Top-five lists

Top Five Billy Joel Tracks:
1) "Summer, Highland Falls"
2) "Angry Young Man"
3) "Piano Man"
4) "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant"
5) "New York State of Mind"

Top Five Elton John Tracks:
1) "Tiny Dancer"
2) "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
3) "Skyline Pigeon"
4) "Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)"
5) "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"

Top Five Stevie Wonder Tracks:
1) "Ribbon In The Sky"
2) "My Cherie Amour"
3) "Another Star"
4) "Superstition"
5) "Visions"

Top Five Marvin Gaye Tracks:
1) "What's Going On"
2) "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology Song)"
3) "What's Happening Brother"
4) "Inner City Blues"
5) "Your Precious Love" (with Tammi Terrell)

Top Five Earth, Wind & Fire Tracks:
1) "That's The Way of the World"
2) "In The Stone"
3) "After The Love Has Gone"
4) "Love's Holiday"
5) "Shining Star"

 

1. Friends in Low Places
2. Shameless
3. Unanswered Prayers (live)
4. The Dance
5. Papa Loved Mama

 

Top 5 Pink Floyd tracks, Syd era

1. Arnold Layne
2. See Emily Play
3. Lucifer Sam
4. Jugband Blues
5. Astronomy Domine

 

Top 5 post-Beatles Beatle songs

1. "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp," George Harrison
2. "Jealous Guy," John Lennon
3. "My Sweet Lord," George Harrison
4. "Photograph," Ringo Starr
5. "Marwa Blues," George Harrison


Top 5 food items I miss:

1. Carnation Breakfast Bars
2. Lemon Zingers
3. Cheese burritos at Naugles
4. Chili Cheese burritos at Taco Bell (still available in parts of the country, but this ain't one of them)
5. Chocolate covered peanut butter maltballs at Trader Joe's

 

Top 5 Rappers
1. Rakim
2. 2Pac
3. Nas
4. Notorious BIG
5. Jay-Z

Top 5 Tupac songs
1. Hit 'Em Up
2. Keep Ya Head Up
3. All Eyez On Me
4. Hail Mary
5. Picture Me Rollin'

Top 5 Characters from The Wire (my favorites anyway)
1. Omar Little
2. Stringer Bell
3. Bunk Moreland
4. Bodie Broadus
5. Michael Lee

 

Top 5 Simpsons ancillary characters

1. Krusty the Clown
2. Monty Burns
3. Troy McClure
4. Duff Man
5. Disco Stu

 

Top 5 country songwriters

1. Kris Kristofferson
2. Willie Nelson
3. Townes Van Zandt
4. Billy Joe Shaver
5. Robert Earl Keen

 

No arguments on any of those. Pick another day and a bunch of the alternatives you listed would be on my charts, too. The above have enough quality choices to make a Top Five list a nice compare/contrast/fun debate.

I SO BADLY wanted to get "Captain Jack" on my Billy Joel list, but couldn't bump any of the first five off. Same with "Sir Duke" and "Pastime Paradise" for Stevie.

 

I thought about adding Shameless and Unanswered, but went with Ireland, which is also one of Garth's favorite songs.

Only disagreement I have with your list is The Dance is far, far, far too low.

 

That was No. 6 on mine. No coincidence that the four on the Marvin Gaye list were off "What's Going On," though. I would rate your alternative choice well above "Sexual Healing" ... an overrated Marvin Gaye tracks if one exists.