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Top 25 album titles that didn’t happen

  1. Nirvana – I Hate Myself And I Want To Die (In Utero)
  2. Stephen Malkmus – Dear Mom, Send Money (Stephen Malkmus)
  3. Beastie Boys – Don’t Be A Faggot (License to Ill) [they subsequently had an apology for their homophobia printed in a gay magazine]
  4. Morrissey – Education In Reverse (Viva Hate)
  5. New Order – Carry On New Order (Republic )
  6. Redd Kross – Black Motorcycle Madonna (Researching The Blues)
  7. Blink 182 – Vasectomy, Vasect-a-you (Take Off Your Pants And Jacket)
  8. Stephen Malkmus – L.A. Guns (Mirror Traffic)
  9. Super Furry Animals – (Text Messaging Is Destroying The Pub Quiz As We Know It (Rings Around The World)
  10. Offspring –  Chinese Democracy [You Snooze, You Lose] (Splinter, this was mooted before Guns N Roses had released Chinese Democracy)
  11. The Beatles – One Down, Six To Go (Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, they had just signed a six album record deal)
  12. Beastie Boys – Thick Like Beyoncé’s Leg (The Mix-Up)
  13. The Rolling Stones – Hard Knocks and Dirty Socks (Let It Bleed)
  14. Metallica – Metal Up Your Ass (Kill ‘Em All)
  15. Bryan Adams – Bryan Adams Hasn’t Heard of You Either (You Want It You Got It)
  16. The Beach Boys – Dumb Angel (Smile)
  17. Talking Heads – Melody Attack (Remain In Light)
  18. Pavement – Farewell Horizontal (Terror Twilight)
  19. Stevie Wonder – Let’s See Life The Way It Is  (Songs In The Key Of Life)
  20. Eric Clapton – The Best Guitarist In The World: There’s One In Every Crowd (There’s One In Every Crowd)
  21. The Beatles – Everest (Abbey Road)
  22. Madonna – Stiff Is The New Hard (American Life)
  23. Wilco – Get Well Soon Everybody (The Whole Love)
  24. The Rolling Stones – Yesssireee (Exile On Main Street)
  25. The Teardrop Explodes - Everybody Wants To Shag The Teardrop Explodes (Kilimanjaro)

Top 40 Redd Kross songs

  1. Dumb Angel
  2. I Hate My School
  3. Ugly Town
  4. Jimmy’s Fantasy
  5. Bubblegum Factory
  6. Zira (Call Out My Name)
  7. Lady In The Front Row
  8. Vanity Mirror
  9. Ballad of a Lovedoll
  10. Elephant Flares
  11. Crazy World
  12. I’m Alright
  13. Where I Am Today
  14. One Chord Progression
  15. Annie’s Gone
  16. Peach Kelli Pop
  17. Follow The Leader
  18. Neurotica
  19. Kiss The Goat
  20. Cover Band
  21. Mess Around
  22. Annettes Got The Hits
  23. The Faith Healer
  24. Janus, Jeanie and George Harrison
  25. Notes and Chords Mean Nothing To Me
  26. Play My Song
  27. Standing In Front of Poseur
  28. Love Is You
  29. 1976
  30. Frosted Flake
  31. Linda Blair
  32. Citadel
  33. Cellulite City
  34. Teen Competition
  35. McKenzie
  36. Love Is Not Love
  37. Girl God
  38. Pay For Love
  39. I Don’t Know How To Be Your Friend
  40. I Was Born To Love You

Top 25 Australian food and beverage TV commercials from the 1980s and 1990s

  1. Snappy Tom (“The cats of Australian have made their choice” series)
  2. Crunchy (1988)
  3. Meadow Lea (“You oughtta be congratulated” series)
  4. Aussie Sunrice (1990)
  5. Sultana Bran (1990)
  6. Cottees Cordial (“My dad picks the fruit” series)
  7. Street’s Choc Block (1987)
  8. Bushells Tea (1990)
  9. Bushells Tea (1989)
  10. Cheezels (1991)
  11. Solo (1986)
  12. Red Rooster (1987)
  13. Lamb (‘dinner with Tom Cruise’ series)
  14. Schweppes (1987)
  15. ETA Magerine (‘Ripper Rita’ series)
  16. Uncle Toby’s Muesli Bars (1988)
  17. Continental Cup-a-Soup (1987)
  18. Cherry Ripe (1989)
  19. Samboy (1992)
  20. Vienetta (1989)
  21. Nescafe (1994)
  22. Schweppes Cola (1990)
  23. Kit Kat (1988, grey dresssed office workers on escalator)
  24. Smiths Crisps Lite (1986)
  25. Snappy Tom (1990)

Top 5 aggressive album titles

  1. The Difference Between You and Me Is I’m Not on Fire by Mcluskey
  2. Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will by Mogwai
  3. You Me Carpark…Now by Smudge
  4. I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass by Yo La Tengo
  5. Hate Your Friends by The Lemonheads

Top 15 robber barons, tycoons, moguls, magnates, evil rich people, etc.

  1. Howard Hughes
  2. Mir Osman Ali Khan
  3. Alan Bond
  4. Marcus Licinius Crassus
  5. Oprah Winfrey
  6. William Randolph Hearst
  7. John Jacob Astor
  8. William Vestey (later ‘Lord Vestey’)
  9. John Warne Gates
  10. Mark Zuckerberg
  11. Jay Gould
  12. Henry Clay Frick
  13. J.P. Morgan
  14. Christopher Skase
  15. Cornelius Vanderbilt

Top 20 songs with water sounds

  1. Tael of a Saeghors by Makers of the Dead Travel Fast
  2. Cities in Dust by Siouxie and The Banshees
  3. Raining Blood by Slayer
  4. Helicopter by Deerhunter
  5. Dolphins by Fred Neil
  6. Ghosts of the Night by The Mavis’s
  7. Glob Waterfall by Joe Meek
  8. Water Curses by Animal Collective
  9. Midnight on the Bay by Neil Young and Stephen Stills
  10. Spray Water On The Stereo by Turnstyle
  11. Behind The Waterfall by The Apples in Stereo
  12. If It Rains by Robert Forster
  13. Oceans of Weep by Ariel Pink
  14. 1983…A Merman I Should Turn To Be by Jimi Hendrix
  15. The Sound of Rain by The Go-Betweens
  16. Ocean by The Velvet Underground
  17. Waterfalls by TLC
  18. Rain Is Falling by Electric Light Orchestra
  19. Champagne Supernova by Oasis
  20. Tangerine by Big Boi

Top 30 of Mean Culture

  1. Helena – The Goldfish Blender by Marco Evaristti [visual art]
  2. You Can’t Do That On Television [television]
  3. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia [television]
  4. Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow by Felt [music]
  5. Heathers [film]
  6. Idiot Wind by Bob Dylan [music]
  7. I’m Alan Partridge [television]
  8. Nighty Night [television]
  9. Vice Magazine [writing]
  10. Simon Amstell [comedy]
  11. You’ve Never Lived by The Go-Betweens [music]
  12. Ren and Stimpy [television]
  13. The Classical by The Fall [music]
  14. Jackass [film]
  15. Ricky Gervais [comedy]
  16. Why Don’t You Find Out For Yourself by Morrissey [music]
  17. Mean Girls [film]
  18. The Young Ones [television]
  19. Rock Star (Olympia) by Hole [music]
  20. Mark Prindle Record Reviews [writing]
  21. South Park [television]
  22. Red Symons [comedy]
  23. Family Guy [television]
  24. U.G.L.Y. by Daphne & Celeste [music]
  25. Sarah Silverman [comedy]
  26. How Ya Like Me Now by Kool Moe Dee [music]
  27. Dogfight [film]
  28. Idiot Box by The Damned [music]
  29. Hey Dad! [television]
  30. The Weakest Link [television]

Top 25 Perth songs

  1. Farmers Never Visit Nightclubs by The Triffids
  2. Closet Fan by 7 Day Weekend
  3. Sunny Romance by Thermos Cardy
  4. I Love Perth by Pavement
  5. World Famous In Perth by Turnstyle
  6. Big Gay Heart by The Lemonheads
  7. Premonition by The Manikins 
  8. Lovers by Effigy
  9. Yes I Am by Cinema Prague
  10. This Is My Happy Hour by The Scientists
  11. Half Full Glass of Wine by Tame Impala
  12. Military Strongmen by Jebediah
  13. At First Sight by The Stems
  14. Why Are All The Cars Outside Real? by Eskimo Joe
  15. Hope Grocery by Sodastream
  16. Good Dancers by The Sleepy Jackson
  17. Perth Is A Culture Shock by The Victims
  18. Applecross Wing Commander by You Am I
  19. Anky Fremp by Flanders
  20. Ghosts Have The Best Time by The Panda Band
  21. Holidayz by The Stickfigures
  22. Will The World by El Horizonte
  23. Demented by Lamia
  24. Brazen Head by Header 
  25. Perth by Bon Iver

Top 10 sailors of all time

  1. Ben Lexcen
  2. Donald Crowhurst
  3. Richard Halliburton
  4. Percy Shelley
  5. James Misson
  6. Ernest Shackleton
  7. Harry Bridges
  8. Bernard Moitessier
  9. David Dicks
  10. any Somalian pirate

Top 25 soul songs

  1. Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing by Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye
  2. (Last Night) I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All by Fifth Dimension
  3. Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder
  4. Reach Out, I’ll Be There  by Four Tops
  5. Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye
  6. (Sittin’ On) The Dock of The Bay by Otis Redding
  7. Move On Up by Curtis Mayfield
  8. Here My Dear by Marvin Gaye
  9. Pillow Talk by Sylvia
  10. My Momma Never Taught Me How To Cook by Annette Peacock
  11. Love, Reign o’er Me by Bettye LaVette
  12. (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman by Aretha Franklin
  13. Hard Times by Baby Huey
  14. Ready Or Not Here I Come (Can’t Hide From Love) by The Delfonics
  15. Respect Yourself by The Staple Singers
  16. Let’s Stay Together by Al Green
  17. You Make Me Feel Brand New by The Stylistics
  18. Higher & Higher by Jackie Wilson
  19. Living For The City by Stevie Wonder
  20. Don’t Turn Around by Black Ivory
  21. I Can’t Stand The Rain by Ann Peebles
  22. People Make The World Go Round by The Stylistics
  23. Hold On! I’m Comin’ by Sam and Dave
  24. Money’s Too Tight (To Mention) by Valentine Brothers
  25. Mean Man by Betty Harris

Favourite 20 redheads

  1. Mark Twain
  2. Rolf Kristian Larson
  3. Molly Ringwald
  4. Willy Nelson
  5. Vladimir Lenin
  6. Danny Bonaduce
  7. Malcolm X
  8. Charlotte Coleman
  9. Malcolm McLaren
  10. Josh Homme
  11. Sylvia Plath
  12. Mick Hucknall
  13. Rita Hayworth
  14. Emily Dickinson
  15. Jim Courier
  16. Kevin Shields
  17. Woody Allen
  18. Robert Redford
  19. Boris Becker
  20. Carl Newman

Favourite 10 iron man athletes

  1. Trevor Hendy
  2. Grant Kenny
  3. Guy Leech
  4. Guy Andrews
  5. Ky Hurst
  6. Caine Eckstein
  7. Phil Clayton
  8. Jeremy Cotter
  9. Sean Kenny
  10. Kendrick J Louis

Top 100 songs of Bob Dylan and Neil Young (combined)

