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.
recording artists when you were in high school
1. Modest Mouse
2. Devendra Banhart
3. Donovan
4. Built to Spill
5. Misfits
Instrument influences
1. J Mascis - Dinosaur Jr
2. Agustin Barrios
3. Leo Brouwer
4. Damon Tutunjian - Swirlies
5. Ash Bowie - Polvo
Songwriting influences
1. Jason Molina - Songs:Ohia, Magnolia Electric Company
2. J Mascis - Dinosaur Jr
3. Superchunk
4. Further
5. The Ropers
Karaoke songs
1. Justin Beiber - Sorry
2. Katy Perry - Birthday
3. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
4. CCR - Have You Ever Seen The Rain
5. CCR - Midnight Special
Junk foods
1. Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs
2. Cadbury Creme Eggs
3. Caramello
4. Old Fashioned Donuts
5. Cookie
Places to eat in Baltimore
1. Alma Cocina Latina
2. Blacksauce Kitchen
3. Larder
4. Cocina Luchadoras
5. Clavel
Movies
1. Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Drag Me To Hell
3. Mandy
4. The Favourite
5. Apollo 11 (Documentary 2019)
Role models
1. My Big Sister, Erin
2. Glynn Washington (Snap Judgement Podcast)
3. Connor Murray
4. Ibram X. Kendi
5. Alec Macgillis (Reporter for ProPublica)
Spooled Up songs
1. Holding Space
2. Half Past Nice (yet to be released)
3. Blessin (yet to be released)
4. Bunna
5. No No How (yet to be released)
bands in Baltimore
1. Baklavaa
2. D.Y.Y.O.
3. Pearl
4. Josh Stokes
5. Smoke Bellow
Productive ways to pass time during corona
1. I've been re-learning how to read music and play my classical guitar and it's been so rewarding! :) (see Agustin Barrios and Leo Brouwer in my instrument influences)
2. As much nature as possible
3. Weed
4. Talking on the phone to my big sister
5. Birding
Unproductive ways to pass time during corona
1. Instagram (unless for info spreading and activism)
2. Facebook (unless for info spreading or activism)
3. Candy
4. Pizza Flavor Blasted Goldfish
5. 90 Day Fiance
Songs right now
1. 31 Seasons In The Minor Leagues - Jason Molina (live at Chapelle)
2. Nashville Moon - Jason Molina (live at Chapelle)
3. Phoebe Bridgers - Garden Song (sooo good :) :) )
4. John Prine - I Remember Everything
5. Julia Florida - Agustin Barrios
80s pop jams
(Not well versed in 80's pop, but here goes!)
1. Just Like Heaven - The Cure
2. Kiss - Prince
3. Age of Consent - New Order
4. Faith - George Michael
Books
1. Underworld - Don DeLillo
2. World's End - T.C. Boyle
3. How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X Kendi
4. Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
5. The Existential Pleasures of Engineering - Samuel C. Florman
Albums that changed your life
1. Magnolia Electric Co. - Songs: Ohia
2. Super Griptape L.P. - further
3. You're Living all Over Me - Dinosaur Jr
4. Blonder Tongue Audio Baton - Swirlies
5. Pyramid Electric Co. - Jason Molina
Pizza toppings
1. Pineapple
2. Peppers
3. Extra Sauce :)
4. Mushrooms
5. Broccoli
Cities you’ve visited
1. Santa Fe, New Mexico
2. Tucson, Arizona
3. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
4. Great Cacapon, West Virginia
5. Abiquiu, New Mexico
Condiments
1. Pepper Sauce from Clavel
2. Sriracha
3. Green Chile Sauce
4. Spicy Brown Mustard
5. Popeye's BBq sauce
Fictional characters
1. Fry from Futurama
2. Zaphod Beeblebrox form Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
3. Gil from the Simpsons
4. The Disembodied Head of Richard Nixon from Futurama
5. Michonne from The Walking Dead
Written by Tyler Gallagher (@TylerGallagher8)