Top Five Tunes For...

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So I was thinking of a new game, because I needed to distract myself with being useful.

Here's how this works.

The first person (in this case, me) is going to give a situation or theme. The next person will post the top five songs, according to them, that would best fit the situation or theme given.

At the end of their list, they also post a new situation/theme for the following poster to come up with five songs for.

Does that makes sense? Here's an example:

Player 1:
Top five tunes for...

...feeling blue.
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Player 2:
1. The Thin Ice - Pink Floyd
2. Champagne From A Paper Cup - Death Cab for Cutie
3. April 8th - Neutral Milk Hotel
4. Hard To Miss You - Mojave 3
5. Walk Into The Sea - Low

Top five tunes for...making out to.
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Got it? Good. Let's use that one...

...making out to.


Go! :D
 
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones (for the irony)
Pfft...any Barry White track.
Tocca by Bach to freak the other person out.

Top 5 tunes for...when you're awaiting the ambulance.
 
1. Dashboard - Modest Mouse
2. Broken Face - Pixies
3. Hold Me In The River - Brakesbrakesbrakes
4. Heavy - Collective Soul
5. I Fought The Law - The Clash


...a freezing cold morning and you don't want to go to work.
 
1. I don't like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats

2. Downtown - Tegan and Sara

3. This Place is a prison - The Postal Service

4. Shortly before the end - Ok Go

5. Slow Down - The New Amsterdams

... busting zombie heads
 
1. Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
2. Back in Black - AC/DC
3. Teenage Lobotomy - Ramones
4. Maneater - Hall & Oates
5. Date With The Night - YeahYeahYeahs

...being caught in the middle of a stampede.
 
1. Rocking the suburbs - Ben folds.

2. You Sexy thing - Hot Chocolate

3. If you want to sing out, sing out - Cat Stevens (more for the title than the actual song)

4. Here (in your arms) - Hellogoodbye

5. I'll be here when you wake - The Reindeer Section

...playing table tennis
 
1. Spectacle - Anna Oxygen
2. Body Movin' - Beastie Boys (the Fatboy Slim remix)
3. All Together Now - The Beatles
4. The Magnificent Seven - The Clash
5. Ringalingaling - Dressy Bessy


...when you're super angry after a bad fight.
 
1. Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana

2. Madder - Groove Armada

3. Doctor Doctor - Gyroscope

4. Hate to say i told you so - the hives

5. Back up! - TZU


...when you have just handed in a years worth of work and you are pretty proud of it.
 
You're the Best (Around) - Joe Ventoso

We Are the Champions - Queen

Master of Puppets - Metallica

The Wizard - Black Sabbath

Have a Cigar - Pink Floyd

...for one of those days when you wake up and just feel like crap.
 
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zep
Closer to the Heart - Rush
Baba O'Reilly - The Who

Always perk me up.

...for when you're facing a moral dilemma.
 
1. Ain't No Easy Way - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
2. The Body Says No - The New Pornographers
3. Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
4. Business Before Pleasure - Group Sounds
5. Come In Out of the Rain - Engineers



...dancin' your way across uni campus, blissfully ignorant of what people may or may not think of you.
 
Dancing with myself - Billy Idol.
Shiny Shiny - Haysi Fantayzee
Gold - Spandau Ballet
Our House - Madness
Turning Japanese - The Vapors

... creating a global empire
 
1) Brick House - The Commodores
2) Sea Legs - The Shins
3) The Soldiering Life - The Decemberists
4) Gigantic - Pixies
5) Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
(It's what I would listen to, anyway...)

...playing super loud on the stereo with your car windows rolled down at the stoplight.
 
The rainbow connection - Kermit the frog.

Ten minutes- the get up kids

Back up! -TZU

the car song - The cat empire

The dirt bike option - The fauves

... doorknocking for charity
 
1. Short People - Randy Newman (I couldn't resist.)
2. Give A Little Bit - Goo Goo Dolls
3. Please - Apples In Stereo
4. Don't Walk Alone - Bob Evans
5. One Step Inside Doesn't Mean You Understand - The Notwist


...when you see a hot chick who looks totally badass on her motorcycle.
 