  1. I’ll Keep It With Mine by Bob Dylan
  2. Under The Red Sky by Bob Dylan
  3. I Believe In You by Bob Dylan
  4. Simple Twist Of Fate by Bob Dylan
  5. Idiot Wind by Bob Dylan
  6. You’re A Big Girl Now by Bob Dylan
  7. One More Cup of Coffee by Bob Dylan
  8. Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan
  9. Mississippi by Bob Dylan
  10. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door by Bob Dylan
  11. Are You Passionate? by Neil Young
  12. Midnight On The Bay by Neil Young
  13. Powderfinger by Neil Young
  14. Razor Love by Neil Young
  15. Sugar Mountain by Neil Young
  16. Walk On by Neil Young
  17. Till The Morning Comes by Neil Young
  18. Cripple Creek Ferry by Neil Young
  19. Don’t Let It Bring You Down by Neil Young
  20. Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Neil Young
  21. Tell Me Why by Neil Young
  22. When You Dance I Can Really Love by Neil Young
  23. I Believe In You by Neil Young
  24. Birds by Neil Young
  25. Heart Of Gold by Neil Young
  26. It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) by Bob Dylan
  27. Property of Jesus by Bob Dylan
  28. Transformer Man (MTV Unplugged version) by Neil Young
  29. Visions of Johanna by Bob Dylan
  30. Tired Eyes by Neil Young
  31. Spirit On The Water by Bob Dylan
  32. The Great Divide by Neil Young
  33. Tell Me That It Isn’t True by Bob Dylan
  34. The Loner by Neil Young
  35. Here We Are In The Years by Neil Young
  36. Honest With Me by Bob Dylan
  37. Don’t Cry No Tears by Neil Young
  38. Winterlong by Neil Young
  39. Will To Love by Neil Young
  40. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right by Bob Dylan
  41. Revolution Blues by Neil Young
  42. Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan
  43. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan
  44. Angry World by Neil Young
  45. Hurricane by Bob Dylan
  46. After The Goldrush by Neil Young
  47. Black Diamond Bay by Bob Dylan
  48. Hey Hey, My My (Out Of The Blue) by Neil Young
  49. Burned by Neil Young
  50. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat by Bob Dylan
  51. Lay Lady Lay by Bob Dylan
  52. Positively 4th Street by Bob Dylan
  53. Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young
  54. Horseshoe Man by Neil Young
  55. Long May You Run by Neil Young
  56. Harvest Moon by Neil Young
  57. Broken Arrow by Neil Young
  58. She’s A Healer by Neil Young
  59. Harvest by Neil Young
  60. Series of Dreams by Bob Dylan
  61. Tonight’s The Night (Part 1) by Neil Young
  62. All Along The Watchtower by Bob Dylan
  63. See The Sky About To Rain by Neil Young
  64. I Am A Child by Neil Young
  65. Goin’ Back by Neil Young
  66. Maggie’s Farm by Bob Dylan
  67. Cortez The Killer by Neil Young
  68. Ballad Of A Thin Man by Bob Dylan
  69. Buckets of Rain by Bob Dylan
  70. Hitchhiker by Neil Young
  71. I Want You by Bob Dylan
  72. Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again by Bob Dylan
  73. It’s A Dream by Neil Young
  74. Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
  75. Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan
  76. Forth Time Around by Bob Dylan
  77. Boots of Spanish Leather by Bob Dylan
  78. Good To See You by Neil Young
  79. If You Ever Go To Houston by Bob Dylan
  80. Pardon My Heart by Neil Young
  81. Not Dark Yet by Bob Dylan
  82. One Of Us Must Know by Bob Dylan
  83. Peaceful Valley Boulevard by Neil Young
  84. Love Sick by Bob Dylan
  85. Daddy Went Walkin’ by Neil Young
  86. The Man In Me by Bob Dylan
  87. From Hank To Hendrix by Neil Young
  88. Oh Sister by Bob Dylan
  89. Jolene by Bob Dylan
  90. Ambulance Blues by Neil Young
  91. Girl From The North Country by Bob Dylan
  92. Man In The Long Black Coat by Bob Dylan
  93. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll by Bob Dylan
  94. Unknown Legend by Neil Young
  95. Chimes Of Freedom by Bob Dylan
  96. Ballad of Hollis Brown by Bob Dylan
  97. Shot Of Love by Bob Dylan
  98. If Not For You by Bob Dylan
  99. Computer Age by Neil Young
  100. My Back Pages by Bob Dylan

Top 10 moments of food gorging in film

  1. Honey, I Shrunk The Kids [finding the giant Monte Carlo biscuit]
  2. Precious [stealing the fried chicken]
  3. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure [Napoleon goes to Ziggy Pig]
  4. Meet The Feebles [Heidi gets chocolate gateau in her cleavage]
  5. Nadia [Nadia Comaneci eats carbs before the Olympics]
  6. Death Becomes Her [Helen consoles herself with chocolate]
  7. Santa Claus the Movie [B.Z. scoffs the candy cane and floats away into space]
  8. Batman Returns [The Penguin eats his birthday fish]
  9. Stand By Me [pie eating contest]
  10. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory [basically the whole movie]

Top 10 animated films of all time

  1. Fantastic Mr Fox
  2. Toy Story 3
  3. The Sword in the Stone
  4. The Chipmunk Adventure
  5. Robin Hood
  6. Ratatouille
  7. Persepolis
  8. Fritz the Cat
  9. Charlotte’s Web
  10. Sleeping Beauty

Top 100 TV theme songs of all time

  1. Golden Girls [Thank You For Being a Friend by Cynthia Fee]
  2. Portlandia [Feel it all Around by Washed Out]
  3. Jem [JEM--Truly, Truly, Truly Outrageous by Anne Bryant]
  4. Partridge Family [C'mon, Get Happy by Diane Hilderbrand, Danny Janssen and Wes Farrell]
  5. ALF [A.L.F. by Alf Clausen]
  6. Perfect Strangers [Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now by Jesse Frederick and Bennett Salvay]
  7. Growing Pains [As Long As We've Got Each Other by John Bettis and Steve Dorff]
  8. Beyond 2000
  9. Degrassi Junior High [The Degrassi Junior High Theme by  Lewis Manne and Wendy Watson]
  10. Step By Step [Second Time Around by Jesse Frederick and Bennett Salvay]
  11. Family Ties [Without Us by Jeff Barry and Tom Scott]
  12. Welcome Back Kotter [John Sebastian]
  13. M*A*S*H [Suicide is Painless by Johnny Mandel]
  14. Twin Peaks [Angelo Badalamenti]
  15. The Cosby Show [Kiss Me by Stu Gardner and Bill Cosby]
  16. Baywatch [I'm Always Here by Joe Henry, Cory Lerios and John D'Andrea]
  17. Sesame Street [Can You Tell Me How To Get To Sesame Street? by Joe Rapose, Jon Stone and Bruce Hart]
  18. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air [Will Smith and QD3, also credited as The Fresh Prince in association with A Touch of Jazz, Inc.]
  19. H.R. Pufnstuf [by Les Szarvas, and technically also Paul Simon]
  20. The Greatest American Hero [Believe It Or Not by Mike Post and Stephen Geyer]
  21. Full House [Everywhere You Look by Jesse Frederick, Bennett Salvay and Jeff Franklin]
  22. A Country Practice [Mike Perjanik]
  23. Taxi [Angela by Bob James]
  24. Hey, Dad! [Mike Perjanik]
  25. Inspector Gadget [Shuki Levy and Haim Saban]
  26. Laverne & Shirley [Making Our Dreams Come True by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox]
  27. The Love Boat [Paul Williams and Charles Fox]
  28. Gumby [William George "Bill" Loose and Kohn Seely]
  29. Murder She Wrote [John Addison]
  30. L.A. Law [Mike Post]
  31. T-Bag [Wonders in Letterland by Summers with Marty]
  32. ABC News [Majestic Fanfare by Charles Williams]
  33. Four Corners [Rick Turk]
  34. Alvin & The Chipmunks [Thomas Chase and Stephen Rucker]
  35. The White Horses [Ben Nisbett and Micheal Carr]
  36. Prisoner [Alan Caswell]
  37. Sons & Daughters [Peter Pinne and Don Battye
  38. He-Man [Shuki Levi]
  39. Ask The Lleyland Brothers [Provist Bros.]
  40. Come & Get It with Peter Russell-Clarke
  41. Family Matters [Jesse Frederick, Bennett Salvay and Scott Roeme]
  42. Doogie Howser M.D. [Mike Post]
  43. Hill Street Blues [Mike Post]
  44. Cheers [Where Everybody Knows Your Name by Gary Portnoy]
  45. Sale of the Century [Jack Grimsley]
  46. Kingswood Country [Mike Perjanik]
  47. SuperTed [John Debney]
  48. Thomas the Tank Engine [Mike O'Donnell and Junior Campbell]
  49. The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Love is All Around by Sonny Curtis]
  50. Care Bears [Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan]
  51. Dr. Who [Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire]
  52. Daria [You're Standing On My Neck by Janet Wygal, Tricia Wygal, Delissa Santos, Cindy Brolsma and Jennifer Richardson]
  53. Neighbours [Tony Hatch]
  54. Days of Our Lives [Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart and Charles Albertine]
  55. Echo Point [Nick Howard]
  56. Perfect Match [Rick Turk]
  57. It’s A Knockout  [Rick Turk]
  58. Bewitched [Howard Greenfield and Jack Keller]
  59. Ducktales [Ron Jones]
  60. Who’s The Boss [Brand New Life by Martin Cohan, Blake Hunter, Larry Carlton and Robert Kraft]
  61. Pugwall
  62. Press Gang [Peter Davis, John Mealing and John G. Perry]
  63. Gummi Bears [Silversher and Silversher]
  64. Fraggle Rock [Margaret Loesch]
  65. Diff’rent Strokes [Alan Thicke]
  66. Round The Twist [Andrew Duffield]
  67. The Muppets Show [Sam Pottle and Jim Henson]
  68. Rawhide [Ned Washington and Dimitri]
  69. Quantum Leap [Mike Post]
  70. You Can’t Do That On Television [National Press Club and Allied Workers Jazz  Band Ink]
  71. Melrose Place [Tim Truman]
  72. Beverley Hills 90210 [John E. Davis]
  73. The Adventures of Blackbeauty [Denis King]
  74. The Jetsons  [Hoyt Curtin]
  75. Hawaii Five-O [Morton Stevens]
  76. Danger Mouse [Mike Harding]
  77. Peter Gunn [Henry Mancini]
  78. Mr Squiggle [Frank Strangio]
  79. Burke’s Backyard [Home Among the Gum Trees by Bob Brown and Walter Johnson Jr.]
  80. Play School [Richard Connolly]
  81. Teletubbies [Andrew McCrorie-Shand and Andrew Davenport]
  82. Postman Pat [Bryan Daly]
  83. Grange Hill (original theme) [Chickenman by Alan Hawkshaw]
  84. S.W.A.T. [Barry De Vorzon]
  85. Maude [Dave Grusin, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman]
  86. Murphy Brown [Steve Dorff]
  87. Northern Exposure [David Schwartz]
  88. Roseanne [W. G. Snuffy Walden]
  89. ER [James Newton Howard]
  90. Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers [Mark Mueller]
  91. Seinfeld [Jonathan Wolff]
  92. Chicago Hope [Jeff Rona and Mark Isham]
  93. Picket Fences [Stewart Levin]
  94. James at 15 [John Ford Coley]
  95. Boy Meets World [Ray Colcord]
  96. Blossom [Stephen Geyer and Mike Post]
  97. Doug [Fred Newman]
  98. Mission:Impossible [Lalo Schifrin]
  99. Miraculous Mellops [Chris Harriott]
  100. Jennifer Slept Here [Clint Holmes, Ann Jillian, Joey Murcia and Bill Payne]

Top 10 songs by The Hidden Cameras

  1. A Miracle
  2. Death of a Tune
  3. Wandering
  4. In The Union of Wine
  5. For Fun
  6. I Believe in the Good of Life
  7. She’s Gone
  8. The Fear Is On
  9. High Upon the Churchgrounds
  10. Awoo

Top 25 ABC presenters

  1. Michael Tunn
  2. Calamity Jane Gazzo
  3. James Valentine
  4. Peter Russell-Clarke
  5. David Marr
  6. Alan Saunders
  7. Helen Razer
  8. Richard Fidler
  9. Margaret Pomeranz
  10. Jeremy “Junglist” Ray
  11. Stephen Crittenden
  12. Judith Lucy
  13. Deborah Kennedy
  14. Peter Holland
  15. Geraldine Doogue
  16. Francis Leach
  17. Stuart Littlemore
  18. Dylan Lewis
  19. Elle McFeast
  20. Roy Slaven
  21. HG Nelson
  22. Wil Anderson
  23. Benita Collings
  24. Kerry O’Brien
  25. Phillip Adams

Top 50 structures in the Brutalist architecture style

  1. Architecture and Planning building, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, (designer unknown)
  2. Salk Institute, La Jolla, California (designed by Louis Kahn)
  3. Alexandra Road Estate, London, England (designed by Neave Brown)
  4. Tricorn Centre (car park and shops) in Portsmouth, England, (designer unknown)
  5. Prentice Women’s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois (designed by Bertrand Goldberg)
  6. Habitat 67 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (designed by Moshe Safdie)
  7. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia (designed by Arthur Erickson)
  8. National Assembly Building of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh (designed by Louis Kahn)
  9. Richard G. Folsom Library, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York (designed by Quinlivan Pierik & Krause)
  10. Cameron Offices, Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory (designed by John Andrews)
  11. Government Service Center, Boston, Massachusetts (designed by Paul Rudolph, M.A. Dyer, Desmond & Lord, and Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott)
  12. TU Delft Aula, Delft, Netherlands (designed by Van den Broek en Bakema / Jo van den Broek and Jaap Bakema)
  13. National Theatre, London (designed by Denys Lasdun)
  14. Rockhill, Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, (designer unknown)
  15. Chatswood Civic Centre, Chatswood, New South Wales, (designer unknown)
  16. Robin Hood Gardens housing estate, Poplar, London (designed by Alison Smithson and Peter Smithson)
  17. Joseph Regenstein Library (University of Chicago), (designed by Skimore Owings and Merrill)
  18. Trinity Square Shopping Centre (car park), Gateshead (designed by Owen Luder Partnership)
  19. Sirius Apartments, Sydney, New South Wales (designed by Tao Gofers)
  20. Hotelli Olympia Tallinna. Tallinn, Estonia, (designer unknown)
  21. Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Exeter, New Hampshire(designed by Louis Kahn)
  22. Flaktürm VI Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg, Germany, (designer unknown)
  23. Consolidated House, Wellington Street, Perth, Western Australia, (designer unknown)
  24. Fermilab in Chicago (designed by Robert Rathbun Wilson)
  25. Washington Metro subway system, Washington, D.C., (designer unknown)
  26. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (designed by Le Corbusier)
  27. Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia (designed by John C. Portman)
  28. Rhodes Tower, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio (designed by Rode, Guenther, and Bonebrake)
  29. Ameritrust Tower (also known as Cleveland Trust Tower), Cleveland, Ohio (designed by Marcel Breuer)
  30. Unite d’Habitation, Marseilles, France (designed by Le Corbusier)
  31. Oxley Business Centre,  Crow’s Nest, Sydney, (designer unknown)
  32. Qualcomm stadium, San Diego, California (designed by Frank L. Hope and Associates)
  33. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (designed by James Johnson Sweeney and Mollison)
  34. Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, (designer unknown)
  35. Queen Elizabeth Towers, Ottowa, Ontario, Canada, (designer unknown)
  36. Nelson Fine Arts Center, Ariona State University (designed by Antoine Predock)
  37. Council House, Perth, Western Australia, (designed by Jeffrey Howlett and Don Bailey)
  38. Perth Entertainment Centre, Perth, Western Australia, (designer unknown)
  39. University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Tower, Sydney, New South Wales, (designer unknown)
  40. Buffalo City Court Building, Buffalo, New York (designed by Pfohl, Roberts and Biggie)
  41. Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) Pasay City, Philippines, (designed by Leandro Locsin)
  42. Knight Campus, Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI), Warwick, Rhode Island, (designer unknown)
  43. Landstadt building,  Malmö, Sweden, (designer unknown)
  44. Trelllick Tower, London (designed by Erno Goldfinger)
  45. Joseph Mark Lauinger Library, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (designed by  John Carl Warnecke)
  46. Park Hill Estate, Sheffield (designed by Ivor Smith & Jack Lynn)
  47. Weldon Library at the University of Western Ontario (designed by Murphy, Schuller, Green & Martin)
  48. Alley Theatre Houston, Texas, (designer unknown)
  49. Roger Stevens Building, University of Leeds (designed by Chamberlin Powell & Bon)
  50. Freeway Park, Seattle, Washington (designed by Angela Danadjieva /Lawrence Halprin)

