A music meme, stolen from Travis Oct 15, 2008
Set your music thingy to shuffle, and take down the first 40 songs (artist + title). (Note: I skipped untagged tracks, and ones that are not music.)
- Rebekah - Cardboard Boxes
- Beatles - Helter Skelter
- Liquid Tension Experiment - Freedom of Speech (live)
- Green Jelly - Green Jelly Theme Song
- They Might Be Giants - A Self Called Nowhere
- Yes - Machine Messiah
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?
- Smile.DK - Boys
- Soular System - If At First You Don't Succeed
- Bruce Springsteen - Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
- Beatnik Turtle - My Way Or The Highway (Theme from Brawl)
- Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
- Angele Dubeau & La Pieta - Antique Airs and Dances, Suite #1: Gaglianda
- Jethro Tull - Steel Monkey
- Ian Anderson - Panama Freighter
- King Crimson - The Howler
- Extreme - Song for Love
- Queen - Friends Will Be Friends
- Yes - Be The One
- Tel Aviv - Securities
- Johnny Fortune - Soul Surfer
- Apollo 100 - Joy
- Heart - Kick it Out
- Marillion - Gazpacho
- Ian and Sylvia - Short Grass
- Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
- Battlefield Band - The Dear Green Place
- Liquid Tension Experiment - Kindred Spirits
- Ramases - Dying Swan Year 2000
- Doc Watson - Blue Railroad Train
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer - A Time and a Place
- David Bowie - Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
- Blackmore's Night - 25 Years
- Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends
- Weavers - The Peekskill Story
- Jim's Big Ego - Bon Nuit Tree
- They Might Be Giants - XTC vs. Adam Ant
- Napoleon Blown Aparts - Good Night (to the Good Kings)
- Styx - The Grand Finale
- Eagles - Best of My Love
#. QUESTION ANSWER
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Which song do you prefer, #1 or #40? #40, but I don't love either of them
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Have you ever listened to #12 continuously on repeat? Probably so. At least, it seems like a song I might have done that with, since I like it a lot.
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What album is #26 from? I have no idea what album it's originally from, but I have it on a greatest hits compilation.
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What do you think about the artist who did #15? He's definitely one of my favorites, both with and without Jethro Tull.
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Is #19 one of your favorite songs? Nope. It's not even from one of my favorite Yes albums.
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Who does #38 remind you of? Nobody in particular. It does remind me of "4 Bad LARPs in 40 Bad Minutes," which is the reason I ended up getting that album - to use it on the soundtrack.
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Does #20 have better lyrics or music? I haven't a clue. This is one of the songs I got from my brother Sam on a mix CD, and I tend to like about 50% of those, and the other ones stay around in my library but don't get too much attention. This is one of the latter half.
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Do any of your friends like #3? Yep. In fact, I got it from my friend Jon, who introduced me to LTE.
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Is #33 from a movie soundtrack? No.
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Is #18 overplayed on the radio? Yes. God, yes.
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What does #21 remind you of? It's a surf guitar track. I used to love the Beach Boys when I was in middle school, so this kind of takes me back there, even though it's not a Beach Boys song.
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Which song do you prefer, #5 or #22? #5. "Joy" is a fun track, but I wouldn't really call it a good song. John Henry, the album #5 is from, is probably my favorite TMBG album - I really don't hate any track on it, and "A Self Called Nowhere" is one of the better ones.
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What album is #17 from? Pornograffiti, the only Extreme album I have.
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When did you first hear #39? When I went on my Styx kick senior year, I think.
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When did you first hear #7? My brother Sam got me into Ted Leo through one of the aforementioned mix CDs. I ended up buying the album shortly after that.
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What genre is #8? Eurodance. I have it because it's on one of the Dance Dance Revolution soundtracks, which is actually where I get most of my Eurodance tracks.
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Do any of your friends like #14? Maybe Jon. I think I'm mostly alone in my group of friends in being a Tull fan, and Crest of a Knave is pretty hardcore-Tull-fan material.
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What color does #4 remind you of? Green, duh. :)
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Have you ever blasted #11 on your stereo? Nah. I'm a big fan of this album in theory, but I think the execution is not actually so great.
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What genre is #37? I think I have it filed under "Geek Pop," where I keep all my TMBG. But it's more of an XTC style parody, really.
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Can you play #13 on any instrument? With practice, I could probably play the cello part.
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What is your favorite lyric from #30? "Gimme back them good old days, and let me ramble down the line."
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What is your favorite lyric from #23? "They said she got loose on the night she was born / Cranking it up in a school zone."
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Would you recommend #24 to your friends? Not really. I'd recommend Marillion to my friends for sure, but Afraid of Sunlight is not a good beginner album.
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Is #2 a good song to dance to? If not for the Charles Manson associations, I'd say yeah.
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Do you ever hear #16 on the radio? King Crimson on the radio? You must be joking.
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Is #32 more of a “nighttime” or “daytime” song? Probably a "daytime" song - I tend to think most Bowie is.
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Does #36 have any special meaning to you? To me, no, but there's a cool story behind it, which I learned from the band's web site. The song was written by a group of campers in a workshop that Jim Infantino held up there, and then was set to music afterwards by the band. The lyrics are about the camp.
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Do any of your friends like #31? Matt probably does, he's a big ELP fan.
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Is #25 a fast or slow song? Neither, really, it's a medium-tempo folk song.
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Is #35 a happy or sad song? Sad, but it's more like angry, really.
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What is one of your favorite lyrics from #9? "Maybe there's a monkey on your back / And you don't want him there."
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Is #34 better to listen to alone or with friends? With a little help from my friends, of course!
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When did you first hear #27? In my parents' minivan, in Maine. We'd bought the album while on vacation there.
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Name 3 other songs by the artist who did #29: This is going to be hard to do off the top of my head. I can definitely think of "Hello Mister" and I think he did one called "Jesus Come Back". They're all pretty nuts, and he only did 2 albums, and I only have one of them.
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Do you know all the words to #6? Nope. In fact, I don't know a single one.
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Does #28 have better lyrics or music? It ain't got no lyrics!
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What album is #10 from? I have no idea - I got it from Jon Nusholtz to play at his wedding dance, which I DJed.
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How did you learn about the artist who does #32? Not really sure - probably from my dad, who mostly introduced me to music. I've definitely been aware of David Bowie for longer than I can remember.
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Are you embarrassed to have/like #5? What about #16? I'm definitely not embarrassed about #5. I don't particularly love #16, but it's on a King Crimson album that I generally think is pretty good, so I guess I'm not too embarrassed about it either.