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