Top 10 breakfast foods

  1. weet-bix with hot water
  2. weet-bix with no hot water
  3. vegemite and margerine on toast
  4. vegemite with no margerine on toast
  5. porridge
  6. cornflakes
  7. scrambled tofu
  8. fried mushrooms
  9. biscuits and gravy (in the American sense)
  10. coco pops

Top 10 Talk Talk songs

  1. Such A Shame
  2. I Believe In You
  3. Myrrhman
  4. Give It Up
  5. Living In Another World
  6. Life’s What You Make It
  7. After the Flood
  8. It’s My Life
  9. New Grass
  10. The Rainbow

Top 30 child actors

  1. Huckleberry Fox
  2. Jack Wild
  3. Frankie Muniz
  4. Baby Peg
  5. Jackie Coogan
  6. Junior Durkin
  7. Christine ‘Moose’ McGlade
  8. Alisdair Gillis
  9. Charlotte Coleman
  10. Soleil Moon Frye
  11. Roddy McDowall
  12. Sal Mineo
  13. Ben Geurens
  14. River Phoenix
  15. Corey Feldman
  16. Wil Wheaton
  17. Jerry O’Connoll
  18. Gary Coleman
  19. Zbych Trofimiuk
  20. John Hasler
  21. Sarah Monahan
  22. Matthew Krok
  23. Tina Yothers
  24. Troy Beckwith
  25. Clayton Williamson
  26. Rebecca Smart
  27. Noah Taylor
  28. Rodney McLennan
  29. Leonardo DiCaprio
  30. Kristian Schmid

Top 20 Christian ministers

  1. Reverend Thomas J. Hagerty
  2. Reverend  John ‘Jock’ Garden
  3. Father Charles ‘Charlie’ Liteky (also known as Angelo Liteky)
  4. Bishop Franklin Spencer Spalding
  5. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr
  6. Father Gustavo Gutiérrez
  7. Father Ignacio Ellacuria
  8. Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  9. Reverend James Gareth Endicott
  10. Archbishop Wynn Wagner
  11. Father Leonardo Boff
  12. Father Camilo Torres Restrepo
  13. Father Roy Bourgeois
  14. Father Ted Kennedy
  15. Father Peter Kennedy
  16. Father Paul Webb
  17. Father Bob Maguire
  18. Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
  19. Reverend Allan Boesak
  20. Pastor Jay Bakker

Top 10 memoirs

  1. Holding The Man by Timothy Conigrave
  2. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  3. The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
  4. Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell
  5. The Lucy Family Alphabet by Judith Lucy
  6. Breaking The Surface by Greg Louganis
  7. The Naked God by Howard Fast
  8. Thin He Was And Filthy-Haired by Robert Llewellyn
  9. 1001 Australian Nights by Dave Graney
  10. My Life in France by Julia Child

Top 30 Morrissey songs

  1. Sister, I’m A Poet (live version off ‘Beethoven Was Deaf’)
  2. I Know Very Well How I Got My Name
  3. The Last of the Famous International Playboys
  4. Why Don’t You Find Out For Yourself
  5. The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
  6. Piccadilly Palare
  7. Tomorrow
  8. Speedway
  9. Hairdresser On Fire
  10. Jack the Ripper
  11. Suedehead
  12. Alma Matters
  13. Everyday Is Like Sunday
  14. The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils
  15. Whatever Happens, I Love You
  16. Late Night, Maudlin Street
  17. Ouija Board, Ouija Board
  18. I Just Want To See The Boy Happy
  19. Dagenham Dave
  20. Mute Witness
  21. The Boy Racer
  22. Roy’s Keen
  23. Life is a Pigsty
  24. Disappointed
  25. You’re the One for Me, Fatty
  26. Mama Lay Softly by the Riverbed
  27. Ordinary Boys
  28. Boxers
  29. Have-a-Go Merchant
  30. Glamorous Glue (live version off ‘Beethoven Was Deaf’)

Top 100 alliterative names (in alphabetical order)

  1. Alan Alda
  2. Ansel Adams
  3. Beau Brummell
  4. Boris Becker
  5. Bruce Bolden
  6. Billy Boat
  7. Billy Brownless
  8. Björn Borg
  9. Bobby Brown
  10. Cassius Clay
  11. Cornelius Cardew
  12. Casey Kasem
  13. Claudette Colbert
  14. Clarence Clemens
  15. Christopher Columbus
  16. Charlie Chaplin
  17. Chas Chandler
  18. Cab Calloway
  19. Carl Cox
  20. Chris Cooper
  21. Chevy Chase
  22. Danny DeVito
  23. Daniel Defoe
  24. Dick Dale
  25. Diana Dors
  26. Doris Day
  27. Dom Delouise
  28. Dominique Dawes
  29. David Duchovny
  30. Erik Estrada
  31. Ernie Els
  32. Emilio Estevez
  33. Fred Funk
  34. Flavor Flav
  35. Farrah Fawcett
  36. Fyvush Finkel
  37. Graham Greene
  38. Gilbert Gottfried
  39. Galileo Galilei
  40. Greta Garbo
  41. Harry Hay
  42. Herbie Hancock
  43. Herman Hesse
  44. Harry Houdini
  45. Hubert Humphrey
  46. Iwan Iwanoff
  47. Jim Jones
  48. Jesse James
  49. Jim James
  50. Joe Jackson
  51. Janet Jackson
  52. Joshua Jackson
  53. Jack Johnson
  54. Jasper Johns
  55. Janis Joplin
  56. James Joyce
  57. Krzysztof Kieślowski
  58. Ken Kesey
  59. Kato Kaelin
  60. Kris Kristopherson
  61. Kurt Cobain
  62. Leroy Loggins
  63. Lucy Liu
  64. Lucy Lawless
  65. Lindsay Lohan
  66. Lyle Lovett
  67. Loretta Lynne
  68. Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes
  69. Lennox Lewis
  70. Martin Mull
  71. Mike Myers
  72. Nick Nolte
  73. Ozzy Osborne
  74. Pier Paolo Pasolini
  75. Parker Posey
  76. Pablo Picasso
  77. Pricilla Presley
  78. Quentin Crisp
  79. Ryan Reynolds
  80. Robert Rodriguez
  81. Robert Rauschenberg
  82. Robert Redford
  83. Roy Rogers
  84. Ruby Rose
  85. Sebastian Smee
  86. Soupy Sales
  87. Sylvester Stallone
  88. Sam Snead
  89. Sarah Silverman
  90. Susan Sarandon
  91. Steven Street
  92. Tina Turner
  93. Ted Tinling
  94. Timothy Treadwell
  95. Vince Vaughn
  96. Wiley Wiggins
  97. Walt Whitman
  98. Wim Wenders
  99. William Wilberforce
  100. Zinedine Zidane

Top 30 types of wood

  1. Pink Ivory
  2. Brazilwood
  3. Balsa
  4. Ebony
  5. Bastard Ironwood
  6. Jarrah
  7. Teak
  8. Elm
  9. Bigtooth Aspen
  10. Oak
  11. White ash
  12. Maple
  13. Poplar
  14. Birch
  15. Spruce
  16. Cedar
  17. Willow
  18. Tupelo
  19. Blackheart Sassafras
  20. Wenge
  21. Larch
  22. Afzelia
  23. Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir
  24. Persimmon
  25. Dogwood
  26. Grenadilla
  27. Hop-Hornbeam
  28. Trumpet Tree (Ipê)
  29. Bloodwood
  30. Sipo

Top 10 sports commentators of all time

  1. Dennis Cometti
  2. Jim Courier
  3. Liz Chetkovich
  4. Steve Carfino
  5. Richie Benaud
  6. Sue Barker
  7. Phil Liggett
  8. Pam Shriver
  9. John McEnroe
  10. Tim Gossage

Top 10 Alex or Alexander related songs

  1. In Particular by Blonde Redhead
  2. Alex Chilton by The Replacements
  3. Neighborhood #2 (Laika) by  Arcade Fire
  4. Alex (Stolen Script) by Ghostface Killah
  5. Smart Alex by The Adicts
  6. Alex by Girls
  7. Alexander by Sekiden
  8. Alec Eiffel by The Pixies
  9. Alex the Seal by Spiderbait
  10. Alex by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

30 skills I’d like to have

  1. carpentry
  2. fire starting
  3. computer programming
  4. minor surgery
  5. perfumery
  6. ice fishing
  7. animating
  8. horticultural grafting
  9. pastry cooking
  10. car mechanics
  11. flute playing
  12. boxing
  13. wood whittling
  14. bonsai
  15. buckskin tanning
  16. food sculpture
  17. yoga
  18. sewing
  19. piano playing
  20. plastics manufacture
  21. speed reading
  22. stone skipping
  23. food science
  24. hair cutting
  25. gum leaf playing
  26. fondant /cake decorating
  27. book binding
  28. drawing
  29. alcohol brewing
  30. raft making

Top 100 hip hop songs of all time (one song representing an artist)

  1. Wildcat Rap by Perth Wildcats (1989 roster)
  2. Fashion Party by Das Racist (featuring Chairlift)
  3. XXXO by M.I.A. (Jay-Z remix)
  4. I Hate My Job by Cam’ron
  5. Di-na-mi-tee by Ms. Dynamite
  6. Tha Crossroads by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
  7. Gossip Folks by Missy Elliot
  8. U.N.I.T.Y. by Queen Latifa
  9. Chinese New Year by Clipse (featuring Roscoe P. Coldchain)
  10. Buffalo Stance by Neneh Cherry
  11. President’s Paranoia by Atmosphere (featuring Slug)
  12. Keep It On The Real by 3X Krazy
  13. Flashing Lights by Kanye West (featuring Dwele)
  14. Over by Drake
  15. Eye Know by De La Soul
  16. Wolf Like Me by TV on the Radio
  17. Buffalo Gals by Malcolm McLaren & the World’s Famous Supreme Team
  18. Keep Ya Head Up by 2Pac
  19. Just A Friend by Biz Markie
  20. The Message by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
  21. Shake Your Booty by Public Enemy
  22. Mike the Mentor by Rhymefest
  23. Kick Push by Lupe Fiasco
  24. The Choice is Yours by Black Sheep
  25. Professor Booty by Beastie Boys
  26. Beef – Notorious B.I.G. (featuring Mobb Deep)
  27. Where It’s At by Beck
  28. Tightrope by Janelle Monáe (featuring Big Boi)
  29. Perfect Skies by Main Attrakionz
  30. The Rough Side of Town by Organized Konfusion
  31. So Fresh, So Clean by Outkast
  32. Down River by Wilcannia Mob
  33. Down By the Forces of Nature by Jungle Brothers
  34. Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z (featuring Alicia Keys)
  35. Remainz by Gang Starr
  36. Therapy by Heltah Skeltah
  37. Rapture by Blondie
  38. Tangerine by Big Boi
  39. Love Rap by Spoonie Gee
  40. Strawberry Girl by The Cool Kids
  41. Regulate by Warren G (featuring Nate Dogg)
  42. Got Your Money by Ol’ Dirty Bastard (featuring Kelis)
  43. Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros by Flight of the Conchords
  44. From Sac to the Boonies by Mac Dre
  45. Fuck Da Police by N.W.A.
  46. Fix Up, Look Sharp by Dizzee Rascal
  47. Push It by Salt-N-Pepa
  48. That’s The Breaks by Kurtis Blow
  49. Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic (featuring Felly)
  50. Who Am I? (What’s My Name?) by Snoop Doggy Dogg
  51. Airplane, Trains and Automobiles by Dope Game
  52. The Good Die Young by 50 Cent
  53. Phantom by Mr. Lif (featuring EL-P)
  54. Wu Wear: The Garment Renaissance by RZA (featuring Method Man and Cappadonna)
  55. Ahonetwo, Ahonetwo by Del tha Funkee Homosapian
  56. Exhibit C by Jay Electronica
  57. Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J
  58. Deep by East 17
  59. I Used To Love H.E.R. by Common
  60. Pursuite of Happiness by Kid Cudi (featuring MGMT)
  61. Liquid Swords by GZA
  62. On Fire by Lil’ Wayne
  63. Drop by The Pharcyde
  64. Sobb Story by Leaders of the New School
  65. Mr. Wendal by Arrested Development
  66. Provider by N*E*R*D
  67. Take Me Home by Brother Ali
  68. Glaciers of Ice by Raekwon (featuring Ghostface Killah, Masta Killa and Blue Raspberry)
  69. Hip Hop Hooray by Naughty by Nature
  70. Run’s House by Run-D.M.C.
  71. Hip Hop by Dead Prez
  72. Parents Just Don’t Understand by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
  73. Can I Kick It? by A Tribe Called Quest
  74. The Power by Snap
  75. Aint No Half Steppin by Big Daddy Kane
  76. Jump Around by House of Pain
  77. Bust A Move by Young MC
  78. If I Ruled The World by Nas (featuring Lauryn Hill)
  79. Rapper’s Delight by The Sugarhill Gang
  80. My Philosophy by KRS-One
  81. Paid in Full by Eric B and Rakim
  82. I Got Cha Open by Black Moon
  83. I’ll Be There For You/You’re All I Need To Get By by Method Man (featuring Mary J. Blige)
  84. Doo Wop (That Thing) by Lauryn Hill
  85. Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaata
  86. Muckaty by Kylie Sambo
  87. U Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer
  88. None Shall Pass by Aesop Rock
  89. Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice
  90. Blinded By The Lights by The Streets
  91. Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz
  92. Black Sweatshirt by Sage Francis
  93. The Proud by Talib Kweli
  94. Frontin by Pharrell
  95. Can It All Be So Simple? by Wu Tang Clan
  96. History by Mos Def (featuring Talib Kweli)
  97. Wild Thing by Tone Loc
  98. PSK, What Does It Mean? by Schoolly D
  99. Jizz in My Pants by The Lonely Island
  100. Obama Nation Part 2 by Lowkey (featuring M1 & Black the Ripper)

