1. Name the one record, out the first ten you remember buying, that you're least embarrassed about.
The first I remember buying at all is James Gang: Rides Again. I still have it and I still like it.
2. Now name the one you're most embarrassed about.
Dunno. Probably something like Jackson 5 or something.
3. Name five of your favourite albums released from 1990 onwards.
Kirsty MacColl: Tropical Brainstorm; Yoshida Brothers: II; Bela Fleck: Little Worlds; Afro Celts: Seed; Beat Soup: Start From Scratch
4. What is the weirdest music you've ever made out to?
The Residents (not my choice)
5. Name a tune that makes you want to smash windows and hit people.
Hmm, dunno. Ministry: Dead Guy
6. Name a tune that makes you want to move to the country, take up vegan farming, raise lambs (for non-meat purposes) and contemplate the stars.
k.d. lang: Western Stars
7. Name the music you would like to be playing when your coffin descends into the ground / enters the furnace / cultural equivalent.
Elton John: Funeral for a Friend (but not the rest)
8. Now name the music your overly-sensitive family will replace it with.
Something quieter
9. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Led Zeppelin. Pick one.
The Beatles
10. Disco or Funk?
Funky disco
11. GENRES:
a Name one great Jazz tune.
Dave Brubeck: Blue Rondo A La Turk
b Name a great love song.
Indigo Girls: Love Will Come to You
c Name one great Rock/Metal Tune.
Boston: Foreplay/Long time
d Name a great piece of classical music.
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in d minor
e Name a great rap/hip-hop tune.
Don't keep up with it. Does Gorillaz count? Lil Kim is okay. Eminem is okay. Wouldn't say any are "great" tho.
f Name a great song for being drunk to.
FREEBIRD!!!!!!11!!! Meatloaf: Paradise by the Dashboard Lights
g Name a great pure club / dancefloor / rave track.
Dunno. Maybe Underworld
h Name your favourite waltz (3/4 time).
No favorites.
12. East Coast or West Coast?
East
13. Name a song that takes you strongly back to your adolescence whenever you hear it.
Sugarloaf: Green Eyed Lady
14. Name 5 records you think are under-rated / under-exposed.
Yoshida Brothers. Most others are local ones you never (have or will) heard of.
15. Name a horrible, cheesy, disposable piece of tat that you've been loving within the past four weeks.
That new Justin Timberlake thing.
16. If you had to listen to one piece of music on a loop for ever, what would it be? (NB. That four-and-a-half-minutes-of-silence track is not allowed).
Something really long, like maybe Tull's Thick as a Brick or maybe Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.
17. If you had the power to inflict one record which would loop forever on your worst enemy, what would it be?
Merle Haggard.
18. Answer this question with the name of a record you feel sums up the answer: How are you?
Little Feat: Cold, Cold, Cold

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