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By yicky yacky (Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 09:52:13 AM EST) Queuestions, music, monkeys (all tags)

It's Monday. It's February. Nobody here is particularly in the mood for work, least of all me. MisterQueue has been scarce of face-showing recently, so I arbitrarily nominate myself as his stand-in apparent.

It's about time we got some Queuestions a Yiquisition going.

Questions within. All of them music-related. Answer them.



  1. Name the one record, out the first ten you remember buying, that you're least embarrassed about.
  2. Now name the one you're most embarrassed about.
  3. Name five of your favourite albums released from 1990 onwards.
  4. What is the weirdest music you've ever made out to?
  5. Name a tune that makes you want to smash windows and hit people.
  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.
  7. Name the music you would like to be playing when your coffin descends into the ground / enters the furnace / cultural equivalent.
  8. Now name the music your overly-sensitive family will replace it with.
  9. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Led Zeppelin. Pick one.
  10. Disco or Funk?
  11. GENRES:
    • Name one great Jazz tune.
    • Name a great love song.
    • Name one great Rock/Metal Tune.
    • Name a great piece of classical music.
    • Name a great rap/hip-hop tune.
    • Name a great song for being drunk to.
    • Name a great pure club / dancefloor / rave track.
    • Name your favourite waltz (3/4 time).
  12. East Coast or West Coast?
  13. Name a song that takes you strongly back to your adolescence whenever you hear it.
  14. Name 5 records you think are under-rated / under-exposed.
  15. Name a horrible, cheesy, disposable piece of tat that you've been loving within the past four weeks.
  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).
  17. If you had the power to inflict one record which would loop forever on your worst enemy, what would it be?
  18. Answer this question with the name of a record you feel sums up the answer: How are you?
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Who Are You by wiredog (4.00 / 1) #1 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 10:27:42 AM EST
Some Answers:
1. Moving Pictures, Rush but see next.
2. Couldn't possibly remember the other 9.
3. Couldn't name 5 albums. Except for American Idiot. First album in years that was an album, rather than a collection of songs.
4. Tangerine Dream. Or maybe Kraftwerk.
5. None anymore, but Dead Kennedys music, back in The Day.
6. None.
7. Don't care, since I'll be dead.
8. Ditto.
9. How could you leave out The Who? Otherwise LedZep.
10. Neither.
11. Just one? Too tough to decide.
12. East.
13. Again, too many choices.
14|15. Too embarrassing to relate.
16. Something by Mozart.
17. Ring Cycle.

Earth First!
(We can strip mine the rest later.)



Dammit! I didn't leave out the Who! by yicky yacky (2.00 / 0) #8 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 11:26:12 AM EST

The Who were there, but I backspaced-up to edit something and forgot to put them back. Too embarrassing, feh. The rest of us are divulging (I hope).


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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic, corrupt press will produce in time a people as base as itself - Joseph Pulitzer
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Oh, god by Herring (4.00 / 1) #2 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 10:33:16 AM EST
  1. Kings of the Wild Frontier (album)
  2. Welcome to the pleasuredome
  3. Five? Er ... Bloodflowers - The Cure, Heads Roll - the Fall, OK Computer - Radiohead, Some Arvo Part collection I have at home, er ...
  4. The Archers' theme
  5. Will Young's cover of Light my Fire
  6. Pass
  7. Disco Inferno
  8. Ding, dong the witch is dead
  9. The Doors
  10. No thanks
  11. Far More Blue - Dave Brubeck, Just Like Honey - Jesus and Mary Chain , Prime Mover - Zodiac Mindwarp, Violin Concerto - Alban Berg, Is there one?, Ruby Horse - The Wonderstuff, Pass, Pass
  12. West. Near Llandudno
  13. Never Understand - Jesus and Mary Chain
  14. Safety - Compulsion, Chain Gang of Love - The Raveonettes, This is the day, this is the hour, This is this - Pop Will Eat Itself, Full Leather Jacket - Teen Idols, Flos Campi - Vaughn Williams
  15. Pass
  16. Berg Violin Concerto
  17. Penerecki's Threnody to the victims of Hiroshima
  18. Box Frenzy


When my grandfather became ill, my grandmother rubbed goose-fat into his back. He went downhill quite quickly after that. - Milton Jones


Ha ha! by Dr Thrustgood (4.00 / 1) #5 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 10:46:30 AM EST
I can play the first 12 bars of Far More Blue!