1) Vincent Black Lightning - Richard Thompson (the perfect tune for that situation. Red hair and black leather, my favourite colour scheme!)
2) Come Baby Come - St. Ted.
3) All Right Now - Free (a stupid song, but it fits)
4) What I Like About You - The Clash
5) Foxy Lady - Jimi

...for when you've had your heart stamped on by stiletto heels.
 
1. Left At the Party - The Affair
2. Queen of Pain - Alkaline Trio
3. Please - Apples in Stereo (I think I may have used that earlier, but it's perfect for this one.
4. Bang - YeahYeahYeahs
5. Won't Get Played - TZU


...when you're hella frustrated at your stupid computer.
 
Lilian - Depeche Mode

Lazy - Deep Purple

Fight Fire with Fire - Metallica

Break on Truth - The Doors

Babe, I'm Gonna Leave - Led Zepplin

....when your dog/cat just died.
 
1. Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
2. Seamus - Pink Floyd
3. As I Rise - The Decemberists
4. You're My Best Friend - Queen
5. Bye Bye Blackbird - Joe Cocker



...when you feel emotionally spent.
 
Anything by Explosions in the Sky
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Yanqui X.O.
Sigur Ros' ( ) album. Although not everyone likes it and sometimes it is beautiful and perfect and other times it is only grating.
Citizen Cope - Citizen Cope (to a lesser extent, if 'spent' includes a couple shades of blue)
Wilco - "You Are My Face" off Sky Blue Sky. The whole album is pretty good for that, actually.
Beatles - "Here Comes the Sun" demo off the Anthology sets
Against Me! - "Cavalier Eternal" off The Eternal Cowboy. The last 3 having more to get into the recup part of the emotion cycle. Actually, on that note...
Modest Mouse "Little Motel" followed by "Missed the Boat".
Sublime - "Let's Go Get Stoned" off Stand By Your Van. And then go follow the advice. Make a Caucasian and sleep on things.

IndieGirl answering ambulance songs:
1. Dashboard - Modest Mouse
2. Broken Face - Pixies
3. Hold Me In The River - Brakesbrakesbrakes
4. Heavy - Collective Soul
5. I Fought The Law - The Clash
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"Mr. Ambulance Driver" by Flaming Lips just too gauche?


...for when you're stuck in a long line waiting for your welfare check on a Friday afternoon.
 
Huh...never had that experience but I'll give it a try.

Lazy Generation - The F-Ups

Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley

Stained Class - Judas Priest

Waiting on the World to Change - John Mayer

Drift Away - Dobie Gray (original about a thousand covers)

....when you win the lottery.
 
1. $1,000,000 - Barenaked Ladies
2. Money - Pink Floyd
3. Island In The Sun - Weezer
4. See The World - Gomez
5. Gold Day - Sparklehorse


...sticking it to the man.
 
1) The Guns of Brixton - The Clash
2) The Times they are a-Changin' - Bob
3) If 6 was 9 - Jimi
4) Ohio - Neil Young
5) Fortunate Son - CCR

...for a road trip.
 
1. First Day On the Run - The Fauves
2. Rio - Duran Duran
3. Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
4. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
5. Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

Or pretty much every song on my Socks & Undies playlist. It has to be songs that you can sing along to, blissfully ignorant of how bad the carful of passengers sound, because you're all having so much fun belting it out like rockstars.


...singing in the shower
 
1) Me & Mia - Ted
2) The Trooper - Iron Maiden
3) My Generation - The Who
4) Break on Through - The Doors
5) I Will Always Love Yooooouu-a - Whitney Houston

... for fishin'.
 
Back to the Lake - Guided By Voices
Weird Divide - The Shins
Comfort Me - Sparklehorse
You Can't Always Get What You Want - the Stones, a-course.
In the Waiting Line - Zero 7


...gettin' your funk on.
 