Top 10 queer films

  1. The Man Who Loved, Yngve
  2. I Love You Phillip Morris
  3. Another Country
  4. Totally Fucked Up
  5. Dog Day Afternoon
  6. Beautiful Thing
  7. My Beautiful Laundrette
  8. The Naked Civil Servant
  9. The Raspberry Reich
  10. Shortbus

12 favourite otter species (in order)

  1. Old World Otter [also know as Eurasian Otter] (Lutra lutra)
  2. Smooth-Coated Otter (Lutrogale perspicillata)
  3. North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis)
  4. Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris)
  5. Hairy-Nosed Otter (Lutra sumatrana)
  6. Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis)
  7. African Clawless Otter (Aonyx capensis)
  8. Oriental Small-Clawed Otter (Aonyx cinerea)
  9. Spotted-Necked Otter (Hydrictis maculicollis)
  10. Marine Otter (Lontra felina)
  11. Neotropical Otter  (Lontra longicaudis)
  12. Southern River Otter (Lontra provocax)

Top 20 jazz songs (one song representing each artist)

  1. Charles Mingus – Original Faubus Fables
  2. Bill Evans – Some Other Time
  3. Max Roach – Freedom Day
  4. Dave Brubeck – Take Five
  5. Sun Ra – Nuclear War
  6. Miles Davis – All Blues
  7. Herbie Hancock – Watermelon Man
  8. John Coltrane – Resolution
  9. Eric Dolphy – Hat and Beard
  10. Dizzy Gillespie – Sabla Y Blu
  11. Duke Ellington – It Don’t Mean A Thing
  12. Charlie Parker – Now’s The Time
  13. Archie Shepp – You’re What This Day Is All About
  14. Pharaoh Sanders – You Got To Have Freedom
  15. Art Blakey – Moanin’
  16. Thelonious Monk – Well You Needn’t
  17. Hank Mobley – Dig Dis
  18. Bobby Hutcherson – Effi
  19. Art Tatum – Tiger Rag
  20. Jean-Luc Ponty – Elephants in Love

Top 5 sneakers of all time

  1. PF Flyers – Bob Cousy All Americans
  2. Lacoste Strike Nubucks
  3. Converse ‘Chuck Taylor’ All-Stars
  4. Adidas Superstars
  5. Nike waffle trainers

Top 20 elderly actors

  1. Ruth Gordon
  2. Will Geer
  3. Vivean Gray
  4. Ian McKellen
  5. Bea Arthur
  6. Betty White
  7. Rue McClanahan
  8. Estelle Getty
  9. Angela Lansbury
  10. Katherine Hepburn
  11. Henry Fonda
  12. Don Ameche
  13. Jessica Tandy
  14. Hume Cronyn
  15. Gene Hackman
  16. Agnes Moorhead
  17. Maggie Smith
  18. Anne Charleston
  19. Ian Smith
  20. James Cromwell

Top 10 wussy albums of the 1970s

  1. Paris 1919 by John Cale
  2. After The Goldrush by Neil Young
  3. Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
  4. Tapestry by Carol King
  5. Bare Trees by Fleetwood Mac
  6. Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel
  7. Bryter Layter by Nick Drake
  8. All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
  9. A Story by Yoko Ono
  10. Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens

Top 10 British TV comedy shows

  1. I’m Alan Partridge
  2. Look Around You
  3. Nighty Night
  4. The League of Gentlemen
  5. The Mighty Boosh
  6. The Inbetweeners
  7. The Peter Serafinowicz Show
  8. The Young Ones
  9. The Goodies
  10. Never Mind The Buzzcocks (the Simon Amstell years)

Top 15 places to get a coffee in Melbourne

  1. El Joyero (Thornbury)
  2. Bomb (Abbotsford)
  3. Penny Farthing (Northcote)
  4. Ray’s (Brunswick)
  5. Mixed Business (Clifton Hill)
  6. Red Door Corner Store (Northcote)
  7. A Minor Place (Brunswick)
  8. The Breakfast Club (Northcote)
  9. Thousand Pound Bend (CBD)
  10. Captains of Industry (CBD)
  11. Kitschen Pantry (Thornbury)
  12. Northern Soul (Thornbury)
  13. Palomino (Northcote)
  14. Lentil As Anything (Abbotsford)
  15. New International Bookshop [when I make it!] (Carlton)

Top 10 novels of all time

  1. Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
  2. The City and The Pillar by Gore Vidal
  3. À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans
  4. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  5. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  7. Inside Mr Enderby by Anthony Burgess
  8. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  9. Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
  10. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Top 10 albums of all time

  1. Kimberley Street Retirement Village by Thermos Cardy
  2. A Walk Across the Rooftops by The Blue Nile
  3. Smoke Ring For My Halo by Kurt Vile
  4. Chelsea Girl by Nico
  5. Exit the Dragon by Urge Overkill
  6. Night of the Wolverine by Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes
  7. Starfish by The Church
  8. Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express by The Go-Betweens
  9. Adult Baby by Guy Blackman
  10. Born Sandy Devotional by The Triffids

Top 10 movies of all time

  1. Puberty Blues
  2. A Clockwork Orange
  3. Fight Club
  4. Chinatown
  5. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
  6. Muriel’s Wedding
  7. Educating Rita
  8. On Golden Pond
  9. The Joy Luck Club
  10. Terms of Endearment

Top 5 shades of white (Pantone color system)

  1. Bone White 12-0105 TCX
  2. Winter White 11-0507 TPX
  3. White Smoke 12-0704 TCX
  4. Bright White 11-0601 TCX
  5. Whitecap Gray 12-0304 TPX

Favourite 10 cloud formations

  1. mammatus
  2. altocumulus lenticularis
  3. arcus (roll cloud formation)
  4. arcus (shelf cloud formation)
  5. cirrus uncinus
  6. cumulus congestus
  7. altocumulus undulatus
  8. stratus nebulosus
  9. altocumulus
  10. cirrus fibratus

Top 3 bland foods

  1. rice
  2. melba toasts
  3. cucumber

Top 50 post-punk songs

  1. Greenhouse Holiday by No Fixed Address
  2. He Beat Up His Boyfriend by The Mekons
  3. Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow by Felt
  4. At Home He’s A Tourist by Gang of Four
  5. Such A Shame by Talk Talk
  6. Nomi Song by Klaus Nomi
  7. Tale of the Saeghors by Makers of the Dead Travel Fast
  8. Leave The Capitol by The Fall
  9. Fade To Grey by Visage
  10. Cities in Dust by Siouxie and The Banshees
  11. Passionate Friend by The Teardrop Explodes
  12. The 15th by Wire
  13. Villiers Terrace by Echo and The Bunnymen
  14. On My Block by The Go-Betweens
  15. Consolation Prize by Orange Juice
  16. Mr Clarinet by The Birthday Party
  17. Making Plans for Nigel by XTC
  18. Farmers Never Visit Nightclubs by The Triffids
  19. Alice by The Cocteau Twins
  20. Push by The Cure
  21. Sometimes (I Just Can’t Live With Anyone) by Laughing Clowns
  22. Well I Wonder by The Smiths
  23. Seconds by The Human League
  24. Love Like Blood by Killing Joke
  25. Transmission by Joy Division
  26. Almost With You by The Church
  27. Song From Under the Floorboards by Magazine
  28. Rise by Public Image Ltd.
  29. The Ghost in You by The Psychedelic Furs
  30. New King Jack by Sekret Sekret
  31. The Village by New Order
  32. Ant Music by Adam and the Ants
  33. Gut Feeling by Devo
  34. Shout and Deliver by The Reels
  35. Only Loved At Night by The Raincoats
  36. Homosapian by Pete Shelley
  37. Sleep by This Heat
  38. Ghost on the Highway by Gun Club
  39. Spasticus Autisticus by Ian Dury and The Blockheads
  40. Tally Ho by The Clean
  41. We Are All Prostitutes by The Pop Group
  42. Real to Real by Simple Minds
  43. Credit in the Straight World by Young Marble Giants
  44. P.A.s by Scritti Politti
  45. Otis by The Durutti Column
  46. This is the Day by The The
  47. No Word From China by Pel Mel
  48. Happy Man by The Sunnyboys
  49. Death Goes To The Disco by Pulp
  50. Temple of Love by The Sisters of Mercy

Top 30 action films of all time

  1. Terminator 2
  2. Fantastic Mr Fox
  3. District 9
  4. The Rise of The Planet of the Apes
  5. The Day After Tomorrow
  6. The Dark Knight
  7. Toy Story 3
  8. Point Break
  9. Machete
  10. Dog Day Afternoon
  11. Land and Freedom
  12. Scott Pilgrim vs the World
  13. Rasberry Reich
  14. Fight Club
  15. Planet of the Apes
  16. Batman Returns
  17. Batman
  18. Superman
  19. Superman II
  20. Avatar
  21. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  22. The Fugitive
  23. Moonraker
  24. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
  25. Enter the Dragon
  26. Terminator Salvation
  27. True Romance
  28. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
  29. Beverley Hills Cop III
  30. Kill Bill

Favourite 10 hair colours

  1. platinum blonde
  2. flaming orange
  3. dirty blonde
  4. strawberry blonde
  5. jet black
  6. salt and pepper
  7. steel grey
  8. sable brown
  9. chestnut brown
  10. white

Top 25 English language poets

  1. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  2. Arthur Rimbaud
  3. Adam Lindsay Gordon
  4. William Carlos Williams
  5. Sylvia Plath
  6. W.B. Yeats
  7. Gregory Corso
  8. Maxine Clarke
  9. Anne Sexton
  10. T.S. Eliot
  11. Audre Lorde
  12. Lesbia Harford
  13. Walt Whitman
  14. Kay Ryan
  15. Robert Lowell
  16. e.e. cummings
  17. Santo Cazzati
  18. Dorothy Parker
  19. Hart Crane
  20. Federico García Lorca
  21. Langston Hughes
  22. Henry Lawson
  23. Oscar Wilde
  24. Carol Ann Duffy
  25. John Keats

Top 30 cultural institutions in the world

  1. Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York City
  2. American Museum of Natural History – New York City
  3. DDR Museum – Berlin
  4. Kröller-Müller Museum – Oterlo, The Netherlands
  5. National Bonsai and Penjing Museum - Washington DC
  6. Schwules Museum – Berlin
  7. Ho Chi Min Museum – Hanoi
  8. The Museum of Science and Industry – Manchester
  9. The British Museum – London
  10. Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago
  11. National Museum of Natural History – Washington DC
  12. Windsor Castle – Windsor, UK
  13. The Tower of London – London
  14. National Museum of Art – Washington DC
  15. National Gallery – London
  16. Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli – Naples
  17. People’s History Museum – Manchester
  18. Musée National d’Art Moderne (Centre Georges Pompidou) - Paris
  19. Hunterian Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons – London
  20. British Library – London
  21. Tate Britain – London
  22. National Portrait Gallery – London
  23. Musée du Louvre  - Paris
  24. Galleria degli Uffizi – Florence
  25. Whitechapel Gallery – London
  26. National Museum of American History – Washington DC
  27. Musée Rodin - Paris
  28. Manchester Museum – Manchester
  29. V&A Museum of Childhood – London
  30. Art Gallery of Western Australia – Perth

