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?

First Heard/Fell in Love/Current Favorite (overall top artists of the past six months).

1. Blink-182.
First heard: What's My Age Again?
(Awe, TRL in the nineties, I was like 7 or so, but still awesome.)
Fell in Love: All the Small Things
Current favorite: New Hope

2. The Starting Line.
First heard: Bedroom Talk.
Fell in Love: Ready.
Current favorite: Something Left to Give

3. The Beatles.
First heard: I Want To Hold Your Hand
Fell in Love: Love Me Do.
Current favorite: Come Together

4. Gym Class Heroes.
First heard: New Friend Request.
Fell in Love: The Queen & I
Current favorite: Drnk Txt Rmeo

5. M.I.A.
First heard: Galang.
Fell in Love: Galang.
Current favorite: Mango Pickle Down River

6. The Beach Boys.
First heard: Surfin' USA
(I think? I was like four or so haha.)
Fell in Love: Help Me Rhonda
(I have a lot of memories of this song.)
Current favorite: Do It Again.

7. Jack Johnson.
First heard: Bubbletoes
Fell in Love: Flake.
Current favorite: Flake.

8. Flight of the Conchords.
First heard: Albi the Racist Dragon.
Fell in Love: Mutha'uckas.
Current favorite: The Prince of Parties.

9. Bright Eyes.
First heard: Take it Easy (Love Nothing)
Fell in Love: Drunk Kid Catholic
Current favorite: Arc of Time (Time Code)

10. TRVS DJAM.
First heard: FIX YOUR FACE 1
Fell in Love: FIX YOUR FACE 1
Current favorite: FIX YOUR FACE 11

So, as many of you know by now I'm taking a History of Rock course for one of my electives. Its hard to believe a class covering the history of rock is worth 3 credits.

Anyway, I would like to think I know something about the history and progression of rock. Building upon the blues and R&B basis, throwing in the poor-white-boy-country to form rockabilly and then really taking off from there. Just by listening to things, even in chronological order, its hard to really imagine how influential an artist is on another or how important an artist is to a single genre without some extra, third-party knowledge being thrown in. Whether its a book (this is the book for our course), a course, or a combination of the two. Sure, its easy to hear just how good an artist was back in the day and with some exceptions (ie: Bo Diddley Beat) it takes more than simply listening to an artist to develop a sense of influence surrounding them.

In contrast whites droned out Protestant hymns like the braying of asses in one steady beat. - President John Adams

The book is good for some great quotes, such as the one above comparing African-American gospels to the whites' services.

Anyway, with the blues starting out in the poor South, there was a very minimal arrangement in the songs. Robert Johnson accompanined his vocals with only a guitar - using it at his will to develop his songs rather than using it for a firm structure or to keep time. With the migration of African-Americans from the South to the North during the world wars to escape the crippling economy and racism, the blues moved to Chicago. Muddy Waters went, as well.

Like a lot of the early blues and rock artists, Muddy refined his vocals in gospel services stating he was "a good Baptist, singing in church. So I got all of my good moaning and trembling going on for me right out of church." Big Bill Broonzy elaborates just a bit explaining "Blues - a steal from spirituals. And rock is a steal from blues… Blues singers started out singing spirituals." Before moving to Chicago, Muddy was recorded for the Library of Congress by Alan Lomax (he himself is mentioned quite a bit in the book in connection with his recording of early blues greats for the Library of Congress) in 1941 during Alan's search for Robert Johnson. In 1943 Muddy moves up to Chicago where he starts developing a new kind of blues, or as Willie Dixon said, "There was quite a few people around singin’ the blues, but most of ‘em was singin’ all sad blues. Muddy was giving his blues a little pep."

In the book, it describes Tampa Red's house in Chicago, which was basically the headquarters for a bunch of blues artists to hang out and play music together. Which contributes to another thing which I find really interesting in how everybody pretty much knew everybody else playing.

Howlin' Wolf played with Robert Johnson before he moved up to Chicago. While in Chicago he stayed with Muddy Waters before making a name for himself. When that started happening their friendship developed into more of a competition with Muddy becoming a little jealous with Howlin's rise to fame and taking some of Muddy's thunder from him.

Chess Records is one of those recording companies who practically defined an era or genre, much like Motown did. They signed Muddy and Howlin, along with master harp players Little Walter and Sonny Boy Williamson, plus Bo Diddley. Chess' biggest competitor was California based label Modern Records, who signed Riley "Blues Boy" King. He too developed his vocals in church.

In the early 1950s with millions of white teenagers latching onto R&B, new icons starting to emerge as the blues greats got older. Little Richard and Chuck Berry being the first real rock n roll acts. Unfortunately, during this period there was a massive backlash against the new rock-n-roll genre primarily due to money and racism.

ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Publishers) were pissed because this new, popular rock-n-roll genre didn't need composers because the artists would sing their own songs. Of course this hit ASCAP in the wallet, where it hurt so they started mudslinging the genre. Frank Sinatra testified before Congress in 1958 that rock was "the most brutal, ugly desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear," and that rock-n-rollers were "cretinous goons” with “almost imbecilic repetitions and sly - lewd - in plain fact dirty - lyrics."

Racism ran rampant, as well, relating rock-n-roll to tribal celebrations of sexual grandeur, animal and equating those things with the African-Americans who made the music. This resulted in white fears of possible white and African-American sexual relationships. Nat King Cole was attacked on-stage during one of his concerts in 1956 while Bo Diddley had to deal with bomb threats via KKK at his shows in South Carolina.

Since the independent labels controlled the now popular genres of R&B and rock, the major labels signed white artists to "cover" songs of African-Americans in which they would clean up the lyrics. Pat Boone was the biggest offender ranking up 60 hits and providing us with the following two quotes: I had to change some of the words, because they seemed too raw for me. I wrote ‘Pretty little Susie is the girl for me’ instead of ‘Boys you don’t know what she do to me.’ I had to be selective and change some lyrics, but nobody seemed to care… I made it more vanilla. Explaining his impact on rock-roll: R&B is a distinctive kind of music; it doesn’t appeal to everybody… So if it hadn’t been for the vanilla versions of the R&B songs in the 1950s, you could certainly imagine that rock and roll as we think of it, would never have happened..

Thankfully rockabilly emerged in a manner similar to the emergence of the blues. Poor white southern teenagers mixed blues with country-western to create rockabilly. This sound was cataloged heavily by Sam Phillips of Sun Records, who recorded Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and for a short-period Roy Orbison.

Elvis was the biggest success, proving early-on that image is just as important (perhaps moreso) as the actual music as he overshadowed his fellow rockabilly rockers. In 1955, Phillips sold Elvis to RCA Victor for $35,000 because he couldn't afford to keep Elvis - Phillips, as an indie owner, simply could not afford to keep up with the demand and rise of Elvis; as he puts it "I mean, I wasn’t broke but man, it was hand-to-mouth." TV played a major part in Elvis' rise as Steve Allen explains that "It was television that made Elvis’ success possible. What his millions of young fans responded to was obviously not his voice, but Elvis himself. His face, his body, his hair, his gyrations, his cute, country boy persona." Also fueling the rise of Elvis was the top 40 format which was developed in 1954 and in 1956 launched Elvis even higher. In the same year Colonel Parker (Elvis's famous manager) teamed up with advertising and marketing executive Hank Saperstein who "wanted to manufacture a phenomenon” and “began to plaster Elvis’ name and picture on all types of products.” By 1957 Elvis' name had saturated the market with 78 different Elvis products which grossed nearly $55 million by December 1957. An employee of Parker's had this to say about the way Parker marketed/sold Elvis: The Colonel doesn’t sell Elvis to the public, dig? He sells Elvis to the people who sell to the public, and those are the media people - the television and motion picture personalities, the executives and businessmen who control the networks, the important radio people…Elvis, as a product, always in the state of being sold.

Elvis himself received a great deal of backlash for his rockabilly antics and gyrating hips during his performances as the media and religious leaders attacked him for his sexual innuendos. Parker answered these attacks by scaling back Elvis' antics, which increased his sales and audience.

By the end of the 50s and early 60s rockabilly had come to an end with several major events occurring during this time:
Elvis went into the Army
Chuck Berry is jailed thanks to the Mann Act
1959 - Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens are killed in a plane crash
1960 - Eddie Cochran killed and Gene Vincent severely injured in a car crash in England
Little Richard went to God: That night Russia sent off the very first Sputnik earth satellite. It looked as though the big ball of fire came directly over the stadium about two or three hundred feet above our heads. It shook my mind. It really shook my mind. I got up from the piano and said “this is it. I am through. I am leaving show business to go back to God… If you want to live for the Lord, you can’t rock-and-roll too. God doesn’t like it.

There was a big void in the market and in stepped Dick Clark. Dick Clark studied radio and advertising in school and upon replacing the host of Bandstand quickly realized the show's potential, stating "The more I heard the music, the more I enjoyed it; the more I enjoyed it, the more I understood the kids. I knew that if I could tune into them and keep myself on the show, I could make a great deal of money." Dick turned the show into a national phenomenon in 1957, enforcing rules of conduct of the show to make it more acceptable to parents as he was clean-cut, poised, well-mannered, well-dressed, and well-groomed - a clear contrast to the rebel teens in films. He used the show as a platform to launch the creations of teen pop idols he groomed such as Fabian and Frankie Avalone.

