My Hair, Prince
5. Redeemer, Nicole C. Mullen

Top Five TV shows (etc.)
1. Arrested Development
2. Dick Van Dyke Show
3. Saturday Night Live (circa 1977)
4. Everybody Loves Raymond
5. Mystery Science Theater 3000

Top Five Books: (ditto)
1. Girl With A Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
2. Damage, Josephine Hart
3. The Belljar, Sylvia Plath
4. The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein
5. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King

 

[Aquajock]

Movies:

1. Aliens
2. Ice Age
3. The Mummy
4. The Mummy Returns
5. Alien

Songs:

1. "Rhythm of My Heart" (Rod Stewart)
2. "I Can See Clearly Now" (Johnny Nash OR Jimmy Cliff)
3. "We've Got Tonight" (Bob Seger)
4. "Come Sail Away" (Styx)
5. "Hotel California" (original version) (Eagles)

TV shows:

1. "Law And Order" (the original)
2. "The Sopranos"
3. "Judge Judy"
4. "American Experience" documentaries
5. "Two And A Half Men"

Books:

1. "The World According To Garp" (John Irving)
2. "And The Band Played On" (Randy Shilts)
3. "John Adams" (David McCullough)
4. "The Years of Lyndon Johnson" (Robert Caro; that's three books but who cares, shoot me)
5. "My American Journey" (Colin Powell)

I'm too out of it to list favorite albums. Do Power Music aerobics CD's count?

A-Jock

 

[dutchgirl]

My top 5's:

Top Five movies (all my answers will be in not particular order)
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Silence of the Lambs
3. While You Were Sleeping
4. Out of Africa
5. Airplane

Top Five albums
1. Purple Rain, Prince
2. Surfacing, Sarah McLaughlin
3. The Hurting, Tears for Fears
4. Some Great Reward, Depeche Mode
5. Rio, Duran Duran

Top Five songs
1. Somebody, Depeche Mode
2. I Can't Make You Love Me, Bonnie Riatt
3. Beautiful Ones, Prince
4. All Along The Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix
5. Dazed and Confused, Led Zeppelin

Top Five TV shows
1. Survivor
2. 24
3. Match Game PM
4. Frasier
5. Law and Order

Top Five Books: (ditto)
1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
2. The Firm, John Grisham
3. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
4. The Lovely Bones
5. Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie

 

[Gemini girl]

movies:
1) Tommy Boy
2) Caddyshack
3) Happy Gilmore
4) Titanic
5) Trading Places

albums/bands:
1) U2 -The Joshua Tree
2) Distrubed
3) Indigo Girls
4) Backstreet boys (I know I'm a dork...)
5) Dave Matthews Band


Songs:
1) At Last (wedding song)
2-5) I can't think of any right now, I'm drawing a blank!!!

TV shows:
1) Survivor
2) Smallville
3) Mad TV
4) anything on HGTV
5) American Idol

Top Five Books:
1) Tara Road- Meave Binchy
2) Fine Things - Danielle Steele
3) Three Weeks in Paris- forgot authors name
4) Back Roads-Tawni O'Dell
5) Lucky - Jackie Collins
5. On the Street where you live- Mary Higgins Clark (I think)

 

[Gayle]

Top Five Movies:
1. Jaws
2. This is Spinal Tap
3. The Usual Suspects
4. Das Boot
5. Blazing Saddles

Top Five Albums:
1. Phantom Power, The Tragically Hip
2. Fully Completely, The Tragically Hip
These are the only albums I’ve bought in the last 15 years, so that’s it.