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Llandudno by yicky yacky (2.00 / 0) #11 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 11:46:25 AM EST
Did she?
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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic, corrupt press will produce in time a people as base as itself - Joseph Pulitzer
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Moo by Dr Thrustgood (4.00 / 1) #3 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 10:41:59 AM EST
1. Name the one record, out the first ten you remember buying, that you're least embarrassed about.

Doctorin' The Tardis, The Timelords.

2. Now name the one you're most embarrassed about.

MC Hammer. You know the rest.

3. Name five of your favourite albums released from 1990 onwards.

Blur, Modern Life Is Rubbish
Oasis, What's The Story, Morning Glory
The Arcade Fire, Funeral
Goldfrapp, Felt Mountain
Kate Bush, Aerial

4. What is the weirdest music you've ever made out to?

One night stand about a year ago, we went through Can's Ege Bamyasi and Monster Movie, and then into Squarepusher's Go Plastic. Fuck knows what was played after that, I'm just amazed she didn't run away!

5. Name a tune that makes you want to smash windows and hit people.

If in a sufficiently bad mood, Can's Outside My Door.

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.

You calling me a hippy? Probably the majority of Brian Wilson's Smile.

7. Name the music you would like to be playing when your coffin descends into the ground / enters the furnace / cultural equivalent.

Cream, Crossroads.

8. Now name the music your overly-sensitive family will replace it with.

I have a specific clause written into my will: No Crossroads, I will come back and haunt every last one of you.

9. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Led Zeppelin. Pick one.

Fuck you. Beatles... just.

10. Disco or Funk?

The Funk, dude!

11. GENRES:
          * Name one great Jazz tune.

Brad Mehldau's cover of River Man.

          * Name a great love song.
Derek and the Dominos, Layla. Bwahahahaahahah

          * Name one great Rock/Metal Tune.

Armageddon It, Def Leppard.

          * Name a great piece of classical music.

Passacaglia and Fugure in C minor, Bach.

          * Name a great rap/hip-hop tune.

Gheeto Boys, Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta.

          * Name a great song for being drunk to.

Pizzicato Five, Baby Love Child.

          * Name a great pure club / dancefloor / rave track.

Fischerspooner, Emerge.

          * Name your favourite waltz (3/4 time).

Dave Brubeck, Kathy's Waltz.

12. East Coast or West Coast?

Eh?

13. Name a song that takes you strongly back to your adolescence whenever you hear it.

Coolio, Gangsta's Paradise. Christ I'm glad I left public school.

14. Name 5 records you think are under-rated / under-exposed.

Air, Le Voyage De Penelope
Angels, Face The Day
Beck, Diamond Dogs
Can, Fly By Night
Jethro Tull, Bouree
(hrm, only up to 'J'...)

15. Name a horrible, cheesy, disposable piece of tat that you've been loving within the past four weeks.

Just Jack, I Talk Too Much.

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).

Bob Dylan, Hurricane.

17. If you had the power to inflict one record which would loop forever on your worst enemy, what would it be?

99 Bottles as sung by me.

18. Answer this question with the name of a record you feel sums up the answer: How are you?

King Crimson, 21st Century Schitzoid Man Sorry, I just had to.





ARSES ARSES ARSES by Dr Thrustgood (4.00 / 2) #4 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 10:43:34 AM EST
14. Name 5 records you think are under-rated / under-exposed.

Forget the rest, just had The The, Uncertain Smile pop on, replace all with this five times!



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Only thing lacking from that by spacejack (4.00 / 1) #9 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 11:32:43 AM EST
The extended version of Perfect Day.

