Top Ten Lists:

(based on my own personal preferences)

Top Ten Singles:

  1. Brown Sugar- The Rolling Stones
  2. Born To Run- Bruce Springsteen
  3. Go Your Own Way- Fleetwood Mac
  4. Imagine- John Lennon
  5. River Deep, Mountain High- Ike and Tina Turner
  6. Like a Rolling Stone- Bob Dylan
  7. Horses- Patti Smith Group
  8. No Time To Cry- Iris DeMent
  9. Be My Baby- The Ronettes
  10. Bad- U2

Top Ten Albums:

  1. Astral Weeks- Van Morrison
  2. The Final Cut- Pink Floyd
  3. Escape Artist- Garland Jeffreys
  4. Nebraska- Bruce Springsteen
  5. The Wall- Pink Floyd
  6. A Christmas Gift For You- Phil Spector
  7. Horses- Patti Smith Group
  8. Bat Out Of Hell- Meat Loaf
  9. Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
  10. Freewheelin'-Bob Dylan

In A Class By Themselves!

The Ramones

Top Ten Videos:

  1. Gypsy- Fleetwood Mac
  2. Learning To Fly (original with mother)-Pink Floyd
  3. Series of Dreams- Bob Dylan
  4. Jump- Van Halen
  5. White Wedding- Billy Idol
  6. Goodbye To You- Scandal
  7. Road To Nowhere- Talking Heads
  8. Every Breath You Take- Police
  9. Boy In The Bubble- Paul Simon
  10. With Or Without You- U2

Top Ten Movies:

  1. Casablanca
  2. Paths Of Glory
  3. Tunes Of Glory
  4. The Seventh Seal
  5. The Deerhunter
  6. The Maltese Falcon
  7. Dr. Strangelove
  8. The Road Warrior
  9. The Godfather
  10. The Wrath of Khan

Top Ten Candy Bars:

  1. Chuckles
  2. Milky Way (Dark Chocolate)
  3. York Peppermint Patty (once called Mason Mint)
  4. Dots (and Black Crows)
  5. Milk Duds
  6. Snickers
  7. Milky Way (regular Chocolate)
  8. Hershey Bar (plain)
  9. Starburst Jelly Beans
  10. Chuckles Spice Drops

Top Ten WORST Candy Bars:

  1. Turkish Taffy
  2. Clark Bar
  3. Red Hots
  4. Jawbreakers
  5. Necco Wafers
  6. Bit-O-Honey
  7. Charleston Chew
  8. Peanut Brittle
  9. Cracker Jacks
  10. Reggie

Top Ten People I Really Admire

  1. Hillary Clinton
  2. Richard Feynman
  3. Sir Fred Hoyle
  4. Leonardo da Vinci
  5. Galileo
  6. Barack Obama
  7. Ludwig Van Beethoven
  8. Thomas Jefferson
  9. Mr. Spock
  10. Bobby Sands

Top Ten People I Really Loath

  1. Ken Starr
  2. Lawrence Welk
  3. Sen. Joseph McCarthy
  4. Sigmund Freud
  5. Pablo Picasso
  6. Roseann Barr Arnold, whatever
  7. George W. Bush
  8. Howard Stern
  9. Michael Jackson
  10. O.J. Simpson

Top Ten Best TV Shows

  1. Northern Exposure
  2. M*A*S*H
  3. The Avengers
  4. The Saint
  5. All In The Family
  6. The West Wing
  7. The Twilight Zone
  8. Star Trek- The Next Generation
  9. Homicide
  10. Deadwood

Top Ten Best Novels

  1. Moby Dick
  2. Ulysses
  3. Portrait of the Artist
  4. Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  5. The Stranger
  6. Crime and Punishment
  7. The Grapes of Wrath
  8. 1984
  9. Heart of Darkness
  10. Brave New World

Top Ten Short Stories

  1. Seeds- Sherwood Anderson
  2. Paul's Case- Willa Cather
  3. The Mysterious Stranger-Mark Twain
  4. Rain-Somerset Maugham
  5. A Municipal Report-O Henry
  6. The Gift of the Magi- O Henry
  7. The Monkey's Paw- W.W. Jacobs
  8. The Devil and Daniel Webster- S. V. Benet
  9. Bliss- Katherine Mansfield
  10. The Boarding House- James Joyce
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