The "High Fidelity" Thread
 

In the movie "High Fidelity", the guys in the record store pass the time by making top 5 lists. I think we should do the same here.

The way it will work is that someone will propose a Top 5 ______ and people will chime in. Once a week we'll change the topic.

So, I'll start, and I'll steal an idea from the movie.

Top 5 "Track 1's" List your top 5 songs that are the first track on their respective albums. Greatest Hits compilations and soundtracks don't count.

1. Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
2. Pantera - "Mouth for War"
3. nine inch nails - "Mr Self Destruct"
4. Thursday - "For the Workforce, Drowning"
5. Rush - "Dreamline"

Metallica from The Black Album - Enter Sandman
The Doors from "The Doors" - Break On Through
Nirvana from Nevemind - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Pink Floyd from Meddle - One Of These Days
Black Sabbath from Paranoid - War Pigs

If I really think about it, maybe I could come up with something else, but this is pretty good.

BTW, great thread Derwood!

The Clash: London Calling
Sonic Youth: Teenage Riot
David Bowie: Station to Station
R.E.M.: Radio Free Europe
James Brown: Get on the Good Foot, Pts. 1 & 2

Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
-Tangled Up in Blue
-Hurricane
-Jokerman
-The Times They Are A-Changin'

I could go on and on but it's only a top five list...

Guns 'N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Aerosmith - Back in the Saddle
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

1.) red hot chili peppers - around the world
2.) the clash - london calling
3.) the doors - roadhouse blues
4.) jane's additcion - stop
5.) led zepellin - the song remains the same

1 Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
2 Metallica - Enter Sandman
3 Rage Against The Machine - People Of The Sun
4 Nirvana - Serve The Servants
5 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze

this is a gooood thread/idea but i can't think of anything :(
(of course now i will force myself to think of some)

1. smashing pumpkins from siamese dream - cherub rock
2. tool from aenima - stinkfest
3. beatles from abbey road - come together
4. tori amos from little earthquakes - crucify
5. bryan adams from so far so good - summer of '69

Oh man, only 5? :(

1. The Who from Who's Next - Baba O'Riley
2. Stevie Wonder from Songs In The Key Of Life - Love's In Need Of Love Today
3. Elvis Costello from All This Useless Beauty - The Other End of the Telescope
4. Elton John from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
5. Queen from A Day At The Races - Tie Your Mother Down

Great thread. I look forward to participating next week!

1- Placebo - Come Home (Placebo)
2- Massive Attack - Angel (Mezzanine)
3- The Flaming Lips - Battle 1 (Yoshimi Vs. the Pink Robots)
4- Nick Drake - Pink Moon (his last album, I forget the name)
5- The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (White Elephant)

1- The Strokes - Is This it? - Is This it?
2- The Strokes - Whatever Happaned - Room on Fire
3- Hot Hot Heat - Le Le Low - Knock Knock Knock (EP)
4- Finch - What It Is To Burn - What It Is To Burn
5- Elefant - Make Up - Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid

wow this is a really good thread, many kudos to you derwood, now on to the thinking.

1) Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (untitled, or IV, whatever)
2) Miles Davis - So What (Kind of Blue)
3) Rx Bandits - What If (Halfway Between Here and There)
4) The Clash - London Calling (London Calling)
5) Metallica - Battery (Master of Puppets)

Hate to be a dick numberfive, but what it is to burn is actually the last track off of that album, first track is new beginnings. ill shut up now :P

Very cool idea, I'll try a few

5) Flaming Lips - Fight Test
4) The Pixies - Debaser
3) Radiohead - Airbag
2) Pearl Jam - Breakerfall
1) Alice in Chains - Them Bones

Ah, I just got the tracklist off their site and assumed it was correct :\

(Thats the only Album I don't own on the list.)

great idea.

1. Evanescence - Going Under (Fallen)
2. AC/DC - Back In Black (Back in Black)
3. Tool - stinkfist (Aenima)
4. Metallica - Enter Sandman (Black Album)
5. What Up Ganksta - 50 Cent (Get Rich Or Die Tryin')

Killswitch Engage - Numbered Days
Gun n' Roses - Civil War
Stone Temple Pilots - Dead and Bloated
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
Alice in Chains - Them Bones

Frank Zappa- Willie the Pimp
White Zombie- Welcome to Planet MotherFucker
Johnny Taylor-Disco Lady
Primus-To Defy the Laws of Tradition
Led Zeppelin-The Song Remains the Same

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nevermind)
Metallica - Enter Sandman (Black)
NIN - Mr Self Destruct
Rage Against The Machine - People Of The Sun (Evil Empire)
Sublime - Waiting for my Ruca (40oz. To Freedom)

1. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (LZ 2)
2. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (SPLHCB)
3. Over the Rhine - Latter Days (Good Dog Bad Dog)
4. Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm (Hard Rain)
5.David Gray - Please Forgive Me (White Ladder)

great flic, great thread!