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Kinell by motty (4.00 / 1) #6 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 11:02:14 AM EST
1 - Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden.
2 - Saxon - Wheels Of Steel.
3 - Tom Waits - Mule Variations, Erykah Badu - Baduism, LTJ Bukem presents Earth Vols I, II and III.
4 - Richard Clayderman. Not my choice. Never do this.
5 - Anything by Richard Clayderman.
6 - Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon
7 - Eric Idle - The Galaxy Song
8 - None. Jewish funerals don't have music.
9 - Led Zep.
10 - Funk
11 - Moment's Notice (Coltrane), Be My Baby, Running Free (Maiden), Arvo Part's Litany, Cool Down (Red Seal), Whiskey In The Jar, Can't, Pleasant Moments (Joplin)
12 - West
13 - Anything by the Doors.
14 - Don't accept the question. Under-rated by who and under-exposed where?
15 - Scott Joplin's Strenuous Life or George Cobb's Russian Rag. Buggers to play though, for me, though it's fun trying.
16 - Giant Steps original version
17 - Giant Steps played by me
18 - Blue.
16 -

I amd itn ecaptiaghle of drinking sthis d dar - Dr T


Procrastination Central by cam (4.00 / 1) #7 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 11:14:04 AM EST
1. Name the one record, out the first ten you remember buying, that you're least embarrassed about. Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff. Didnt buy much in the way of music (cough pirate) until I was about 17.

2. Now name the one you're most embarrassed about. Probably some 80s compilation. Though when I was a kid the Hoodoo Gurus and Midnight Oil were the two underground bands making it mainstream. The Oils can make me cringe a bit these days. But Mars Needs Guitars and Stoneage Romeos stand the test of really well.

3. Name five of your favourite albums released from 1990 onwards. - Any Mudhoney or You Am I, Lemonhead's Lovey, Pixies's Trompe Le Monde. Loved Ratcat's This Nightmare when I was younger too. Played that one to death.

4. What is the weirdest music you've ever made out to? Jimmy Barnes (not my choice).

5. Name a tune that makes you want to smash windows and hit people. I never liked Poison, and they were pretty big when I was a kid.

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. Best hippy songs were from Tumbleweed, though they made me want to move to the 'gong, and hang out smoking weed and surfing, while doing hippy-surf-punk in pubs at night.

7. Name the music you would like to be playing when your coffin descends into the ground / enters the furnace / cultural equivalent. That Valkyries music.

8. Now name the music your overly-sensitive family will replace it with. The 2001 theme.

9. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Led Zeppelin. Pick one. Ramones

10. Disco or Funk? Disco

15. Name a horrible, cheesy, disposable piece of tat that you've been loving within the past four weeks. I bought Europe's Final Countdown from itunes, never listen to it though.

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic


Mine by yicky yacky (4.00 / 1) #10 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 11:41:55 AM EST

.. although they will have changed by next week.

1.) The Ghostbusters OST

2.) The Birdie Song - forgotten the "artists" (Fuck you; I was six)

3.) i.) Photek's Hidden Camera ii.) Goldie's Timeless iii.) The reissues of Sly and the Family Stone (esp. "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)") iv.) "Vibes From The Tribe" compilation v.) Redman's "Muddy Waters"

4.) Slint's "Spiderland". It works, surprisingly.

5.) The Bad Brains version of "Kick Out The Jams". M.O.P.s "Ante Up". Black-Eyed Peas' "My Lumps" (Not in a good way; mostly I just want to hit the Black-Eyed Peas)

6.) Sigur Ros' first album.

7.) A friend of mine once said "The clock music from Countdown", timed so as to disappear with the end phrase. I always thought the "Hokey Cokey" would be quite good.

8.) Probably Barber's "Adagio for Strings" or Górecki's "Symphony No. 3". They well may go with the Hokey Cokey, though.

9.) Tricky, but Jimi.

10.) Funk

11.)
    i) "Things have got to change" -- Archie Shepp

    ii) Pick a Waits one. "TOJ" by El-P.

    iii) Does "16 shells from a 30.06" [Waits] count? If not, an arbitrary later Hendrix bit.

    iv) Reich's "Octet", Eno's "An Ending (Ascent)" (if it counts), The aforementioned Górecki, Holst's Jupiter (yeah, yeah ...)

    v) "The Fire in which you Burn" - Company Flow et al.

    vi) "Tango until they're Sore" - Waits

    vii) Plastikman's remix of "Alphawave" by System 7. "Bambaata" by Shy FX.

    viii) "Olsen Olsen" by Sigur Ros

12.) East

13.) "Range Life" by Pavement

14.) "Cliff-Dweller Society" by Tortoise; "The Low End Theory" by A Tribe Called Quest; "True Stories" by Krust; Cannibal Ox's "Pigeon" (from "The Cold Vein"); That one Bundy K Brown album. Honourable nods to Can and Fela Kuti, but they've had a comeback over the last decade and are hardly under-rated any more.