Favourite 5 condiments

  1. Jack Daniels Old #7 mustard
  2. Heinz tomato ketchup
  3. sambal oelek
  4. soy sauce
  5. wasabi

Top 20 songs by Belle and Sebastian

  1. The Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner
  2. Get Me Away From Here I’m Dying
  3. Electronic Rennaissance
  4. Sunday’s Pretty Icons
  5. There’s Too Much Love
  6. Stay Loose
  7. Slow Graffiti
  8. Winter Wooskie
  9. Jonathan David
  10. Come on Sister
  11. Nice Day for a Sulk
  12. I’m A Cuckoo
  13. Like Dylan in the Movies
  14. Funny Little Frog
  15. Me and the Major
  16. A Summer Wasting
  17. She’s Losing It
  18. To Be Myself Completely
  19. Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
  20. The Rollercoaster Ride

Top 10 movies with animals in prominent roles

  1. My Side of the Mountain
  2. The Day of the Dolphin
  3. Storm Boy
  4. Milo and Otis
  5. Uccellacci e uccellini
  6. Lassie Come Home
  7. Gorillas in the Mist
  8. Turner and Hooch
  9. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
  10. Repossessed

10 ways to get warm without a heater

  1. cat on lap
  2. rubbing hands together
  3. hugging
  4. hot water bottle
  5. rubbing lard on skin
  6. staying in bed
  7. sipping soup
  8. wearing a trapper hat
  9. take a long walk
  10. wear thick socks

Top 50 disco songs of all time

  1. Menergy by Patrick Cowley
  2. Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches & Herb
  3. Get Dancin’ by Disco Tex and The Sex-o-lettes
  4. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) by Sylvester
  5. Daddy Cool by Boney M
  6. More, More, More by Andrea True Connection
  7. Keep It Comin’ Love by KC and The Sunshine Band
  8. I’m Coming Out by Diana Ross
  9. Good Times by Chic
  10. More Than A Woman by Bee Gees
  11. Got To Be Real by Cheryl Lynn
  12. We Are Family by Sister Sledge
  13. Shine A Little Love by Electric Light Orchestra
  14. Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor
  15. I Love The Night Life (Disco ‘Round) by Alicia Bridges
  16. Heart Of Glass by Blondie
  17. You Should Be Dancing by Bee Gees
  18. Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough by Michael Jackson
  19. Love To Love You Baby by Donna Summer
  20. Shake, Shake, Shake (Shake Your Booty) by KC and The Sunshine Band
  21. That’s The Way (I Like It) by KC and The Sunshine Band
  22. I’m Every Woman by Chaka Khan
  23. Lady Marmalade by Patti LaBelle
  24. Upside Down by Diana Ross
  25. Celebration by Kool & the Gang
  26. The Hustle by Van McCoy
  27. Grease by Frankie Valli
  28. A Warm Summer Night by Chic
  29. Have A Cigar by Rosebud
  30. Knowing Me, Knowing You by ABBA
  31. Boogie Wonderland by Earth, Wind & Fire
  32. Get Down Tonight by KC and The Sunshine Band
  33. Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love by Barry White
  34. Jive Talking by Bee Gees
  35. Turn The Beat Around by Vicki Sue Robinson
  36. Disco Inferno by The Trammps
  37. Le Freak by Chic
  38. Stayin’ Alive by Bee Gees
  39. Livin’ Thing by Electric Light Orchestra
  40. Let’s Groove by Earth, Wind & Fire
  41. You Make Me Feel Like Dancing by Leo Sayer
  42. Everybody Dance by Chic
  43. You Sexy Thing by Hot Chocolate
  44. You Can’t Change That by Raydio
  45. I Want Your Love by Chic
  46. Can You Feel It by The Jacksons
  47. Born To Be Alive by Patrick Hernandez
  48. Xanadu by Olivia Newton-John
  49. Can’t Stop The Music by The Village People
  50. It’s Raining Men by The Weather Girls

Top 10 parting phrases

  1. take it easy
  2. farewell
  3. peace out
  4. later
  5. b-bye
  6. so long
  7. cheerio
  8. best of luck
  9. pip pip
  10. be gone

Top 12 citrus

  1. finger lime (technically ‘citrus’? I don’t know.)
  2. satsuma mandarin
  3. Navel orange
  4. Valencia orange
  5. imperial lemon
  6. key lime
  7. kaffir lime
  8. kumquats
  9. grapefruit
  10. blood orange
  11. tangelo
  12. pomelo

Top 30 logos of all time

  1. Telecom Australia (Pieter Huveneers design, 1975)
  2. Black Panthers (1966)
  3. Michelin (Marius Rossillon design, 1898)
  4. Lacoste (1933)
  5. Australia Post (Pieter Huveneers design, 1975)
  6. Solidarnosc (Jerzy Janiszewski design, 1980)
  7. Western Australia Ministry of Education (circa 1990)
  8. Apple (circa 1977)
  9. General Electric (1899)
  10. World Wide Fund for Nature [WWF] (Peter Scott design, 1961)
  11. Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies)
  12. Penguin (derived from an idea by the un-named secretary of Allen Lane in 1935, Jan Tschichold design, 1948)
  13. His Master’s Voice (derived from the Francis Barraud painting, 1899)
  14. Cadbury ‘glass and a half’ (1928)
  15. Black Flag (Raymond Pettibon design, 1977)
  16. I [heart] NY (Milton Glaser design, 1973)
  17. Chupa Chups (Salvadore Dali design, 1969)
  18. CBS (William Golden design, 1951)
  19. Coca Cola (Frank Mason Robinson design, 1885)
  20. Nestle (Henri Nestlé design with the worm still in the bird’s mouth, 1868)
  21. BP (Landor, circa 2000)
  22. CBGBs (1973)
  23. Kentucky Fried Chicken (circa 1978)
  24. IBM (Paul Rand design, 1972)
  25. BBC (circa 1997)
  26. Greyhound (1929)
  27. Kodak (circa 1971)
  28. ABC (1963, from an idea in a staff competition from space engineer Doug Rickard, adapted in 1965 by ABC’s senior graphic designer Bill Kennard)
  29. Pepsi (Caleb Bradham idea, circa 1950)
  30. AC/DC (Bob Defrin design, 1977)

30 favourite animals to go extinct in modern times

  1. Indefatigable Galápagos Mouse
  2. Steller’s Sea Cow
  3. Pig-footed Bandicoot
  4. Dodo
  5. Moa
  6. Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger)
  7. Honshū Wolf
  8. Hokkaidō Wolf
  9. King Island Emu
  10. Toolache Wallaby
  11. Mexican Grizzly Bear
  12. Lesser Bilby
  13. Falkland Islands Wolf (Warrah)
  14. Bulldog Rat
  15. Quagga
  16. Caspian Tiger
  17. Sea Mink
  18. Bubal Hartebeest
  19. Giant Auk
  20. Cave Lion
  21. Laughing Owl
  22. Baiji
  23. Sardinian Pika
  24. Caucasian Moose
  25. Gould’s Mouse
  26. Laysan Rail
  27. Japanese Sea Lion
  28. Kawekaweau
  29. Male Passenger Pigeon
  30. Turquoise-throated Puffleg

Top 50 music videos of all time

  1. Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
  2. M.I.A. – Born Free
  3. Talk Talk – It’s My Life
  4. Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy
  5. Beck – Lost Cause
  6. Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
  7. Pavement – Stereo
  8. Tyler, The Creator – Yonkers
  9. Blondie – Rapture
  10. Hidden Cameras – A Miracle
  11. Fujiya and Miyagi – Ankle Injuries
  12. Morrissey – Everyday is Like Sunday
  13. Björk – All Is Full Of Love
  14. My Bloody Valentine – Soon
  15. Blur – Coffee and TV
  16. Kraftwerk – The Robots
  17. Public Enemy – Night of the Living Baseheads
  18. R.E.M. – It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
  19. Sonic Youth – Dirty Boots
  20. Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime
  21. Madonna – Vogue
  22. Minutemen – This Aint No Picnic
  23. Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer
  24. Stephen Malkmus – Discretion Grove
  25. Busta Rhymes – Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See
  26. Korallreven – The Truest Faith
  27. Yoko Ono – Walking  On Thin Ice
  28. Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
  29. Aphex Twin – Come To Daddy
  30. Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
  31. C&C Music Factory – Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
  32. Air – Playground Love
  33. Pulp – Bad Cover Version
  34. Barnes and Barnes – Fish Heads
  35. Michael Jackson – Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough
  36. At The Drive-In – One Armed Scissor
  37. Kylie Minogue – Slow
  38. Prince – Dirty Mind
  39. Basement Jaxx – Where’s Your Head At
  40. The Smiths – Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
  41. The White Stripes – The Hardest Button To Button
  42. The Saints – Know Your Product
  43. Queen featuring David Bowie – Under Pressure
  44. Twisted Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take It
  45. David Bowie – Let’s Dance
  46. Cliff Richard – Wired for Sound
  47. The Blue Nile – Tinsetown in the Rain
  48. Junior Senior – Move Your Feet
  49. Michael Jackson – Black or White
  50. The Beatles – Rain

Top 20 game show hosts of all time

  1. John Burgess
  2. Eden Gaha
  3. Simon Amstell
  4. Julian Clary
  5. Tony Barber
  6. Tim Ferguson
  7. Mike Meade
  8. Fiona McDonald
  9. Stuart Hall
  10. Anne Robinson
  11. Michael Pope
  12. Greg Evans
  13. James Sherry
  14. Ian Turpie
  15. Sophie Formica
  16. Graham Kennedy
  17. Simon Watt
  18. Peter Berner
  19. Rob Brough
  20. Rob Guest

Top 3 metal bands

  1. Slayer
  2. Judas Priest
  3. Celtic Frost

Top 12 metals and semi-metals

  1. gold
  2. lithium
  3. calcium
  4. aluminum
  5. tin
  6. zinc
  7. nickel
  8. mercury
  9. tungsten
  10. cobalt
  11. lead
  12. arsenic

Favourite 10 suburbs in Melbourne

  1. Footscray
  2. Frankston
  3. Thornbury
  4. Brunswick East
  5. Northcote
  6. Sunshine
  7. Preston
  8. Fawkner
  9. Resevoir
  10. Collingwood

Top 10 dancers

  1. Isadora Duncan
  2. Merce Cunningham
  3. Willi Ninja
  4. Lil’ Buck
  5. Robert Helpmann
  6. Michael Clarke
  7. Busby Berkeley
  8. Bobby Farrell
  9. Michael Jackson
  10. Karen from The Red Shoes

Top 50 documentaries (not music related)

  1. Word is Out
  2. F for Fake
  3. Capturing The Friedmans
  4. Touching The Void
  5. Born Rich
  6. Storyville: The Genius and The Boys
  7. Rocking The Foundations
  8. Grizzly Man
  9. Keep The River On Your Right
  10. The King of Kong
  11. The September Issue
  12. The Times of Harvey Milk
  13. That Man: Peter Berlin
  14. Out In Nature
  15. The War on Democracy
  16. Paragraph 175
  17. Spellbound
  18. Roger & Me
  19. Capitalism: A Love Story
  20. Unforgiveable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
  21. The Kid Stays In The Picture
  22. Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton
  23. Crumb
  24. Helvetica
  25. Before Stonewall
  26. The Devil’s Playground
  27. The Celluloid Closet
  28. Lost in La Mancha
  29. The Universe of Keith Haring
  30. Fahrenheit 9/11
  31. Unzipped
  32. Exit Through The Gift Shop
  33. Benny and The Dreamers
  34. Harlan County, USA
  35. How The West Was Lost
  36. Jesus Camp
  37. The Naked Bunyip
  38. Pumping Iron
  39. My Architect
  40. Paris Is Burning
  41. A Bigger  Splash
  42. Sketches of Frank Gehry
  43. Hoop Dreams
  44. Best Worst Movie
  45. Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters
  46. The Weather Underground
  47. The Battle of Chile
  48. The Story of the Weeping Camel
  49. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
  50. Seven Up!