Well, it's my thread, so I might as well try to make my own list:

In on particular order:

- Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) -technically one track on the CD
- Metallica - Battery
- Reverend Horton Heat - Big Sky
- Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
- Johnny Cash - When the Man Comes Around

ok umm here is the list at the moment

if i could make it a top 10 i would put some other beauties on here... or i can make anohter post....

but here they are in no particular order


the used - self titled : maybe memories

guns and roses - use your illusion 2 : civil war

silverchair - neon ballroom : emotion sickness

the doors - self titled : break on through (to the other side)

alice in chains - face lift : we die young

Great thread idea.... no particular order on my list.

Band - Song (Album)

Glassjaw - Tip Your Bartender (Worship and Tribute)
Glassjaw - Pretty Lush (Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About Silence)
Lostprophets - Shinobi Vs. Dragon Ninja (The Fake Sound of Progress)
At the Drive-In - Arcarsenal (Relationship of Command)
Bad Brains - Sailin' On (Bad Brains)

1. Tool - Stinkfist from Aenema
2. Pantera - Stronger than All from Far Beyond Driven
3. Godsmack - Moonbaby from self titled
4. 311 - Homebrew from Grassroots
5. (sic) - Slipknot from self titled

OK, new week, new category:

Top 5 Cover Songs

ooo good one....ummm here is the best 5 covers that i can think of at the moment anyway, in no particular order


guns and roses - knocking on heavens door (original by bob dylan)

grinspoon - dont change (original by inxs)

jimi hendrix - all along the watch tower (original by bob dylan)

the ataris - boys of summer (original by don henley {i know some people will shoot me for that one, but i think the cover is a good song too})

ok this one is a bit weird
i was pretty sure that bob dylan sang the original (i have since found out that he has covered it too) but i couldnt remember if pink floyd covered it or they just played it live (i got the mp3 on the computer)... but anyway

pink floyd - house of the rising sun (not sure who did the original but here is the web site anyway http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ho...the_Rising_Sun) i have also heard versions by the animals and bob dylan and they both kick ass aswell

I like this category

The Tea Party - Paint It Black (Rolling Stones)
The Ramones - Street Fighting Man (Stones) Can't remember if it's live or a cover
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Blind Melon - Out On The Tiles (Led Zepplin)

I'll chime in early here:

Cake - I Will Survive (orig. Gloria Gaynor)
Foo Fighters - Baker Street (orig. Jerry Rafferty)
Metallica - Turn the Page (orig. Bob Seger)
Fountains of Wayne - Baby...One More Time (orig. Britney Spears)
Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide (orig. Fleetwood Mac)

1. The Who - Young Man Blues (originally by Mose Allison)
2. Indigo Girls - Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits)
3. Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
4. Moxy Fruvous - Jockey Full Of Bourbon (Tom Waits)
5. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix)

1- The Ramones, "The Bird Is The Word" (The Trashmen)
2- Cat Power, "Satisfaction (I Can't Get No)" (The Rolling Stones)
3- Low, "Blue Eyed Devil" (Soul Coughing)
4- Johnny Cash, "Hurt" (Nine Inch Nails)
5- Chuck Jones as Porky Pig, "Blue Christmas" (Elvis Presley)

Oh, and high_way, consider yourself shot.

Joe Cocker "With a Little Help from my Friends" (The Beatles)

Sinead O'Connor "Nothing Compares 2 U" (Prince)

Santana "Oye Como Va" (Tito Puente)

David Bowie "Let's Spend the Night Together (Rolling Stones)

The Gourds "Gin and Juice" (Snoop Dogg)

Also anything by William Shatner ("Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "Rocketman," "Mr. Tambourine Man," etc.)

Snapcase - I (Bad Brains)
Snapcase - Freedom of Choice (Devo)
Deftones - Say it Ain't So (Weezer)
Gary Jules - Mad World (Tears for Fears)
The Independents - 'C' is for Cookie (Cookie Monster)

Guns n' Roses - Live and Let Die
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing
Stone Temple Pilots - Dancin' Days
System of a Down - Metro
Dream Theater - Zep Medley(The Rover, Achilles Last Stand, The Song Remains the Same)

top five covers. . .

Led Zeppelin - In My Time of Dying
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Stone Temple Pilots - Dancin' Days
Rolling Stones - Like a Rolling Stone
Aerosmith - Come Together

Here's a redneck list for ya...

Eric Heatherly - Flowers on the Wall
Alan Jackson - Summertime Blues
Brad Paisley - Sharp Dressed Man
Willie Nelson - Blue Skies
Alan Jackson - Pop a Top

isnt "what it is to burn" track 13

dont really listen to cover songs but let me think of five i have heard :)

1) Suicide Machines - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
2) Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing
3) Led Zeppelin - In My Time Of Dying
4) Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
5) Metallica - Turn The Page

1.) red hot chili peppers - what is soul? (parliament funkadelic)
2.) blink 182 - the girl next door (screachinhg weasel)
3.) johnny cash - hurt (NIN)
4.) finch - stars (hum)
5.) nofx - olympia wa. (rancid)

i already brought it up ... no need to patronize the guy :P

Top Five Covers:

Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks (Memphis Minnie)
The Amboy Dukes - Baby Please Don't Go (Big Bill Broonzy)
Eric Clapton - Crossroads (Robert Johnson)
Nirvana - Black Girl (Ledbelly)
The Doors - I'm A King Bee (Muddy Waters)