15.) "Dogz and Sledgez" by Million Dan

16.) "Consumed" by Plastikman, although this a pragmatic choice as I think I'd tire of it slowly. Sun Ra's "Somewhere in Space" otherwise.

17.) "My Lumps" by Black Eyed Peas.

18.) "Electric Mud" -- Muddy Waters.


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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic, corrupt press will produce in time a people as base as itself - Joseph Pulitzer


Selected answers by spacejack (4.00 / 1) #12 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 11:51:02 AM EST
Selected answers
  1. Pretty embarassed about all of my early purchases. Hmm... Supertramp's Breakfast in America?
  2. Most embarassing is the first one I can recall "buying" (i.e., asking my parents to buy for me) - the Partridge Family album they used to advertise all the time when playing re-runs on TV after school. I think I ended up with a David Cassidy album instead. But is it really any more embarassing than Supertramp?
  3. Brain not yet functioning well enough to come up with 5.
  4. Ugh, nearly impossible to remember as it would most likely be some "bonus track" on a CD that got left playing at a party that I would've been quite drunk at. Or maybe some Euro-disco track they'd play every couple of hours in the Mediterranean back in the 90s.
  5. Umm, picking one at random: Forgotten Rebels - Surfing on Heroin
  6. Just about anything played by our friends' blues band we used to see nearly every week.
  7. Rolling Stones.
  8. Funk. Disco's okay too.
  9. * Jazz? Huh?
    * Nina Simone - My baby just cares for me
    * Hellacopters - Toys and Flavors
    * Mozart's piano concerto 21
    * Pharcyde - Soul Flower
    * Everything sounds good when you're drunk!
    * Do those songs even have names? I dunno, some 90s remix of that old Bob Marley "Sun is Shining" song.
    * The Stranglers - Golden Brown
  1. East coast, duh.
  2. TOO MANY!
  3. Tracks from MFCs 1-10
  4. I heard a track on youtube that was allegedly from the upcoming Britney album and I actually kinda liked it.
  5. Probably that old art performance gimmick track that was all silence, that way I wouldn't destroy whatever song I would choose.
  6. Achy Breaky Heart
  7. Now that Dr. Thrustgood's mentioned it, The The's Uncertain Smile seems appropriate enough.




Supertramp by wiredog (4.00 / 1) #15 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 12:05:55 PM EST
First live act I ever saw. The Breakfast in America tour (I think) in the early 80's..

Second concert was The Who.

Earth First!
(We can strip mine the rest later.)

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Good Lord. by blixco (4.00 / 1) #13 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 11:53:32 AM EST
  1. Sargent Peppers Lonely etc.
  2. Soundtrack to Xanadu
  3. Unpossible.  Too many.
  4. Heh.  Bjork.  We, to this day, have naughty time with Bjork on in the background.
  5. Wait....a tune that makes me angry on purpose, or something so rotten it makes me want to kill?  If the former, anything by Rage Against the Etc.  If the latter, anything by Mac Davis.
  6. Anything off of Animals by Pink Etc.
  7. Hrm.  "Devil Got My Woman" by, well, anyone who recorded blues tunes in the 1920s.  Alternately the theme from Xanadu just for one last good laugh.
  8. Probably something from Mozart.
  9. That's a tough one.  I'll take....none of them.  Or the Doors.  The Doors have more pretentious stupidity and brilliant charm all at once than any other band, ever.
  10. Funk.
a) Part 3: Pursuance, A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
b) To Bring You My Love, PJ Harvey
c) War Pigs, virtually everyone
d) Mozart's Requiem
e) Right now, Mos Def's "Blue Black Jack" is playing.  It's pretty fucking great.
f) Anything by the Pogues or by Dropkick Murphys.
g) River of Bass, Underworld.
h) Anything by Willie Nelson
  1. South coast.
  2. Hrm.
  3. How about just one?  I think everyone should hear "Woman King" by Iron and Wine.
  4. "Cyclone" by Tangerine Dream.  Too German to listen to.
  5. Probably something from a deep-experimental jazz album, something that has a lot of different interpretations.  Nothing simple.  But I don't know which.
  6. Ebony and Ivory.
  7. Second Toughest in the Infants.