1) Superstition - Stevie Wonder (good for any occasion, really.)
2) Funky Town - 70s Disco
3) Whole Lotta Love - LZ
4) One Nation Under a Groove - Parliament Funkadelic
5) West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys

Yup.

...for celebrating the weekend
 
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
Shake Your Hips - The Rolling Stones
That Thing You Do - The Wonders
Get Myself Arrested - Gomez
Taking the Uni Student Out To The Country - The Fauves

(Sorry for the repeat bands in these posts, I'm going off my iPod, and not my entire collection...)

...a totally weird-ass mood that is blank and incomprehensible.
 
1) Brain Damage - Floyd
2) Go Insane - Lindsey Buckingham
3) Up on Cripple Creek - The Band
4) Pretty in Pink - Psychedelic Furs
5) Goodbye Girls - Broadcast

...for when you've got writer's block.
 
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
2. Echoes - Pink Floyd
3. Write What You Know - The Fauves
4. Consequence - The Notwist
5. Prelude for Time Feelers - Eluvium

...when you're chilling at the guys' apartment between classes and no one else is home so you feel kinda weird.
 
How long is too long - The get up kids
We haven't turned around - Gomez
We're just temporary ma'am - White Whale
How will i see you - Goodshirt
Walking with a ghost - Tegan and Sara

... deadlines are catching up
 
1. Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
2. Anxiety - Ramones
3. Dirty Work - Rolling Stones
4. Absolutely Curtains - Pink Floyd
5. Chapter 24 - Pink Floyd

...kicking ass while playing Halo.
 
The longest hour - After the fall.

Loaded gun - Jebediah

Orpheus - Ash

Hate to say i told you so - the hives

AND Daydream believer - the monkees.

EDIT: ... being a ninja.
 
1. Ninja Flip-out - 7 Seconds of Love
2. Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas (Yes, I know ninjas don't use Kung Fu, shut up. :P )
3. Nosebleeds - Chineseburn
4. Skyline Satellites -School of Strategy
5. Ninja, ninja, ninja, ninninninja! - Make It Better Later


...being a pirate. :D
 
15 Men On A Dead Man's Chest - who knows

Yo Ho A Pirate's Life For Me -who knows

The Gruesome Death Of Edward Teach - Scissorfight

Professor Booty - Beastie Boys

Jolly Roger - Roger McGuinn

For the first two, if you have heard the entire lyrics, you would agree that they must be on this list.
 
Once again, y'all lose for not putting another thing to make a list for. So I am going to make my own list of the Top Five Tunes for the Morning After a Huge Fight with One's Parentals:

1. Nimrod's Son - Pixies
2. King of Carrot Flowers - Neutral Milk Hotel
3. Sweetness Follows - R.E.M.
4. Get Out the State - Spoon
5. First to Finish, Last to Start - Ted Leo & the Pharmacists


...a cold, grey autumn day.
 
hazy shade of winter - Simon and Garfunkel (so its technically about winter, so what?)

black wave - the shins

don't let it get you down - spoon

sukie in the graveyard - belle and sebastian

ain't no sunshine - bill withers

...being milli vanilli. :P
 
I hate you. :P

1. Blame it on the Rain - Milli Vanilli
2. Girl You Know It's True - Milli Vanilli
3. Keep On Running - Milli Vanilli
4. Nice n' Easy - Milli Vanilli
5. Too Late (True Love) - Milli Vanilli

...hiring hitmen for someone who ruined my game.
 
we used to be friends - the dandy warhols

how to be dead - snow patrol

oh, godammit - hot hot heat

taking the uni student out to the country - the fauves

somebody hates me - reel big fish

... apologising for breaking a game
 
1. Sorry, Sorry - Rooney
2. Apology Song - The Decemberists
3. Sorry - Galaxie 500
4. Apology In Advance - Guided by Voices
5. Sorry - Stevie Wonder


...reading about chupacabras
 
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