Yes it's another list thread. This one's slightly different in that it's your top ten of just about anything you fancy. You can have as many or as few top tens as you like, the only criteria is that each top ten should have a common theme, be it artist, style, genre, whatever takes your fancy.

 

Top ten live albums is an obvious one, top ten soundtracks is another, even have a top ten "best ofs" or "greatest hits" if you're that way inclined.

 

To kick things off, this is a list of my top ten favourite Irish artists/bands, in no particular order:

 

1. Them
2. Van Morrison
3. Taste
4. Rory Gallagher
5. Thin Lizzy
6. Undertones
7. That Petrol Emotion
8. Stiff Little Fingers
9. Sinead O'Connor
10. The Pogues

Good post Big Figure

 

Here's my list of my top ten female singers. Was difficult and have left a number out. In no particular order.

 

Joni Mitchell

Kate Bush

Joan Baez

Billie Holiday

Judith Durham

Val Cowell

Janiva Magness

Maggie Bell

Bonnie Raitt

Kate Rusby

I can never resist a list!

Top ten Scots artists...

Frankie Miller

Stone The Crows

Nazareth

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Stealers Wheel

Marmalade

KT Tunstall

The Incredible String Band

The Proclaimers

Runrig

My top ten female singers...

Janis Joplin

Aretha Franklin

Magpie Bell

Noosha Fox

Kate Bush

Joan Baez

Tina Turner

Stevie Nicks

Karen Carpenter

Dolly Parton

Magpie Bell???

Maggie Bell of Stone The Crows, naturally!

F*ckin' autocorrect! lol

Maggie Bell of Stone The Crows, naturally!

F*ckin' autocorrect! lol

 

 

Swat ah thocht!

Something a little different. Ten punk/new wave songs with girls names in the title:

 

Ramones - Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
Ian Dury - Plaistow Patricia
Wreckless Eric - Veronica
Elvis Costello - Alison
Buzzcocks - Mad Mad Judy
The Damned - Eloise
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine
The Clash - Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad
Patti Smith - Kimberly
Iggy Pop - Johanna

Ten songs with birds names in the title:

 

Jonathan Richmond - Road Runner
Manfred Man - Pretty Flamingo
Joe Cocker - Bye Bye Blackbird
Billy Connolly - The Cuckoo
Linda Lewis - Lark
Rory Gallagher - As The Crow Flies
Simon & Garfunkel - El Condor Pasa
Louis Jordan - Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Rufus Thomas - Funky Penguin
Jimmy Cliff - Keep Your Eyes On The Sparrow

Something a little different. Ten punk/new wave songs with girls names in the title:

 

Ramones - Sheena Is a Punk Rocker

Ian Dury - Plaistow Patricia

Wreckless Eric - Veronica

Elvis Costello - Alison

Buzzcocks - Mad Mad Judy

The Damned - Eloise

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine

The Clash - Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad

Patti Smith - Kimberly

Iggy Pop - Johanna

I like this list but surely Janie Jones should have been first choice for The Clash ?

I like this list but surely Janie Jones should have been first choice for The Clash ?

Can't argue with you there. The truth is, it's been so long since I've actually listened to The Clash that I'd  managed to forget all about Janie Jones.

 

Incidentally, I considered including "Liza Radley" (the version on Extras) but then I thought that the Jam might be pushing it a bit for a list of punk/new wave bands. Love that song, and not only because it reminds me of someone I used to know:

 

Top ten live albums:

 

War Live
Carmel - Live At Ronnie Scotts
Georgie Fame - Name Droppin/Walking Wounded
The Who Live At Leeds
Rolling stones - Stripped
Bob Marley - Babylon By Bus
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Johnny Cash At Fulsom Prison/At San Quentin

Made in Japan - a fine album. Didn't see Purple in the seventies but saw them at Knebworth in 1985 a few months after the classic Mark II line-up had reformed. A shame they didn't play Child in Time but I think Gillan's voice was a bit "dodgy" at the time and he could have ruined it if he tried the screams in the song. Still, a great concert. The Scorpions, Meat Loaf and Mountain were at the same gig.