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I accidentally had a conversation in italian at lunchtime. I don't speak italian. - Merekat


answers by alprazolam (4.00 / 1) #14 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 12:00:26 PM EST
1.    Name the one record, out the first ten you remember buying, that you're least embarrassed about.

Sir Mix a Lot - Swass

2.    Now name the one you're most embarrassed about.

New Kids on the Block - Hangin Tough

3.    Name five of your favourite albums released from 1990 onwards.

Hospitalised : 10 years of Hospital
Daft Punk – Homework
LTJ Bukem – Logical Progression 2
Dr Dre – The Chronic
Orbital – In Sides

4.    What is the weirdest music you've ever made out to?

Either Dave Matthews Band or Photek

5.    Name a tune that makes you want to smash windows and hit people.

Pantera - Walk

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.

Kermit the Frog – Rainbow Connection

7.    Name the music you would like to be playing when your coffin descends into the ground / enters the furnace / cultural equivalent.

Don’t guess I care

9.    The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Led Zeppelin. Pick one.

Pick one to be able to listen to? Or one to drop off the face of the Earth? Assuming the former, I’ll pick….Jimi

10.    Disco or Funk?

Funk…duh

11.    GENRES:

o    Name one great Jazz tune.
Couldn’t name even one.
o    Name a great love song.
Cornershop - It's Good To Be On The Road Back Home Again
o    Name one great Rock/Metal Tune.
Led Zepplin – When the Levee Breaks
o    Name a great piece of classical music.
Aaron Copeland - Fanfare for the Common Man (I think, is that the one from the pork commercial?)
o    Name a great rap/hip-hop tune.
Three Six Mafia – In da Summah
o    Name a great song for being drunk to.
Billy Joel – Piano Man
o    Name a great pure club / dancefloor / rave track.
Don’t think I could pick just one
o    Name your favourite waltz (3/4 time).
lol

12.    East Coast or West Coast?

The Dirty Third!

13.    Name a song that takes you strongly back to your adolescence whenever you hear it.

I would probably have to hear it played. The stuff I’m thinking of is all overplayed right now.

14.    Name 5 records you think are under-rated / under-exposed.

Anything by Hospital Records
Anything by LTJ Bukem
Anything by Talib Kwali
Anything by Blackalicious
Human After All – Daft Punk

15.    Name a horrible, cheesy, disposable piece of tat that you've been loving within the past four weeks.

Rich Boy – Throw Some D’s on dat **tch

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).

Daft Punk – Around the World (it actually is on a continous loop in my brain and has been since 1996.

17.    If you had the power to inflict one record which would loop forever on your worst enemy, what would it be?

The soundtrack to the Little Mermaid

18.    Answer this question with the name of a record you feel sums up the answer: How are you?

Is there any record with the name “Ok” or “Good enough” or “Fine, thank you”?




Um... by ana (4.00 / 1) #16 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 12:16:34 PM EST
  1. Switched-on Bach (the LP, when it was new)
  2. Barry Manilow?
  3. Right now, I'd put all 3 of Vienna Teng's albums in there. Hm... two more: Wendy Carlos, sound track to A Clockwork Orange. Thomás Luis de Victoria O Magnum Mysterium, mass and motet.
  4. the DVD menu music on Being John Malkovich
  5. there are some that make me want to smash through windows and hit the people who made them...
  6. Hard to beat the Mozart Requiem; but that's really earlier, for the church part of things.
  7. Dunno; don't care really.
  8. Beach Boys had the most hummable tunes, imho.
  9. er...
  10. Genres:
    1. Oxymoron
    2. I can't help falling in love?
    3. Oxymoron
    4. Widor Organ Symphony number 5
    5. they have tunes?
    6. dunno
    7. dunno
    8. Blue Danube was used to excellent effect in 2001
  11. um, is this a music question?
  12. Mickey Mouse Club
  13. See number 3 above
  14. Grunt, a "rock opera" in Gregorian chant, on Old MacDonald Had a Farm
  15. Beethoven's 5th
  16. It's a Small World, After all.
  17. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

