HIGH FIVES
"High five, more dead than alive" sang Beck on his smash hit "High Five". And that has nothing to do with this page. Instead this page is to do with lists. And lots of them. A while ago someone recommended I put some lists on my site of best gutarists, etc. and I have finally got around to doing them. The thing is, being a modest man, I don't believe I have the sufficient experience and depth of knowledge required to list the objectively best albums, guitarists and what-have-you so instead, the lists on this page are of a more subjective and ultimately flippant nature. Most, if not all, are utterly useless. It is, in fact, my post-modern take on the anally-retentive world of listing things. But then, I probably shouldn't have said it was a joke as by doing so I've somewhat nullified my original gesture. Where's Matthew Collings when you need him?
Last Updated: 20.05.03
Top 5: Rock stars I'd like to have a pint with:
Top 5: Fat men in music:
Top 5: Guitarists whose first name begins with "J":
Top 5: Songs with "rock 'n' roll" in the title:
Top 5: Rock Stars who should be dead by now:
Top 5: Songs with bell effects in them:
Top 5: Albums that are too looooooooong:
Top 5: Lists on this page:
Top 5: Songs that make me cry:
Top 5: New York punk songs:
Top 5: Albums that sort the men from the boys:
Top 5: Rock Stars who shouldn't be dead by now:
Top 5: Shit songs by great artists:
Top 5: Moments in punk songs:
Top 5: Coolest non-rock stars:
From: Ed Bradshaw
RE: the Feeny CD archive top five fat people - Since when has John Coltrane been fat? How fat do you think he is - ROBBIE Coltrane yes, but not his adopted half brother. He was a heroin addict - look at Hughes, he's not fat.
From: PhiloPoet0@aol.com
First off, great job...I like your taste in music also... now to get to the meat...on your lists page...
Top 5: Rock Stars who should be dead by now:
Iggy has to be on there... [True - JF] Syd Barrett: more from suicide watch or just plain going off the deep end. Bowie perhaps.
Top 5: Albums that sort the men from the boys:
And as for Piper at the Gates of Dawn. I love it, probably my favorite from them...more paranoid and insane than Dark Side of the Moon, though I love it as well...
Top 5: Rock stars I'd like to have a pint with:
Top 5: New York punk songs (in no order):
[Surely "Blank Generation" has to be on the list?]
Matt
From: Nicholas Spicer
Top 5: Rock(?) stars I'd like to have a pint with:
From: anlormarechal@wanadoo.fr
In the Top 5 of guitarists whose first name begins with "J", you've forgotten Johnny Winter. Or maybe you'd put him as n°6 or 7 ? (I don't know the 3 Johnnys you've selected but I know Johnny Winter is a great blues guitarist)
From: Andy Phillips
Songs with bell effects in them: They Might Be Giants
"The Bells" from Factory Showroom
Lou Reed "Crazy Feeling" -Sweet Lou is sooooo smooth on this one.
As far as having a pint: 1. forget Mick, I'd like to belly up with Keith
2. Alex Chilton (I want to see if he is as pissed off as I imagine him to be)
Any of the Robert Fripp/Andy Summers albums (I Advanced Masked
and Bewitched) are pretty tough to take. Back when I really loved the
Police I thought I really should like anything with Andy Summers and I tried to
like these two, but...
From: anlormarechal@wanadoo.fr
Top 5 Rock stars I'd like to have a pint with:
Why not Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead's singer and bassist - well not really
bassist 'cause he plays chords on his bass !) I'd rather meet Keith Richards than Mick
Jagger. Problem is, I'd be afraid of getting a drug addiction just standing next to
one of these two guys...
Guitarists whose first name begins with "J":
John McLaughlin (but Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page have to be n°1 and 2)
Rock Stars who should be dead by now:
Lemmy (he smokes a lot, drinks even more, is so addicted to speed that his doctor said
"you'd die if you stopped having amphetamines!", in a word he's worse than
Keith Richards, and he's still alive and strutting at 57 !)
Songs with bell effects in them:
I'm surprised you didn't mention "Hells Bells" (AC/DC's best
song ever), but I agree with "For Whom the Bell Tolls" as n°1.
Songs that make me cry:
Of course no one out of France know this one, but "P'tite
Conne" by Renaud (a French singer-songwriter) is the only song I've ever heard
that almost brought me to tears.
Albums that sort the men from the boys:
Everything Louder Than Everyone Else by Motörhead (try to listen to it at peak
volume - I put 8 out of 40 and the floor was already shaking !)
Shit songs by great artists:
I'd put "Wearing and Tearing" (Led Zeppelin) instead of
"Candy Store Rock". I don't know the other songs you mentionned, but
"Because" by the Beatles is really, really bad (makes me cringe each time
I listen to the album)
From: John Chew
Songs that make me cry:
i know no one has heard of it but the eels daisies of the galaxy.
i swear i'm in the middle of the page and the song is in the background, and
something just happen and I tear up, creepy as hell.
From: Nathan
Top 5 Songs With Bell Effects in Them:
Surely the single version of "Honky Tonk Woman" has to
be on here. It's got a cow bell!!!
From: Simon Brigham
Top 5 Songs With Bell Effects in Them:
I think "Tubular Bells, Part One" by Mike Oldfield would be
worthy.
Top 5 Rock stars I'd like to have a pint with:
From: mike noto
regarding stars who should be dead by now:
at number 5: Lou Reed or Iggy Pop. Wouldn't you say either qualify?
Email me at: jackfeeny@yahoo.co.uk