Top Five Songs:
1. “Gift Shop”, The Tragically Hip
2. “She Sells Sanctuary”, The Cult
3. “Little Know it All”, Iggy Pop
4. “Born Too Slow”, The Crystal Method
5. “Buddy Holly”, Weezer

Top Five TV Shows:
1. National Geographic Explorer
2. The Apprentice
3. Mythbusters
4. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
5. Nova

Top Five Books:
1. Kitchen Confidential, Tony Bourdain
2. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabby Garcia Marquez
3. The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
4. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin
5. Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel

 

[maxwells]

Top Five movies (for today )
1. The Usual Suspects
2. Fight Club
3. Forrest Gump
4. Memento
5. Pretty Woman


Top Five TV shows
1. Scrubs (best new-ish comedy on TV)
2. Curb Your Enthusiasm
3. King of Queens
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
5. ER (love, love, love Noah Wiley)

I'm too lazy to type in the other stuff

Shonie

 

[momto2bratz]

Top Five Movies:
1. Scarface
2. The Exorcist
3. The Breakfast Club
4. There's Something About Mary
5. The Wizard Of Oz

Top Five Albums:
1. Purple Rain, Prince
2. The Wall, Pink Floyd
3. Rio, Duran Duran
4. Mixed up, The Cure
5. Bark at the moon, Ozzy (my old headbanger days)

Top Five Songs:
1. "Another Brick In The Wall", Pink Floyd
2. "Brass Monkey", Beastie Boys
3. "Everybody", Madonna
4. "Paranoid", Black Sabbath
5. "I Was Made For Loving You", Kiss

Top Five TV Shows:
1. Sex and the city
2. The Sopranos
3. Who's line is it anyway
4. Everybody loves Raymond
5. Friends

Top Five Books:
1. Guide to good enough housekeeping, Mary Ellen Pinkham
2. I know what you're thinking, Lillian Glass Ph.D.
3. Everyday Karma, Carmen Harra
4. Sybil

Aila

 

[KS]

I think I'll just concentrate on movies for now:

1.This is Spinal tap
2.Nashville
3.Life is Sweet
4.The Quiet American
5.Donnie Brasco

 

[Kathy02]

I think that for now, because it would require me getting off of my butt to go upstairs and look at our books I will stick to movies and shows. Sorry.

Movies:
1. Annie (1982 version)
2. The Rundown!
3. Moulin Rouge
4. LOR trilogy
5. Aliens

Shows:
1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Smallville
3. Charmed
4. Friends
5. American Idol

 

[Soosan]

You always start such great threads, Jillybean.

Each list is in no particular order and is also subject to change.

MOVIES: (Rarely go - theater is too far!)
1. A Room With a View
2. The Philadelphia Story
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4. Anatomy of a Murder
5. Rear Window

ALBUMS:
1. Blue, Joni Mitchell
2. Court and Spark, Joni Mitchell
3. Crosby, Stills & Nash, (eponymous)
4. American Beauty, The Grateful Dead
5. Rites of Passage, The Indigo Girls

SONGS:
1. People's Parties, Joni Mitchell
2. Kiss, Prince
3. The Love Shack, B-52's
4. Psycho Killer, Talking Heads
5. All Star, Smash Mouth

TV SHOWS: (This is gonna be tough, because we're so busy playing with and reading to the kids at night, we never get a chance to watch!)
1. Seinfeld
2. I used to watch The Real World when Puck was on it
3. I used to watch The McNeil-Lehrer Newshour
4. Sometimes I catch a bit of The Today Show
5. I've heard Sex and the City was great
(This is pathetic)

BOOKS:
1. Girl With a Pearl Earring
2. Cold Sassy Tree
3. Gone With the Wind
4. A Catcher in the Rye
5. Desiree (I read this in German so I probably missed half of it. I've yet to read it in English. I'll let you know when I do! )

 

[kandeycane]

Wow Jillybean.. someone else who likes radiohead and requiem for a dream.. we need to talk about this.. we have alot in common

top 5 movies

1. Requiem for a Dream
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Resovoir Dogs
4. Scarface
5. Gia

top 5 albums

1. Radiohead /Ok Computer
2. Radiohead /Kid A
3. Radiohead/ Amnesiac
4. Radiohead/The Bends
5. Radiohead/Hail to the thief

tv top 5

1. Soprano's
2. Six Feet Under
3. Nip/Tuck
4. Xreme makeover
5. Survivor

top 5 books

haven't read in a while.. :+

 

[EricaH]

Top 5 Movies:

1. Legends of the Fall - Love Brad Pitt and Aidan Quinn in this movie
2. Beaches
I generally hate movies - my attention span is too short

Top Five Albums

1. Prince - Purple Rain
2. Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell
3. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape of It(?) - I love this CD, but I can't remember the title!
4. Eminem - The Eminem Show
5. All Aerosmith - new and old

I have to cheat on this one because I only did 2 movies - I love Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin also!! And No Doubt, Heart, Creed, Goo Goo Dolls, Pearl Jam, U2, Mariah Carey, Bob Seger, Gloria Estefan...just about anything except country music. I'll skip the top 5 songs because I just can't pick.


