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Top 15 Best Live Albums Rory Gallagher – Irish Tour '74 (1974) AC/DC – Live from the Atlantic Studios (????) The Grateful Dead – Live Dead (1969) MC5 – Kick Out the Jams (1969) Van Morrison – It's Too Late to Stop Now (1974) The Stooges – Metallic K.O. (1976) Rollins Band – Live in Australia 1990 (1999) The Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East (1971) Ramones – It's Alive (1979) Thin Lizzy – Live and Dangerous (1978) The Who – Live at Leeds (1970) The Rolling Stones – Get Yer Ya-Ya-s Out (1970) James Brown – Live at the Apollo (1963) Television – The Blow-Up (1982) Little Feat – Waiting for Columbus (1978)	Top 10 British Punk Debuts The Buzzcocks – Another Music in a Different Kitchen (1978) The Clash – The Clash (1977) The Undertones – The Undertones (1979) Wire – Pink Flag (1977) The Damned – Damned Damned Damned (1977) X-Ray Spex– Germfree Adolescents (1978) U.K. Subs – Another Kind of Blues (1979) The Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus (1977) The Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks (1977) Stiff Little Fingers – Inflammable Material (1979)
Top 10 American Punk Debuts Ramones – Ramones (1976) Black Flag – Damaged (1981) The Dead Kennedys – Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (1980) Bad Brains – Bad Brains (1982) Circle Jerks – Group Sex (1980) X – Los Angeles (1980) Fear – The Record (1982) Richard Hell & The Voidods – The Blank Generation (1977) The Misfits – Walk Among Us (1982) The Dead Boys – Young, Loud & Snotty (1977)	Top 10 SST Bands Hüsker Dü Minutemen Black Flag The Meat Puppets Bad Brains Dinosaur Jr. Screaming Trees fIREHOSE The Leaving Trains The Volcano Suns
Top 5 Most Blatant Rip-Offs The Knickerboxers: Lies (The Beatles!) Mouse: A Public Execution (Bob Dylan!) Sagittarius: My World Fell Down (The Beach Boys!) Elastica: Connection (Wire!) Fates Warning: Night on Bröcken (Iron Maiden!)	Top 10 Funniest Song Titles Minutemen – "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing" (Double Nickels on the Dime, 1984) Jeff Beck – "Head for Backstage Pass" (Wired, 1976) Mr. Bungle – "My Ass Is on Fire" (Mr. Bungle, 1991) The Evil Superstars – "Satan Is in My Ass" (Love Is Okay, 1996) They Might Be Giants – "Youth Culture Killed My Dog" (They Might Be Giants, 1986) Naked City – "Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh" (Grand Guignol, 1991) Ween – "Mister Would You Please Help My Pony?" (Chocolate Cheese, 1994) Mojo Nixon – "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child" (Root Hog or Die, 1989) Kinky Friedman – "They Ain't making Jews Like Jesus Anymore" (Kinky Friedman, 1974) The Smiths – "Shoplifters of the World Unite" (Shoplifters of the World Unite ep, 1986)
5 favorite John Coltrane albums A Love Supreme (1964) My Favorite Things (1960) Giant Steps (1959) Blue Train (1957) John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963)	Top 5 Contemporary Retro-rock Bands The Drive-By Truckers: southern rock meets Neil Young-influenced epic guitar rock. Motorpsycho: one of Europe's most versatile bands, combining lush pop, heavy rock, 70's jazz-rock and prog. The Hellacopters: high-energy 70's rock à la MC5, Sonic's Rendez-Vous Rollins Band: blistering fusion of groovy 70's hard rock and straighforward punk The Strokes: you know what I'm talkin' about, right?
Top 10 Huge Disappointments by Major Artists Eric Crapton - August Eric Crapton - Pilgrim Eric Crapton - Reptile The Rolling Stones - Dirty Work The Who - Who by Numbers Live - The Distance to Here Neil Young - Trans Genesis - Calling All Stations Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines of God The Clash - Cut The Crap	Favorite Box Sets Various Artists - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968 (1999) Woody Guthrie - The Asch recordings, Vol. 1-4 (1999) James Brown - Star Time (1991) The Grateful Dead - The Golden Road (1965-1973) (2001, and I wanna have this for Christmas next time!) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Clearwater Revival (2001) The Wipers - Wipers Box Set (2001) George Carlin - The Little David Years 1971-1977 (1999)
Top 10 Stand-Up Comedians George Carlin Robert Schimmel Bill Hicks Sam Kinison Richard Pryor Joe Rogan Andrew Dice Clay Neil Hamburger Billy Connolly Peter Gabriel George W. Bush (honorable mention)	Top 5 Splatstick Movies Braindead (Peter Jackson, 1992) Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi, 1987) Bad Taste (Peter Jackson, 1987) Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978) Braindead (Peter Jackson, 1992, because it rules)
15 Favorite 70's Crime Flics The Godfather II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971) The Taking of Pelham 123 (Joseph Sargent, 1974) The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971) Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975) Charley Varrick (Don Siegel, 1973) The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979) The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) Marathon Man (John Schlesinger, 1976) Serpico (Sidney Lumet, 1973) Klute (Alan J. Pakula, 1971) Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973) Escape from Alcatraz (Don Siegel, 1979)	15 of my Favorite Comedies Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933) A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935) Braindead (Peter Jackson, 1992) The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940) Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974) Dr. Strangelove or How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984) The General (Buster Keaton, 1927) The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) M*A*S*H (Robert Altman, 1972) Fargo (Coen Bros., 1996) Monty Python & the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam, 1974) Airplane (Jim Abrahams, 1980) Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) Meet the Feebles (Peter Jackson, 1989) VH1-Special: Phil Collins in the 80's (2002)
Great lyricists Bob Dylan Randy Newman Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention, solo) Jello Biafra (the Dead kennedys) Rob & John Wright (Nomeansno) Nick Cave John Prine Donald Fagen and Walter Becker Townes van Zandt Lou Reed	Look Mom, the hands! Jerry Garcia Django Reinhardt Hound Dog Taylor
Unfulfilled potential d. Boon (the Minutemen) Nick Drake Otis Redding Brian Jones (the Rolling Stones) Budy Holly	Musicians love kids! Bill Wyman Jerry Lee Lewis Waddy Wachtel Michael Jackson Gary Glitter
Drummers look weird Charlie Watts (the Rolling Stones) Ringo Starr (the Beatles) Nicko McBrain (Pat Travers, Iron Maiden) Lars Ulrich (Metallica) Topper Headon (the Clash)	Novels Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy James Ellroy - The Big Nowhere James Ellroy - The Cold 6000 Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint Josef Skvorecky - The Engineer of Human Souls Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling From Michael Bulgakov - The Master and the Marguerita Joseph Heller - Catch 22