One - U2

Song 2 - Blur

Three little Birds - Bob Marley

Four Sticks - Led Zepplin

5.6.7.8s - Woo Hoo

Nine Million Bicyles - Katie Melua

Prefect 10 - Beautiful South.

Bit of a cheat with the 'Woo Hoo' song but couldn't resist the chance of having an annoying little tune rambleing about in

your head for the rest of the day.

Go on have a listen: you know you want to.

Top 10 Batman comics:

Dark Knight Returns

The Killing Joke

Year One

Hush

Under The Hood

Court of Owls

Long Halloween

Arkham Asylum

Death in the Family

Dark Victory

Made in Japan - a fine album. Didn't see Purple in the seventies but saw them at Knebworth in 1985 a few months after the classic Mark II line-up had reformed. A shame they didn't play Child in Time but I think Gillan's voice was a bit "dodgy" at the time and he could have ruined it if he tried the screams in the song. Still, a great concert. The Scorpions, Meat Loaf and Mountain were at the same gig.

I was there at Knebworth in the pouring rain too. I've been a Purple fan since the early 70's, and never dreamed I'd get a chance to see the Mk.II line-up, but boy was it worth it! Superb show, considering the conditions, and a good support - UFO, Blackfoot, Mountain and the Scorpions were great, but Meatloaf wasn't much cop. Spent the day drinking with a gang of bikers from Wales, brilliant day out.

Having big problems selecting my top ten live albums, gonna have to leave out at least 20! I'm gonna cheat a bit by not duplicating any of BF's selection, i.e. Made In Japan, Live At Leeds, Irish Tour '74, and Folsom Prison, all of which would have made my top ten otherwise...

Free - Free Live

AC/DC - Got Blood If You Want It

Jimi Hendrix - Hendrix In The West

Allman Brothers - At The Fillmore East

Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From The Road

Humble Pie - Performance, Rockin' The Fillmore

Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Live

MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

Janis Joplin - In Concert

Hawkwind - A Space Ritual

I was there at Knebworth in the pouring rain too. I've been a Purple fan since the early 70's, and never dreamed I'd get a chance to see the Mk.II line-up, but boy was it worth it! Superb show, considering the conditions, and a good support - UFO, Blackfoot, Mountain and the Scorpions were great, but Meatloaf wasn't much cop. Spent the day drinking with a gang of bikers from Wales, brilliant day out.

Yes, the weather was awful but as you say a superb show given the conditions. Had forgotten about Blackfoot being there. It must have been about that time that they had done a cover version of Free's Wishing Well. I recall Meatloaf came on stage with a leg in plaster. Looked weird as he tried to move around stage with a leg in plaster.

 

Mate of mine was annoyed that he had to miss the concert as was studying for exams.

Top 10 Arnie films:

Terminator 2

True Lies

Predator

Commando

Total Recall

Kindergarten Cop

Terminator

Conan The Barbarian

End of Days

The Running Man

Top ten live albums:

 

War Live

Carmel - Live At Ronnie Scotts

Georgie Fame - Name Droppin/Walking Wounded

The Who Live At Leeds

Rolling stones - Stripped

Bob Marley - Babylon By Bus

Deep Purple - Made In Japan

Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

Johnny Cash At Fulsom Prison/At San Quentin

 

No room for Live and Dangerous?

 

Not for me. I've got the album but very rarely listen to it. I was far more into their earlier stuff, which apart from Remembering (mentioned elsewhere), to me always meant the Fighting, Johnny The Fox, Jailbreak and Bad Reputation albums.

 

As for live albums, other noteable omissions include: Joe Tex: Live & Lively, either of the early '70s Donny Hathaway live albums, Wattstax, Sweet Child by Pentangle (the full concert on the Time Has Come box set), the live sides from  the Chambers Brothers Love, Peace & Happiness album, The Song Remains The Same by Led Zeppelin... not to mention Steve Earle BBC In Concert - or maybe Shut Up & Die Like An Aviator, Warren Zevon BBC In Concert, Curtis Mayfield In Concert, and so on!