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Top Five Billy Joel Tracks:
1) "Summer, Highland Falls"
2) "New York State of Mind"
3) "Movin' Out (Anthony' Song)"
4) "Baby Grand"
5) "Captain Jack"

Top Five Elton John Albums:
1) "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
2) "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy"
3) "Madman Across The Water"
4) "Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player"
5) "Caribou"
 
Top five women I would rather see featured in a VH-1 Divas special than Celine Dion, Beyonce, Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, or any combination thereof:

1: Kate Bush
2: Bjork
3: Maria McKee
4: Neko Case
5: Regine Chassagne
 
That reminds me...

Top five favorite dog breeds.

1. Miniature schnauzer
2. Papillon
3. Mutt
4. Golden retriever
5. Jack Russell
 
Top five NCAA tournament legends
1. Harold Arceneaux
2. Dametri "Da Meat Hook" Hill
3. Bryce Drew
4. Mouse McFadden
5. Fennis Dembo
 
Top five Rolling Stones songs:

1. Sympathy for the Devil
2. Under My Thumb
3. Paint It Black
4. Angie
5. As Tears Go By
 
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Top five Rolling Stones songs.

1. Tumbling Dice



2. Under My Thumb
3. Some Girls
4. Get Off My Cloud
5. Satisfaction, as performed by Devo
 
Five favorite golf courses:

1. TPC Sawgrass
2. Brickyard Crossing
3. Harbour Town
4. Las Vegas Paiute
5. Indiana University GC

(actually that's eight courses in all, oh well)
 
Top 5 Springsteen songs (at least for today)
1. Thunder Road
2. No Surrender
3. Racing in the Streets
4. Promised Land
5. Price You Pay

Top 5 Springsteen albums
1. The Wild, The Innocent, & the E Street Shuffle
2. Born to Run
3. Darkness on the Edge of Town
4. Lucky Town
5. The River

Top 5 Springsteen duets I've witnessed (off the top of my head)
1. You Sexy Thing - w/Bruce Hornsby (Dec. 8, 2001)
2. When Something is Wrong With My Baby w/Sam Moore (Dec. 5, 7 & 8, 2003)
3. The Fever w/Southside Johnny (Dec. 27, 1992)
4. Better Man w/Eddie Vedder (Oct. 13, 2004)
5. Hold On (I'm Coming) w/Sam Moore (Dec. 5, 7,8, 2003)
Honorable Mention:
Jumping Jack Flash w/Terrence Trent D'Arby (June 26, 1993); Settle For Love w/Joe Ely (June 24,26,1993); Allison plus Tracks of My Tears/Tears of a Clown w/Elvis Costello (Dec. 8, 2001)

Top 5 songs I love listening to Springsteen cover
1. Higher & Higher
2. Drift Away
3. I Want You
4. Pretty Flamingo
5. Mountain of Love

Top 5 Springsteen songs other artists have made the charts with
1. This Little Girl (Gary US Bonds)
2. Fire (Pointer Sisters)
3. Blinded by the Light (Manfred Mann)
4. Because the Night (Patti Smith and 10,000 Maniacs)
5. All That Heaven Will Allow (Mavericks, No. 49 on the Country charts)
5a. The Ghost of Tom Joad (Rage Against the Machine)
 
Five most played songs on my ITunes since March 2010:
1. Fake Empire by The National
2. Knockin on Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan
3. Bloodbuzz Ohio by The National
4. Compliments by Band of Horses
5. Modern Man by Arcade Fire
 
Top-five 50s party songs
1. High School Confidential, Jerry Lee Lewis.
2. 60-Minute Man, Billy Ward and the Dominos.
3. Sh-Boom, The Crewcuts
4. Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go, Hank Ballard
5, Rose Marie, The Fascinators.

Top-five 60s party songs

1. Shout, Isley Brothers
2. Twisting the Night Away, Sam Cooke.
3. Hold Me Tight, The Beatles.
4. Double Shot of My Baby's Love, Swinging Medallions
5. Nowhere to Run, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

Top-five 70s party songs
1. Go All the Way, Raspberries
2. Long Cool Woman, Hollies
3. Miss You, Rolling Stones
4. Love Train, O'Jays
5. Blue Collar Man, Styx

Music went downhill after that.
 
Top five self-deleted Junkie posts.

1. The one where his love of Pink Floyd led to ridicule.
2. The one where his love of Big Ten football led to ridicule.
3. The one where his competition with BYH in the World Series of Prancing led to ridicule.
4. The one where his love of Cleveland led to ridicule.
5. The one where his busting on a troll led to acclaim.

:D
 
Top five Pink Floyd songs
1. Have a Cigar
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Pigs
4. Not Now Johnny
5. Dirty Woman
 
Top of my head:

Top Beatles Songs:
I Will
Elanor Rigby
Dear Prudence
Yesterday
Blackbird
Bonus - Here, There and Everywhere

Top 5 Ben Folds:
Mess
Belinda
Army
The Last Polka
Fred Jones Part 2
Bonus - Always Someone Cooler Than You

Top 5 Billy Joel:
Summer Highland Falls
I've Loved These Days
Miami 2017
So It Goes
Vienna
Bonus - Sleeping with the Television On
 
Top 5 Ben Folds songs:

1. Landed
2. Philosophy
3. Underground
4. The Luckiest
5. Cologne


Top 5 bands I wish I saw live:

1. Split Enz
2. The Smiths *
3. The Jam
4. The Specials **
5. Material Issue

* Came about as close as possible post-breakup: Saw Morrissey, then saw Johnny Marr three weeks later.
** The original lineup re-formed and has done some really limited touring, so there's hope.


Top 5 cities I've been in... but only in the airport terminal, changing planes:

1. Amsterdam
2. Minneapolis
3. Atlanta
4. Detroit
5. Bangor, Maine


Top 5 cities I hate flying into:

1. San Diego (looks like you're hitting a building)
2. Portland (winds along the Columbia make it a roller coaster)
3. Seattle (looks like you're slamming into a hillside on approach)
4. San Francisco (looks like a water landing until the last second)
5. JFK (general principle)


Top 5 pro sports franchises that could fold and it would take me years to notice:

1. Memphis Grizzlies
2. Nashville Predators
3. Baltimore Orioles
4. Jacksonville Jaguars
5. Sacramento Kings
 

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