In the snapshot of chart that I took to complete this, there were many draws, where I numbered things based on the order in which they were listed.
1. How did you get into 29?
The Byrds
I never particularly did. I always liked
Turn! Turn! Turn!, but I'm no major fan.
2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
The Beach Boys
I would not have a clue. Presumably one of their early days ones.
3. What's your favorite lyric by 33?
ABBA
Fernando's.
4. How did you get into 49?
The Wave Pictures
Probably from Said the Gramophone? (Music blog).
5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Eric Clapton
Three?
Unplugged,
From the Cradle and a cheapy compilation that's more
The Yardbirds than Clapton. Why yes, I do prefer him acoustic or doing blues, to poppy or rocky.
6. What is your favorite song by 50?
Hayden
In Field & Town.. Mind you, it's all I've got, so far.
7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?
Salter Cane
Perhaps
The Other Side.. but all four I have a pretty gloomy without being so much sad-making.
8. What is your favorite song by 15?
Regina Spektor
Field Below?
Fidelity?
Hotel Song?
Uh-Merica? As you can see, I only have
Begin to Hope, and adore quite a lot of it.
9. What is your favorite song by 5?
David Bowie
God Knows I'm Good. That threw you, didn't it? Nah, there are so many, I can't really say. Even on
Scary Monsters, which is my least favourite of my three Bowie albums (so far), I'm quite fond of a few (
It's No Game (Part 1),
Scream Like a Baby,
Ashes to Ashes,
Up the Hill Backwards).
10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Camille
Oh plenty. Practically everything. Even
Pour que l'amour me quitte, strong contender for saddest-but-beautiful piece by anybody. Maybe not so much
Ruby,
Rue de Ménilmontant or... actually, no, even the ones I don't like quite so much make me happy at times.
Music Hole, however, once I hear it all, could be an entirely different manner (but omigod woo for
Money Note).
11. What is the worst song by 40?
Temple City Kazoo Orchestra
Whole Lotta Love, or
Miss You. They do classical awesomely, through.
12. What is your favorite song by 10?
Harvey Danger
Wine, Women, and Song. Then I've only heard their free album and their insanely popular always misattributed song.
13. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
Queen
Listening to CDs with my best friend Thea, at school. Singing
Bohemian Rhapsody, and having our Art teacher explain the meaning of "fandango", after getting excited at some of her students being Queen fans. Realising
I'm In Love With My Car was in 6/8 (time).
14. What is your favorite song by 38?
Adam & the Amethysts
Bumble Bee, of the two I have.
15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
二宮和也
Heck yes. His version of
笑えれば, particularly. And
虹 when I first heard it, and
Gimmick Game... and the sheer sadness of
痕跡 (that's "kako", kids)
16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad?
René Miller's Wedding Band
Maybe not. Miller's take on
Saint James Infirmary is freaking fantastic, so I get excited rather than sad.
17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Bruce Springsteen
Hopefully that I'm on fire-y one. As the other really popular for radio ones aren't so stunningly incredibly grouse. It's the one that sticks with me, with the earliest memories, anyway.
18. What's your favorite lyric by 11?
The Cat Empire
The Car Song, on the whole? Or for little snippets,
Hello.
19. Who is a favorite member of 1?
The Woodsmen
Myles Boisen, because of his name? Does he count? He mixed stuff, I think. I take it his an engineer. Uh.. I don't really know much about the members of the band. But perhaps I'll go with the singer based on his.. charisma?
20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy?
Tryo
Yeah,
Serre-moi, or
Monsieur bibendum, or
Pompafric, or
Désolé pour hier soir or something.
Shame the lyrics question wasn't about this band; all those songs have really nifty lyrics (and vocals).
21. What is a good memory involving 27?
Simon & Garfunkel
Early guitar lessons?
22. What is your favorite song by 16?
Tom Waits
Well that's not a tough question or anything, is it? Most of
Bone Machine and of
Rain Dogs (I suppose I'd like
Swordfishtrombones too, if I heard it). And
Icecream Man and
Had Me a Girl,
Goin' Down Slow,
The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me),
Step Right Up (I like those silly, speedy, wordy ones),
Lie To Me... yeah.. lots.
