Chop's Top Fives

The car is on fire and there's no driver at the wheel ... and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides ... and a dark ...

More late seventies pre-UK Punk excellence ... An album I love more every time I play it. Patti Smith is a wonderfully unique artist and ...

Is that the sound of brass I hear .... ? This one must have been on 90% of the lists so far (there's been a few of us doing these for...

Next a late 70s band that I only got into recently ... Deja vu? I first heard about Wire after Elastica massively ripped them off on thei...

Next a album that defined a scene, even if the band didn't really consider themselves part of it. 1989 was the year I stopped reading...

Next a lady I first saw live at Wembley not long after this album came out ... She was supporting U2 in the early afternoon at Wembley St...

I gotta a feelin' inside of me, it's kinda strange like a stormy sea ... Having grown up with, and largely ignored, Eighties Goth...

At number 20 the first full length offering from Atlanta, Georgia's finest. I didn't get into REM until their major label years. ...

It's a long way to the top, if you wanna Rock'n'Roll. AC/DC had already released two albums in Australia before this compilat...

Germ free adolescents! X-Ray Spex are rapidly becoming one of my favourite punk bands, I suspect it's partly that weakness for brass ...