5 of your favourite movies and albums?

[AfterMovieDiner]

In an effort to get to know all you cats here at HPOTD better, I just wandered if you'd throw down a little info about yourself and your favourite stuff. These don't have to be a top 5 in any order, just 5 things you're really digging on right now.

For Example:
I am a podcaster and blogger from England who currently lives in New York. I also write and record musical albums and compose soundtracks for an independent film company based in the UK.

5 of my fav movies are:
Evil Dead 2
GAR's Day of the Dead
Taxi Driver
Anchorman
The 'Burbs

albums:
Mule Variations - Tom Waits
Travelling Wilbury's Vol.1
American VI: Ain't No Grave - Johnny Cash
The Grand Bounce - Gordon Downie
Into The Wild - Eddie Vedder

Can't wait to hear your stuff! :D

[MikePizzoff]

Man, I always have inner conflict when it comes to producing top-5 lists! But, I'll give it a shot...

Top 5 Movies
-Dawn Of The Dead '78 (number one favorite movie for nearly 20 years now)
-Back To The Future II
-Better Off Dead
-The Lost Boys
-Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Top 5 Albums
-Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
-Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
-Terror - One With The Underdogs
-Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
-Agent Orange - Living In Darkness

[AfterMovieDiner]

Man, I always have inner conflict when it comes to producing top-5 lists! But, I'll give it a shot...

Thanks for the list man, big fan of Dawn of the Dead and Back to the Future 2. These don't have to be top 5 lists though, just 5 things you like at the moment.
I don't do top five ranked lists either, I can barely manage a top 5 I am happy with out of each genre...

I can honestly say I have never heard of or listened to any of those albums though... what a sheltered life I must lead! :)

Still, thanks again sir, good way to get the ball rolling!

[Danny]

-films
>the big lebowski
>waking life
>clerks
>perfect blue
>american psycho

albums
>daft punk: discovery
>the protomen: act 2 the father of death
>the aquabats: charge!!
>smashing pumpkins: mellon collie and the infinite sadness
>kupek: namless, faceless corporation


its weird, i can name my favourite albums with ease, but movies? thats a toughie. im sure theres one or two i love more than those i just cant recall right now. except the big lebowski, hands down my favourite film of all time.

[AfterMovieDiner]

-films
>the big lebowski
>waking life
>clerks
>perfect blue
>american psycho

albums
>daft punk: discovery
>the protomen: act 2 the father of death
>the aquabats: charge!!
>smashing pumpkins: mellon collie and the infinite sadness
>kupek: namless, faceless corporation


I love The Big Lebowski too it would definitely be in my top 10 comedy movies which would put it in running for one of the funniest films, world wide... :D
Clerks is also brilliant

Again I haven't heard or heard of any of those albums. My music taste is so limited to folk, rock, blues, jazz etc. where as my big movie collection covers all genres, all subjects and all styles...

liking these lists!

[blind2d]

5 Movies:

Day of the Dead (original)
Dawn of the Dead (original)
Jackie Chan's First Strike
Destroying America
Tokyo Gore Police

5 Albums:
Demon Days - Gorillaz
Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Independent Worm Saloon - Butthole Surfers
Substance - Joy Division

[acealive1]

5 of my favorite movies


the crow
flash gordon
dawn of the dead (original)
critters
big trouble in little china


favorite albums


kiss - creatures of the night (original version)
eminem - the slim shady LP
D12 - devil's night
starship - knee deep in the hoopla
busta rhymes - anarchy

[Philly_SWAT]

Five movies that I would definitely recommend to all would be...
1. Dawn of the Dead
2. Triangle
3. Memento
4. Groundhog Day
5. Hmmm...couldnt come up with a firm number five, but definitely those 4.

Some near perfect albums...
1. AC/DC - Back in Black
2. Van Halen - 1984
3. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
4. The Oak Ridge Boys - Have Arrived
5. Again, too hard to determine

[krisvds]

Film:
Seven Samurai
For a few dollars more
Suspiria
Princess Mononoke
The wages of Fear

Music:
Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique
Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral
Arcade Fire: The Suburbs
Frank Zappa: Overnite Sensation
John Frusciante: Niandra Lades and usually just a t-shirt.

[rongravy]

So hard to do here.
As far as albums, they'd have to be cds I put together of my few faves.
There'd be a self made, extra longplay cd of my fave Duran songs, Billy Idol, Depeche Mode, The Cure, and Adam Ant.

Movies? Hard as well.
Baseketball, Rocketman, Pineapple Express, Your Highness, and... uhhhh...
Torn between Pee Wee and BTTF. Amazing there's no horror in there. I'm in Dallas right now, and don't have access to my collection for perusal. Beetlejuice perhaps?

