Go to your music player, set it to shuffle/random, and answer the following questions with the title of the FIRST song that you skip to each time. No cheating!


If you reached the top of Mount Everest, you would scream:
Song: A Fractured Hand
Artist: Despised Icon
Comment: I broke my hand getting up heere, heelp!

The next time you stand up in front of a group of people, you'll say:
Song: We Bleed
Artist: Cryptopsy
Comment: Bleed with me, duudes.

Your favorite thing to say when drunk is:
Song: Re: They Have No Reflections
Artist: Bring Me the Horizon
Comment: Maybe when i'm really fucking drunk, reflections dissapear.

Your message to the world:
Song: Enjoy the Silence
Artist: It Dies Today
Comment: Well that's pretty much it.

When you think of your best friend you think:
Song: Going Away to College
Artist: Blink-182
Comment: We may go to the same college :D

Your deepest secret:
Song: intestinal knot
Artist: Decomposing Serenity
Comment: And now you know about my digestive issues.

Your innermost desire:
Song: Death Magic For Adepts
Artist: Cradle of Filth
Comment: I do not understand.

Your oldest memory makes you think:
Song: Lullaby
Artist: The Cure
Comment: The spider man is always hungry...

Somewhere in your wedding vows, you'll include:
Song: Shitty Chicken Gangbang
Artist: Marilyn Manson
Comment: And the whole church will take part in a scathological orgy.

On your deathbed, you'll whisper:
Song: Done With Everything, Die For Nothing
Artist: Children of Bodom
Comment: That is kinda cool.

Your friends say behind your back:
Song: Psychosocial
Artist: Slipknot
Comment: Am I?

You say behind your friends' back
Song: Let's Get Fucked Up And Die
Artist: Motion City Soundtrack
Comment: Little bastards.

Your opinion of MySpace:
Song: Gets Me Through
Artist: Decomposing Serenity
Comment: Well it does.

When you wake up in the morning, you mutter:
Song: I Don't Feel Very Receptive Today
Artist: Underoath
Comment: Yes!

If you found yourself lost on a desert island, you'd yell:
Song: Dancing Through Sunday
Artist: AFI
Comment: Ooh we dance in misery (8)

Right now, your feelings are:
Song: Violent Pornography
Artist: System of a Down
Comment: The kind of shit you get on your tv.

What's your excuse for reposting this:
Song: Mean Mr. Mustard
Artist: The Beatles
Comment: He's mean and he'll beat my ass if I don't repost this aaaaah!

Your life's soundtrack:
Song: My Curse
Artist: Killsitch Engage
Comment: That's ok because me likes that song.

The day you fall in love will be the day that:
Song: The Obsessive Devotion
Artist: Epica
Comment: :D ?

You Scream During Sex:
Song: Talk Dirty to Me
Artist: Children of Bodom
Comment: That's not cute u___u

Your farewell message to the readers of this :
Song: If You Leave Me Now
Artist: Chicago
Comment: D:

Albums I actually physically own (whether or not I can find them is different) by artists only. No soundtracks or comps. I'll put Musicals in a separate list at the bottom.

A
ABBA - ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits 1993
Abe Vigoda - Skeleton 2008
ADULT. - D.U.M.E. 2005
ADULT. - Gimmie Trouble 2005
Air - Moon Safari 1998
Albert Hammond, Jr. - Yours To Keep 2006
The Album Leaf - One Day I'll Be on Time 2001
The Album Leaf - Seal Beach EP 2005
Alice Smith - For Lovers, Dreamers & Me 2007
Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor 2002
Aloha - That's Your Fire 2000
Amos Lee - Amos Lee 2005
Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs 2005
Angie Mattson - Given to Sudden Panic and Noisy Retreat 2007
Annie Lennox - Bare 2003
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 2006
Astronautalis - The Mighty Ocean & Nine Dark Theaters 2006
Audioslave - Audioslave 2002
Auto Escape - Hollywood EP 2006
Auto Escape - Turn It Off EP 2006
Avril Lavigne - Let Go 2002

