My Top Tens

1. Stone Roses, Stone Roses - Still brilliant, everytime you listen to it. Ian Brown need do nothing good ever again, he will still be a genius becuase of this.
2. Screamadelica, Primal Scream - Era defining, a mood lifter. And Bobby and co are still going strong.
3. New Boots and Panties, Ian Dury and the Blockheads - One of the greatest songwriters this country has produced, up there with Ray Davies. Beautiful, touching and very funny.
4. Specials, Specials - Fresh, brilliant fusion of Ska and punk.
5. There's a Riot Goin on, Sly and the Family Stone - Brilliant, dark, funky, rocky, cool, and insane.
6. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis - Truly a masterpiece from start to finish. Miles blew the world away.
7. A Grand Don't Come for Free, The Streets - Wow, poet, great modern love story with an alternative ending.
8. Blood on The Tracks, Bob Dylan - Early one morning the sun was shining and i was laying in bed. Opens his Bobness
9. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye - Brilliant, haunting, challenging, beautiful.
10. Up to the Bracket, Libertines - Shambolicaly brilliant, Pete D at his youthful best he's gone downhill ever since.

So very many I've missed.

1. 1968 - I was born, what could be better than that. It was also the year of rebellion around the world. Particularly in Paris.
2. 1972 - The year my wife was born.
3. 2002 - The year my son was born. And Arsenal did the double.
4. 2005 - My daughter was born. Arsenal won the FA Cup
5. 1995- The year I got married.
6. 1971 - Arsenals first double
7. 1998 - Arsenals second double
8. 1989 - I started univeristy, had a great time
9. 1997 - Despite everthing that has happened since it was great to see the end of the horrors of the Tory years and all the pain and suffering they caused, particularly that bitch.
10.1984 - Because thats where we are rapidly heading.

1. London - coolest city on the planet.
2. New York - If you like American films you gotta go to NY, I suspet it is different from the rest of that country.
3. Paris - For all cliches, romance, student uprising, artists etc.
4. Barcelona - Sagrada Família and La Rambla
5. Edinburgh - Try the whisky heritage museum, brilliant.
6. Athens - Dirty, noisy, mayhem,and ancient. Everything a city should be.
7. Glasgow - Still a bit more edgy than its highbrow neighbor.
8. Liverpool - The Beatles, Albert Dock and a club in a house.
9. Manchester - Gave us the Stone Roses.
10.Vienna - The big wheel from the Third Man.

1.Full English – must include bacon, sausage and black pudding. What better way to start the day
2.Cheese and Beans on Toast – The staple diet of single men and students. Yum.
3.Fish and Chips – Particularly those served on the harbour at Tobermory. Growing up by the sea you have to like these.
4.Roast Dinner – What Sundays are made for. A great British Tradition.
5.Curry – Just pick up the phone and half an hour later there it is.
6.Jerk Chicken – Mmmm, especially at Carnival.
7.Pizza – another phone job, nice beer and a good movie.
8.Bangers and Mash – Gotta to be decent sausages and creamy mash.
9.Pie ‘n’ Mash – Hey I live in the East End. A dying tradition. No doubt soon to be rectified in some vulgarly tasteful gentrified fashion and priced at £10 (Bollo).
10.Meatball sub – Once a month on payday, footlong, what a treat.

As you can see, and going against all the current health nazism that seems to be sweeping the nation, my taste is not necessarily good for you. But then the nicest things rarely are.

Here's a challenge:
1.Sat – Because there is no work today or tomorrow, great. Well for most people (perhaps we should get the elderly, the unemployed and students to do all the work on Saturdays. That way us hard working types can all enjoy our weekends off together.)
2.Fri – Nice easy day a work then no work for 2 days.
3.Thursday – Nearly the weekend, acceptable to go out on a big night then let Friday’s work wash over you in a gentle flowing hangover.
4.Sun - The dull nagging back to work tomorrow sensation can be eased through extreme laziness a nice Sunday Roast
5.Good Friday – Well it’s a day of a week. Like Saturday but better because there is no work today, tomorrow, the next day or the day after that. Brilliant, but woefully infrequent.
6.Bank Holidays – Nice way to start a really short week. And for the Mods.
7.Christmas day – Like a Saturday but better cause you get presents.
8.Maundy Thursday – Brilliantly long weekend to look forward to.
9.Wed – Half way there.
10.Tue- Because you have got Monday out of the way.

So to begin my top tens. Top ten films as at 20/4/2006 are:

1. Goodfellas - the greatest Gangster film of all time. Flawless.
2. The Third Man - when Brits new how to make an adventurous films. Welles dominates through about 10 minutes on screen.
3.Touch of Evil - Welles the director, dark, daring and brilliant.
4.Taxi Driver - De Niro and Marty at the height of their genius. For the title sequence alone.
5. Living in Oblivion - the best film about making a low budget movie ever.
6. Withnail and I - possibly the most quoted British Movie of all time.
7. Wind in the Willows (Cosgrove Hall) - enchanting and David Jasons best role.
8. Ghostdog - Jim Jarmusch's poetic masterpiece, brilliant hip hop loving Gangster
9.It's a Wonderful Life - for Christmas always.
10. The Life Aquatic - loved it.

What do you think?