Your Five Favorite Anything

[Gary Floyd 0]

Top five Albums of the 80's

 

5.) Jesus And Mary Chain "PsychoCandy"

4.) Public Enemy"It Takes a Nation..."

3.) Depeche Mode "Music For the Masses"

2.) Kraftwerk "Computer World"

1.) Cabaret Voltaire "The Crackdown"

 

Honerable mentions:Ministry "The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste", My Bloody Valentine "Isn't Anything", Coil "Scatology", Cabaret Voltaire "Microphonies" and "2x45", Butthole Surfers "Locust Abortion Clinic", Depeche Mode "Black Celebration", Current 93 "Dogs Blood Rising" and "Swastikas for Noddy", New Order "Technique" and "Substance"

[5_moves_of_doom 0]

OK. Top Five Guitarists. No order.

 

1. Robert Fripp

2. Frank Zappa

3. Adrian Belew

4. Prince

5. Larry LaLonde

 

 

No order, of course. Tom Verlaine might go in there too, as he's really fucking good, but for some reason NEVER put on this type of list, perhaps because he didn't really have a "virtuoso guitarist" role in Television. Just says something about what a cohesive unit the band was.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Check out a guy named Fareed Haque, but beware he's done a lot of really noodly jam stuff. Judging by your top three picks, I'd wager he'd replace Ler.

 

I was fortunate enough to see him perform on the campus of Northwestern U in Chicago. I shat copiously with jaw agape.

[Nighthawk 0]

Alan Holdsworth

[Carnival 0]

Top Five Rappers of All Time

 

1. Eminem

2. 2 Pac

3. Biggie

4. Scarface

5. Ice Cube

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

As for 80s albums in no order...

 

1. Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse

2. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

3. The Pixies - Surfer Rosa

4. XTC - English Settlement

5. The Residents - The Commerical Album

 

That's very tentative and fairly lazy. But at least 3 of those are certainly not going anywhere.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Five Favorite Zappa Collaborators

 

1. Ian Underwood

2. Terry Bozzio

3. Ruth Underwood

4. Ike Willis

5. Jean-Luc Ponty

[Guest Neuro]

Favorite 80's Albums (I'm a poser..)

 

1. Repo Man Soundtrack

2. X- Wild Gift

3. Public Enemy- Fear Of A Black Planet

4. Bad Brains- Bad Brains

5. Cramps- Songs The Lord Taught Us

[Jorge Gorgeous 0]

Top Five Rappers of All Time

 

1. Eminem

2. 2 Pac

3. Biggie

4. Scarface

5. Ice Cube

Now... I'm not some Hip Hop elitist, but there is NO WAY Eminem is the greatest rapper of all-time. I don't think Eminem even thinks of himself as the greatest ever.

 

For my money, as far as mainstream MCs go

1.Biggie

2. Jay-Z

3. 2 Pac

4. Nas

5. Here you could put either Ice Cube or Eminem

[Carnival 0]

well i am a hip-hop elitist and there is NO WAY eminem is not the greatest of all time. I could suggest some verses or songs that may convince you. He's not my favorite rapper or anything, but top 5 rappers will always be opinion based on skills.

 

please include underground mc's in your list as well. I would have but none of them are top 5 of all time for me.

 

Top 5 "underground" MC's

 

1. Tech N9ne

2. Phaoroh Monch(sp?)

3. Canibus

4. Kurupt

5. Esham

[Nighthawk 0]

Your opinions blow, dude.

[Carnival 0]

Your opinions blow, dude.

ya you're cool, idiot

[moral suasion 0]

Top 5 Punk O Rama comps:

 

Punk O Rama III

Punk O Rama V

Punk O Rama II

Punk O Rama VI

Punk O Rama I

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

Five Favorite Zappa Collaborators

 

1. Ian Underwood

2. Terry Bozzio

3. Ruth Underwood

4. Ike Willis

5. Jean-Luc Ponty

Saw Bozzio do a drum expo clinic thing a few years back. Fuck.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

1. George Duke

2. Terry Bozzio

3. Bruce Fowler

4. Napoleon Murphy Brock

5. Chester Thompson

[The Czech Republic 0]

SHIT how can I forget George Duke. He's up there too but I really love Jean-Luc Ponty & Sugar Cane Harris on violins.

[Nighthawk 0]

Your opinions blow, dude.

ya you're cool, idiot

Well, it's like you got your top 5 out of Vibe magazine, there's no surprise at all. I like you cause you can take jabs at your ICP fandom in good humor, but to not even acknowledge that Eminem might not be the greatest MC? Please. Jewwy's list wasn't much better. I'd do mine, but I've been listening to rock lately so I'm not in the right mindset. Maybe later.

