Music Thinger
I've been tagged into another survey by Jas. It's not real in depth - I was hoping for more but I'll do it anyway. And I'll add my own questions at the bottom.
1. Total volume of music files on my computer?
Jeez - on my work computer - 6 gb's. At home 54 gb's. I'll download anything and give it a chance. I have shit from the Koyaanisqatsi Phillip Glass trilogy to Sam and Dave.
2. Last CD I purchased?
I never buy one CD - When I buy cd's I buy a few at a time - my last haul included
Sufjan Stevens
Eels
Ryan Adams
m83
MIA
LCD Sound System
Andrew Bird
Doves
Sons and Daughters
I recommend all these - LCD Sound system will be on a speaker near you this summer and that Doves song (Black and White Town) is hot. Actually, I don't recommend m83.
3. Song playing right now?
Pocahontas - Neil Young (Year of the Horse) .... wait that has changed to... I Can't Wait - The White Stripes (White Blood Cells) ... and again it has ended on ... Stones - Sonic Youth (Sonic Nurse)
4. 5 Songs that mean a lot to me, in no order?
A Change is Gonna Come - Otis Redding ~~ This is what I put on late night if I'm feeling all sad. The Otis version is more haunting because died shortly after recording it and the tragedy of someone else's death mixed with this song and my own pain is just the most perfect drink to have before going to bed alone.
Slide Away - Oasis ~~ This was the song of my youthful love. The acoustic version by Noel - available online some places (Chicago 97') is by far one of the most moving acoustic songs I know (first of course is My Girl by Nirvana)
Volcano - Damien Rice ~~ There hasn't been an album that I have felt defined me and another person more than this one. I don't even own this album any more because I can't bring myself to listen to the songs without the idea of driving to her and dancing barefoot in the street.
The Union Forever - The White Stripes ~~ I love this song right before I'm ready to go out for the evening. I have the vinyl of this album and I love the grit of the record play right before I turn the volume all the way up. It makes me feel like more of a rebel and though that is sad, the line 'What I would like to be? - Everything YOU HATE!' Makes me feel great every time I hear it.
Magnolia Mountain - Ryan Adams ~~ Figured I would throw in my favorite current song. I listen to this song about 20 times a day. I can't get enough of it.
5. Cd's currently in my cd player (added)
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Black Keys - Rubber Factory
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Enon - Hocus Pocus
LCD Sound system - S/T
6. What song would you want to break up to someone with?
David Grey's Say Hello Wave Goodbye - Oliver turned me onto that one - but seriously if you play that for a girl in your car or in your house and then have the balls to just say , "Now get the fuck out" or look at her the whole time - then you my man are much like myself. LOL...
7. What song makes you stop and hold your chest every time you hear it?
Aretha Franklin - I Ain't Never Loved a Man - - - yeah that seems a little gay but I absolutely love it. It's one of those early, good, no money havin, still thick but not fat, Aretha songs.
8. Stones or Beatles?
Stones - no question about it. The anti-beatles - the anti - everything for 7 years. The fuckin devil as far as I'm concerned.
9. Favorite new bands of last year?
Wow - tough one asked by me - - - lol - it's rare that new bands come around - so my favorite new bands of 2004 would have to be...Jeez - that's a tricky question because the band could have been around for a while - So I guess I'll just do bands that I found out about last year - Favorite new local band "Two if by Sea" - Favorite new artists - Mates of State, Iron and Wine, Rilo Kiley, Say Hi to Your Mom, Deerhoof -
10. Your ultimate 3 band line up and the venue?
Ultimate 3 band line up - whoa that would be intense - but here goes
Opener at about 6 pm in early June (cooling weather) at the 9:30 club-
Badly Drawn Boy - 8 song set with stories
Travis - 12 song set - with stories
Oasis - 2 six song sets and 1 three song acoustic set and then a 1 song encore of "Don't Look Back in Anger" with the lights up.
Yeah that would leave me convulsing on the floor...I was going to put the Stripes in there but I wanted an eclectic mix that would meld - - if I could do two shows the second would be - - at The Talking Head (lol) people would be dead from the masses -
Opener -
Doves - 7 songs set
The Strokes - 10 song set
White Stripes - 19 song set - 1 encore of a double length version of both Hotel Yorba and Bo Weevil!!!
I tag:
Enron - because she'll list all Dave songs and I'll laugh
Mandy dearest - because she won't do it...
Doug - Because he won't do it either
Oliver - Because he won't do it either
Tim - Because this doesn't fit in with Tim's current montage and he won't do it
But I would like to know what they were listening to anyway - music is a great common ground between friends.