B
Baboon - Baboon 2006
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast 2000
Barbra Streisand - The Third Album 1964
Barbra Streisand - Classical Barbra 1976
Barbra Streisand - The Broadway Album 1985
Barbra Streisand - Duets 2002
BARR - Beyond Reinforced Jewel Case 2005
The Beatles - With the Beatles 1963
The Beatles - Revolver 1966
The Beatles - The White Album 1968
The Beatles - Abbey Road 1969
The Beatles - Yellow Submarine 1969
The Beatles - 1 2000
The Beatles - Let It Be... Naked 2003
The Beatles - Love 2006
Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits: the Record 2000
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister 1996
Ben Folds - Rockin' the Suburbs 2001
Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman 2005
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen 1997
Bernadette Peters - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 1996
Bernadette Peters - Sondheim Etc. Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall 1997
Bernadette Peters - Sondheim, Etc., Etc. Bernadette Peters Live At Carnegie Hall (The Rest Of It) 1997
Bernadette Peters - Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein 2002
Bette Midler - The Divine Miss M 1972
Billy Corgan - TheFutureEmbrace 2005
Billy Joel - Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2 (1973-1985) 1985
Björk - Debut 1993
Björk - Homogenic 1997
Björk - Vespertine 2001
Björk - Vespertine Live 2004
Björk - Volta 2007
The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost 2008
The Black Heart Procession - 2 1999
Blink-182 - The Mark, Tom And Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back) 2000
Blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket 2001
Blue Man Group - Audio 1999
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home 1965
Bon Jovi - Bounce 2002
The Books - Lost and Safe 2005
Boyz II Men - Legacy: The Greatest Hits Collection 2004
Bravo Silva - Bravo Silva 2005
The Breeders - Last Splash 1993
Bright Eyes - A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 1997
Bright Eyes - Letting Off the Happiness 1998
Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors 2000
Bright Eyes - Don't Be Frightened of Turning the Page 2002
Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground 2002
Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn 2005
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning 2005
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People 2003
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene 2005
Brothers And Sisters - BROTHERS AND SISTERS 2006
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run 1975

C
The Calling - Camino Palmero 2001
The Cardigans - Grand Turismo 1998
Carly Simon - No Secrets 1972
Carrie Underwood - Some Hearts 2005
Carrie Underwood - Carnival Ride 2007
Cat Power - Moon Pix 1998
Cat Power - The Greatest 2006
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman 1970
Celebration - Celebration 2005
Cheap Trick - Authorized Greatest Hits 2000
Chicago - The Very Best Of: Only The Beginning 2002
Chomsky - A Few Possible Selections for the Soundtrack of Your Life 2000
Chomsky - Onward Quirky Soldiers 2001
Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera 1999
The Clash - London Calling 1979
Coldplay - Parachutes 2000
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head 2002
Coldplay - X&Y 2005
The Concretes - The Concretes 2003
Copeland - Eat, Sleep, Repeat 2006
Cornelius - Fantasma 1997
Crash Vinyl - Precious Platinum 1999
Crash Vinyl - High-Five Your Sex Drive 2000
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds 1980
The Cure - Pornography 1982
The Cure - Disintegration 1989
The Cure - Wish 1992
The Cure - Show 1993
The Cure - Wild Mood Swings 1996
The Cure - The Cure 2004
Cursive - The Ugly Organ 2003
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual 1983

D
Damien Rice - O 2003

If you want to play a game read further. If you want the solution scroll down.

Find the matches.

the early names
1. Angel and the Snakes
2. Composition of Sounds
3. Big Thing
4. Artistics
5. Carl and the Passions
6. Primettes
7. Tom and Jerry
8. Johnny and the Moondog
9. Caesar and Cleo
10. Paramours
11. Polka Tulk
12. Bangs
13. Beefeaters
14. Falling Spikes
15. Sparrow
16. My Backyard
17. The New Journeymen
18. The Elgins
19. The Four Aces of Western Swing
20. The Golliwogs
21. The New Yardbirds

famous as
a. The Bangles
b. The Beach Boys
c. The Beatles
d. Bill Haley and the Comets
e. Black Sabbath
f. Blondie
g. The Byrds
h. Chicago
i. Creedence Clearwater Revival
j. Depeche Mode
k. Led Zeppelin
l. Lynyrd Skynyrd
m. The Mamas & The Papas
n. The Righteous Brothers
o. Simon & Garfunkel
p. Sonny & Cher
q. Steppenwolf
r. The Supremes
s. Talking Heads
t. The Temptations
u. The Velvet Underground
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Did you know?

