Top 5 albums that have changed my taste in music the most:
1. Nirvana - Nevermind
2. The Cure - Disintegration
3. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
4. Sigur Ros - '()'
5. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

Top 5 favourite beers:
1. Miller
2. Budweiser
3. Heineken
4. Fosters
5. Carlsberg

Top 5 live acts iv seen (even tho im not that big into some of them):
1. RATM
2. Foo Fighters
3. Smashing Pumpkins
4. The Frames
5. Metallica

Top 5 things i love about Music Banter:
1. Being introduced to new music
2. Introducing people to new music
3. Silly and funny arguments
4. Relieving boredom
5. The Q&A thread

Top 5 underrated artists:
1. Husker Du
2. The Replacements
3. Silversun Pickups
4. Nick Drake
5. Lemonheads/Evan Dando

Nick Drake is a God my friend.

Top 5 Favorite John Coltrane songs:
1. My Favorite Things
2. In A Sentimental Mood
3. Blue Train
4. I'm Old Fashioned
5. Bye Bye Blackbird

Top 5 Favorite String Quartets:
1. String Quartet in c# minor Op. 131 - Beethoven
2. String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67 - Henryk Gorecki
3. String Quartet in a minor, Op. 132 - Beethoven
4. String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima" - Philip Glass
5. String Quartet in F - Maurice Ravel

Top 5 Favorite Pianists:
1. Georges Cziffra
2. Artur Rubinstein
3. Claudio Arrau
4. Sviatoslav Richter
5. Glenn Gould

Top Five Movies That Best Used A Dylan Song:

In no particular order.

1.) Masked and Anonymous
2.) High Fidelity
3.) Bandits
4.) The Ballad of Jack and Rose
5.) The Big Lebowski

5 things i should do:
1) revise for my exams (which are in january).
2) stop eating so much (food is good, i don't get fat. good combination)
3) finding a new job, as im being made redundant in january.
4) homework.
5) sleeping.

top 5 little-known bands (in england, in no particular order)
1) Hey Monday
2) New Years Day
3) Danger:Radio
4) Asian Kung-Fu Generation
5) FM Static.

5 people I want to see
1) James
2) Jessie
3) Lindsey
4) Ben
5) Devin

5 cds I own that I am going to throw away next time I purge my music collection
1) Britney Spears- Oops I did it agian
2) A*teens
3) Backstreet Boys- Something about blue (don't really remember the name)
4) Black Eyed Peas- Elephunk
5) 21st annual putnam county spelling bee

5 musicians that I would like to see live
1) My Bloody Valentine
2) Blonde Redhead
3) Decemberists
4) Yo La Tengo
5) Sonic Youth

Top 5 songs at this specific moment in time;
1. The The - August and September
2. Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
3. Elvis Costello - This Town...
4. Steel Pulse - Bodyguard
5. Third World - Human Marketplace

Top 5 most rewarding downloads of the last month;
1. Fila Brazillia - The Life and Times Of Phoebus Brumal
2. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
3. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
4. The The - Mind Bomb
5. Los Cafres - Voivo a Lo Cafres

Top 5 dreams;
1. Meeting Shane MacGowan in the bookies
2. Building a go-cart with Brian Eno
3. Wigan beating Bolton 5-0 at the Reebok Stadium and in doing so qualifying for Europe and sending them down to the lower division
4. Going for a pint with Tom Waits
5. Waking up and finding out David Bowie's recorded an album with Nick Gold

Glad you are enjoying the Los Cafres. I would'nt mind checking out 'The The'. I have a Fila Brazilia album 'Maim That Tune' but would'nt mind that one too ;)

I'll see what I can arrange :) I'll get some links your way sharpish

Whenever you have the time, no worries.