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In the interest of good government and responsible citizenship and all.

Five songs in which the live version is preferable to the recorded version

• “The Further I Slide” – Badly Drawn Boy
• “There Goes the Neighborhood” – Sheryl Crow
• “Life, In a Nutshell” – Barenaked Ladies
• “Black” – Sarah McLachlan
• “Round Here” – Counting Crows

Five best Beatles songs, IMHO

• “Good Morning, Good Morning”
• “Hello, Goodbye”
• “You Never Give Me Your Money”
• “A Day in the Life”
• “The End”

Five best Beatles albums, IMHO

• Revolver
• Magical Mystery Tour
• Rubber Soul
• Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts’ Club Band
• Abbey Road

(Note on the previous sections: for some reason - e.g. “Rocky Raccoon” and the criminally awful “Glass Onion,” among others - I detest the White Album. I understand that you might disagree, but my best advice to you is to stop hero-worshipping every fucking mastubatory track the Beatles ever put to tape, relisten to Abbey Road, remember what a good record is, and stop judging your preferences by quantity. The White Album sucks, almost from start to finish. Abbey Road is damn near perfect. Thank you.)

Five great albums to fuck to

• Maxinquay – Tricky
• Mezzanine – Massive Attack
• Blue Wonder Power Milk – Hooverphonic
• The X-Files – Fight the Future – Motion Picture Soundtrack (trust me)
• Dummy – Portishead

Five best Trip-hop albums

• Maxinquay – Tricky
• Mezzanine – Massive Attack
• Blue Wonder Power Milk – Hooverphonic
• Post – Bjork (provided this counts as Trip-hop)
• Dummy – Portishead

Five 80’s songs I’d like my band to cover

• “99 Red Ballons” – Nena (currently covering)
• “The Promise” – When in Rome (in the process of covering)
• “Bizarre Love Triangle” - New Order (Frente did it better than we would)
• “Downeaster Alexa” – Billy Joel (hmmm….)
• “Groove is in the Heart” – Deee-Lite (provided any one of us could pull of the Bootsy Collins work, which we can’t)

My five favorite XXI Gun Solution songs to play

• “John Hughes”
• “Big Ideas”
• “Summon My Jesus”
• “There is a Light”
• “Tidal Girl”

Five kick-ass band names

• 2 Skinnee J’s
• My Bloody Valentine
• Rocket From the Crypt
• M.C. 900 Ft. Jesus
• Spacehog

Five kick-ass album titles

• Blonde on Blonde
• Ritual De Lo Habitual
• 3 Years, 5 Months, and 2 Days in the Life of…
• Dookie
• …Is Dead

Five great albums which, knowing you, you probably don’t own

• This is Hardcore – Pulp
• The Remote Part – Idlewild
• Isola – Kent
• A Carefully Planned Accident – NaNuchKa
• Lovesongs for Underdogs – Tanya Donelly

Five albums to drive through rural countryside at unsafe speeds while blasting

• Transatlanticism – Death Cab For Cutie
• Fever to Tell – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Slanted and Enchanted – Pavement
• Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters
• The Bends – Radiohead

Five albums to play on a Sunday morning while making coffee for your one-night stand

• Andy Worhol – The Velvet Underground and Nico
• New Adventures in Hi-Fi – R.E.M.
• Give Up – The Postal Service
• I Tried to Rock You But You Only Roll – Leona Naess
• The Life Pursuit – Belle & Sebastien

Five cover-songs that are better than as performed by the original artist

• “Respect” – Aretha Franklin (originally by Otis Redding)
• “All Along the Watchtower” – Jimi Hendrix (originally by Bob Dylan, and even the Dave Matthews version is far superior)
• “Come On Eilene” – Save Ferris (originally by Dexie’s Midnight Runners”
• “Hot to Handle” – The Black Crowes (originally by Otis Redding, again)
• “Shameless” – Garth Brooks (originally by Billy Joel, but damned if Garth didn’t do it far more justice)