1+f Blondie used to be Angel and the Snakes
2+j Depeche Mode used to be Composition of Sounds
3+h Chicago used to be Big Thing
4+s Talking Heads used to be Artistics
5+b The Beach Boys used to be Carl and the Passions
6+r The Supremes used to be Primettes
7+o Simon & Garfunkel used to be Tom and Jerry
8+c The Beatles used to be Johnny and the Moondog
9+p Sonny & Cher used to be Caesar and Cleo
10+n The Righteous Brothers used to be Paramours
11+e Black Sabbath used to be Polka Tulk
12+a The Bangles used to be Bangs
13+g The Byrds used to be Beefeaters
14+u The Velvet Underground used to be Falling Spikes
15+q Steppenwolf used to be Sparrow
16+l Lynyrd Skynyrd used to be My Backyard
17+m The Mamas & The Papas used to be The New Journeymen
18+t The Temptations used to be The Elgins
19+d Bill Haley and the Comets used to be The Four Aces of Western Swing
20+i Creedence Clearwater Revival used to be The Golliwogs
21+k Led Zeppelin used to be The New Yardbirds

(from David Wallechinsky & Amy Wallace: The Book of Lists)

1. Queen Don't Stop Me Now

2. Bon Jovi You Give Love a Bad Name

3. The Rolling StonesHonky Tonk Women

4. Queen & David Bowie Under Pressure

5. Queen Crazy Little Thing Called Love

6. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts I Love Rock & Roll

7. Bruce Springsteen Dancing in the Dark

8. BostonMore Than a Feeling

9. Van Halen Dance the Night Away

10. JourneyAny Way You Want It

11. Journey Don't Stop Believin'

12. Def Leppard Pour Some Sugar on Me

13. Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama

14. The Who Baba O'Riley

15. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Free Fallin'

