Top Ten List Thread!

10. You Know My Name
9. Skyfall
8. From Russia with Love
7. A View to a Kill
6. For Your Eyes Only

5. You Only Live Twice
4. We Have All the Time in the World
3. Nobody Does It Better
2. Goldfinger
1. If You Asked Me To

I've grown fond of Live and Let Die as time has gone by, but this one is still my favorite.

https://youtu.be/SSEmKXzpQMQ?si=tF5oXm1J...

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Best songs of the 2000s, in no order:

MAPS - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Around the World - Daft Punk
Umbrella - Rihanna
Last Nite - The Strokes

Hate to Say I Told You So - The Hives
Can't Get You Outta My Head - Kylie
Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
Paper Planes - MIA
Hey Ya - Outkast
Rehab - Amy Winehouse

I only know three of these.

Did you submit a list to the NYT poll of best books of the 21st century?

Eagles
Steely Dan
Lynryd Skynyrd
REM
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Metallica
Talking Heads
The Cars
ZZ Top
Allman Brothers Band
Cheap Trick
Chicago
Heart
Pixies
The Stooges
Parliament/Funkadelic
The E Street Band
Alice Cooper band
Soundgarden
Nirvana
The Byrds
The Ramones
Sly & the Family Stone
Aerosmith
Credence Clearwater Revival
Van Halen
The Beach Boys
Santana
Toto
Low
Pearl Jam
Foo Fighters
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Bon Jovi
Jefferson Airplane
Journey
Styx
Boston
Grand Funk Railroad
Husker Du
The Replacements
Social Distortion
311
Bad Religion
April Wine
Motley Crue
Guns n Roses
Blue Oyster Cult
MC5
Collective Soul

My guess at the 50 greatest American bands. And yes, I left The Doors off on purpose.

Music (2000)... Madonna

Which ones?

I don't write letters to fishwrap.

Bonus points: MC5
Bonus points: Omitting The Doors.

Apparently the Times asked a number of critics and writers but also calculated votes from anyone who submitted a list of ten books.

Four I submitted that made the list were 2666, The Last Samurai, Atonement, and Tree of Smoke.

List filled with novels but short on poetry and non-fiction.

The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

nytimes

The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

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I can't comment on Atonement, but the other three should be declared required reading for the Forum.

Atonement probably on my alltime top 10 list. I should make one for this thread!

But, so hard, so many great works left off. Even if you make it post WW2.

Zeno’s list: The best 21st century books to burn!

Coming soon! And you don’t have to read them before burning!

Ha nice one. Not sure if I 100% agree but sure a fun trip down memory lane thinking of these

I just realized that was supposed to say the first decade of the 2000s!

Top 10 novels since WW2 [not going to be all the classics]:

Catch-22 - Heller
Bridge of Birds - B. Hughart
The Name of the Rose - Eco
Crying of Lot 40 - Pynchon
The Names - DeLillo

The Wasp Factory - Banks
Pale Fire - Nabokov
Atonement - McEwan
Infinite Jest - D. F. Wallace
Wittgenstein's Mistress - D. Markson

Dumbest lyrics in classic rock

10. "Imagine no possesions" - Imagine
9. "blue suburban skies" - Penny Lane
8. "Glorified version of a pellet gun" - Glorified G
7. "Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit" - Don't Stop Believin'
6. "I could be wrong, but I'm not" - Victim of Love
5. "Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen" - Someone saved my Life Tonight
4. "The ocean is a desert with its life underground and a perfect disguise above" - Horse with no Name
3. "In the desert, you can remember your name 'cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain" - Horse with no Name
2. "If God was here, He'd tell it to your face, man, you're some kind of sinner" - Signs
1. "The heat was hot" - Horse with no Name

you forgot: "Only time will tell if we stand the test of time."

because that was a horrible song impersonating neil young

As some here know well, I hate "Imagine," the whole thing.

"Horse With No Name" is unbearable.

You forgot "In this ever changing world in which we live in." Terrible line in a great song.

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lol I like Horse with No Name

So do I. It's a great song if you don't know the lyrics.

Say it ain't so, Joe!

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Imagine is awful.