The payola scandal (pay-per-play) revealed Dick Clark's empire and control over the music business and process, having ownership in distributors, labels, and recording studios, not to mention being able to promote his own creations on his own show. While others lives were ruined (ie: Alan Freed) due to the scandal, Clark's image pushed him through unscathed as Chairmen Oren Harris told him "You’re not the inventor of the system…you’re a product of it. Obviously, you’re a fine young man."

After the payola scandal which was also fueled by ASCAP, Don Kirshner masterminded the takeover of rock by the songwriters and opened an office right across the street from the Brill Building (Tin Pan Alley). He hired songwriters such as Carole Klein and Neil Sedaka to write songs in the tradition of Doo-Wop groups (which originated in New York where poor Black singers would harmonize with their vocals to provide accompaniment since they were too poor to buy instruments) for African-American female vocal groups. Carole Klein wrote their first hit titled Will You Love Me Tomorrow which was performed by The Shirelles. The Ronnettes and The Crystals were female girl groups on Phil Spector's Philles Records. Phil Spector basically created that patented girl group sound single handedly with his Wall of Sound production technique where he would pile up instrument upon instrument to create an upbeat, epic and ethereal girl-group sound. As a result of the girl-group success, Tin Pan Alley was transformed into Teen Pan Alley as the Saturday Evening Post noticed "Broadway’s Brill Building, once the home of jelly-jowled, gray headed music publishers, is now being refurbished with youthful executives who have grown up to no other kind of music than the beat of today… One of the typical and prime- figures in youth’s takeover of the pop-record business is a onetime unsuccessful songwriter named Don Kirshner."

Like the mass migration of African-Americans from the South to Chicago, California was the home of another migration in the early 60s with the promise of bikini clad blond bombshells, higher salaries, plentiful jobs, beaches, swimming pools, and Disneyland. Along the beaches a surf culture started to emerge and among the partakers was Dick Dale who worked closely with Leo Fender to capture the " tremendous amount of power I felt while surfing and that feeling of power was simply transferred into my guitar when I was playing surf music… I was trying to project the power of the ocean to the people. I couldn’t get the feeling by singing, so the music took an instrumental form. and in 1962 released Misirlou. Helping to establish surf music as a national craze were three brothers, a cousin and a friend who recorded Surfin' as The Pendletones, but changed their names to The Beach Boys. In 1963 they released Surfer Girls which went to #3 on the National charts which was followed by many more hits.

Also released in 1963 was Jan & Dean's Surf City which Brian Wilson had started but gave the song to Jan & Dean to finish (Wilson provides backup vocals on the song). The bands also captured another culture of California which was the car culture, featuring lyrics about dragsters which The Beach Boys received helped on from Roger Christian, who also worked with Jan & Dean. Jan & Dean released Dead Man's Curve which proved to prophetic when Jan Barry was almost killed and brain damaged when crashed his Stingray in LA.

Of course this isn't the whole story, but its the general idea of the first couple chapters of the book. The class has, if nothing else, helped me appreciate some artists a lot more (most notably Brian Wilson). There are some random tidbits which I feel I have to include, as well:

That's All Right by Elvis featured two guitars and an upright bass - no drums. The tick sound which sounds like drums being hit is actually the bass-strings snapping back and hitting the neck of the bass.

Brian Wilson's competition with Capitol label-mates The Beatles has been a part of rock lure since their back and forth tug-of-war in the 60s. Good Vibrations was Wilson's answer to Yesterday by the Beatles. The song itself is composed of three separate parts, edited together to create a type of musical collage. Pete Townsend feared the song would lead over-produced records as a result of its success. Brian Wilson and the song would in turn, according to Paul McCartney, influence them to create similar musical collaged songs such as Day in the Life and Strawberry Fields Forever.









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Tracklist

1) Robert Johnson - Cross Road Blues
2) Bessie Smith - Careless Love Blues
3) Howlin' Wolf - Moanin' at Midnight
4) Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone
5) Sonny Boy Williamson - Bring It On Home
6) B.B. King - Three O'Clock Blues
7) Big Joe Turner - Shake Rattle and Roll
8) Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
9) Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven
10) Bill Haley and the Comets - Rock Around the Clock
11) Little Richard - Lucille
12) Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On
13) Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues
14) Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes
15) Gene Vincent - Be-Bop-A-Lula
16) Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
17) Elvis Presley - That's All Right
18) Buddy Holly - That'll Be The Day
19) The Everly Brothers - Bye Bye Love
20) Roy Orbison - Only the Lonely
21) Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers - Little Bitty Pretty One
22) The Ronettes - Be My Baby
23) The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
24) The Surfaris - Wipe Out
25) Dick Dale and His Del-Tones - Misirlou
26) The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack
27) Jan & Dean - Dead Man's Curve
28) The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

Put your music player on shuffle.
Post the first 40 songs that come up.
You can repeat artists if you want.
If you have any repeats, skip to the next track.

