top five best Smiths songs:
5. 'Reel Around The Fountain'
4. 'I Won't Share You'
3. 'Rubber Ring'
2. 'Half A Person'
1. 'Barbarism Begins At Home'

top five colours:
5. #002D47
4. #079000
3. #2B6528
2. #BE005E
1. #00765E

top five favourite movies set in New York City:
5. Annie Hall
4. Dog Day Afternoon
3. Tootsie
2. You've Got Mail (yes!)
1. Working Girl

top five rock bios//books on music:
5. Pauline Sutcliffe with Douglas Thompson, The Beatles' Shadow: Stuart Sutcliffe
Immensely talented abstract painter, friend of John Lennon (and alleged top-bunk-buddy (page 82, for those interested)) and Beatles bass player back in their Hamburg club-days. Died under semi-mysterious circumstances at age 21.
4. Caroline O'Sullivan, Bye Bye Baby
Doesn't everyone like the Bay City Rollers? Haha, I suppose people tolerate them at most, but no one actually goes out and becomes their groupie. This was just a lovely, slightly heart-breaking story of a very sane, Led Zep-loving American teenager, completely losing it over some silly British pop band.
3. Marianne Faithfull with David Dalton, Faithfull
Incredible stories, written with such humour and honesty - horror stories of the awful things she did when she was on heroin and the sweetest stories of her love affair with Mick Jagger - you can't help but admire Marianne after reading this. Plus her hair looks great on the cover.
2. Simon Goddard, The Smiths: The Songs That Saved Your Life
There should be a book like this about every good band ever to have existed. Don't think about the dedication the research for this book required, because you'll end up thinking Goddard is the most scarily obsessed person on earth. Absolutely fantastic read, though, but maybe just for the fangirl/boy-geeks amongst us.
1. Boy George with Spencer Bright, Take It Like a Man
Bow down! Gaaaah, the dirt and the sleaze and the filth and the.. surprising insecurity and honesty. This is better than any "who's who" of the 80s pop scene.

top five favourite 'Young Ones'-moments:
5. Alexei Sayle performing with Radical Posture: "there was a song in the charts recently about racial harmony.. about black and white people living together side-by-side in perfect racial harmony together on pianos.. I might be a bit stupid, like, y'know what I mean, but, ehm, I know pianos aren't going to solve nothin', y'know what I mean?"
4. [after the whole 'Nozin' Around'-segment] "Did you hear that?! The voice of youth! They're still wearing flared trousers!"
3. "I've not always been mad, y'know, but uhm... I was actually driven mad by the indifference of architecture and council planners."
2. "I'm not really foreign, y'know, I just do it to appear more sophisticated".
1. "Euripides is my dream poet" "This should raise a dry smile, then. Knock knock!" "Oh, how wonderful! Who's there?" "Euripides" "Euripides who?" "Euripides trousers, you menda these trousers"

top five second-best Smiths songs:
5. 'Suffer Little Children'
4. 'The Queen Is Dead'
3. 'A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours'
2. 'Handsome Devil'
1. 'This Night Has Opened My Eyes'