16. QueenKiller Queen

17. Bruce SpringsteenBorn to Run

18. Bon Jovi Wanted Dead or Alive

19. Van Halen Panama

20. AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long

21. Janis Joplin Cry Baby

22. Aerosmith Love in an Elevator

23. Chicago You're the Inspiration

24. Crosby, Stills & Nash Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

25. Huey Lewis & The News The Power of Love

26. The Rolling Stones Beast of Burden

27. David Bowie Suffragette City

28. The Doors People Are Strange

29. Queen Fat Bottomed Girls

30. Fleetwood Mac Go Your Own Way

31. John Mellencamp Hurts So Good

32. Foreigner Feels Like the First Time

33. Whitesnake Slide It In

34. Foreigner Juke Box Hero

35. Crosby, Stills & Nash Helplessly Hoping

36. Foreigner Cold as Ice

37. Whitesnake Here I Go Again

38. Heart Alone

39. Huey Lewis & The News I Want a New Drug

40. Crosby, Stills & Nash Southern Cross

41. Janis Joplin Piece of My Heart

42. AC/DC Highway to Hell

43. The Who Won't Get Fooled Again

44. John Mellencamp Jack & Diane

45. The Raspberries I Wanna Be With You

46. Kansas Carry on Wayward Son

47. Molly Hatchet Flirtin' With Disaster

48. Ozzy Osbourne Crazy Train

49. Pat Benatar Hit Me With Your Best Shot

50. Pat Benatar Heartbreaker

51. Poison Nothin' but a Good Time

52. Foreigner I Want to Know What Love Is

53. The Raspberries Go All the Way

54. Van Halen Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love

55. Ratt Round and Round

56. The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter

57. The Who Who Are You

58. The Rolling Stones Start Me Up

59. The Doors Light My Fire

60. Skid Row Eighteen and Life

61. Twisted Sister We're Not Gonna Take It

62. Van Halen Jump

63. David Bowie Space Oddity

64. Van Halen Right Now

65. Warrant Cherry Pie

66. Bon JoviLivin' on a Prayer

67. Guns N' Roses Sweet Child o' Mine

68. Fleetwood Mac Rhiannon

69. The Rolling Stones Wild Horses

70. Bruce Springsteen I'm on Fire

71. Pink Floyd Money

72. Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb

73. Deep Purple Smoke on the Water

74. Dire Straits Sultans of Swing

I'm playing a lot of 80s music this week.
My high school 20th reunion is coming up in October, and I've volunteered to throw together the playlist for Friday night's festivities. (I'm assuming a band will be playing on Saturday).
I graduated in '88.
And, boy, was there a buttload of crap on the radio that year.
Here's my tentative track listing. My approach has been to embrace the cheese, only temper it with the music the various cliques would have listened to.

Faith George Michael
Need You Tonight (static revenger mix edit) INXS
Beds Are Burning Midnight Oil
Would I Lie To You? Eurythmics
Living On A Prayer Bon Jovi
Damn Good David Lee Roth
Secret Separation The Fixx
Absolute Beginners David Bowie
Wishing Well Terence Trent D'Arby
Eternal Flame The Bangles
The Reflex Duran Duran
Celebrate Youth Rick Springfield
Subdivisions Rush
Kiss Me Deadly Lita Ford
Cover me Bruce Springsteen
Keep Your Hands To Yourself The Georgia Satellites
Bitchin' Camaro The Dead Milkmen
Blister In The Sun Violent Femmes
Never Gonna Give You Up Rick Astley
Will You Still Love Me? Chicago
Poison Arrow (US Remix) ABC
Paranoimia (with Max Headroom) Art of Noise
Control Janet Jackson
Bizarre Love Triangle (Extended Dance Mix) New Order
Angel Of Harlem U2
Big Time Peter Gabriel
Sweet Child O Mine Guns N' Roses
Save It For Later The English Beat
Life in a Northern Town The Dream Academy
Digging Your Scene The Blow Monkeys
U Got The Look Prince
Land Of Confusion Genesis
Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood
New Song (peter black & hardrock striker mix edit) Howard Jones
Uncontrollable Urge Devo
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) The Proclaimers
Crazy For You Madonna
Waiting For A Star To Fall Boy Meets Girl
King Of Pain (Re-worked) DJ Icey
Wouldn't It Be Good Nik Kershaw
Never Tear Us Apart INXS
Lips Like Sugar Echo & the Bunnymen
Walk This Way Run-D.M.C.
Shadows Of The Night Pat Benatar
I Hate Myself For Loving You Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Voices Carry (Single Mix) Aimee Mann
Shattered Dreams Johnny Hates Jazz
The Bottom Line Big Audio Dynamite
Pop Goes the World Men Without Hats
Desire U2
Money For Nothing Dire Straits
Perfect Way Scritti Politti
Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Sound Invaders Remix) Belinda Carlisle
West End Girls Pet Shop Boys
Just like honey The Jesus and Mary Chain
Sussudio Phil Collins
Face Dances, pt.2 Pete Townshend
Owner Of A Lonely Heart Yes
Waterfall (Remix) Wendy & Lisa
You Spin me Round Dead or Alive
Where's The Party Madonna
Let My Love Open The Door Pete Townshend
It's A Mistake Men at Work

Twee gedachten, totaal niet aan elkaar gerelateerd.

1: Any fans van Ronflonflon met Jacques Plafond around? Indien ja, herinneren jullie je het maffe fluitje nog, dat altijd hoorbaar was wanneer of Jan Vos of Jaap Knasterhuis (dat weet ik even niet meer) een item had? Voor velen waarschijnlijk bekend, maar alhoewel een grote fan van Chicago, heb ik de plaat in kwestie nog niet zo lang: dit fluitje is afkomstig van de track Memories of Love van de LP Chicago II.

2: Afgelopen maandag was ik op de Sneekweek. Het toeval wilde dat ik zag dat op maandagavond de Time Bandits zouden spelen. Het leek me onwaarschijnlijk dat dit de jaren 80-band betrof, maar het klopte. En het was toch leuk!!! Gaat dit zien. Geen volgevreten artiest, maar een leuke performance, en een uitstekende band. Goede covers ook.

