As I said, style over substance. I think all 3 of those guys can play the shit out of the guitar, but their songwriting sucks dirty ass.

It's sad this thread has faded away. BUT NOW IT'S BACK! (i hope).

Let's hear your top 5 most insulting non-rap songs!
Here's Mine:
1) Weird Al Yankovic: One More Minute
2) Bob Dylan: Idiot Wind
3) Bob Dylan: Postively 4th St.
4) Anthrax: Caught in a Mosh
5) Phish: Weigh

Dope::Bitch
Weird Al Yankovic::One More Minute
Rammstein::Amerika
Bloodhound Gang::Why is everybody always picking on me?
Dennis Leary:Asshole

(wow, that wasn't an easy topic. I don't even know if all of those quite fit...)

Hmm, I might have gone with Bloodhound Gang - I Hope you Die. So far as I can tell, anything by Dope is going to sound right (whether or not it is is another question, but the title suggests it does.) Asshole is self-deprecating, but fits more or less. Rammstein? Ahh Rammstein. Sie hassen euch. However, a song by a German band about America in the 20th century is probably pretty invective laden and contemptuous.

Good show, Hawkeye!

I'm not sure I'll hit five, but let's see.

Bloodhound Gang - A Lapdance is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying
Bloodhound Gang - Three Point One Four
Anal Cunt - You Were Too Ugly to Rape, So I Just Beat the Shit Out of You (though I guess almost all of their songs would fall into this category)
Iced Earth - Violate (the lyrics have always really disturbed me for some reason)

Yeah...I got nothing. Delicious failure.

I think the Anal Cunt one can count for two in this context.

That first Bloodhound gang one is one of the more disturbing songs I've heard. Right up there with "It puts the lotion on its skin."

(Nice Flogging Molly reference in your title.)

OK, how about Top 5 debut albums of all time?
Mine would be:

1) Jimi Hendix Experience/Are You Experienced?
2) Led Zeppelin/Led Zeppelin
3) Van Halen/Van Halen
4) Guns 'N Roses/Appetite For Destruction
5) Stevie Ray Vaughan/Texas Flood

That should've been my last song.

Q Lazzarus-Goodbye Horses (It's the song playing in Silence of the Lambs when Buffalo Bill gets dressed up and does the tuck)

1 Flaming Lips - Fight Test
2 The Pixies - Debaser
3. Bob Dylan - Like a rolling stone
4. Franz Ferdinand - Jacqueline
5. REM - What's the Frequency, Kenneth

my all aussie top 5 (in no order)

grinspoon - guide to better living
the living end - the living end
silverchair - frog stomp
after the fall - after the fall
gyroschope - sound shattering sound

Well, then, it's been a week. Let's move on to a new topic, shall we? (Feel free to suggest topics as you put your lists up.)

Top 5 Combustion related songs:

1) The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire ("I am the god of hell fire, and I bring you... Fire?")
2) Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
3) Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
4) David Bowie - Cat people (Putting out Fire)
5) The Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn

Honorable Mentions: Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' for You (that one hurt to cut), Brian Eno - Burning Airlines Give You So Much More (for the title alone)

1) Steve Vai - Fire Garden Suite
2) Yngwie Malmsteen - Fire & Ice
3) Racer X - Fire of Rock
4) Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn
5) Steve Vai - Burning Rain

That was a hard one. Hitting J in Winamp helped a lot ;)

That looks like an excellent list. I am definitely going to have to check out Jason Becker and Racer X, because if they can keep company with Stevie Vai, they are OK in my book.

Talking Heads::Burning Down the House
Johnny Cash::Ring of Fire
Deep Purple::Smoke on the Water
Metallica::Fight Fire with Fire
Dokken::Into the Fire

BUMP.

How about top 5 instrumentals by bands with vocalists.

My five, not an all-time list by any means, just off the top of my head, and of the moment.

1) Dream Theater - Erotomania
2) Dream Theater - Moonbubbles (rare live-only track)
3) Metallica - To Live is to Die
4) Lemur Voice - Akasha Chronicles
5) Racer X - Catapult to Extinction

I've always thought Dream Theater are stronger instrumentally than they are with song-writing, at least in their later stuff. Their earlier songwriting stuff was far stronger, especially on Awake. Definitely my favourite of their albums. I have my suspicions that Kevin Moore could be something to do with the stronger songwriting.

Moonbubbles is more of a jam than an instrumental, with Petrucci soloing; I've always had a soft spot for the phrasing in that track.

And to keep it moving, top 5 guitar solos (that is guitar solo sections, as opposed to guitar instrumental songs).

Once again, off the top of my head, of the moment.

1) Brett Garsed's solo in Garsed & Helmerich's Loch Rannoch
2) John Petrucci's second solo in Dream Theater's Lie
3) Christophe Flandres' solo in his rather obscure instructional CD-ROM
4) Mattias IA Eklundh's solo in his own Our Man in Beijing
5) Paul Gilbert's solo in Racer X's Poison Eyes

I've purposely left Steve Vai out otherwise I fear he'd dominate the entire list.

If anyone can tell me more about this Christophe Flandres guy (I don't even know if I spelled the name right), I'd appreciate it. I got the CD-ROM about 10 years ago when I first started playing. Didn't really learn much from it, but that solo was fantastic.

There's so many I've momentarily forgotten here it's not even funny. I could do a top 1000 of these.

edit: I can't believe I forgot Jeff Kollman's solo in his own A Thousand Faces. It's been one of my all time faves for years. It has about 4 sections and is as hard to play as it is pleasurable to listen to. A true tour de force.

1. Jethro Tull - Bouree
2. Led Zeppelin - Bron yr aur
3. Iron Maiden - Losfer Words
4. Rush - La Villa Strangiata
5. King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic (parts 1, 2, and 3)

I am down with the Dream Theatre, though. Good Stuff. More impressive without the singing.