Regular, or decaf abomination? --Kellnerin


We're going to have to work by ad hoc (4.00 / 1) #25 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 01:38:49 PM EST
I hate Mondays which start out as an email fest by MartiniPhilosopher (4.00 / 1) #17 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 12:21:51 PM EST
  1. Dare to be Stupid "Weird" Al Yankovic
  2. Follow that Bird Soundtrack to movie of the same name.
  3. In no particular order: Under the Table and Dreaming DMB
  Girlfriend Matthew Sweet
  In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 Coheed and Cambria
  Hello Nasty Beastie Boys
  The Blue Note Collection: Hard Bop and Beyond Various.
  1. I don't think I have ever made out to music, let alone remember what it was.
  2. What if God were one of us but there are so many!
  3. Um. None.
  4. Ride of the Valkyries for comedic effect, but barring that, I plan on being barbecued and served to friends and relatives (pending doctor's okay that the meat of my former self is safe to consume that is) so that some sort of live jazz & blues band should be playing.
  5. They wouldn't. They'd want the live band playing as well.
  6. Jimi for the jam potential followed closely by Beach Boys for the later complexity.
  7. Funk
  8. Pete LaRoca, "Lazy Afternoon"
    Paul McCartney, "Baby I'm Afraid"
    Rush, "YYZ"
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, "Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34"
    Beastie Boys, "Intergalactic"
    Any Jazz and Blues is the best to be drunk by.
    I could not name a single dance/club/rave song to save my life.
    The Missouri Waltz.
  1. Neither.
  2. Any Huey Lewis and the News song.
  3. Skipping.
  4. Skipping.
  5. I couldn't. I like too many different songs and musical types I could just not pick one to listen to, on loop, forever.
  6. The "Oscar-Meyer wiener song".
  7. Forever and ever, Amen.

Whenever I hear one of those aforementioned douche bags pontificate about how dangerous [...] videogames are I get a little stabby. --Wil Wheaton.


OK, Okay, okay ... by yicky yacky (2.00 / 0) #19 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 12:47:14 PM EST

Listen; there have been a number of opinions expressed so far with which I disagree -- to which I could, in fact, if so inclined, take a strong exception -- but that's cool, that's the point of this thing; its subjective, it's expressive, it's historical. It's all groovy.

However: How, in the name of all that is good, can you possibly have "Hello Nasty" ranked above "Ill Communication" (or even "Check Your Head", for that matter)? I was very careful to say "a great" and not "the greatest"; to say "one of" and not "the". I didn't want people agonising for hours: Just pick one, we know you're a multi-faceted human being and exclusions are inevitable etc. But even so ...

"Hello Nasty" instead of "Ill Communication"? ... Sweet Jesus ...


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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic, corrupt press will produce in time a people as base as itself - Joseph Pulitzer
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Quite simple, really. by MartiniPhilosopher (4.00 / 1) #26 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 02:35:56 PM EST
I actually own "Hello Nasty" and not "Ill Communication".

To be perfectly brief, "Hello Nasty" just came along at the right time in my life for me to appreciate it. While I had been exposed to the Beastie Boys well before that, it was not to hook me the way in which "Intergalactic", "Body Movin'", and "And Me" did back in '98.

Whenever I hear one of those aforementioned douche bags pontificate about how dangerous [...] videogames are I get a little stabby. --Wil Wheaton.
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Your Saving Grace by Gedvondur (4.00 / 1) #18 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 12:25:33 PM EST
1 Name the one record, out the first ten you remember buying, that you're least embarrassed about.
Robert Plant – Now and Zen

2 Now name the one you're most embarrassed about.
Richard Marx – Self Titled

3 Name five of your favourite albums released from 1990 onwards.
Albums?  What a quaint concept, both in form factor and design.

Santana – Supernatural
Pink Floyd – The Division Bell
Counting Crows – August and Everything After
David Matthews Band – Under the Table and Dreaming
Hellsing OAV:  RAID

4 What is the weirdest music you've ever made out to?
Pffff…like I know.  The music isn’t what I was payin’ attention to.

5 Name a tune that makes you want to smash windows and hit people.
Billy Ray Cyrus – Achy Breaky Heart
Or anything else country, really.

