What's your Brian Fallon Top 5?

Hi, hope this question hasn't been asked before . Anyway, if you took all of Brian's various lineups into account, what are your Top 5 favorite songs, in order, that he's written? Just interested to see other people's picks! There's a lot of great ones to choose from. (OK, you can have one honorable mention too ). Here are mine:

1. Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?

2. Sweet Delta Blues

3. Blood Loss

4. Great Expectations

5. Orphans

Honorable Mention: Meet Me By the River's Edge, Bring It On

(Fine, I broke my own 'rule' too).

Too difficult.

1. American Slang
2. '59 Sound
3. Senor and the queen
4. Elsie
5. Sink or swim

god this is difficult:

- casanova baby
- go tell everybody
- we're getting a divorce
- the patient ferris wheel
- here's looking at you kid

This is so hard:

1. Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts
2. Tin Pan Alley
3. She Loves You
4. Miles Davis
5. We Came To Dance, Drive, & Divorce

With the exception of Cincinnati Rail Tie, I'm really not a fan of anything pre-Gaslight, but I've tried to give my list a good mix of what I do like.

1) Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (Gaslight Anthem)
2) Mary Ann (Horrible Crowes)
3) Miles Davis & The Cool (Gaslight Anthem)
4) Tin Pan Alley (Brian Fallon)
5) Look on the Brightside (Cincinnati Rail Tie)

backseat
behold the hurricane
orphans
we came to dance
wooderson

why you do this, why!!! great question anyway

1.The Diamond Street Choir
2.Old White Lincoln
3.The Blues Mary
4.Behold the Hurricane
5.Miles Davis and the Cool

Mention=Cassanova Baby

1 - She Loves You
2 - Blue Jeans and White T-Shirts
3 - The Navesink Banks
4 - Miles Davis and the Cool
5 - The Backseat

I love these kinds of lists, but it's so hard to choose just five! Hmm, let's see...

1. Bring It On
2. Red at Night
3. Queen of Lower Chelsea
4. She Loves You
5. Sugar

Honorable Mentions - Great Expectations, High Lonesome, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?, and The Backseat (sorry, Matilda Noir, I couldn't pick just one honorable mention!)

1. Bring It On
2. Go Tell Everybody
3. The Diamond Church Street Choir
4. Great Expectations
5. Cherry Blossoms
That was pretty difficult. Makes me realize how I like most of these songs pretty evenly, and a lot.

1. The '59 Sound
2. Behold The Hurricane
3. Blue Jeans and White T-Shirts
4. I'da Called You Woody, Joe
5. The Spirit of Jazz

Honourable mentions: Old White Lincoln, I Believe Jesus Brought Us Together
Ridiculously difficult though. If you asked me again next week, it may have changed by then.

Interesting how many different songs have already been named.

1. I Believe Jesus Brought Us Together
2. Casanova Baby
3. Orphans
4. Still Sixteen
5. I Coulda Been A Contender

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What is wrong with you guys?????????


1) 1930
2) Blue Jeans
3) Spirit of Jazz
4) Blood Loss
5) T59S

One off each album seems a far set of choices.

1. 1930
2. '59 Sound
3. Behold The Hurricane
4. Sugar
5. Orphans

Have literally been thinking about this for an hour before finally posting!

1. Bring It On
2. Mary Ann
3. Casanova, Baby!
4. Old White Lincoln
5. She Loves You

Some great choices, guys. I love all the 'pained expressions' this is causing.

Audrey -- yea , I don't anyone has the same exact list!

Harbortown wrote:

Too difficult.

1. American Slang
2. '59 Sound
3. Senor and the queen
4. Elsie
5. Sink or swim

lol! I will just second your Top 5. Works pretty well for me too!

22nd November at 22.50 my top 5 are :-

1) 1930
2) Old White Lincoln
3) The Blues Mary
4) Ferris Wheel
5) Wooderson

This may well change by 23:00 as there is nothing off AS and no Blue Jeans or Navesink Banks!

This is way too hard, but here is what I think at the minute, will probably change in another minute haha

1. 1930
2. Still Sixteen
3. The Blues Mary
4. I Coulda Been A Contender
5. Old White Lincoln

Cant do the order thing so ur just getting five

1. Blue Jeans
2. Ferris Wheel
3. Old White Lincoln
4. Meet Me By The Rivers Edge
5. Casanova Baby

1. Old White Lincoln
2. Italian Lightning
3. The Spirit of Jazz
4. Navesink Banks
5. Tin Pan Alley

Honorable Mention...Ladykiller.

I've surprised myself with how evenly this is distributed between solo work and the 3 gaslight records (LPs anyway)...couldn't fit anything from Elsie on there though...I'm still in the infatuation stage with that record while the top 5 are like the friends I'm always going to love.

1. 1930
2. Wherefore art thou Elvis
3. Great expectations
4. Goodnight Irene
5. Sweet Delta Blues

1. Old White Lincoln
2. The Spirit Of Jazz
3. Blood Loss
4. Here's Looking At You, Kid
5. Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts

1. We Did It When We Were Young
2. Tin Pan Alley
3. Crush
4. She Loves You
5. Divorce

that was a very hard thing to do.

I just wanted preface this with I think (IMO) The Blues, Mary is the best song Brian's ever written. The lyrics, his vocal delivery, the amazing grace sung silently in the background at the end, and that chorus it all comes together in one masterpiece. So without further ado:


1. The Blues, Mary
2. She Loves You
3. The Diamond of The Church Street Choir
4. Angry Johnny On The Radio
5. High Lonesome


As everyone else said this was very hard, but I didn't dwell on it I just ripped the bandaid off.