[bassman]

This is next to impossible for me. With the exception of Ghostbusters being my favorite movie, both lists change from time to time. I'll try one for the time being...

Movies
1. Ghostbusters
2. Day of the Dead
3. Dawn of the Dead
4. Both Nolan Batman movies
5. Planet of the Apes series

Albums(again....these are just what i've been listening to lately. Not all-time)
1. Sublime With Rome - Yours Truly
2. 311 - Universal Pulse
3. Silverchair - Diorama
4. Oingo Boingo - Farewell Concert
5. Sevendust - Home

[AfterMovieDiner]

These are all such interesting and brilliant lists. Such a wide range of music particularly and some great films. My 5 would change daily definitely and I could never create a definite order but
what's nice is how these lists represent a little snap shot of who we all are.

[Danny]

Movies
1. Ghostbusters

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y91/khazrak/1313955803361.jpg

[Andy]

Ive never really bought albums if im honest, i used to buy singles when i was a kid and i guess im the kind of age now where when i was a teenager i had my mp3 player and kazaa was at its peak :p

My top 5 movies now, in reverse order.

5. Day of the Dead (1985 original)
4. Last house on the left (Original)
3. Halloween (Original although if i did a top 10 the remake would probably be there)
2. The Terminator (The first and original terminator movie)


And


1. Night of the Living Dead (1968 black and white glorious original)


:D

[ProfessorChaos]

yeah, these sort of things are tough for me, as well. here it goes:

films (excluding romero's big three):
taxi driver
american psycho
boogie nights
the thing (carpenter version)
full metal jacket

albums:
dark side of the moon - pink floyd
12 hits from hell -the misfits
mechanical animals - marilyn manson
fashion nugget - cake
l.a. woman - the doors

[bassman]

fashion nugget - cake


:thumbsup:

Nice to see another Cake fan on HPotD. That album was my life in the mid nineties.

[ProfessorChaos]

my gf is not a fan. anytime we are hanging out and a song by them comes on, she complains about "talk-singing", complaining that the vocals ruin the music.

[blind2d]

My dad's getting into Cake now. Personally I prefer Beck. *shrugs*

[AfterMovieDiner]

Cake or Beck or both... actually it's all good... used to listen to both at the tale end of Uni and while working in a bar in the early 2000s

[bassman]

Funny you guys mention beck. He's my wife's favorite. Some of it I can dig, but some of it not so much. The more electronic sounding stuff isn't my cup of tea.

I'm not a big fan of her favorite(Beck) and she's not a big fan of mine(311), but we both love Cake. Weird.

[MikePizzoff]

12 hits from hell -the misfits


Right on. Dunno if I've said this to you before but, one of my bands is a punk tribute band, primarily focusing on Discharge and The Misfits. MISCHARGE.

[clanglee]

Movies:
Day of the Dead
Aliens
Princess Bride
Road to Perdition
American Beauty

Albums:
Pixies-Surfer Rosa
PJ Harvey-Dry
Throwing Muses-Limbo
Pixies-Doolittle
Soul Coughing-Ruby Vroom


not all time favorites, just what comes to mind right now

[shootemindehead]

It's not an easy thing to do, but...


Day of the Dead (1985...obviously)
Jaws
Das Boot
The Thing
Get Carter (1971...again obviously)



Slayer - Reign in Blood
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Cro-Mags - Age of Quarrel
Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea


Um...a more incomplete list there has never been.

[Danny]

i just found one of my favourite bands, the protomen, did a perfect example of their work. a "pro beard ballad" for movemeber about a rock operaesque love of facial hair :lol:

tHyGakg3Ts0

[AfterMovieDiner]

If you like beard related rock, you should check out as much of The Beards from Australia that is humanly possible.
Here's a taste... they are incredible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmFnarFSj_U

[blind2d]

Oh yeah, my friend showed me that.
Reminds me of that Sparks song. About mustaches.

[Rancid Carcass]

The movie list is not definitive (with the exception of No.1), but are just films I find inspirational for one reason or another.

Movies:

1. Dawn Of the Dead '78. (Insert rest of the Holy Trinity here...)
2. The Naked Gun. (Nice beaver!)
3. Tremors.
4. The Fearless Vampire Killers.
5. This Is Spinal Tap.

Albums:

1: Emperor: In The Nightside Eclipse.
2: Finntroll: Midnattens Widunder.
3: Iron Maiden: Live After Death. (possibly the greatest live album in the whole of human history!)
4: Bal Sagoth: Starfire Burning Upon The Ice Veiled Throne Of Ultima Thule.
5: The Meads Of Asphodel: Exhuming The Grave Of Yeshua.