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.
Dream Academy – Life in a Northern Town

7 Name the music you would like to be playing when your coffin descends into the ground / enters the furnace / cultural equivalent.
The Pillows – Ride on Shooting Star

8 Now name the music your overly-sensitive family will replace it with.
Amazing Grace on Bagpipes

9 The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Led Zeppelin. Pick one.
Led Zeppelin

10 Disco or Funk?
Funk

11 GENRES:

    * Name one great Jazz tune.
    Thelonius Monk - Locomotive

    * Name a great love song.
    Nine Inch Nails – Closer

    * Name one great Rock/Metal Tune.
    Monster Magnet – Space Lord

    * Name a great piece of classical music.
    Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture

    * Name a great rap/hip-hop tune.
    No Such Thing

    * Name a great song for being drunk to.
    Ace Frehley – New York Groove

    * Name a great pure club / dancefloor / rave track.
    Paul Van Dyk – Techno Energy

    * Name your favourite waltz (3/4 time).
    Don’t have one.

12 East Coast or West Coast?
    Neither.  MIDWEST BABY!

13 Name a song that takes you strongly back to your adolescence whenever you hear it.
    J Giles Band – Freeze Frame

14 Name 5 records you think are under-rated / under-exposed.
    Robert Plant – Now and Zen
    Leadbelly - King of the 12-String Guitar
    Booker T. and the M.G.s – Green Onions
    Joss Stone – The Soul Sessions

15 Name a horrible, cheesy, disposable piece of tat that you've been loving within the past four weeks.
    Gwen Steffani feat. Eve – Rich Girl

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).
    Yoko Kanno – Green Bird

17 If you had the power to inflict one record which would loop forever on your worst enemy, what would it be?
    Top Country Hits from The 50s and 60s

18 Answer this question with the name of a record you feel sums up the answer: How are you?
    Living in the U.S.A.

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0 OK then by komet (4.00 / 1) #20 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 12:51:28 PM EST
1. I haven't bought ten records.

2. see above.

3. Rage Against The Machine, Rage Against The Machine. Rage Against The Machine, Evil Empire. Rage Against The Machine, The Battle of Los Angeles. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium. Brad Mehldau, Places.

4. Cheryl Crow, and it wasn't really weird at all.

5. That one by Limp Bizkit which specifically tells me to.

6. LOL WHAT?

7. Jump by Dudley Moore.

8. God knows, probably something I hate.

9. Jimi Hendrix obviously.

10. Funk!

11. a) Freddie Freeloader by Miles Davis;
b) Ah Christ, what's it called, the weird song involving a telephone call between Earth and Mars?
c) Ace of Spades by Motörhead;
d) Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1;
e) K-Ci & Jojo, All My Life (yes fuck off);
f) The Penis Song by Monty Python;
g) Children by whomever;
h) La Donna è Mobile out of Rigoletto.

12. LOL WHAT?

13. Eternal Flame by the Bangles

14. I can hardly choose 5 out of the millions. Having said that: Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai, G3 Live In Concert

15. I haven't.

16. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1

17. Axel F as covered by that horrible animated frog

18. 5

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A few replies by ad hoc (4.00 / 1) #21 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 01:04:22 PM EST
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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gorillaz counts by alprazolam (4.00 / 1) #22 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 01:26:27 PM EST
and justin timberlake thing, i assume you mean bringing sexy back rather than dick in a box ;D

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Either one by ad hoc (4.00 / 1) #24 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 01:30:43 PM EST
Mah list... by ammoniacal (4.00 / 1) #23 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 01:28:49 PM EST
1. Dev-O --Freedom of Choice
2. Hall & Oates --Private Eyes
3. Faith No More --Epic, The Cure -- Mixed Up, U2 --ACHTUNG BABY, Curve -- Cuckoo, The Sundays --Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic
4. The Cure -- Mixed Up
5. Ministry --Just One Fix
6. Presidents Of The USA --Peaches
7. Ministry --Supernaut
8. Some crap by Neil Diamond.
9. Zep.
10. Funk.
11a. LOL
11b. Harry & Sandy Chapin --Cat's in the Cradle
11c. AC/DC --Thunderstruck
11d. Wagner --Flight of the Valkyries
11e. Public Enemy --Fight the Power
11f. LOL
11g. tie: Black Box --Strike it Up & Technotronic --Pump up the Jam
11h. Strauss, Jr. --The Blue Danube
12. Left Coast represent.
13. Billy Squier --The Stroke
14. ¡TchKunG! --Post World Handbook
15. Rihanna --SOS
16. My Theme Song
17. George Thorogood --One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

General rules are: All skirts no lower then [sic] two inches below the knee (unless it's for Church) --Travis Frey


