Best Beers

Ales, Lagers, Lambics, any variety counts.

1. Guinness Stout
2. Sam Smith's Winter Warmer
3. Sam Smith's Old Brewery Pale Ale
4. Sam Smith's Nut Brown Ale
5. Ommegang Rare Vos
6. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
7. Harpoon IPA
8. McEwan's Scotch Ale
9. Murphy's Stout
10. Samuel Adams Boston Ale

My Favorite Albums that You've Never Heard

...but you can find used copies on www.amazon.com

• Lucky - The Goops
• Deep End Live - Pete Townshend
• I Hear You Rockin' - Dave Edmunds
• Still Running - Tom Hambridge
• Aliens Ate My Buick - Thomas Dolby
• Calm Animals - The Fixx
• Rats - Sass Jordan
• Spin The Globe - Royal Crescent Mob

Most Influential works of music 20th century

Ok, so this category is even more obnoxious than the others, but here goes. These can be albums, songs, jingles, any format:

St. Louis Blues - W.C. Handy
Rites of Spring - Igor Stravinsky
Crossroad Blues - Robert Johnson
In The Mood - Glenn Miller
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley and the Comets
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy

Funniest Movies

these just make me laugh the most, whether they are good films or not

1. [tie] This is Spinal Tap
   Monty Python and the Holy Grail
   
3. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Monty Python's Life of Brian
6. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
7. Raising Arizona
8. The Jerk
9. Ghostbusters
10. Evil Dead 2
    

top 10 NFL players

1. Walter Payton
2. Joe Montana
3. Lawrence Taylor
4. Jim Brown
5. Jerry Rice
6. Johnny Unitas
7. Dick Butkis
8. Art Shell
9. Dick Nitetrain Lane
10. Deacon Jones

10 people who went around barefoot

1. Jesus
2. Ghandi
3. Fred Flintsone
4. Lil' Abner
5. Lady Godiva
6. The Invisible Man
7. Bruce Lee
8. Achilles
9. guy who wrote the song "barefootin"
10. Smokey (oh no, that's bearfoot)

Favorite Movies

These are films that I enjoy, but not great works of art.

• Nothing in Common
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• About Last Night
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Monty Python's Life of Brian
• Back to the Future
• Arthur
• Tootsie
• Ghostbusters
• Grease
• Defending Your Life
• Eddie and the Cruisers

Worst Films

1. The Gate
2. Undercover Brother
3. See Spot Run
4. Battle Beyond the Stars
5. Snow Dogs
6. Dungeons and Dragons
7. Godzilla (1999)
8. Off Limits
9. Jurassic Park 3
10. The English Patient

Best Movies

1. Do the Right Thing
2. Spinal Tap
3. On the Waterfront
4. Star Wars Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back
5. Raging Bull
6. Apocalypse Now
7. Fantasia
8. Dr. Strangelove
9. Ordinary People
10. Braveheart
11. Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope
12. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
    
13. The Lion King
14. Boyz 'n the Hood
15. Night of the Living Dead (original)
16. 2001: A Space Odyssey
17. Casablanca
18. Rocky
19. Pulp Fiction
20. Nosferatu (silent version)

Best Band Names

These are all real bands (or were at one time)

• rash of stabbings
• ann b. davis as alice
• the johnny bravos
• dead cat bounce
• cows in the graveyard
• the dead milkmen
• child support blues band
• guy smiley
• lets go bowling
• racer x
• toad the wet sprocket
• boy hits car

Best Albums

These can be from any genre.

1. Stain - Living Colour
2. Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
3. Moving Pictures - Rush
4. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
5. Hemispheres - Rush
6. Graceland - Paul Simon
7. The Joshua Tree - U2
8. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
9. Chicago Bound - Jimmy Rogers
10. Tunnel of Love - Bruce Springsteen
11. Ghetto Music: the blueprint of hip-hop - BDP
12. This is Big Audio Dynamite - B.A.D.
13. Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy
14. Operation: Mindcrime - Queensryche
15. Counterparts - Rush
16. Vivid - Living Colour
17. Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
18. I Want You to Know - Paul Rishell & Annie Raines
19. The Battle of Los Angeles - Rage Against the Machine
20. Fragile - Yes

Favorite Harmonica Players

OK, so this one's obscure. But it's my list page, and I play the harmonica!

1. Sonny Terry
2. Big Walter "Shakey" Horton
3. Marion "Little Walter" Jacobs
4. Toots Thielemans
5. James Cotton
6. Kim Wilson
7. Jim Fitting
8. Annie Raines
9. Jason Ricci
10. Jerry Portnoy
11. Rice Miller (Sonny Boy Williamson II)
12. Adam Gussow
13. Junior Wells
14. Phil wiggibs
15. Billy branch

Best Songs

These are the best songs, so the songwriting is important, not the recording.

1. God Don't Never Change - "Blind" Willie Johnson (recorded by "Blind" Willie Johnson)
   
2. Nothingness - Vernon Reid (recorded by Living Colour)
3. Sleep Now in the Fire - Tom Morello (recorded by Rage Against the Machine)
4. Welcome to the Terrordome - Chuck D (Carlton Ridenhour), Keith Shocklee, Eric "Vietnam" Sadler (recorded by Public Enemy)
5. Tom Sawyer - Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, Pye Dubois (recorded by Rush)
6. Misplaced Childhood - Derek Dick, Stephen Rothery (recorded by Marillion)
7. This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie (recorded by Woody Guthrie)
   
8. Preachin' the Blues - Eddie "Son" House (recorded by Eddie "Son" House)
9. Beautiful - Laurie Sargent (recorded by Laurie Sargent)
   
10. Fool in Love - Charlie Farren (recorded by Farrenheit)
    
11. Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley (recorded by Bob Marley and the Wailers)
    
12. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen (recorded by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band)
    

Best Bands/Musical Acts

For this list, I'll include all genres, and bands as well as solo artists

1. Living Colour
2. Rush
3. Public Enemy
4. Paul Rishell and Annie Raines
5. Rage Against the Machine
6. Treat Her Right
7. Corey Harris
8. The Ramones
9. The Fixx
10. The Clash
11. Dropkick Murphys
12. Mighty Mighty Bosstones
13. Tom Hambridge