Top Ten Best things that could happen on draft day 2009

1. David Stern is replaced as the host of the draft by a tag team of Walt Clyde Frazier and Charles Barkley
2. The Suns trade Steve Nash to the knicks for 3 tacos
3. Charles Oakley comes out of retirement and declares his eligibility for the draft
4. The Clippers trade in the number one pick for a dannon frusion smoothie
5. Shaq gets traded to cleveland, and then LBJ demands a trade to either Milwaukee or NY
6. i get traded for anderson varejao (my contract expires next year...)
7. the albany patroons got absorbed by the NBA
8. Bill russell drops a couple F bombs on live tv
9. the knicks draft a 7'5" 19 year old kid from Greenland who learned how to play basketball last month
10. The Clippers trade the #1 pick to the Nets for Yi, and declare their intentions to sign Iverson

Top Ten Songs by The Clash

I rented the movie "Rude Boy" a couple days ago, having never seen it. I was a little distracted while I was watching it, but there were definitely some cool moments, and the live footage was awesome. It inspired me to listen to The Clash again for the first time in a few months, and then make a top ten. I tend to prefer the earlier, more punk rock songs. My first contact with them was unfortunately through their last album (classic), "Cut The Crap" when I was probably 12 years old. Needless to say, after being exposed to the Ramones, Dead Kennedys, etc. that sounded like bad disco new wave crap. I was going to give up on them, until I heard the first album. That's more like it.

Here they are, the top ten Clash songs.

Hendo's List

1. White Riot

2. London's Burning

3. Career Opportunities

4. Safe European Home

5. I'm So Bored With The USA

6. 1977

7. Complete Control

8. Janie Jones

9. Rudie Can't Fail

10. Hateful / Tommy Gun (tie)


HojoHiFive's List

Clampdown

English Civil War

Death Or Glory

One More Time

Hateful

Bankrobber/Robber Dub

White Riot

Jail Guitar Doors

Complete Control

London Calling


Lundqvist's List
Clampdown
Straight to Hell

Police on My Back

Brand New Cadillac

(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
White Riot

Career Opportunities

Tommy Gun

The Magnificent Seven

Pressure Drop

Shrimp Cracker's List
1. White Riot
2. Clampdown
3. The Magnificent Seven
4. London Calling
5. Janie Jones
6. Police On My Back
7. Safe European Home
8. I'm So Bored With The USA
9. Lost in the Supermarket
10. Tommy Gun
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President's Day

in honor of Presidents Day, Top 5 presidential NAMES
1. Rutherford B. Hayes
2. Millard Filmore
3. Barack Hussein Obama
4. TEDDY Roosevelt
5. LBJ

Top Ten Bands with "Black" in the name

1. Black Lips
2. Black Flag
3. Black Mountain
4. Black Sabbath
5. Black Keys
6. Black Angels
7. Band of Blacky Ranchette
8. Black Time
9. Ludella Black
10. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Top Ten Albums of 2007

As a wise man once said:
"Alas, 2007 has come and gone and hopefully we have more to show for it than this collection of albums. Oh, let us raise our arms and heads to the Gods, and offer this music in repentance for our many collective sins. We shall pray that our chosen selections are worthy to enter the pantheon of the greats that have come before and will surely come after. Our Gods are not very forgiving Gods but they love to Rock with their Cocks Out. "

Here they are, the Top Ten Albums of 2007:

Hendo's List

1. King Khan & The Shrines - What is!?
2. The Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil & Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo
3. Billy Childish & The Musicians of the British Empire - Punk Rock
at the British Legion Hall LP & Christmas 1979 LP
4. Mark Sultan - The Sultanic Verses
5. Demon's Claws - Satan's Little Pet Pig
6. The Warlocks - Heavy Deavy Skull Lover

7. Grainbelt - Trouble Coming Down
8. Brian Glaze - Rainsplitter
9. Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments

10. Mary Weiss (w/ Reigning Sound) - Dangerous Game

Honorable Mentions: Harlan T Bobo - I'm Your Man ; The Broken West - I Can't Go On, I'll Go On ; The King Khan & BBQ Show - Teabag Party 7" ; The Final Solutions - Songs By Solution ; The Chesterfield Kings - Psychedelic Sunrise ; Two Cow Garage - III ; Miss Alex White & The Red Orchestra - Space & Time ; CPC Gangbangs - Mutilation Nation ; Tinariwen - Aman Iman ; Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash ; Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips ; The Sadies - New Seasons


Niedermayer's List
1. the national - boxer

2. spoon - ga ga ga ga ga

3. the clientele - god save the clientele

4. elliott smith - new moon

5. charlotte gainsbourg - 5:55

6. Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew Spirit If...

