A music meme, stolen from Travis

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.)

1. Rebekah – Cardboard Boxes
2. Beatles – Helter Skelter
3. Liquid Tension Experiment – Freedom of Speech (live)
4. Green Jelly – Green Jelly Theme Song
5. They Might Be Giants – A Self Called Nowhere
6. Yes – Machine Messiah
7. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?
8. Smile.DK – Boys
9. Soular System – If At First You Don’t Succeed
10. Bruce Springsteen – Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
11. Beatnik Turtle – My Way Or The Highway (Theme from Brawl)
12. Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle
13. Angele Dubeau & La Pieta – Antique Airs and Dances, Suite #1: Gaglianda
14. Jethro Tull – Steel Monkey
15. Ian Anderson – Panama Freighter
16. King Crimson – The Howler
17. Extreme – Song for Love
18. Queen – Friends Will Be Friends
19. Yes – Be The One
20. Tel Aviv – Securities
21. Johnny Fortune – Soul Surfer
22. Apollo 100 – Joy
23. Heart – Kick it Out
24. Marillion – Gazpacho
25. Ian and Sylvia – Short Grass
26. Eagles – Lyin’ Eyes
27. Battlefield Band – The Dear Green Place
28. Liquid Tension Experiment – Kindred Spirits
29. Ramases – Dying Swan Year 2000
30. Doc Watson – Blue Railroad Train
31. Emerson, Lake & Palmer – A Time and a Place
32. David Bowie – Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide
33. Blackmore’s Night – 25 Years
34. Beatles – With A Little Help From My Friends
35. Weavers – The Peekskill Story
36. Jim’s Big Ego – Bon Nuit Tree
37. They Might Be Giants – XTC vs. Adam Ant
38. Napoleon Blown Aparts – Good Night (to the Good Kings)
39. Styx – The Grand Finale
40. Eagles – Best of My Love

#. QUESTION
ANSWER

1. Which song do you prefer, #1 or #40?
#40, but I don’t love either of them

2. 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.

3. What album is #26 from?
I have no idea what album it’s originally from, but I have it on a greatest hits compilation.

4. What do you think about the artist who did #15?
He’s definitely one of my favorites, both with and without Jethro Tull.

5. Is #19 one of your favorite songs?
Nope.  It’s not even from one of my favorite Yes albums.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Do any of your friends like #3?
Yep.  In fact, I got it from my friend Jon, who introduced me to LTE.

9. Is #33 from a movie soundtrack?
No.

10. Is #18 overplayed on the radio?
Yes.  God, yes.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. What album is #17 from?
Pornograffiti, the only Extreme album I have.

14. When did you first hear #39?
When I went on my Styx kick senior year, I think.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. What color does #4 remind you of?
Green, duh.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. Can you play #13 on any instrument?
With practice, I could probably play the cello part.

22. What is your favorite lyric from #30?
“Gimme back them good old days, and let me ramble down the line.”

23. 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.”

24. 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.

25. Is #2 a good song to dance to?
If not for the Charles Manson associations, I’d say yeah.

26. Do you ever hear #16 on the radio?
King Crimson on the radio?  You must be joking.

27. Is #32 more of a “nighttime” or “daytime” song?
Probably a “daytime” song – I tend to think most Bowie is.

28. 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.

29. Do any of your friends like #31?
Matt probably does, he’s a big ELP fan.

30. Is #25 a fast or slow song?
Neither, really, it’s a medium-tempo folk song.

31. Is #35 a happy or sad song?
Sad, but it’s more like angry, really.

32. What is one of your favorite lyrics from #9?
“Maybe there’s a monkey on your back / And you don’t want him there.”

33. Is #34 better to listen to alone or with friends?
With a little help from my friends, of course!

34. When did you first hear #27?
In my parents’ minivan, in Maine.  We’d bought the album while on vacation there.

35. 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.

36. Do you know all the words to #6?
Nope.  In fact, I don’t know a single one.

37. Does #28 have better lyrics or music?
It ain’t got no lyrics!

38. What album is #10 from?
I have no idea – I got it from Jon Nusholtz to play at his wedding dance, which I DJed.

39. 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.

40. 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.