Due to time constraints these lists are not ordered, so please assume each is a 5 way tie. Thanks to my fellow Hoodlums for introducing me to a lot of these!

MUSIC

You don’t have this? Seriously? No really, seriously?

Love – Forever Changes
Black Sabbath – Master of Reality
Led Zeppelin – II
Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless

Watch me sell this.

Deerhunter – Microcastle
Warren Zevon – s/t
Jay Reatard – Matador Singles
Nick Cave – Dig Lazarus! Dig!
T. Rex – Electric Warrior

Metal albums featuring drum machines.

Necrophagist – Onset of Putrefaction
Anaal Nathrakh – Codex Necro
Agorophobic Nosebleed – Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope
****… I’m Dead – s/t
Godflesh – Streetcleaner

Roadtrip tunes. One time I listened to the complete Led Zeppelin studio recordings in a row while driving back from Denver overnight.

Tom Petty – Greatest Hits
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Greatest Hits
Neil Young – Harvest
CCR – Greatest Hits
Golden Earring – “Radar Love” (Thank you Wayne’s World)

Music to bench press or punch someone to.

Hatebreed – Under the Knife
Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power
Crowbar – Broken Glass
Eyehategod – Take as Needed for Pain
Integrity – Those Who Fear Tomorrow

Awesome post-breakup tunes.

Everything But the Girl – Amplified Heart
Mojave 3 – Ask Me Tomorrow
The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
Joni Mitchell – Blue
Tom Waits – Closing Time

Essential party jams. Most of these double as running music for me. Also note that the MTV Buzz Ballads compilations can lead to hilarious/terrible sing-a-longs. “Lightning Crashes”, anyone?

Andrew WK – I Get Wet
Van Halen – s/t
Pissed Jeans – Shallow
Third Eye Blind – s/t (Did you know their guitar player put out a record on Shrapnel a long time ago? Also Their bass player Fractured Mike Dirnt from Green Day’s skull by breaking a bottle over his head. Google it! I wrecked my ankle during their set at Tempe Beach Park on New Years a while back, don’t ask me how. I think it was during “Jumper”)
The Damned – Damned, Damned, Damned

Heaviest riff.

Yob – The Unreal Never Lived
Electric Wizard – Come My Fanatics
Buried at Sea – Migration
Iron Monkey – Our Problem
Sourvein – Will to Mangle

Brain tickling essentials.

Aphex Twin – Richard D James
Terry Riley – A Rainbow in Curved Air
Can – Tago Mago
Brian Eno – Another Green World
Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells

Brutalest female fronted bands.

Landmine Marathon
Thorr’s Hammer
Melt Banana
Look Back and Laugh
Nausea

Essential Power pop albums. Damn Yellow Pills, I’ve gone over the edge.

The Nerves – s/t
Barracudas – Drop Out With the…
Nick Lowe – Labor of Lust
Milk ‘N’ Cookies -s/t
The Rubinoos – s/t

Essential Reggae albums… including a wide range here.

Big Youth – Screaming Target
The Wailers – Destiny: Rare Ska Sides From Studio One
Toots & the Maytals – Funky Kingston
The Congos – Heart of the Congos
Jimmy Cliff – s/t

Essential Death Metal.

Suffocation – Pierced From Within
Dying Fetus – Destroy the Opposition
Decrepit Birth – And Time Begins
Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness
Death – Sound of Perseverance

Essential Grind – I know there’s nothing very old on here.

Pig Destroyer – Painter of Dead Girls
Uphill Battle – s/t
Rotten Sound – Consume to Contaminate
Nasum – Helvete
Discordance Axis – The Inalienable Dreamless

Songs about the Music Industry.

Reversal of Man- “Get the Kid With the Sideburns”
The Smiths – “Paint a Vulgar Picture”
Black Star – “Children’s Story”
Elvis Costello – “Radio Radio”
The Suicide File – “I Hate Rock N’ Roll”

Albums discovered at the old Hoodlums.