7. black lips - good bad not evil

8. the treasury - the treasury ep

9. the warlocks - heavy deavy skull lover

10. radiohead - in rainbows


Shamsky69's List

1. The Black Lips-Good Bad Not Evil

2. Bruce Springsteen-Magic

3. Detroit Cobras- Tied and True

4. Jason Isbell- Sirens Of The Ditch

5. Terry Adams- Rhythm Spell

6. Tommy Womack- There I Said It

7. Two Cow Garage-III

8. Black Lips- Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo


Shrimp Cracker's List
1. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
2. Radiohead - In Rainbows
3. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
4. Bruce - Magic
5. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
6. V/A - I'm Not There OST
7. Dr. Dog - We All Belong
8. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
9. Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
10. Marah - Can't Take It With You EP

HM: 1990s, Black Lips, Robert Wyatt, Bright Eyes, Kings of Leon, John
Fogerty, White Stripes, Grinderman


No Name's List(s)
New Releases:
1. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - S/T
2. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
3. Rilo Kiley - Under The Black Light
4. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
5. Jarvis Cocker - S/T
6. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
7. Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge
8. Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
9. The Mendoza Line - 30 Year Low
10. Lucinda Williams - West
11. Devandra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

Reissues, Comps etc.
1. Miles Davis - The Complete On The Corner Sessions
2. Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Going On
3. Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall
4. Johnny Thunders & Patti Palladin - Copy Cats
5. V/A - The Sandinista Project: A Tribute To The Clash
6. Warren Zevon - Stand In The Fire & Excitable Boy
7. The Afghan Whigs - Unbreakable
8. VA - Music From The Motion Picture I'm Not There
9. The Beach Boys - The Warmth of the Sun
10. Carlton Patterson & King Tubby -Black & White In Dub

Honorable Mentions
1. Josh Rouse Bedroom Classics: She's Spanish, I'm American
2. Betty LaVette - The Scene of the Crime
3. Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade
4. Oakley Hall - I'll Follow You
5. Buffalo Tom - Three Easy Pieces
6. Robert Plant & Allison Krauss - Raising Sand
7. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
8. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
9. Antibalas - Security
10 The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse
11. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
12. Coco Rosie - The Adventures of...
13. Great lake Swimmers - Ongiara
14. Tegan & Sara - The Con

Top 10 pickups from the WFMU Record Fair

Me and no name hit up the most overhwelming record fair I've ever seen. Granted, that's not really saying much for me, but it was still an amazing amount of records. WFMU knows how to throw a party. For instance, at the Norton Records Table, I easily could have spent upwards of $500, no problem.

Here are my top 10 pickups from this afternoon thus far, and I haven't even been able to listen to everything else yet.
1. The New Chesterfield Kings CD from the Wicked Cool table
2. Les Sexareenos "Do The Nose Mustache" 7"
3. Roky Erickson "Don't Knock The Rok"
4. various CPC Gangbangs 7"s
5. James Blackshaw "The Cloud of Unknowing" - cool 12 string guitar shit in the Fahey vein - a style I've recently been digging
6. Knights of Fuzz DVD and interactive CDrom
7. Back issues of Big Takeover for $1
8. Dan Melcior's Broke Revue - Heavy Dirt
9. Mighty Hannibal - Hannibalism!
10. that sausage place with all the mustards......

What I did on my summer vacation

Top 3 albums of the moment:
1. Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
2. The Warlocks - Phoenix
3. V/A - Songs The Detroit Cobras Taught Us

What do you crave (besides White Castle that is...) ???

Top Ten

Ok, ok. I promise we are nearing the conclusion of our rounding out a full band. Only two more lists to go.

First up, provide us with singers you'd like to hear backing a band. I'm thinking two or three singers per a slot but do as you may. Additionally if you'd like to sub a singer for say a horn player a piano/keyboard musician hey, why not.

The last list for which you will have to go to your record collections to take a peap, will be based around songwriters you want your band to be playing tunes by. I'll make a post for that later in the week so put your thinking caps on.

Top Ten

OK - guys and (girls?), we are nearing the finish line with only a few more lists to be made before our bands are complete. So to get us one step further, who are you favorite drummers?

Top Ten

Allright, give us your all time top favorite bass players.

Top Ten

Today's list is dedicated to 5 guitarists you can get down with. Remember at the end of all this were gonna match up your choices with one another so have fun.

Top Ten

A couple of recent posts got me thinking about a series of top ten lists I thought would be interesting. Who are your top 5 or 10 singers, the voice that kicks you square in the gut everytime you hear it or even think about it?