Top 5 chip styles

  1. fish n chip style
  2. crinkle cut
  3. waffle
  4. shoestring
  5. steak cut

Top 5 slave revolts

  1. Third Servile War against the Roman Republic [also known as The War of Sparticus] (73-71BC)
  2. Zanj Rebelli in Southern Iraq (869-883 AD)
  3. Thrall Tunni rebellion against the Swedish monarch Ongentheowon [also known as Egil] (ca. 515)
  4. St. Domingue slave revolt in Haiti (1791 )
  5. Tacky’s War in Jamaica (1760)

Top 20 fashion designers and fashion houses

  1. Walter Van Beirendonck
  2. Comme des Garçons
  3. Bernhard Willhelm
  4. Marc Jacobs
  5. Manish Arora
  6. Gareth Pugh
  7. Rudi Gernreich
  8. Cathy Pill
  9. Matthew Williamson
  10. Rifat Ozbek
  11. Yves Saint Laurent
  12. Leigh Bowery
  13. Avsh Alom Gur
  14. Basso & Brooke
  15. Alexander McQueen
  16. Christian Lacroix
  17. Lanvin
  18. Catou
  19. Biba (Barbara Hulanicki )
  20. Denis Simachev

Top 50 cartoon characters

  1. Yogi Bear
  2. Theodore Sevillle  (The Chipmunks)
  3. Marge Simpson (The Simpsons)
  4. Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear (Toy Story 3)
  5. Towelie (South Park)
  6. Claudia Vorstein (The Chipmunk Adventure)
  7. Klaus Vorstein (The Chipmunk Adventure)
  8. Buttercup Utonium (Powerpuff Girls)
  9. Ernest Penfold (Danger Mouse)
  10. Krang (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
  11. Prince John (Robin Hood [1973])
  12. Merriweather (Sleeping Beauty)
  13. Skeleton  (SuperTed)
  14. Harvey Birdman
  15. Myron Reducto (Harvey Birdman)
  16. Daria Morgendorffer (Daria)
  17. Sebastian (The Little Mermaid)
  18. Skeletor (He-Man)
  19. Cringer (He-Man)
  20. He-Man
  21. Archimedes (The Sword in the Stone)
  22. Kay (The Sword in the Stone)
  23. Mr Burns (The Simpsons)
  24. Eric Raymond (Jem)
  25. Pepe Le Pew
  26. Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
  27. Ren (Ren and Stimpy)
  28. Bobby Hill (King of the Hill)
  29. Tom Sloane (Daria)
  30. Mumm-Ra (Thundercats)
  31. Pidge (Voltron)
  32. Boo-Boo (Yogi Bear)
  33. Boris Badenov (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
  34. Natasha Fatale (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
  35. Count Duckula
  36. Doctor Claw (Inspector Gadget)
  37. Penny (Inspector Gadget)
  38. Simon Seville (The Chipmunks)
  39. Dave Seville  (The Chipmunks)
  40. Garfield
  41. Jessica Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?)
  42. Papa Smurf (The Smurfs)
  43. Randy Marsh (South Park)
  44. Gumby
  45. Pokey (Gumby)
  46. Astroboy
  47. Ursula the Sea Witch (The Little Mermaid)
  48. Olive Oyl (Popeye)
  49. Mom (Futurama)
  50. Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)

Top 5 celebrity chefs

  1. Peter Russel-Clarke
  2. Julia Child
  3. Heston Blumenthal
  4. Jennifer Paterson
  5. Ferran Adrià

Top 10 songs by Simply Red

  1. Your Mirror
  2. Money’s Too Tight To Mention
  3. Jericho
  4. Holding Back The Years
  5. Stars
  6. Come To My Aid
  7. Fairground
  8. Something Got Me Started
  9. A New Flame
  10. For Your Babies

Top 10 forms of ‘fake’ meat

  1. Bai Dai fish pieces
  2. whole fish
  3. Boca burgers (beef style)
  4. fried chicken pieces
  5. breaded chicken drumsticks
  6. chicken nuggets
  7. mutton
  8. hot dog style sausages
  9. crab for soup
  10. mince meat for pies

Top 30 sports cars of all time

  1. Bugatti Type 57SC Atalante Coupe
  2. Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Coupe
  3. Bugatti Type 59 Grand Prix
  4. Bugatti Type 54 Grand Prix
  5. Lotus Seven
  6. Chevrolet Corvette (1954)
  7. Alfa Romeo Carabo
  8. Alpine A110 (Berlinette)
  9. Maserati Boomerang
  10. Ferrari 250 GTO
  11. Lancia Stratos HF
  12. Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray Coupe (1963 )
  13. Lancia Strato Zero
  14. De Tomaso Pantera(1971)
  15. Porsche 959
  16. Holden Efijy
  17. Lamborghini Countach (1971)
  18. Maserati Bora
  19. BMW M1
  20. Vector W8
  21. Dome Zero
  22. Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona
  23. E25 BMW Turbo
  24. Chevrolet Corvette Stingray (1974 )
  25. Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato
  26. Ferrari F40
  27. Mercedes Benz 300SL Gullwing
  28. Lamborghini Miura
  29. Mazda Miata
  30. Dodge Viper GTS

60 songs that define the grunge era (one song representing each act, no particular order)

  1. On A Plain by Nirvana
  2. Olympia (Rock Star) by Hole
  3. Touch Me I’m Sick by Mudhoney
  4. Outshined by Soundgarden
  5. Rearviewmirror by Pearl Jam
  6. Pretend We’re Dead by L7
  7. Zero by Smashing Pumpkins
  8. No Excuses by Alice in Chains
  9. Vasoline by Stone Temple Pilots
  10. Bruise Violet by Babes in Toyland
  11. Ritual Device by Tad
  12. Sundial by Tumbleweed
  13. Jewels and Bullets by You Am I
  14. Daddy by Magic Dirt
  15. Tumbling by Snout
  16. Dart by Screamfeeder
  17. That Ain’t Bad by Ratcat
  18. Here Now by The Clouds
  19. Atomic Electric by Rebecca’s Empire
  20. God In A Dustbin by The Falling Joys
  21. Findaway by silverchair
  22. Hurt by Nine Inch Nails
  23. Saturated by The Beasts of Bourbon
  24. Feel The Pain by Dinosaur jr
  25. Skull by Sebadoh
  26. 100% by Sonic Youth
  27. Ain’t No Right by Jane’s Addiction
  28. Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill
  29. Cocksucker Club by Pansy Division
  30. Longview by Green Day
  31. Everlong by Foo Fighters
  32. Los Angeles by Frank Black
  33. Do You Love Me Now? by The Breeders
  34. If I Can’t Change Your Mind by Sugar
  35. Trigger Cut by Pavement
  36. Solar Sister by The Posies
  37. Jimmy’s Fantasy by Redd Kross
  38. Positive Bleeding by Urge Overkill
  39. Anky Fremp by Flanders
  40. Drugs by Ammonia
  41. Something Good Must Come by Knievel
  42. Web in Front by Archers of Loaf
  43. Waiting Around by Smoking Popes
  44. Say It Ain’t So by Weezer
  45. Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles by The Flaming Lips
  46. The Hurdy Gurdy Man by Butthole Surfers
  47. Last Cup Of Sorrow by Faith No More
  48. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? by R.E.M.
  49. Vow by Garbage
  50. What’s Come Over Me? by Frente
  51. Boy Racer by Morrissey
  52. Love Spreads by The Stone Roses
  53. A Design For Life by Manic Street Preachers
  54. Live Forever by Oasis
  55. There’s No Other Way by Blur
  56. Everything Flows by Teenage Fanclub
  57. Stutter by Elastica
  58. A Life Less Ordinary by Ash
  59. Dress by PJ Harvey
  60. Just by Radiohead

Top 10 scents (non perfume related)

  1. petrol
  2. bubblegum
  3. synthetic ‘strawberry’
  4. vanilla
  5. smoke from a wood fire
  6. old books
  7. toast
  8. coffee
  9. play-doh
  10. fresh rain

Top 25 hats and caps

  1. trapper hat
  2. ushanka
  3. night cap with pom-pom
  4. feather bonnet
  5. pileus
  6. Phrygian cap
  7. sou’wester
  8. baseball cap
  9. flat cap
  10. cowboy hat
  11. tuque
  12. newsboy cap
  13. wimple
  14. pork pie hat
  15. Tam o’ Shanter
  16. coonskin cap
  17. visor
  18. chaperon
  19. nurses cap
  20. mob cap
  21. coolie hat
  22. boater
  23. energy dome
  24. Panama hat
  25. a hat by Phillip Treacy

Top 75 dog breeds

  1. Hare Indian Dog
  2. Paisley Terrier
  3. Dachshund
  4. Bullenbeisser
  5. Airedale Terrier
  6. Talbot
  7. Kai Ken
  8. Combai
  9. St. Bernard
  10. Foxhound
  11. Azawakh
  12. Rajapalayam
  13. Pug
  14. Doberman Pinscher
  15. Beagle
  16. Mountain Cur
  17. New Guinea Singing Dog
  18. Rough Collie
  19. Dutch Smoushond
  20. English Foxhound
  21. Komondor
  22. German Shorthaired Pointer
  23. Dalmatian
  24. Great Pyrenees
  25. Field Spaniel
  26. Hortaya Borzaya
  27. Ibizan Hound
  28. Japanese Chin
  29. Greyhound
  30. Jonangi
  31. Pharaoh Hound
  32. Kanni
  33. Korean Jindo Dog
  34. McNab
  35. Kyi-Leo
  36. Indian Spitz
  37. Lakeland Terrier
  38. Black and Tan Coonhound
  39. Maltese
  40. Cirneco dell’Etna
  41. Grand Griffon Vendéen
  42. Mountain View Cur
  43. Norfolk Spaniel
  44. Norwegian Buhund
  45. Landseeer
  46. Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever
  47. Old Danish Pointer
  48. Kromfohrländer
  49. Papillon
  50. Kishu
  51. Pont-Audemer Spaniel
  52. Pyrenean Shepherd
  53. Dogo Cubano
  54. Russian Toy
  55. Mucuchies
  56. Skye Terrier
  57. Otterhound
  58. South Russian Ovcharka
  59. Hamiltonstövare
  60. Australian Cattle Dog
  61. Telomian
  62. Rampur Greyhound
  63. Toy Bulldog
  64. Great Dane
  65. Dunker
  66. Koolie
  67. Pointer
  68. Irish Water Spaniel
  69. Toy Trawler Spaniel
  70. Rat Terrier
  71. Peruvian Hairless Dog
  72. Chihuahua
  73. Moscow Watchdog
  74. Siberian Husky
  75. Dingo (I know some people say it’s not technically a dog, but whatever…)

Best seasons of Project Runway (in order)

  1. Season 8
  2. Season 1
  3. Season 2
  4. Season 4
  5. Season 3
  6. Season 5
  7. Season 7
  8. Season 6

Top 10 premiership footballers from the West Coast Eagles (1992, 1994, 2006)

  1. Karl Langdon
  2. Chris Lewis
  3. Peter Matera
  4. Chris Mainwaring
  5. Ashley McIntosh
  6. Dean Kemp
  7. Craig Turley
  8. Guy McKenna
  9. Brett Heady
  10. David Wirrpanda

Top 15 National Parks in the United States (in order)

  1. Yellowstone
  2. Badlands
  3. Redwood
  4. Death Valley
  5. Grand Teton
  6. Rocky Mountain
  7. Great Smoky Mountains
  8. Yosemite
  9. Kings Canyon
  10. Sequoia
  11. Arches
  12. Olympic
  13. Shenandoah
  14. Zion
  15. honourable mention to Jellystone

Top 10 Steve Martin movies

  1. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
  2. HouseSitter
  3. ¡Three Amigos!
  4. Planes, Trains & Automobiles
  5. Roxanne
  6. L.A. Story
  7. Parenthood
  8. Father of the Bride Part II
  9. Father of the Bride
  10. The Jerk

Top 10 green leafy vegetables

  1. kangkong
  2. celery
  3. kale
  4. cos lettuce
  5. baby bok choi
  6. broccolini
  7. broccoli
  8. iceberg lettuce
  9. baby spinach
  10. rocket

Top 30 songs by Dinosaur Jr

  1. Loaded
  2. The Wagon
  3. Crumble
  4. In A Jar
  5. No Bones
  6. Goin’ Home
  7. The Lung
  8. Pick Me Up
  9. Out There
  10. Water
  11. They Always Come
  12. What Else Is New
  13. Feel The Pain
  14. Little Fury Things
  15. I’m Insane
  16. Budge
  17. Mick
  18. Not The Same
  19. Sure Not Over You
  20. I Know Yer Insane
  21. Puke + Cry
  22. Kracked
  23. Never Bought It
  24. Forget The Swan
  25. Said The People
  26. I Ain’t Sayin
  27. Sludgefeast
  28. Tarpit
  29. Repulsion
  30. Get Me

Top 15 photographers

  1. Guy Bourdin
  2. Wilhelm von Gloeden
  3. Richard Avedon
  4. Philippe Halsman
  5. Will McBride
  6. Bob Mizer
  7. David Bailey
  8. James Bidgood
  9. Annie Leibovitz
  10. Andy Warhol
  11. Cecil Beaton
  12. Robert Mapplethorpe
  13. Helmut Newton
  14. Mick Rock
  15. Diane Arbus

Top 10 models

  1. Maggie Tabberer
  2. Iman
  3. Edie Sedgewick
  4. Kate Moss
  5. Quentin Crisp
  6. Twiggy
  7. Dorima
  8. Nico
  9. Anjelica Huston
  10. Jerry Hall

Top 10 film songs / scores

  1. Walkabout by John Barry (from Walkabout)
  2. De usuahia a la quiaca by Gustavo Santaolalla (from The Motorcycle Diaries)
  3. Main Title (Golden Ticket /Pure Imagination) by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley (from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
  4. Consuelo Leaving by Belle and Sebastian (from Storytelling)
  5. Prologue – Dirty Rotten Theme by Miles Goodman (from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
  6. The John Dunbar Theme by John Barry (from Dances with Wolves)
  7. Pepperland by George Martin (from Yellow Submarine)
  8. Prologue – Bedknobs and Broomsticks by Irwin Kostal (from Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
  9. Fiction by Nathan Larson and Nina Persson (from Storytelling)
  10. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (main title) by Ennio Morricone (from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

15 favourite kitchen appliances or utensils

  1. large knife
  2. rice cooker
  3. coffee bean grinder
  4. colander
  5. Scanpan flat-bottomed wok
  6. bendable chopping board
  7.  ladle
  8. grater
  9. salad spinner
  10. pastry brush
  11. can opener
  12. lemon squeezer
  13. metal mixing spoon
  14. filleting knife
  15. mortar and pestle