Top 5 TV shows

1. The Apprentice
2. Friends
3. Real World/Road Rules Challenge
4. Seinfeld
5. All MTV reality shows

Top 5 Books

I never have time to read anymore, but I think my favorite book of all time is The Little Prince.


Erica

 

[lesliew]

Top 5 movies

1. Reds
2. Master and Commander
3. Paris is Burning
4. Stardust Memories
5. Henry and June

Books

1. Tropic of Cancer/Miller
2. Isaacs Storm/The authors name escapes me but I'll fill it in later!
3. A Drinking Life/Pete Hamill
4. The Roosevelts/McCullogh-Collier
5. Anything by Truman Capote!

Albums

1. Reverberation/Echo and the Bunnymen
2. Come Away with Me/Norah Jones
3. Blue Valentine/Tom Waits
4. Closing Time/Tom Waits
5. Boys for Pele/Tori Amos

Songs

1. Come Away with Me/Jones
2. Pressure/Queen-Bowie
3. Biko/Pete Gabriel
4. Follow/Ritchie Havens
5. Kentucky Avenue/Waits

Television

1. Don't watch TV except for news. I like Fox and MSNBC.

 

[endorphin_junkie]

Like you Jillybean, mine change daily too and these are listed in no particular order

Movies:
Being There
The Elephant Man
Jesus Christ Superstar
To Kill a Mockingbird
21 Grams (Saw it 2 weeks ago and am still chewing on it)

Albums:
Pink Floyd "The Wall"
Aimee Mann "Music from Magnolia"
Neil Young "Harvest Moon"
10,000 Maniacs "Our Time in Eden"
REM "Automatic For the People"

Songs:
"These Days" 10,000 Maniacs
"Harvest Moon" Neil Young
"Vincent" Don MacLean
"Great Gig in the Sky" Pink Floyd
"Let My Love Open the Door" Pete Townsend

TV Shows:
Survivor - (Family Cuddle on the Couch Time )
St. Elsewhere
White Shadow
Pee Wee's Playhouse
Seinfeld (1st 3 years)

Books:
"To Kill A Mockingbird" Harper Lee
"I Know This Much Is True" Wally Lamb
"A Prayer for Owen Meaney" John Irving
"Gone With the Wind" Margaret Mitchell
"The Robber Bride" Margaret Atwood

That Was Fun:7

Take Care
Laurie

 

[purplesky1120]

Top 5 Movies:

1. requiem for a dream
2. butterfly effect
3. all 3 lord of the rings
4. boondock saints
5. the life of david gayle

Top Five Albums

1. Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
2. Taproot - Gift
3. Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
4. Pearl Jam - Ten
5. Killswitch Engage - Alive of Just Breathing

Top Five Songs

1. Alice in Chains - toss up between rotten apple and nutshell
2. Led Zeppelin - whole lotta love
3. Slipknot - Surfacing
4. Radiohead - Creep
5. Tori Amos - Icicle

Top 5 TV shows

1. I Dream of Jeanie
2. Bewitched
3. Charmed
4. Buffy
5. I Love Lucy

Top 5 Books

1. My Sweet Audrina
2. anything by Stephen King... really cant choose
3. Allegra Kent.. autobiography
4. a Clockwork Orange
5. Hamlet

 

[Fembot]

MOVIES

1. Christmas Vacation
2. There's Something About Mary
3. The Other's
4. Go
5. She's Having a Baby

ALBUMS:

1. Damien Rice-O
2. Bright Eyes-Lifted
3. Dave Matthews-Crash
4. Coldplay-A Rush of Blood to the Head
5. Jet-Get Born

SONGS:

1. Damien Rice-Cheers Darlin
2. Damien Rice-Amie
3. Bright Eyes-Lover I Don't Have To Love
4. Jack Johnson-Cookie Jar
5. Phantom Planet-Big Brat

TV SHOWS:

1. Raymond
2. The Apprentice
3. The Inferno
4. The Newlyweds

BOOKS:

1. Gone With The Wind
2. Daughter of Fortune
3. Runaway Jury
4. The Red Tent
5. Can't believe I can't remember the title of my all time
favorite book-total brain fart here, but I know a year or
so ago we had the discussion of this book, the time travel
highlander book. OOOOh. Maybe that's it, Highlander. Damn
great book.

:7

 

[Cid]

I won't get 5 in every category, but here are a few favorites:

Movies:
1. Sleeping Beauty (the cartoon from the 50's or 60's)
2. All 3 of the Lord of the Rings
3. Finding Nemo
4. Raising Arizona
5. The Star Wars trilogy

Albums:
Praise and Worship, especially Passion and Hillsongs

Songs:
See above (I could never choose just 5!)

Shows:
1. Everyday Italian, 30 Minute Meals, $40 a Day, Food 911, Cooks Tour,Barefoot Contessa, etc! (Food Network)
2. HGTV, some TLC
3. History Channel
4. Monk
5. The Red Green Show

Books:
1. Bible
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
3. Gone With the Wind
4. Pride and Prejudice
5. Wuthering Heights

I'm sure after I post I think of things I should have included but forgot. Oh well! Great thread!

CinDee

 

[dani21496]

Hi Jillybean! The Giving Tree has been one of my favorite books since first grade! I love that book, I just recently bought a new copy of it.


Top Five Movies:

1. Dogfight! (I love that movie and River Phoenix! I have it on VHS)
2. Beautiful Mind
3. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
4. Passion of The Christ
5. Real Women Have Curves

Top Five Albums

1. Jars of Clay, Furthermore
2. Dido, No Angel
3. Chris Rice, Run the Earth Watch the Sky
4. Matthew West, Happy
5. Norah Jones, Feels Like Home

Top Five Songs

1. Chris Rice, Smile
2. Norah Jones, Sunrise
3. Dido, Here With Me
4. Matthew West, More
5. Mark Schultz, He's My Son

Top Five TV Shows

1. Forensic Files
2. American Idol
3. Seinfeld
4. Alias
5. CSI

Top Five Books

1. Ann Rule, And Never Let Her Go
2. Ann Rule, If You Really Loved Me
3. Left Behind, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
4. Room To Grow, Tracey Gold
5. The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein

 

[CathydsRNA]

Top 5 books in no ordrer:

1) Anything by Dennis Hamill
2) Daughter of the Forest-Juliet Marillier
3) The Mists of Avalon- Marion Zimmer Bradley
4) Seige- Helen Dunmore
5) Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky

 

[clareMc]

Movies:

American Beauty
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Usual Suspects
Monsoon Wedding
Swimming to Cambodia (Spalding Gray, R.I.P.)
Whale Rider

Books:

Keri Hulme's "The Bone People"
The Complete Short Stories of Julio Cortazar (Argentine)
The Complete short stories of Jorge Luis Borges (Argentine)
The Complete Short stories of Ana Lydia Vega (Puerto Rican)
Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth"
Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"

And I need a 7th for this category too since it matters to me more than any other:

Sophie Kinsella for the "Shopaholic" series: pure laughs and beach reads!!


Music/bands category together:

Sign o' the Times, Prince
Brazilian music by Carlinhos Brown, Marisa Monte, Gilberto Gil
The Beatles, almost anything
Pink
Anything else by Prince
Norah Jones

US TV shows from when I had cable:

MI 5
Queer Eye
SIx Feet Under
Sex in the City


Clare Edited to add Macy Gray for music because my 7 year old reminded me and disagreed with my list!

Clare