[Carnival 0]

Your opinions blow, dude.

ya you're cool, idiot

Well, it's like you got your top 5 out of Vibe magazine, there's no surprise at all. I like you cause you can take jabs at your ICP fandom in good humor, but to not even acknowledge that Eminem might not be the greatest MC? Please. Jewwy's list wasn't much better. I'd do mine, but I've been listening to rock lately so I'm not in the right mindset. Maybe later.

well i'm sorry i didn't take that in good humor.

 

Anyways i'd like to see your list.

 

Just because these rappers are mainstream doesn't mean they aren't great. As the list goes on i'm sure it would include some more underground rappers. They were exposed to the mainstream for a reason, cuz they are that good.

 

I stick by the Eminem choice 100%.

[Nighthawk 0]

On a purely subjective basis:

 

1) Shock G

2) Kool Keith

3) Del

4) Trick Daddy

5) Tech N9ne

 

That's just what I like... as far as objective... well... let me think on it.

[Carnival 0]

In terms of favorites I'd go with.

 

1. Monoxide (Twiztid)

2. Violent J (ICP)

3. Tech N9ne

4. Eminem

5. Slug (Atmosphere)

 

6. Esham

7. Jamie Madrox (Twiztid)

8. DMX

9. Cage

10. Prozak (Bedlam & Project Deadman)

[Guest Neuro]

Ever listen to hip-hop older than five years? :-\

 

Favorite Rappers;

 

1. Rakim

2. Chuck D

3. Q-Tip

4. Snoop

5. KRS-One

[Carnival 0]

Ever listen to hip-hop older than five years? :-\

ICP = 12 years

Twiztid = 10 years

Tech N9ne = 12 years

Eminem = about 8 years

DMX = 19 years(he claims)

Esham = 15 years

 

thats more than five last time i checked.

 

As far as rappers who were hot back then.

 

1. LL Cool J

2. Rakim

3. KRS-One

4. Eric B

5. Kwame(just for fun)

[Hank Kingsley 0]

Five Artists I Want To Fuck Edition

1.) Skye Sweetnam

2.) Avril Lavigne

3.) Christy Carlson Romano

4.) Jennifer Lopez

5.) Shirley Manson

This is the best.

 

 

Anyway, songs of the moment:

 

1. The Velvet Underground - "Sweet Jane"

2. Bob Dylan - "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts"

3. Cream - "Tales of Brave Ulysses"

4. The Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter"

5. Interpol - "Not Even Jail"

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Top Five Rappers of All Time

 

1. Eminem

2. 2 Pac

3. Biggie

4. Scarface

5. Ice Cube

Now... I'm not some Hip Hop elitist, but there is NO WAY Eminem is the greatest rapper of all-time. I don't think Eminem even thinks of himself as the greatest ever.

 

For my money, as far as mainstream MCs go

1.Biggie

2. Jay-Z

3. 2 Pac

4. Nas

5. Here you could put either Ice Cube or Eminem

I'm no hip hop elitist either, but I don't think Eminem comes close to Top Five. I also don't like your rating of Jay Z being so high, especially higher than Nas, but c'est la vie.

 

Like IDRM, I haven't really been listening to hip hop much lately, so I can't really make a list now, but I would have to include some non mainstream guys, since I don't really listen to much mainstream rap.

[Carnival 0]

I don't like Jay-Z much at all. but i'd give him a top 10 nod. and yes ahead of nas.

[Nighthawk 0]

You know, I always liked Heavy D as a vocalist, but he was too r & bish for me to ever really get into him. Too bad.

 

Favorite rap albums of the 80s:

 

1. Nation of Millions

2. Criminal Minded

3. Great Adventures of Slick Rick

4. The Iceberg

5. He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper

[Carnival 0]

5. He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper

seriously good stuff though.

[C Dubya 04 0]

Hmmm. I'm going to go with my top five guitarists of all time. But I couldn't decide order.

 

Alan Holdsworth

Al DiMeola

Duane Allman

John McGlaughlin

Stanley Jordan

 

(Alright, I know that Jordan doesn't belong in the top five, but I've been on a big kick listening to him lately, and the stuff he does is pretty much mind blowing)

[Nighthawk 0]

Nice list, but you spelled McLaughlin wrong. I know, because this is also my name. Props for knowing who Alan Holdsworth is though. Jazz on.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I don't know about that DiMeola. I bought an album of his, and it's waaaaay too contemporary caribbean kinda stuff. Like all the things I don't like about Jaco Pastorius, only on a guitar.