Top 75 seasonal songs

  1. Summer in the City by The Lovin’ Spoonful
  2. A Warm Summer Night by Chic
  3. Autumn in New York by Billie Holiday
  4. Hot Fun in the Summertime by Sly and The Family Stone
  5. Autumn Sung by Sodastream
  6. Spring Rain by The Go-Betweens
  7. One Summer by Daryl Braithwaite
  8. Hell of a Summer by The Triffids
  9. Winter Wooskie by Belle and Sebastian
  10. Autumn Sweater by Yo La Tengo
  11. Winter Wonder by Jeremy Jay
  12. Winterlong by Neil Young
  13. Summer Cannibals by Patti Smith
  14. Summer Cum by Avi Buffalo
  15. We Gathered in Spring by Midlake
  16. Winter Song by Nico
  17. Summer’s Cauldron by XTC
  18. Winter’s Way by The Laughing Clowns
  19. Winter Friend by Yoko Ono
  20. Autumn Shade by The Vines
  21. Come On Spring by Antenna
  22. It’s Summertime by Flaming Lips
  23. Summer Wasting by Belle and Sebastian
  24. Spring Song by Paul Robeson
  25. Summer Wino by Dan Kelly and The Alpha Males
  26. Summer Lovin’ by Meuscram
  27. Autumn Glass by Sekiden
  28. Winter Love by Robyn Hitchcock
  29. Autumn’s Child by Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band
  30. Summertime Clothes by Animal Collective
  31. Cummer in Summertime by Julian Cope
  32. Delius (Song of Summer) by Kate Bush
  33. Summer Breeze by Stylus
  34. In The Summertime by The Mixtures
  35. Summer Here Kids by Grandaddy
  36. The Boys of Summer by Don Henley
  37. White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes
  38. Autumn by Felt
  39. Let’s Pretend It’s Summer by The Brian Jonestown Massacre
  40. My Autumn’s Done Come by The Tinderstick
  41. Hazy Shade of Winter by Simon and Garfunkel
  42. Winterwonderland by Ross McLennan
  43. Dark Autumn by Grand Buffet
  44. Summer Fun by The Barracudas
  45. My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion by The Flaming Lips
  46. Autumn Leaves by Miles Davis
  47. Excerpt from a Winter’s Day by Underground Lovers
  48. Winter in America by Gil Scott Heron
  49. Bummer in the Summer by Love
  50. Winter Lady by Leonard Cohen
  51. It Might As Well Be Spring by Nina Simone
  52. Eternal Summer by Celtic Frost
  53. Some Other Spring by Billie Holiday
  54. Winter by The Fall
  55. Summer Babe By Pavement
  56. Wintertime Again by Beachfield
  57. Winter Dies by Midlake
  58. In The Bleak Mid Winter by Bert Jansch
  59. Winter’s End by Marchine Translations
  60. Summertime by The Sundays
  61. Winter-A-Go-Go by Yo La Tengo
  62. Winter Rodeo by Turnstyle
  63. Autumn Air by The Very Most
  64. Winter Wonder Land by Animal Collective
  65. It’s Winter and You Don’t Love by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
  66. Fall Breaks and Back to Winter by Jim O’Rourke
  67. Summer Turns To High by R.E.M.
  68. Winter Must Be Cold by The Apples in stereo
  69. Autumn Almanac by The Kinks
  70. Autumn is Your Last Chance by Robyn Hitchcock
  71. Summertime by Lenny Breau
  72. Indian Summer by Beat Happening
  73. Russian Autumn Heart by The Church
  74. Sweetheart in the Summer by Ween
  75. In The Heat Of The Summer by Phil Ochs

Top 5 food products prepared out of soy beans

  1. soy milk
  2. firm tofu
  3. soy sauce
  4. roasted soy beans
  5. silken tofu

Top 12 architects

  1. Jeffrey Howlett
  2. César Pelli
  3. Daniel Burnham
  4. Frank Gehry
  5. Le Corbusier
  6. Giò Ponti
  7. Jørn Utzon
  8. Frank Lloyd Wright
  9. Peter Parler
  10. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  11. William Van Alen
  12. Rem Koolhaas

Top 50 Australian actors (in order)

  1. John Hargreaves
  2. Cate Blanchett
  3. Noah Taylor
  4. Graeme Blundell
  5. Rachel Griffiths
  6. David Gulpilil
  7. Matt Day
  8. Sophie Lee
  9. Garry McDonald
  10. Nell Schofield
  11. Ernie Dingo
  12. Errol Flynn
  13. Ruth Cracknell
  14. Genevieve Lemon
  15. Chips Rafferty
  16. Sacha Horler
  17. Alex Dimitriadis
  18. Rebecca Smart
  19. Kristian Schmid
  20. Judy Davis
  21. Sam Worthington
  22. Geoffrey Rush
  23. Tom E. Lewis
  24. Bill Hunter
  25. Frances O’Connor
  26. Jonathon Dutton
  27. Jack Thompson
  28. Deborah Mailman
  29. Jacki Weaver
  30. Kym Gyngell
  31. Bruce Spence
  32. Toni Collette
  33. Graham Kennedy
  34. Bryan Brown
  35. Noni Hazlehurst
  36. John Jarratt
  37. Magda Szubanski
  38. Heath Ledger
  39. Wendy Hughes
  40. Peter Finch
  41. Bud Tingwell
  42. Joan Sydney
  43. Hugo Weaving
  44. Sandy Gore
  45. Jacqueline MacKenzie
  46. Shaun Micallef
  47. Salvatore Coco
  48. Geoff Paine
  49. Leigh Whannell
  50. Nicole Kidman

Favourite 8 characters in Deadwood TV series

  1. Jane Canary
  2. Francis Walcott
  3. Mr Wu
  4. Al Swearengen
  5. E.B. Farnum
  6. Doc Cochran
  7. A.W. Merrick
  8. Jack McCall

Top 10 manifestations of water (in order)

  1. glass of water
  2. hail
  3. water pistol squirt
  4. clouds
  5. kettle steam
  6. iceblocks
  7. rain
  8. leaky tap
  9. igloo
  10. rising steam from a subway grate

5 favourite words

  1. trousers
  2. bespoke
  3. minging
  4. tabernacle
  5. tits

10 other people with descriptive terms in their names

  1. Wild Bill Hickock
  2. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
  3. Long John Baldry
  4. ‘Evil’ Graham Lee
  5. Shakin Stevens
  6. Screaming Lord Sutch
  7. ‘The Coward’ Robert Ford
  8. Long John Silver
  9. Calamity Jane Gazzo
  10. The Notorious B.I.G.

25 great songs by bad musical acts

  1. Everlong by Foo Fighters
  2. Keeping Secrets by Motor Ace
  3. Military Strongmen by Jebediah
  4. More Than You Are by Grinspoon
  5. Stop by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  6. A Song For The Lovers by Richard Ashcroft
  7. Tornadoes by Ben Lee
  8. Something Good Must Come by Knievel
  9. Is There Any Love In Your Heart? by Lenny Kravitz
  10. Rearviewmirror by Pearl Jam
  11. Unsent Letter by Machine Gun Fellatio
  12. In The Meantime by Spacehog
  13. All Star by Smashmouth
  14. Revolution Regained by The Living End
  15. Sour Girl by Stone Temple Pilots
  16. Behind The Sun by Red Hot Chili Peppers
  17. In The Meantime by Spacehog
  18. Live Forever by Oasis
  19. My Happiness by Powderfinger
  20. Outside of Me by Killing Heidi
  21. Why Are All The Cars Outside Real? by Eskimo Joe
  22. Perfect Family by Diana Ah Naid
  23. Findaway by silverchair
  24. Burden In My Hand by Soundgarden
  25. Buck Rogers by Feeder

Top 5 names for a boy

  1. Huckleberry
  2. Atticus
  3. Cornelius
  4. Jerry
  5. Alex

Top 8 hairstyles

  1. hi-top fade
  2. mop top
  3. undercut
  4. quiff
  5. bob
  6. devilock
  7. Croydon facelift
  8. jewfro

Top 20 trees

  1. palm tree
  2. wattle
  3. myrtle (Western Australian/Peppermint)
  4. redwood
  5. Douglas Fir
  6. Joshua Tree
  7. weeping willow
  8. Tasmanian Blue Gum
  9. elm
  10. maple
  11. Mountain Ash
  12. Old Tjikko (Norway Spruce)
  13. oak
  14. Yakushima (conifer)
  15. mallow
  16. Eurasian Smoketree
  17. buxus (box tree)
  18. baobab
  19. birch
  20. plane-tree

Top 12 athletes who have tested positive to drugs

  1. Carl Lewis
  2. Petr Korda
  3. Mark French
  4. O.J. Mayo
  5. Marion Jones
  6. Ekaterini Thanou
  7. Hans Gunnar-Linjenwall
  8. Dean Capobianco
  9. Andre Agassi
  10. Lance Armstrong
  11. Linford Christie
  12. Barry Bonds

Top 10 Columbo episodes

  1. Murder by the Book (Season 1, Episode 1)
  2. Murder Under Glass (Season 7, Episode 2)
  3. The Most Dangerous Match (Season 2, Episode 7)
  4. Death Lends A Hand (Season 1, Episode 2)
  5. The Most Crucial Game (Season 2, Episode 3)
  6. Lovely But Lethal (Season 3, Episode 1)
  7. An Exercise in Fatality (Season 4, Episode 1)
  8. Dead Weight (Season 1, Episode 3)
  9. By Dawn’s Early Light (Season 4, Episode 3)
  10. How to Dial A Murder (Season 7, Episode 4)

Top 20 Australian visual artists of 20th century

  1. Gordon Bennett
  2. Ken Done
  3. Emily Kame Kngwarreye
  4. Brett Whiteley
  5. John Olson
  6. Albert Namatjira
  7. Noel Counihan
  8. Mike Parr
  9. Lily Kelly Napangardi
  10. Pro Hart
  11. Sidney Nolan
  12. Ginger Riley Munduwalawala
  13. Howard Arkley
  14. Walala Tjapaltjarri
  15. Jeffrey Smart
  16. Norman Lindsay
  17. Peter Russell-Clarke
  18. Peter Sharp
  19. Grace Cossington Smith
  20. Paddy Bedford

Top 50 songs by The Go-Betweens (in order)

  1. Bachelor Kisses
  2. To Reach Me
  3. The Mountains Near Dellray
  4. On My Block
  5. I Just Get Caught Out
  6. Dive For Your Memory
  7. Part Company
  8. Twin Layers of Lightening
  9. Spirit of a Vampyre
  10. Draining the Pool for You
  11. Old Mexico
  12. Magic In Here
  13. Streets of Your Town
  14. Love Goes On!
  15. Spring Rain
  16. Devil’s Eye
  17. Ride
  18. No Reason To Cry
  19. Head Full of Steam
  20. Heart and Home
  21. That Way
  22. The Statue
  23. Bow Down
  24. The Sound of Rain
  25. I’m All Right
  26. Slow Slow Music
  27. Orpheus Beach
  28. Bye Bye Pride
  29. Love Is A Sign
  30. Girl Lying On A Beach
  31. Crooked Lines
  32. The Clock
  33. You’ve Never Lived
  34. You Can’t Say No Forever
  35. Quiet Heart
  36. Finding You
  37. Going Blind
  38. Clouds
  39. Time In The Desert
  40. Locust Girls
  41. The City of Light
  42. In The Core of A Flame
  43. Sleeping Giant
  44. Erotic Sunshine
  45. He Lives My Life
  46. Five Words
  47. Stone
  48. Was There Anything I Could Do?
  49. Instant Replay
  50. Apology Accepted

10 favourite books about communism

  1. The Naked God by Howard Fast
  2. Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell
  3. The Revolutionary Road to Socialism by Alex Callinicos
  4. Communism: A Love Story by Jeff Sparrow
  5. The Meaning of Marxism by Paul D’Amato
  6. Reasons To Be Cheerful by Mark Steel
  7. Free Radical by Roderic Anderson
  8. Once A Jolly Comrade by Keith McEwen
  9. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  10. State Capitalism in Russia by Tony Cliff (I haven’t read it, but I like that it exists)

Top 5 adventurers

  1. Isabelle Eberhardt
  2. Richard Halliburton
  3. Percy Fawcett
  4. John Muir
  5. André Malraux

Top 20 fabrics

  1. seersucker
  2. drill
  3. buckskin
  4. corduroy
  5. felt
  6. gingham
  7. pleather
  8. twill
  9. denim
  10. flannel
  11. hessian/burlap
  12. chino cloth
  13. muslin
  14. velour
  15. lycra
  16. terry towelling
  17. sharkskin
  18. Harris Tweed
  19. mesh
  20. brocade

Top 15 liquors

  1. hot toddy
  2. gin
  3. fenny
  4. Cointreau
  5. lager
  6. sauvignon blanc
  7. port
  8. Beaujolais
  9. sparkling wine
  10. cider
  11. sangria
  12. tequila
  13. rum
  14. Kahlua
  15. chocolate liqueurs

Top 10 Beatles albums (in order)

  1. Rubber Soul
  2. Revolver
  3. White Album
  4. Abbey Road
  5. Yellow Submarine
  6. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  7. Magical Mystery Tour
  8. A Hard Day’s Night
  9. Help!
  10. Meet The Beatles!

