Top Five Lists from the hoodlums at Hoodlums
The kids at Changing Hands invited us to come with some Top Five lists in honor of our co-presentation of High Fidelity on November 28th (6:00 PM at Changing Hands… the full story is here).
Little did they know - that while the movie may not entirely describe Hoodlums to a tee - it certainly is right on target with its point that record and video store geeks will gladly give you their opinion about music and movies at the slightest request.
So we made up some lists… hopefully you’ll like ‘em. We’d love to see your lists too. Write ‘em in a comment, bring ‘em down to the store, or better yet, come down to Changing Hands before the movie and we can have a lively discussion… then we will watch the flick (for FREE).
And now, here are the hoodlums at Hoodlums’ Top Fives.
The Common Assignment
Each employee was asked to do two specific lists: 1) Five “You Don’t Have This” albums… in reference to Jack Black’s Blonde on Blonde comment; and 2) Five “Watch me sell this” albums in reference to John Cusack’s Beta Band comment. Beyond that, while I did provide a list of possible topics, they were told to put down whatever they want.
Let’s start the one we all answered, then we’ll branch out into each hoodlum.
1. Top Five “You Don’t Have That?!!” Albums
Steve
Beatles - Abbey Road
Van Morrison - Moondance
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Kristian
Note: Being the ultimate rebel of us all (and having the ability as an owner to scrap “assignments”), Kristian made his “You Don’t Have This” different. His list is the Top Five Countries/Regions I Don’t Believe You Have Any Music From
Brazil
Jamaica
Louisiana
West africa
Cuba
Joe
My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
Charlie Parker- anything
Black Sabbath- Vol. 4
Kate Bush- Hounds of Love
Maria
At Last!-Etta James
Street Songs-Rick James
Doolittle-The Pixies
Celia y Johnny-Celia Cruz
The Score-Fugees
Andy
Bruce Springsteen – Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ
Whiskeytown – Strangers Almanac
Neil Young – Harvest
Beatles – Rubber Soul
Counting Crows – Recovering The Satellites
Justin
Love – Forever Changes
Black Sabbath – Master of Reality
Led Zeppelin – II
Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Wasef
“You Forgot It In People” -Broken Social Scene
“Loveless” -My Bloody Valentine
“Moon Safari” -Air
“Kick Out The Jams” -MC5
“The Shape of Punk to Come” -Refused
2. Top Five “Watch me sell this” albums
Steve
Paul Pena - New Train
Les McCann and Eddie Harris - Live at Montreaux
Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters - Muddy and the Wolf
Budos Band - Budo Band II
Breakestra - Hit the Floor
Kristian
Shuggie Otis
Meters
Thievery Corp.
Nina Simone
Calexico
Joe
Kruder & Dorfmeister- K & D Sessions
New Pornographers- Twin Cinema
Sloan- Between the Bridges
Cathedral- The Carnival Bizarre
D’Gary- Akata Meso
Maria
El Cantante the Originals-Hector Lavoe
Strawberry weed-Caesars
ultimate collection-the Temptations
mediocre-Ximena Sarinana
self titled-Ceu
Andy
House Of Fools – Live And Learn
Hanson – The Walk
Eric Hutchinson – Sounds Like This
Dr. Dog – We All Belong
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – 100 Days 100 Nights
Justin
Deerhunter – Microcastle
Warren Zevon – s/t
Jay Reatard – Matador Singles
Nick Cave – Dig Lazarus! Dig!
T. Rex – Electric Warrior
Wasef
“Night Ripper” -Girl Talk
“Classics” -Ratatat
“The Crane Wife” -The Decemberists
“Smile” -Lily Allen
“Armchair Apocrypha” -Andrew Bird
Don’t stop here - we’re just getting started. Now you have to see each hoodlums’ warped individual lists. We did movies too. You can click on the list to go directly to your favorite employee’s list.
Note: Kristian isn’t doing any more. You’ll have to come down to the store and pick his brain. I assure you - it’s full of good stuff.
November 18th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
If you ever want to do a Hoodlums Hall of Fame list you let me know.
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Anybody can leave their top fives here, amigo!
We encourage you all to make some up and put ‘em on the website. They are fun to do.
November 29th, 2008 at 5:15 am
top five things I was thinking about while watching “high fidelity” tonight at changing hands:
1:the shadow of my head being cast on the wall from the projector [on the right side]… and the fact that I was covering 1/4th of the movie almost.
2: I think I was laughing the loudest/most frequently/highest pitched… yeah, that was me, sorry… but the movie is hilarious.
3: I was continually wanting someone to adjust the keystone of the projection… understandable, but it’s something I wish I didn’t care about, but alas it is.
4: we should have had popcorn
5: I kept wondering when one of the girls was going to shave her head, then I eventually realized that is in the other record store movie. [empire records]
awesome event though… future movie consideration, I am trying to break your heart by WILCO.
or empire records or airheads.
December 4th, 2008 at 1:52 am
let me know when we do the spinal tap viewing party and i’ll show up.