:D

[MikePizzoff]

3: Iron Maiden: Live After Death. (possibly the greatest live album in the whole of human history!)


I have the 'Live After Death' Eddie tattoo'd on me!

[AcesandEights]

I'm realllly bad at summarizing what I love into lists, but these are what popped into my head in no particular order:

5 Movies I Happen to love
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rushmore
The Natural
Wall Street

5 Albums I Happen to Love
Living in Clip (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_in_Clip), Ani DiFranco
WDST (Woodstock Radio) 20th & 25th Anniversary Live recordings, Various Artists
Mighty Mighty Bosstones Live from the Middle East (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_from_the_Middle_East)
Rock Spectacle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Spectacle), Barenaked Ladies
Hey Brother...Can You Spare Me Some Ska, Vol. I, Various Artists




3: Iron Maiden: Live After Death. (possibly the greatest live album in the whole of human history!)


I have an epic live version of Run to the Hills that I got off a promotional sampler CD given away free with some purchase at a Nyack, NY headshop in the early 2000s, I wonder if it's from that album originally. It's lightning in my speakers when I put it on and it's a regular listen for me.

[AfterMovieDiner]

I'm realllly bad at summarizing what I love into lists, but these are what popped into my head in no particular order:

5 Movies I Happen to love
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rushmore

I have an epic live version of Run to the Hills that I got off a promotional sampler CD given away free with some purchase at a Nyack, NY headshop in the early 2000s, I wonder if it's from that album originally. It's lightning in my speakers when I put it on and it's a regular listen for me.

Well those 3 films would definitely be in my top 20 and I once DJ'd in a bar and Run to the Hills packed the place, felt like 300 people all head banging and singing at once :D

[shootemindehead]

'Live after Death'

First metal album I ever bought....sniff...


It's the only Iron Maiden record that I can actually listen to nowadays. (well, maybe 'Piece of Mind' too).

[COry G]

Top 5 films would be

Casino
Scareface
Escape From New York
Boogie Nights
Halloween

Top Albums....Only one that really comes to mind is Legacy of Brutality by the Misfits.

[Mike70]

big trouble in little china
prince of darkness
logan's run
the black hole
rosemary's baby

music:
hemispheres- rush
piece of mind- iron maiden
animals-pink floyd
the warning- queensryche
daydream nation- sonic youth

[LouCipherr]

Hmm, this is tough as hell. Keep in mind these aren't my "top 5" - As Aces put it, "5 Movies I love" (in no particular order):

Movies:
1. Carpenter's The Thing
2. Carpenter's Halloween
3. The Devil's Rejects
4. Dogma
5. House on Haunted Hill (the '99 version)

I have to say, I'm pleased (and surprised) to see so many people list Big Trouble in Little China. How is it everyone I know IRL hates that movie, but everyone I socialize with on the 'net seems to dig it?! WTF?!

Music:
1. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
2. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
3. Ozzy - Blizzard & Diary of a Madman (I know it's 2, but I can't seperate 'em)
4. Black Label Society - The Blessed Hellride
5. Steve Vai - Alien Love Secrets

There's way too many bands I could list here, but these are the ones that resonated with me at the moment. It changes from day to day.

[Neil]

Plucked out of the air... If I had to take five albums to a desert island...

Music:-
The Orb - Aubrey Mixes: The Ultraworld Excursions - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBNGfWBQa88
Killing Joke - Killing Joke (2003) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLMm9bBcAwg
Tangerine Dream - Exit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftckgVqc04E
Jean Michelle Jarre - Oxygene - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj7A8SX7ccI
Moderat - Moderat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoxUiqUpkw4

[MinionZombie]

Hmmm ... can't do a Top 5 Movies, but my Top 10 movies (from my Top 50 of All Time (http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2009/05/top-50-favourite-movies-ever-part-6.html) - compiled in 2009, which I'll get around to updating this year) in no particular order, are:

Aliens
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Back To The Future
The Dark Knight
Dawn of the Dead (original - of course)
Fight Club
Ghostbusters
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Maltese Falcon
Terminator 2

N.B. This Top 10 (and indeed my All-Time Top 50) could/will change sometime soon ... I love a list and I've been meaning to update it with a few deserving titles that I've only viewed since writing the above/linked to list.

...

As for Top 5 Albums ... I've never really considered this before, but five favourite (by no means is this a definitive list ... I take my lists very seriously :D) albums off the top of my head are:

Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
HIM - Razorblade Romance (and indeed Deep Shadows & Brilliant Highlights)
Metallica - The Black Album
Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us (but this could very well be replaced by their new double album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming that comes out next month)

[AfterMovieDiner]

Those are some good, classy and excellent movie choices there MinionZombie sir!