Saturday, 4 April 2020

Lockdown Top Fives - Week 2

Lockdown week 2 got under way celebrating Motörhead Monday which wasn’t to everyone’s taste before hitting a bigger topic of 80s albums. 

▪️Monday 30th: Motörhead songs #motorheadmonday
  1. Ace of Spades
  2. Overkill
  3. Motörhead 
  4. Killed By Death
  5. No Class
▪️Tuesday 31st: Albums of the 80s
  1. Surfer Rosa - Pixies
  2. Searching For The Young Soul Rebels - Dexys MR
  3. Document - R.E.M. 
  4. Misplaced Childhood - Marillion 
  5. Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits 

We had a great midweek discussion on difficult books. That was interesting to see what different people thought were easy to read & I had a lot of feedback about Catch-22 from both points of view. 

▪️Wednesday 1st: Books you struggled to finish 
  1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 
  2. Moby Dick - Herman Melville 
  3. Scenes From Clerical Life - George Elliot 
  4. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
  5. Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac




Thursday was really just a chance to share my love of Fulham’s most prolific striker, Gordon “Ivor” Davies. 

▪️Thursday 2nd: Childhood sporting heroes‬
‪1. Gordon Davies‬
‪2. George Best‬
‪3. Daley Thompson‬
‪4. Ian Botham‬
‪5. Jimmy Connors‬




Who doesn’t love a story about a bear that can talk?

▪️Friday 3rd: Fictional Bears 
  1. Paddington
  2. Whinnie The Pooh
  3. Iorek Byrnison
  4. Yogi Bear
  5. Fozzie Bear 


The weekend topic was a bit of an epic which resulted in me doing three top fives. 

▪️Saturday 4th: Song with numbers for titles
  1. 1969 - The Stooges
  2. Thirteen - Big Star
  3. 1,000,000 - R.E.M.
  4. 1234 - Feist 
  5. 19-20-20 - The Grates

▪️Songs with numbers that are years
  1. 1969 - The Stooges
  2. 1999 - Prince
  3. 1970 - The Stooges
  4. 1993 - Dananananaykroyd 
  5. 1984 - David Bowie / 1916 - Motörhead 

▪️Songs with your favourite number
  1. Thirteen - Big Star
  2. Thirteen - Johnny Cash / Danzig 
  3. Thirteen - Forward Russia 
  4. Undegtri - Y Niwl
  5. Thirteen - The Antlers



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