Okay, this is the second time I've sat down and attempted to make my list. The first time I think I went about it all wrong. I picked great songs from each year that I thought would be neat, unique additions to the Smackdown and then started weeding out by genre ("Okay, I've already got a Power Pop song, and this one is a tad weaker, so..."). I got the list down to 15 and found I just couldn't cut anymore. I decided to set it aside and come back to it - and never went back. Got too busy with life in general.

So now, here I am whacked out on meds for my out-of-control eczema, and I nailed the list. Not because of the drugs, I would hope, but because I took a different approach to the song choosing. I decided to choose one song from each year of the decade, and to make it a song that really meant something to me during that year. This took care of a lot of problems in choices since, for example, I didn't get Selling England by the Pound until sometime in the 80's.

So here, folks, are the years in your ears:

1) Goodbye to Love (Carpenters). In 1972 I was a nerdy kid who listened to classical music and his folks' Harry James albums. Then The Carpenters came along and they were safe - they'd played Disneyland, fercryinoutloud. Except... Richard had a subversive streak to him, and the guitar solo in this song changed everything. George Carlin said it best - "Mother's milk leads to heroin."

2) Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (Elton John). By 1973, I was trying out all sorts of stuff. A church friend had loaned me his Chicago and Uriah Heep (!) albums, and some stuff by a guy named Elton, and I didn't care for any of it too much. Then another friend, for whom Elton was the morning and evening star, got the cassette of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. I remember sitting in his basement listing to the opening track and being totally blown away. That friend is dead now, and I never got to thank him for playing this for me.

3) Pinball (Brian Protheroe). 1974 found me a voracious fan of The Who. On a trip to see relatives in Arizona, I saw BP's Pinball album in a record store and dismissed it as someone trying to cash in on the popularity of Tommy. A couple months later, a copy made it to the record store in the small Wyoming town where I lived and I picked it up again. Looked at the back, where all the lyrics were printed. Read the words to this one and was hooked, bought the record on the spot. And so I had a new anthem and discovered the genre of the singer-songwriter.

4) Love Is a Rodeo (Golden Earring). By rights, the representative of 1975 should be Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn, but a 33 minute track is asking a bit much of you folks. Quadrophenia was also a big album for me this year, but it was a 1973 release. So I threw in a guilty favorite. I think folks look down their noses at Golden Earring because Radar Love has become a symbol of Rock and Roll Excess, but the album it was on, Moontan, bordered on Prog. This was from their followup album Switch - not quite as proggy, but they did add a keyboard player for this one.

5) TVC15 (David Bowie). 1976, the year I saw my first concert (Cat Stevens). The year every member of Yes came out with a solo album and Genesis decided to soldier on with Phil Collins in the driver's seat. It was also the year that David Bowie embraced cocaine, got a haircut, starred in a movie, and became the Thin White Duke. The album was Station to Station, and it remains my favorite of his. I had tried to like Bowie in years before, but this was the year he finally clicked.

6) I Know What I Like (Genesis). By 1977 I was just getting into The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, in spite of having owned it for two years. Hungry for more Genesis, I went to a record store and the clerk sold me Steve Hackett's Voyage Of The Acolyte instead. Still hungry for more Genesis, I went to a different record store and picked out a Genesis album on my own, the incredible Seconds Out. This song would become my favorite Genesis song of all time. I even recently worked out a five-chord arrangement of it that I can play on the guitar.

7) The Wild Places (Duncan Browne). Released in 1978, this is one of the sexiest, most seductive songs ever with its theme of forbidden love, propelled by the incredible drumming of Simon Phillips. In the summer of 1979 I DJ'ed at a radio station and played this song every night I was on the air. I frequently made out with a girl while this song was playing. Unfortunately, it was the wrong girl.

8) Pointy Shoes (Cowboys International). In 1979 I was working at my favorite record store, and it was an incredible year for music. The Age Of Plastic, London Calling, brilliant second albums from Dire Straits, Jules and The Polar Bears, and the The Police, an album that defined the sound we now know as