23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
Norwegian Cast (of Rocky Horror)
Ta meg, ta meg, I think.
24. What is your favorite album by 18?
Blur
I've only got
Blur. I've heard bits and bobs from other ones, but I'm not familiar enough with such songs to have much of an idea what those albums are like.
25. What is your favorite song by 21?
Lily Allen
Practically all of
Alright, Still? Maybe
Knock 'em Out (did you hear what I said before about silly, speedy, wordy tracks in question 22?).
26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
Jamiroquai
I don't know. I remember what I presume must have been singles off
A Funk Odyssey (the first five tracks), but were these the first, or just the first that I can match to their artist? And which of those
was the absolute first?
27. What is your favorite album by 3?
Crowded House
That's so tough. They're all very different.
Crowded House has the likes of
Mean to Me,
Now We're Getting Somewhere and
Love You 'Til The Day I Die, but seems like a bunch of individual songs rather than an album.
Temple of Low Men is much more the album and has more of those brilliant daring tunes we'd find bursting out of
Woodface, so it could well be my favourite... though
When You Come,
Never Be the Same and even
Love This Life seem a bit out of place to me... and
In the Lowlands is way out of place in the running order.
Woodface, being much longer, pulls off the mixture of musical styles far more effectively, and the instruments here make for a tonally rich listen all through. It's probably the best of strummy Crowded House, and takes you on a wonderful journey through emotions and lyrics and styles. Quality, quality stuff.
Up there next to Woodface is
Together Alone, which really stands on its own stylistically and really tops the lot in being a fantastic example of an
album album, through it doesn't have the ever-swinging variety of moods of Woodface.
Um, so yeah, one of the early '90s ones. And post-split, post-Hester House doesn't exist, as far as I'm concerned. That's yet to yield anything great (singles-wise, at least, I've not go the album).
28. What is you favorite song by 2?
Fleetwood Mac
I'm So Afraid live in Boston is perhaps the most "wow" track of theirs I have. Or
Come live in Boston, or
Big Love live in Boston (but that's just Lindsey)... but I haven't heard the originals of those.
Studio-recording-wise..? Today I'll pick
Never Going Back Again, but there are just too many favourites to limit myself.
29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32?
Ray Charles
Possibly
Hit the Road Jack. I remember that gave me very silly visuals, as a young child.
30. What is you favorite song by 8?
Split Enz
Argh! Too hard! Maybe
The Woman Who Loves You for tone, words, rhythm, spoons, piano, theatrics and summing up the kind of brilliance that band could get up to (especially before the Finn-influence became
tooooo pronounced). Others come very very close, but the production and arrangement of this one pushes it that bit further.
31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Big fat zero.
32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
Paul Kelly
Not hugely. Closest would be something like
Can't Help You Now or one of his far more early upbeat things.
33. How did you get into 12?
Phil Collins
In the Air Tonight through fairly good car speakers, up quite loud, all alone, at night, in the gloom. And later remembering how not bad his Tarzan tracks had been.
34. What is the worst song by 45?
The Beatles
*shrug* Sadly, I've not heard enough to say. You should have asked me this about U2, then I could have a right critique of something otherwise stunning and held in high esteem, seeing as I'm actually
well acquainted with the majority of
their back catalogue.
35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34?
Iota (iOTA, correctly)
It was him doing Tear Me Down, live, in Hedwig and the Angry Inch two years ago this month. That was a show.
36. What is the first song you ever heard by 48?
George
I don't know.
37. How many times have you seen 42 live?
Muse
None. Unless you count recorded and published on DVD, which I don't.
38. What is your favorite song by 36?
Augie March
Track:
There Is No Such Place [acoustic version].
Song? Not sure.
39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
The Missing Puddings
Probably the grammatically hideous
Mes Bonbons Sont Perdu.
40. What is your favorite album by 7?
U2
Heh.
The Best of 1980-1990 has the highest U2 album rating (based on song rating averages) in my iTunes library. But, without basing on individual songs, it'd be more like
Boy (in the top 5, at least?),
Zooropa or
Pop. As they have so many albums, I will not go into the kind of detail I did for Crowded house. There are many good points about most of U2's albums, but...... okay, I'll award Zooropa.
