Archive for the ‘Top Five Lists’ Category

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Top 5 Records of Winter 2010

1) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Beat the Devil’s Tattoo

2) Spoon
Transference

3) Broken Bells
Broken Bells

4) The Editors
In This Light & On This Evening

5a) Gorillaz
Plastic Beach

5b) Magnetic Fields
Realism

5c) Titus Andronicus
The Monitor

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Top 5 Original Graphic Novels of 2009

1) Asterios Polyp
by David Mazzucchelli

2) Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter
by Darwyn Cooke

3) Filthy Rich
by Brian Azzarello and Victor Santos

4) Noir
by Various

5) 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man
by Matt Kindt

5) The Nobody
by Jeff Lemire

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Top Five Records of Fall 2009

1) Pearl Jam
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1a) Arctic Monkeys
Humbug

2) Monsters of Folk
Monsters of Folk

3) Julian Plenti
Julian Plenti Is Skyscraper

4) Modest Mouse
No One’s First, and You’re Next

5) Muse
The Resistance

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Top Five Most Overrated Records of All Time

1) Phil Collins
Face Value

1a) Phil Collins
No Jacket Required

2) Eric Clapton
Slowhand

3) Simon and Garfunkel
The Sound of Silence

4) Kanye West
College Dropout

5) U2
The Joshua Tree

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Top Five Crime Comics

1) 100 Bullets
by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso

2) Batman: Year One
by Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli

3) Criminal
by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

4) Stray Bullets
by David Lapham

5) Sin City
by Frank Miller

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Top Five Crime Novels

This Wednesday, August 19th, marks the official launch of Vertigo’s new crime and noir imprint– Vertigo Crime– with two new novels: Filthy Rich by Brian Azzarello and Victor Santos and Dark Entries by Ian Rankin and Werther Dell’Edera.  I, for one, have been greatly anticipating the launch of Vertigo Crime because, let’s face it, every […]

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Top Five Nonfiction Books I’ve Read Recently

1) Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba.and Then Lost It to the Revolution
by T. J. English

2) One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
by Michael Dobbs

3) The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by Richard Holmes

4) Satchel: […]

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Top Five Records of 2009 (2nd Quarter)

1) Telekinesis! - Telekinesis!

1a) Sonic Youth - The Eternal

2) White Rabbits - It’s Frightening

3) Mos Def - The Ecstatic

4) Wilco- Wilco The Album

5) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

5a) Maximo Park - Quicken the Heart

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Art Brut vs. Satan vs. Frank Black vs. Pretentious Record Store Guy

So Frank Black, one of my all time favorite musicians and head of one of the greatest bands ever (The Pixies, duh!) just produced the third album from one of my favorite bands of the last few years, Art Brut and it’s called Art Brut vs. Satan!  What?  Where do I sign up? Seriously. I […]

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Top Five Records of 2009 (So Far)

1) Art Brut - Art Brut vs. Satan

2) The Thermals - Now We Can See

3) Ben Kweller - Changing Horse

4) A.C. Newman - Get Guilty

5) Heartless Bastards - The Mountain

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Top Five Books That Rock

1) High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby

2) Fortress of Solitude
by Jonathan Lethem

3) Red Rocket 7
by Mike Allred

4) American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis

5) The Wishbones
by Tom Perrotta

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Top Five Album Covers of All Time

1) Pink Floyd
Ummagumma [LIVE]

2) The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

3) The Clash
London Calling

4) Led Zeppelin
I

5) Oasis
Definitely Maybe

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Top Five Graphic Novels of 2008

1) The Absolute Sandman vol. 4
by Neil Gaiman and various

2) The Absolute Sandman vol. 3
by Neil Gaiman and various

3) The Joker
by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo

4) Astonishing X-Men vol. 2 (hardcover)
by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday

5) Doktor Sleepless - Engines of Desire
by Warren Ellis and Ivan Rodriguez

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Top Five Pearl Jam Albums

1) Pearl Jam - Vs.

2) Pearl Jam - Ten

3) Pearl Jam - Vitalogy (Original Version)

4) Pearl Jam - Yield

5) Pearl Jam - Lost Dogs

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Top Five Unreleased Albums of All Time

Q-Tip just came out with an amazing album last Tuesday called The Renaissance. Yeah, it’s Q-Tip so you know it’s the heat, but way back in 2002, he had a solo record that was about to drop called Kamaal the Abstract. Apparently it was way too crazy for the record label so they […]

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