Back during the 1970's I read both volumes I and II of David Wallechinsky's and Amy Wallace's "Book Of List's."  These books had the Top Ten of all kinds of subjects and topics, from movie stars, personalities, and people of interest.  These were not a book of world record top ten's, but  top ten, in the opinion of, about various funny and interesting topics and subjects, in these contributors own opinion. What you will read below, so to say, is my own Top Ten, as to how it relates to this web site. 

Please enjoy..................

Stephen

Nothing for me compares to the films of the 1940's and 1950's. Olivia DeHavilland and Errol Flynn, made many of the most romantic and funniest films in film history.  Real films, that much like what "I Love Lucy and the Andy Griffith Show", did back then and today for television, is simply good entertainment.

"Jaws" and "Saturday Night Fever" are timeless.  Each film, especially being filmed totally on location, speaks for that generation. I feel each of the films above should be seen at least once by those who enjoy watching a great film.

Not always the ten I'll listen to day and day out, but if stranded on an island, these 10 I could live with.

TOP TEN unexpected CONCERT MOMENTS

1. Throwing of all the shoes on stage at Anaheim Stadium, during the Rolling Stones Some Girls concert 1978.

2. Crowd stomping of the feet to the beat of "We Will Rock You" prior to Queen taking the stage, The Game Tour, L.A. Forum 1980.

3. British crowd singing "Born In The USA" at Wembly Stadium, UK, during the 1988 Amnesty Tour (E Street band live on stage)

4. Food fight in between acts at The Rolling Stones concert 10/11/1981, L.A. Coliseum.

5. Roger Waters signing "Mother" at the Radio Kaos performance at the L.A. Forum 9/20/1987.

6. Seeing a drunk fan slip and fall with his arm fully in the overflowing troft of human pee, in the bathrooms at the L.A. Forum, 1979, during a Foreigner concert.

7. Bruce Springsteen jumping on stage with The Pretenders and singing "Higher and Higher", Perkins Palace, Pasadena, September 5, 1981.  [Click Here for pic]

8. Prince being booed off stage and giving the crowd the middle finger,  October 9th, 1981 prior to J. Giles and The Rolling Stones.

9. Very hot looking drunk girl sitting next to me with her jeans half off at the Cheap Trick concert, L.A. Forum, December 1979.

10. A "wild all nighter" in Exposition Park (entrance to the L.A. Coliseum), 24 hours prior to the opening of the festival waiting gates, with thousands of fans to see The Rolling Stones 10/9/1981 (once gates opened, running like an animal through each tunnel to the front of the stage).

***how the hell can you pick just 10??

***anything off the Animals LP !!

FAVORITE LED ZEPPELIN SONGS OF ALL TIME 1. KASHMIR 2. HEY, HEY WHAT CAN  I DO 3. STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN 4. MISTY MOUNTAIN HOP 5. ACHILLES LAST STAND 6. TEN YEARS GONE 7. DANCING DAYS 8. HOW MANY MORE TIMES 9. THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME 10. CAROUSELAMBRA

*** does Zeppelin have even 1 bad song??

***these are studio songs.  Live songs take on an entire different life as anyone knows who ever has seen Springsteen live.

I feel The Rolling Stones is the greatest band in the world, Led Zeppelin is the most requested band in the world, KISS puts on the finest live show in the world, and The Beatles were the BEST band in the world. John Lennon and Paul McCartney bar none will always be considered the best song writing team of all time (Elton John and Bernie Taupin second, with Don Henley and Glen Frey a distant third) I feel the greatest individual song writer is Bruce Springsteen, with Paul McCartney, post Beatles, a very close second.

My musical taste is so diverse.  I like the bubble gum songs of the 70's, but avoid the bubble gum songs of the 60's like the plague. I enjoy disco hits, new wave, big bands, movie themes, and instrumentals.  I love hard rock, but stay away from most metal.

Rap is crap (and always will be).  I enjoy seeing the music I hear.

I cannot stand stage background track singers (Robert Plant, on "Heaven Knows"), or hearing violins and trumpets that are no where found on stage. I like rock bands playing with a country type flare, The Rolling Stones are a prime example, and even Led Zeppelin a bit on "Hot Dog", did it so well.

For me, the term ONE HIT WONDER is so overused and left to interpretation. Does it mean a band that had only one real song on the radio and no others, is a one hit wonder, or a band that only had one top ten hit a one hit wonder? For me, a one hit wonder is a band that rests it's career only on that one song that brought them any real success, then they quietly slipped away into rock and roll lore.

There are so many, literally hundreds and hundreds of bands or artists from the 1970's that had that real quick rise to the top, then never really heard from them again. Not mentioned above, are any of all those Disco artists that had that one song that we all know real well. I could easily list 50 of what consider are my favorite favorite songs from the 1970's.

A word of note on the 1970 song Venus, by the Shocking Blue: Lead singer was the very beautiful Mariska Veres. Though Venus was the only real hit that the Dutch band had here in the states, in Europe they had many more hits. Very sadly, this great unique voice, died of cancer December 2, 2006. Mariska was only 59 years old. Needless to say, I am a big fan of hers.

It's always a fun time during December to hear all the radio stations dusting off those very fun rock and roll Christmas songs. I always have preferred the original written songs as opposed to the cover songs, however either way, the 10 listed above are the 10 I feel I just can't go a Christmas season without hearing at least once.