Top 3 vinegars

  1. malt
  2. rice
  3. balsamic

Top 5 bass guitarists

  1. Bernard Edwards (Chic)
  2. Fred Smith (Television)
  3. Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads)
  4. Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order)
  5. Larry Graham (Sly and The Family Stone)

Favourite 10 colours

  1. titty pink
  2. flesh tone/beige
  3. gold
  4. turquoise
  5. aquamarine
  6. mint
  7. green
  8. black
  9. white
  10. red

Top 5 boardgames

  1. Scrabble
  2. Connect Four
  3. Guess Who?
  4. Ludo
  5. Pictionary

Top 10 animals kept as pets

  1. teacup piglets
  2. budgies
  3. guinea pigs
  4. cats
  5. ferrets
  6. tortoises
  7. hermit crabs
  8. axolotls
  9. koi
  10. goats

Top 25 songs by The Triffids

  1. Surfer Boy in Leather
  2. The Seabirds
  3. New Years Greetings
  4. Place in the Sun
  5. This Boy
  6. Beautiful Waste
  7. Farmers Never Visit Nightclubs
  8. Wide Open Road
  9. Spanish Blue
  10. Property Is Condemned
  11. Raining Pleasure
  12. Goodbye Little Boy
  13. Save What You Can
  14. Red Pony
  15. Suntrapper
  16. Tender is the Night (The Long Fidelity)
  17. Rosevel
  18. Life of Crime
  19. Only One Life
  20. Plaything
  21. Good Fortune Rose
  22. Hell of a Summer
  23. Too Hot To Move
  24. Kelly’s Blues
  25. Do You Want Me Near You?

Top 5 foods that grow beneath soil

  1. potato
  2. ginger
  3. onion
  4. garlic
  5. peanuts

My 15 most favourite towns and cities that I have visited in the United States of America

  1. Olympia
  2. San Francisco
  3. Washington DC
  4. Nashville
  5. Asheville
  6. Seattle
  7. Portland
  8. Philadelphia
  9. Chicago
  10. Eugene
  11. New York
  12. Ocean City
  13. Flagstaff
  14. Santa Fe
  15. Las Vegas

Top 10 players for the Perth Wildcats (all time)

  1. Eric Watterson
  2. Aaron Trahair
  3. CJ Bruton
  4. Scott Fisher
  5. Ricky Grace
  6. Trevor Torrance
  7. James Harvey
  8. James Crawford
  9. Cal Bruton
  10. Alan Black

Top 25 queer Hollywood actors

  1. Sal Mineo
  2. Cesar Romero
  3. Lily Tomlin
  4. Tallulah Bankhead
  5. Marlon Brando
  6. Roddy McDowall
  7. Marlene Dietrich
  8. George Takei
  9. Ramon Navarro
  10. Ian McKellen
  11. Joan Crawford
  12. William Haines
  13. Alla Nazimova
  14. Rupert Everett
  15. James Dean
  16. Stephen Fry
  17. Sara Gilbert
  18. Anna Pacquin
  19. Tab Hunter
  20. Greta Garbo
  21. Lindsay Lohan
  22. Carey Grant
  23. Anthony Perkins
  24. Ava Gardner
  25. Rudolph Valentino

Top 10 beans, legumes and pulses

  1. Butter beans [lima beans]
  2. Red kidney beans
  3. red lentils
  4. black beans
  5. urid dahl
  6. chick peas
  7. brown lentils
  8. yellow lentils
  9. soy beans
  10. adzuki beans

Top 20 songs by Dave Graney

  1. A Million Dollars In A Red Velvet Suit (live version off The Lure of the Tropics)
  2. You Wanna Be Loved
  3. Saturday Night Bath
  4. Everybody Loves A Mass Killer
  5. That’s The Way It’s Gonna Be
  6. A Man On The Make
  7. Three Dead Passengers In A Stolen Second Hand Ford
  8. Mr Bad Luck
  9. Between Times
  10. I’m Not Afraid To Be Heavy
  11. Warren Oates (live version off The Lure of the Tropics)
  12. There He Goes With His Eye Out
  13. Robert Ford
  14. Mogambo
  15. Drugs Are Wasted On The Young
  16. The Birds and The Goats
  17. I Held The Cool Breeze
  18. You Need To Suffer
  19. The Brother Who Lived
  20. You’re Masters Must Be Pleased With You

Top 20 Aboriginal musical performers or groups (non-traditional style)

  1. No Fixed Address
  2. Warumpi Band
  3. The Wilcannia Mob
  4. Tiddas
  5. Coloured Stone
  6. Jimmy Little
  7. Kylie Sambo
  8. Kev Carmody
  9. Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
  10. Vic Simms
  11. Archie Roach
  12. Frank Yamma
  13. Yothu Yindi
  14. Richard Frankland
  15. Kutcha Edwards
  16. Harold Blair
  17. The Pigram Brothers
  18. Galarrwuy Yunupingu
  19. Jimmy Chi
  20. Ruby Hunter

Top 10 pasta varieties

  1. Fettuccine
  2. Rotini
  3. Fusilli
  4. Rigatoni
  5. Tortiglioni
  6. Conchiglie
  7. Rotelle
  8. Ravioli
  9. Bucatini
  10. Tagliatele

Top 50 films of the 1980s

  1. On Golden Pond
  2. Puberty Blues
  3. Coming To America
  4. Heathers
  5. Another Country
  6. A Fish Called Wanda
  7. Terms of Endearment
  8. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
  9. Meet the Feebles
  10. The Shining
  11. Reds
  12. Beaches
  13. Cocoon
  14. Flight of the Navigator
  15. Batman
  16. Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
  17. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
  18. The Breakfast Club
  19. My Beautiful Laundrette
  20. Full Metal Jacket
  21. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  22. Santa Clause: The Movie
  23. Amadeus
  24. Where The Green Ants Dream
  25. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
  26. The Breakfast Club
  27. The Dark Crystal
  28. Withnail and I
  29. Dogs In Space
  30. The Gods Must Be Crazy II
  31. Gregory’s Girl
  32. Look Who’s Taking
  33. The Hunger
  34. Mannequin
  35. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  36. Beatlejuice
  37. Robocop
  38. The Boy Who Could Fly
  39. She-Devil
  40. Spaceballs
  41. Wall Street
  42. ¡Three Amigos!
  43. The Club
  44. Star Wars Episode V:  The Empire Strikes Back
  45. Back to the Future: Part II
  46. BabaKiueria
  47. Can’t Stop The Music
  48. The Year My Voice Broke
  49. Young Einstein
  50. Blue Velvet

Top Ten Children’s Books (post 1950)

  1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
  2. Hating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein
  3. Meg and Mog by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski
  4. Daddy’s Roomate by Michael Willhoite
  5. Animalia by Graeme Base
  6. Misery Guts by Morris Gleitzman
  7. The Twits by Roald Dahl
  8. Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
  9. Jellybelly by Robert Kimmel Smith
  10. Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Top 5 common garden plants

  1. philodendron
  2. agapanthas
  3. jacaranda
  4. frangipani
  5. wattle

Top 10 decades of the twentieth century (in order)

  1. 1980s
  2. 1920s
  3. 1950s
  4. 1900s
  5. 1910s
  6. 1970s
  7. 1930s
  8. 1990s
  9. 1960s
  10. 1940s

Top 10 American television drama series

  1. Breaking Bad
  2. Deadwood
  3. Six Feet Under
  4. The Wire
  5. The United States of Tara
  6. Big Love
  7. The Sopranos
  8. Mad Men
  9. Twin Peaks
  10. Dexter

5 Favourite Herbs

  1. Italian basil
  2. Thai basil
  3. parsley
  4. dill
  5. bay leaves

Top 10 Comedians

  1. Simon Amstell
  2. Steve Martin
  3. Judith Lucy
  4. Sean Hughes
  5. Anthony Morgan
  6. Sarah Silverman
  7. The Bedroom Philosopher
  8. Pete Firman
  9. Rod Quantock
  10. Stephen Colbert
  11. Peter Serafinowicz

Top 5 Favourite Animals

  1. Dolphins
  2. Otters
  3. Prairie Dogs
  4. Cotton Top Tamarins
  5. Sloths

Top 10 tennis players of all time

  1. Jim Courier
  2. Betty Stove
  3. Bill Tilden
  4. Pancho Gonzalez
  5. Steffi Graf
  6. Ivan Lendl
  7. Bjorn Borg
  8. Adrian Quist
  9. Gottfried Von Cramm
  10. Mary Jo Fernandez

My top 100 songs featuring women (one song represented by each artist)

 

  1. Annie Lennox – Why
  2. Aretha Franklin – Natural Woman
  3. Alanis Morrissette – You Learn
  4. Belle and Sebastian – Is It Wicked Not To Care?
  5. Billie Holiday – Lady Sings The Blues
  6. Blondie – Union City Blue
  7. Bjork – Hidden Place
  8. Boss Hog – Whiteout
  9. Bessie Smith – Down Hearted Blues
  10. The Breeders – Divine Hammer
  11. Carpenters – Rainy Days and Mondays
  12. Cat Power – The Greatest
  13. Chicks on Speed – Glamour Girl
  14. Carly Simon – You’re So Vain
  15. CocoRosie – Beautiful Boyz
  16. Cass Elliot – Dream A Little Dream of Me
  17. The Clouds – Aquamarine
  18. Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
  19. Crass – Shaved Women
  20. Cranberries – Linger
  21. Cibo Matto – Know Your Chicken
  22. The Crystals – He Hit Me (It Felt Like A Kiss)
  23. CSS – Patins
  24. Carole King – So Far Away
  25. Diana Ross – I’m Coming Out
  26. Divinyls – Boys in Town
  27. Dionne Warwick – Walk On By
  28. Dory Previn – Mary C Brown and the Hollywood Sign
  29. Dusty Springfield – Son of A Preacher Man
  30. Do Re Mi – Man Overboard
  31. Dolly Parton – Coat of Many Colors
  32. Eartha Kitt – I Want To Be Evil
  33. Elastica – Car Song
  34. Everything But The Girl – Missing
  35. Frente – No Time
  36. Fleetwood Mac – Dreams
  37. Glass Candy – Digital Versicolour
  38. Heart – Barricuda
  39. Hole – Olympia
  40. Helen Reddy – I Am Woman
  41. Joni Mitchell – Sex Kills
  42. Janis Joplin – Another Piece of My Heart
  43. Kate Bush – Cloudbusting
  44. KD Lang – Constant Cravings
  45. Laurie Anderson – O Superman
  46. L7 – Pretend That We’re Dead
  47. Life Without Buildings – 14 Days
  48. Le Tigre – Decepticon
  49. Martha and the Muffins – Echo Beach
  50. Martha and the Vandellas – Dancing in the Street
  51. Melanie – Lay Down
  52. Marianne Faithful – Broken English
  53. Missy Elliot – Gossip Folks
  54. MIA – Bucky Done Gone
  55. The Muffs – Upside Down
  56. Miss Dynamite – Di-na-mi-tee
  57. Magic Dirt – Heavy Business
  58. Nancy Sinatra – These Boots Are Made For Walking
  59. Natascha Atlas – Ana Hina
  60. New Buffalo – Recovery
  61. Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Stance
  62. Nina Simone – Here Comes The Sun
  63. Nico – Frozen Warnings
  64. The Organ – Brother
  65. Olivia Newton John – Physical
  66. Peaches – The Teaches of Peaches
  67. PJ Harvey – You Said Something
  68. Paradise Motel – Derwent River Star
  69. Patti Labelle – Lady Marmalade
  70. Petula Clarke – Downtown
  71. Patti Smith – Free Money
  72. The Pretenders  - Brass In Pocket
  73. Queen Latifa – Wrath of My Madness
  74. Randy Crawford – Street Life
  75. The Ronettes – Be My Baby
  76. Royal Trux – A Night To Remember
  77. Romeo Void – Never Say Never
  78. The Slits – Typical Girls
  79. Sade – No Ordinary Love
  80. Salt N Pepa – Push It
  81. Shonen Knife – Banana Chips
  82. Santigold – LES Artistes
  83. Sleater-Kinney – Modern Girl
  84. Sister Sledge – Lost In Music
  85. Sonic Youth – Bull in the Heather
  86. The Shaggs – Who Are Parents?
  87. Sinead O’Connor – Emperor’s New Clothes
  88. Siouxie and The Banshees – Cities of Dust
  89. Spice Girls – Who Do You Think You Are?
  90. Stereolab – Ping Pong
  91. Tracy Chapman – Talkin Bout A Revolution
  92. Tom Tom Club – Wordy Rappinghood
  93. Tina Turner – Private Dancer
  94. The Triffids – Raining Pleasure
  95. The Velvet Underground – After Hours
  96. Veruca Salt – Volcano Girls
  97. Whitney Houston – I’m Every Woman
  98. X Ray Spex – Oh Bondage, Up Yours
  99. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Gold Lion
  100. Yoko Ono – Yang Yang

I don’t think in books. I think in lists.

There is no need to check this blog regularly. It’s just lists. You can absorb lists in a very short time, which is why we don’t write novels for picking up the groceries. Lists are practical and more interesting than novels. You probably learn more too. I am moving with the times folks and so you should too. No more novels. Just lists!

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