Eh? by debacle (4.00 / 1) #27 Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 10:46:59 PM EST
  1. Probably Yessongs, though I can't say I've ever been trendy enough to regret buying an album, except maybe for the one that was broken when I opened it that I wasn't allowed to return.
  2. I've got nothing.
  3. I don't think I've listened to five albums from 1990 onwards.
  4. ELP - Karn Evil 9. It was fantastic.
5a. Because it's so bad: AC/DC - The Jack
5b. Because it makes me want to kick ass - Fanfare for the Common Man
  1. Music doesn't move me that much. Most of it makes me want to get away, though.
  2. "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"
  3. It'll be a stipulation in my will.
  4. Oh hell. To what end? I guess I'd have to say The Doors, though The Stones and Led Zeppelin make it a tough decision.
  5. What?
11a. I still can't get Castles Made of Sand out of my head. I'm still not sure who sings the jazz rendition.
11b. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" - Def Leppard
11c. Just one? "The Great White Buffalo" - Nugent
11d. I'm a fan of Stravinsky, but mostly anything I bother listening to on the radio that I can't remember the name of.
11e. I like Eminem's lyrics and the way he rants about shit. Don't tell anyone, though.
11f. What?
11g. Are you kidding me?
11h. Tango Vals (Is that cheating?)
  1. East Coast?
  2. Anything off of "Heaven Forbid" by the BOC.
  3. Quadrophenia, Club Ninja, Magnification, anything new by old musicians who no longer are in the spotlight but are still producing quality music.
  4. I don't listen to tat, and it's infuriating when tat gets stuck in my brain.
  5. Close to the Edge, the long live version.
  6. I can't give the answer to that because I may some day wind up in Gitmo.
  7. Music alters my mood exceptionally. Thus, I'm in the mood of whatever I've taken to listening to at the moment.


"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie



Great Idea. This'll be fun... by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #28 Tue Feb 06, 2007 at 07:32:49 AM EST
  1. Streetsounds Electro 4
  2. Wham "Last Christmas"
  3. Not really an albums person, but here goes. Shame I can't remember the various dance music compilations which were much more important to me.
Inner City "Paradise"
Ghostface Killah "Iron Man"
Thee Maddcatt Courtship "I Know Elektricboy"
Dizzee Rascal "Boy in da Corner"
Sufjan Stevens "Come on Feel the Illinois"

Sure there's others I've forgotten etc.

  1. God, probably Butthole Surfers (no pun intended).
  2. Beltram "Mentasm"
  3. There are none.
  4. I've always said "In Complete Darkness" by Slipmat (happy hardcore classic).
  5. They'll probably go for it.
  6. The Beatles, no contest.
  7. Disco.
  8. "Cristo Redentor" Donald Byrd.
"Sound of Eden" Shades of Rhythm.
"Paranoid" Black Sabbath.
"Sonata no. 2" Rachmaninov.
"Eric B is President" Eric B and Rakim.
"One Thing" Amerie.
"Knights of the Jaguar" Underground Resistance.
Golden Brown?
  1. East coast, no contest.
  2. "Sly One" Marina Van Rooy. Can't get hold of the bloody thing so it's a big flood of memories the very few ocassions I hear it played.
  3. Thee Maddcatt Courtship "I Know Elektricboy"
S'express "Original Soundtrack"
33 and 1/3 Queen - first Nu-groove EP.
Scanner "Scanner"
All Plasticman's stuff
  1. United Nations "Out of Touch". Haven't been able to get it out of my head for two years, and it puts a smile on my face every time.
  2. Blue Monday, because I've practically had to anyway.
  3. The new Lady Sovereign track.
  4. Blue Tuesday :)

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Clear my head, stay sober ... by yicky yacky (2.00 / 0) #29 Tue Feb 06, 2007 at 08:37:53 AM EST

"The Soul Controller" is one of the best hip-hop tunes of the mid-90s, no question. I nearly put 'Cuban Lynx' in my five, but have just been listening to 'Muddy Waters' more recently so it sneaked in. 'Mentasm' took me back; I haven't heard that for years.


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There's a lot from that era I missed by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #30 Tue Feb 06, 2007 at 08:50:02 AM EST
"Cuban Lynx" is one. So much to buy and listen to, so little time...

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