Provide your list in the comments.

Tomorrow we are gonna post our favorite guitarists - those who get a sound out of their axes that, you know, kick you in the gut. From there we will move along until we have rounded out a couple of full bands in your ranking order. Perhaps not our most desired bar band but groups made up of those musicians we respect the most. Those lists will be posted on the main site as we get them in full.

Top Ten Movies (From When You Were Growing Up)

The other night I was struck by a memory of going to the local video store (long since closed up and replaced by a bagel shop) and vividly remembered wanting to rent all the new releases which probably sucked. I know now, I never have that feeling in the video store but that's the best part of being a kid. I recalled the old video boxes for movies like 48 hours, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Burbs, Repo Man, Little Monsters, Willow, the list goes on and on and I think I just dated myself.

So what were your favorite movies growing up? The ones you remember enjoying at the time?

Top Ten Neil Young Songs

I woke up this morning, and went to my computer to start up some music in iTunes (on random of course), and the first thing that popped up was Neil Young. What a nice way to start off a morning. So, it begs the question, what are your top ten Neil Young songs? (entire musical career included)

Top Ten Jazz Albums

HBBB readers what are your favorite jazz albums and why?

We Will Never Agree On Anything As We Agree On...Top 5 Stooges Songs

In honor of the fact that the three of us are going to see The Stooges live in NYC in 2 weeks, as well as the fact that their new album got a 1.0 from Pitchfork............
What are your top 5 Stooges songs?

We Will Never Agree On Anything As We Agree On...Top Ten Figgs Songs

Everyone here at HBBB (not to mention our few regular visitors) are all big fans of powerpop/rocknroll legends (?, well, to us at least...), The Figgs. We've all seen them live at least a dozen times, and love all the studio releases as well. I randomly picked up a copy of Lo Fi... when it came out without knowing anything about them. I liked the album then, but it never really got into my heavy rotation at the time. By the time I made my way up to Saratoga Springs, NY (where the band started) for college, I was listening to it again, and met people who were REALLY into them. So I didnt really jump on the bandwagon until just before Sucking In Stereo came out. Anyway, since then, they have been one of my favorite bands, and the same thing can be said for the rest of the HBBB crew I'm sure.
With that said........
What are your Top Ten Figgs Songs?

Top Ten Albms From The Great Tower Heist of '06

The end of an era.

Lincoln Center has now been thrashed...

1. The Metros - s/t
2. The Del Gators - Pound Down
3. The Knights Of The New Crusade - A Callenge To The Cowards Of Christendom
4. BBQ - Tie Your Noose
5. Scott H. Biram - Graveyard Shift
6. Mission Of Burma - The Obliterati
7. Outrageous Cherry - Stay Happy
8. The Band of Blacky Ranchette - s/t
9. Bloodloss - In-A-Gadda-Da-Change
10. tie: The Corn Sisters - The Other Women & The Crawdaddys - Here 'Tis

Hon. Mentions from previous Tower Closing excursions:
The Fall - The Complete Peel Sessions Box Set
The Gibson Bros. - Memphis Sol Today!
The Devil Dogs - No Requests Tonight
V/A - Spacelines: Sonic Sounds For Subterraneans
Young Fresh Fellows - This One's For The Ladies
Supercharger - Live At The Covered Wagon (S.F.) 1992

Top Ten Songs As Performed By The Band

Top Ten Songs Performed Or By The Band

Look Out Cleveland
Get Up Jake
Stage Fright
Up On Cripple Creek
Katie's Been Gone
Acadian Driftwood
Don't Do It (Baby Don't You Do It)
Across The Great Divide
Tears Of Rage
Atlantic City (Springsteen Cover)

Top Ten Bands You Wish You Saw Live

No Name's List:
1. Dylan And The Band - 1966 Royal Albert Hall or wherever that show was
2. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Any time in the mid to late '70's.
3. The Dead - 1977
4. Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon tour
5. The Who - Tommy Tour or the Live at Leeds Show
6. Miles Davis & The Kind of Blue band
7. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Anytime
8. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - 1970's -Tie - The Clash
9. The Byrds -1969
10. The Kinks - Anytime

HM: Johnny Cash, John Coltrane, Johnny Thunders, Band of Gypsies,
Stones - Get Yerr Ya Ya's Time, Zep - before the bloat, Gram Parsons &
The Fallen Angels, Bowie - Ziggy Stardus tour, Whiskeytown, Tom Waits,
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Performance, Curtis Mayfield, The
Smiths, Junior Kimbrough

Post your lists in the comments, please - HBBB Mngmt.