The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
Grinderman – s/t
The Replacements – Tim
R.E.M – Murmur
Dinosaur Jr – You’re Living All Over Me

Female fronted stuff that I am a total sucker for.

Mojave 3 – Ask Me Tomorrow
Mazzy Star – So That Tonight I Might See
She & Him – Volume One (I sent Zooey a love letter on myspace but she never opened it)
Coven – Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls
Bat for Lashes – Fur & Gold

Records I’ve discovered since the new Hoodlums opened.

Stiv Bators – Disconnected
Mission to Burma – Signals, Calls, and Marches
Alejandro Escovedo – Real Animal
Holly Golightly – Serial Girlfriend
Shuggie Otis – Here Comes…

Records scored in the Hoodlums $2.50 bin.

Barracudas – Drop Out With The…
The Hitmen – Torn Together
The Plimsouls – Zero Hour
Paul Collins’ Beat – The Kids Are the Same
The Low Numbers – Twist Again With..

MOVIES

Movies starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Capote
Love Liza
Happiness
The Savages
Charlie Wilson’s War

Party movies.

PCU
The Party
Animal House
Superbad
House Party

Movies that have truly scared me. I think I may have SamNeill-aphobia.

Possession
In the Mouth of Madness
Event Horizon
Children of the Corn
Jesus Camp

Truly disturbing films. Some of these are difficult to watch.

Irreversible
Salo
Funny Games (1997)
City of God
Audition

These’ll probably melt your brain.

Adaptation
El Topo
Holy Mountain
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Begotten

Movies that deal with revenge. My favorite!

Death Wish
Over the Edge
Rolling Thunder
Oldboy
Carrie

Over the top action movies. Massive body counts!

Dirty Harry
First Blood
Rambo 4
Commando
Crank

Awesome older action movies.

The French Connection
The Great Escape
Bullitt
The Warriors
Cool Hand Luke

War movies. Band of Brothers is definitely worth mentioning, but it’s a mini-series and I don’t think I could come up with a list of 5 of those I’ve even watched.

Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Hotel Rwanda
Rescue Dawn

Documentaries. “Frat House” is the funniest documentary ever made but it was just an HBO special.

King of Kong
Genuine Nerd
When We Were Kings
American Movie
Grizzly Man

Movies that blew my mind in the theater.

Sunshine
Irreversible
There Will Be Blood
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze (I was 7)
Adaptation

Hilarious movies.

Some Kind of Monster (Slightly funnier than Spinal Tap)
This is Spinal Tap
Blazing Saddles
Point Break
The Big Lebowski

Dark little gems.

Straight Time
Midnight Cowboy
Klute
Play Misty for Me
Last Tango in Paris

Buckets of gore.

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Redneck Zombies
Dead Alive/Brain Dead
Ichi the Killer
Re-Animator

Awesome movies I saw for the first time this year.

The Network
Manhattan
Rockers
Short Cuts
This is England

Some of these have ruined entire days for me.

About Schmidt
My Girl
Love Liza
Dead Poet’s Society
Jack

Rock & Roll movies.

That Thing You Do
Rock & Roll High School
A Hard Days Night
Wayne’s World 2
The Harder they Come

Music documentaries.. I admit there are a lot of good ones I haven’t seen yet.

The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Fugazi – Instrument
Wilco – I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
GG Allen & the Murder Junkies – Hated
Minutemen – We Jam Econo

Book to movie adaptations.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
No Country for Old Men
The Godfather
American Psycho
Clockwork Orange

Coming of age movies.

The Outsiders
Stand By Me
A Bronx Tale
Losin’ It
The Graduate

MISC

Failed joke bands.

Gun Metal Black
Si
Musculosity
Guitar Center
Justin Keefer

Local bands I’ve been lucky enough to see a bunch.

