HEY! Welcome to Twenty Top 5s. I (Tyler) have been sending out questionnaires to some of my favorite musicians and asking for their top 5 in every category. I’ll be publishing them every Thursday for the foreseeable future. Hopefully this lets you get to know some of your favorite musicians a little bit better, and I hope it distracts you in these trying times.
Today’s Twenty Top 5 participant is Jordyn Blakely. Jordyn plays and has played in some of my absolute favorite bands. The Brooklyn-based musician is a talented multi-instrumentalist and singer always involved in multiple projects. She currently plays in Maneka, Stove, and Kino Kimino, and formerly drummed in Jackal Onassis and Sharkmuffin, among others. In addition, Jordyn is currently working on a solo EP.
Jordyn has influenced my own drumming and songwriting tremendously, so this is an exciting one for me. If you haven't listened to Stove or Maneka, please check them out. It was a pleasure to have her participate!
recording artists when you were in high school
Rancid
Interpol
Thursday
The Libertines
Blink 182
Songwriting influences
Elliott Smith
Chelsea Wolfe
Kurt Cobain
Elizabeth Fraser
Lou Barlow
Instrument influences
Carla Azar
Mitch Mitchell
John Bonham
Greg Saunier
Dave King
Karaoke songs
Tearing up my heart (Nsync)
waiting for tonight (JLo)
Complicated (Avril Lavigne)
every morning (sugar ray)
baby one more time (Britney spears)
Junk foods
Sour cream & onion utz ridged chips
cracked pepper kettle chips
Tostitos tortilla chips
Cheezits
Doritos (OG)
Places to eat in New York
Veselka
Kenka ramen
peter pan deli
oasis
Cachapas y mas
Movies
Hook
SLC Punk
Cabin in the Woods
Mulholland Drive
Mallrats
Role models
Mike Judge
Bernie Sanders
Pipilotti Rist
Bong Joon Ho
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Maneka songs
Positive
Never nowhere
Brand new day
My boy Seth
Holy hell
Stove songs
Dumb phone
Stiff bones
Bubblegum lightning
They are dogs
Tiny gaze
Productive ways to pass time during corona
Drinking coffee in the backyard in the sun with our cat Piper
Learning to have more fun being alone
Long conversations with friends and family
Unlimited time playing any instrument you feel like
Watching super random TV and movies you normally would never be bored enough to watch
Unproductive ways to pass time during corona
Losing to the same level in Yoshis story on N64
Looking at my phone too much
sleeping from 5am-2pm
Sipping and refilling the same glass of wine all day
Reading the news too much and freaking out
Songs right now
"Knock" shell of a shell
"gimme gimme" nnamdi
"nice try" youbet
"I'm your puppet" Dionne Warwick
"the hermit crab" lilys
80s pop jams
"Cruel summer" bananarama
"eyes without a face" billy idol
"like a prayer" Madonna
"when doves cry" prince
"drive" the cars
Venues you’ve played
Shea Stadium
the Mohawk
Everybody Hits
Café de l'Espace
Carnegie Hall
Albums that changed your life
Drive Like Jehu "Yank Crime"
Green Day "Dookie"
Portishead "Dummy"
Beck "Odelay"
Weezer "Blue Album"
Pizza toppings
Pepperoni/black olives
pepperoni/mushrooms
pepperoni
cheese
spinach
Cities you’ve visited
Chattanooga
St. Louis
Cardiff
Kathmandu
Ashland
Condiments
Ketchup
bbq sauce
soy sauce
chipotle mayo
valentina hot sauce
Fictional characters
Hagrid from Harry Potter
Jesse Pinkman
Pinhead
Lisa Simpson
Quinn Morgendorffer
Written by Tyler Gallagher (@TylerGallagher8)