41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy?
Paul Simon
Has anybody else noticed that Popular, from Wicked, has a part that sounds a lot like a part of
Thelma?
As for happy-making Paul Simon song(s), absolutely, yes. Take, for instance,
That Was Your Mother. There are many more.
42. What is your favorite album by 41?
Moby
I'm going to have to go with
Play by default, as it's all I've got. It's a great collection, anyway.
43. What is your favorite song by 24?
The Atkins String Company
Erm.. not songs, so much as pieces without vocals.
Carnavalito or
Women of Ireland, I guess.
44. What is a good memory you have involving 46?
Chet Atkins
We are moving on thematically now, aren't we? Listening to cassette tapes. He's slightly linked, as one of my favourite on tape songs he did a(n earlier?) version of.
45. What is your favorite song by 35?
Nirvana
Why does this keep getting asked about "where to start?" artists? Of studio recordings I have (ie:
Nevermind), I'd pick
Lithium or
Lounge Act. But then there're things like
About a Girl,
Spank Thru,
Rape Me,
All Apologies,
Aneurysm,
Sliver,
Scentless Apprentice,
School or
Blew. Just for the heck of it, I'll let Aneurysm win, today.
46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Lindsey Buckingham
Heard of
Holiday Road? Ie: Is the pope Catholic? So many of his solo songs (especially from
Out of the Cradle), eg.
Johnny Stew, and almost everything he wrote for
Fleetwood Mac
47. What is your favorite album by 4?
劇団四季
Regrettably, all I've heard is
ウィキッド. Well, it's absolutely fantastic, it could easily be the best cast recording of a musical I've ever heard (it's the Japanese production of "Wicked"). Like,
自由を求めて has to be the best Defying Gravity out there (not that the title matches).
I'm totally planning a trip to Japan in the back of my mind that consists of going to see as many different 劇団四季 productions as I can afford while there.
48. Who is a favorite member of 37?
Django Reinhardt
I think
Stéphane Grappelli's parts are far more interesting than Django's, when he appears, but Django does have the impressive hand story to go with him, and is , you know, not really a band, so Reinhardt, I suppose.
49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43?
Mahna Mahna & The Two Snowths
Their take on
Mahna Mahna, unless they did anything else that I heard sooner; which I imagine is possible.
50. What is your favorite song by 20?
Mika
Any Other World. Though when I was listening to Malaysia's version of
Life In Cartoon Motion on loop for many many hours on end attentively over four world-traversing plane trips,
Happy Ending would have taken first place, but it didn't sound
quite so unerringly brilliant back home on CD or radio. But then, most of that album is better than the life's work of a lot of folk, so it's not like his other songs are all pallid.
For easy copying:
1. How did you get into 29?
2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
3. What's your favorite lyric by 33?
4. How did you get into 49?
5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
6. What is your favorite song by 50?
7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?
8. What is your favorite song by 15?
9. What is your favorite song by 5?
10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
11. What is the worst song by 40?
12. What is your favorite song by 10?
13. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
14. What is your favorite song by 38?
15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad?
17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
18. What's your favorite lyric by 11?
19. Who is a favorite member of 1?
20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy?
21. What is a good memory involving 27?
22. What is your favorite song by 16?
23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
24. What is your favorite album by 18?
25. What is your favorite song by 21?
26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
27. What is your favorite album by 3?
28. What is you favorite song by 2?
29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32?
30. What is you favorite song by 8?
31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
33. How did you get into 12?
34. What is the worst song by 45?
35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34?
36. What is the first song you ever heard by 48?
37. How many times have you seen 42 live?
38. What is your favorite song by 36?
39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
40. What is your favorite album by 7?
41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy?
42. What is your favorite album by 41?
43. What is your favorite song by 24?
44. What is a good memory you have involving 46?
45. What is your favorite song by 35?
46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
47. What is your favorite album by 4?
48. Who is a favorite member of 37?
49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43?
50. What is your favorite song by 20?
Nirvana