Earthmen and Strangers
Asleep in the Sea
Kyds vs Columbus
Existi
Graves at Sea

Comedians.

Mitch Hedburg (RIP)
Richard Pryor (RIP)
Eddie Murphy
Bill Cosby
Steve Martin

Youtube videos (Just search them).

Alec Baldwin screams at Dora the Explorer (*Contains some harsh language)
Trouble – Psalm 9 (Not funny, just awesome)
Rednecks get their just desserts in BMW chase (*Contains some harsh language)
Police officer steals marijuana
Robert Byrd Barbaric

Awesome metal music videos (Search on youtube).

Nitro – Freight Train
Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force – Hangar 18, Area 51
Megadeth – Hangar 18
Immortal – Call of the Wintermoon
Black Label Society – In This River (Count the number of times Zakk Wylde points to the sky)

Bands fighting the crowd (Search on youtube).

Rolling Stones (Search Keith hits fan with guitar in the face)
Screaming Trees (Search Mark Lanegan gone crazy)
Black Flag (Search Henry Rollins fight)
Converge (Search Converge- Broken Vow.. it’s the 4:00 one)
Danzig (Search Danzig getting knocked out. I’m in the background with shaggy hair wearing a white Bob Marley shirt and a chest plate (don’t ask). You can see me pretty clearly as Glenn is falling)

Incredible interviews for better or for worse (Search on youtube).

Iggy Pop (Search Gzowski interviews Iggy Pop)
David Vincent (Search Interview with Morbid Angel’s David Vincent)
Glenn Danzig (Search Glenn Danzig Interview- on the topic of books)
Chris Holmes (Search Chris Holmes of W.A.S.P.)
Ghaal (Search Gorgoroth’s Influences)

Places to eat around town.

Chopstix
Rock & Roll Chicken Fingers
Haji Baba’s
Pita Jungle
Ted’s

Independent record stores.

Hoodlums (DUH!)
Twist and Shout (Tucson)
Eastside (Tempe)
Amoeba (LA)
Revolver (Phoenix)

Music sites/blogs.

Metal Inquisition
Deerhunter
Tiny Mix Tapes
PVAc to 44.1 kHz
Yacht Rock

TV dramas.

Oz
Six Feet Under
Sopranos
Dexter
Mad Men

TV comedies.

Sledgehammer
Arrested Development
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Upright Citizen’s Brigade
Mr. Show

Best shows that I partied far too hard at (I’m sure Heath is expecting to see Cursive on this list. Joe probably expects YOB).

Jay Reatard/Deerhunter/Pissed Jeans @ The Echo in LA, 2007
****** Up/Iron Age/Repercussions @ Lamar Bridge in Austin, 2007
High On Fire/Opeth @ The Marquee, 2008
The Darkness @ The Marquee, 2004
Tragedy/Landmine Marathon/George Moshington @ The Phix, 2006

Shows this year!

CPC Gangbangs @ The Smell in LA
Seun Kuti @ some huge outdoor mall in LA
Nick Lowe @ The Rhythm Room
Sourvein @ Hollywood Alley
The Germs/Black ***/White Flag @ The Scene in LA (So bad it was awesome. Pat Smear wins geriatric stage dive of the year award. Shane West had sharpie on his face and was making jokes about Old School)

Shows. This would probably look different if I thought about it longer.

Megadeth/Slayer/Pantera/Black Sabbath @ Bank one Ballpark, 1998
77 Boadrum @ some park in Brooklyn, 2007
Dinosaur Jr @ The Irving Plaza in Manhattan, 2007
Black Sabbath in Cincinnati, 1976 (My dad was there, it’s in my blood)
Locking Your Car Doors @ The Phix, 2006

Famous people I’ve encountered, generally with hilarious results.

Chloe Sevigny
Josh Homme
Ice-T (Oh man)
Wesley Willis (RIP)
Whoopi Goldberg

Tags: Hoodlums' Top Five Lists, It's all about the music

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