What's your Brian Fallon Top 5?

what i think the best part of these lists (other than the fact that many of them have "she loves you" which is beautiful) is that they aren't all from one album or one project
this thread is a real testament to fallon's abilities as a performer/songwriter. it's strange in this era of Max Martin pop and dramatic singer-songwriters that someone like Fallon isn't considered a songwriter in the same vein Ryan Adams, Justin Townes Earle, etc

In no order.

1. Orphans
2. Boxer
3. Joey
4. Ladykiller
5. Stay Lucky

I know this is an old thread but im new such a hard choice but at the moment id say

1. We did it when we were young
2.The patient ferris Wheel
3.Drive
4.American Slang
5. Behold the hurricane

Im technically new too so here we go...

Drive
The Patient Ferris Wheel
Orphans
Go Tell Everyone
Sweet Delta Blues

1. 59 Sound
2. Bring it on
3. Blood Loss
4. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
5. I Witnessed a Crime.

The top three picks there I feel are pretty stable, 4 and 5 could be many things

This is so tough!!

1. The '59 Sound
2. 1930
3. Blue Jeans and White T-Shirts
4. The Blues, Mary
5. Casanova, Baby

Oh, and "honorable mention" goes to Navasink Banks

...subject to change.

1. Old White Lincoln
2. Spirit of Jazz
3. Crush (Totally under rated personally)
4. Behold The Hurricane
5. 1930

This is tough cause I truly love every TGA album and Elsie was amazing. Even TCM and CCR have gems on them.

1930
Go Tell Everybody
Where Art Though
High lonesome
Sometimes You Eat The Bar

1930
Blue Jeans
Backseat
Sugar
Irene

So so very hard...

1. Boxer
2. Casanova, Baby!
3. She Loves You
4. Backseat
5. Sugar

1. Go Tell Everybody
2. Backseat
3. Navesink Banks
4. Great Expectations
5. Bring It On

A different list, I know. I love all of his songs but those 5 really speak to me. Go Tell Everybody is so brilliant, especially the way he moderates his voice to sing final stanza. So much anger, and pain, and disgust. It gives me chills every time I hear it.

1. Bring It On/Crush
2. The Diamond Church Street Choir/American Slang
3. The Patient Ferris Wheel/Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
4. Ladykiller/Great Expectations
5. The Spirit of Jazz

Yet it's nearly impossible for me to make such a list, this one might change drastically within the next 30 seconds.

1 We Did It When We Were Young
2 Angry Johnny and the Radio
3 Meet Me By The River’s Edge
4 We’re Getting A Divorce...
5 Bring It On

Honourable mentions – She Loves You, Orphans, Last Rites

Such a tough task choosing just five;

1. We Came To Dance
2. 59 Sound
3. Blue Jeans and White T-shirts
4. Miles Davis & The Cool
5. Boxer

Senor and The Queen
Spirit of Jazz
She Loves You
Woody Joe
Old White Lincoln

1. Ladykiller
2. Tin Pan Alley
3. Miles Davis & The Cool
4. Casanova Baby!
5. We Came To Dance

Special mention to every other thing he's done.

Incredibly hard.

-The 59' Sound
-Lady Killer
-She Loves You
-Spirit of jazz
-Here's Looking At You, Kid.

Bummed I couldn't include older songs but oh well.

Ok, here's my stab.

1. 1930 (surprised it was not in more people's top 5. that's what make TGA great. )
2. Old White Lincoln
3. Boxer
4. Wherefore Elvis
5. Backseats

Honorable: Blood Loss, Contender and T59S

But tomorrow I could have a different top 5...

Matilda Noir wrote:

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.

but remember, where TGA songs are concerned, the band has had considerable input into the songs as we know them, so listing TGA songs as Brian Fallon top 5s is a little tricky

1. I Coulda Been a Contender
2. Here's looking at you, kid
3. Miles Davis
4. 45
5. '59 Sound

1. Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?
2. Tin Pan Alley
3. Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts
4. Casanova, Baby!
5. Italian Lightning

1930...I like that acoustic version much more than the usual one, you too?
The Patient Ferris Wheel
Goodnight Irene
59 Sound
45

this is gonna take me some time

1. Blue Jeans & White T-Shirts
2. We Came to Dance
3. The Backseat
4. Ladykiller
5. Bring it on

Honorable Mention....the rest of the Gaslight, THC and BF catalog

1. 1930
2. Wherefore Art Thou, Elvis?
3. Blue Jeans
4. Patient Ferris Wheel
5. Backseat