1. Gold Mine Gutted - Bright Eyes
2. Sentimental Heart - She & Him
3. Happy Working Song - Amy Adams
4. Robert Says Goodbye - Alan Menken
5. Take It Easy (Love Nothing) - Bright Eyes
6. FIX YOUR FACE 4 - TRVS DJAM
7. The Impression That I Get - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
8. You Wouldn't Believe - 311
9. Boyz - M.I.A.
10. One Two - The Cool Kids
11. Gravedigging - The Classic Crime
12. Cupid's Chokehold - Gym Class Heroes
13. I Found Out - The Pigeon Detectives
14. Merry Happy - Kate Nash
15. Sleep - Azure Ray
16. popularity - Jonezetta
17. One & Only - Timbaland
18. Freedom Skit - M.I.A.
19. Thnks Fr Th Mmrs - Fall Out Boy
20. I'm Lost Without You - Blink-182
21. She's Got You High - Mumm-Ra
22. Arabian Nights - Bruce Adler
23. Potential Break-Up Song - Aly & AJ
24. Where Did Your Heart Go Missing - Rooney
25. Kelsey - Metro Station
26. Poker Face - Lady GaGa
27. The End Has No End - The Strokes
28. Nolita Fairytale - Vanessa Carlton
29. Light Pollution - Bright Eyes
30. Little Honda - The Beach Boys
31. Click Click Click - Bishop Allen
32. Pimpass Paradise - Damian Marley
33. Believe - The Bravery
34. If You Want Me - Glen Hansard & Marketa Iglóva
35. Rockstar - N*E*R*D
36. Business Time - Flight of the Conchords
37. Madi Don't Leave - PlayRadioPlay!
38. Liked You Better Before - Little Jackie
39. I've Just Seen a Face - Jim Sturgess
40. Got Money - Lil Wayne ft. T-Pain

QUESTIONS

1. Which song do you prefer, #1 or #40?
#40.

2. Have you ever listened to #12 continuously on repeat?
Yes, I have.

3. What album is #26 from?
The Fame

4. What do you think about the artist who did #15?
They're okay I guess, but I don't like any of their other songs much.

5. Is #19 one of your favorite songs?
Not really my favorite, but catchy.

6. Who does #38 remind you of?
A guy I used to go to school with.

7. Does #20 have better lyrics or music?
The music, I've never been a huge fan of Tom Delonge's voice.

8. Do any of your friends like #3?
Not really, they're anti-new Disney.

9. Is #33 from a movie soundtrack?
Nope.

10. Is #18 overplayed on the radio?
Not at all.

11. What does #21 remind you of?
The band name reminds me of Thundercats.

12. Which song do you prefer, #5 or #22?
#5

13. What album is #17 from?
Shock Value

14. When did you first hear #39?
A year or so ago for the Jim Sturgess verison.
A while back for the orignal.

15. When did you first hear #7?
A longgg time ago, when Mtv was good (there wasn't any of that The Hills bull.) and TRL played entire music videos and was hosted by Carson Daily.

16. What genre is #8?
Alternative?

17. Do any of your friends like #14?
Yes :] I got them into Kate Nash.

18. What color does #4 remind you of?
Pastel colors.

19. Have you ever blasted #11 on your stereo?
Can't say I have.

20. What genre is #37?
Electronic? I dunno really.

21. Can you play #13 on any instrument?
Not at all.

22. What is your favorite lyric from #30?
I don't really have a favorite lyric from it =/

23. What is your favorite lyric from #23?
We got along until you did that
Now all I want is just my stuff back
Do you get that?
Let me repeat that, I want my stuff back.

24. Would you recommend #24 to your friends?
yeah, i enjoy it.

25. Is #2 a good song to dance to?
Not exactly.

26. Do you ever hear #16 on the radio?
Nope.

27. Is #32 more of a “nighttime” or “daytime” song?
Mid-day, afternoon.

28. Does #36 have any special meaning to you?
Oooh yes, yes it does.

29. Do any of your friends like #31?
I don't think so.

30. Is #25 a fast or slow song?
Somewhere in the middle

31. Is #35 a happy or sad song?
Sort of Angry, tbh.

32. What is one of your favorite lyrics from #9?
How many, no money boyz are rowdy?
How many start a war?

33. Is #34 better to listen to alone or with friends?
Alone.

34. When did you first hear #27?
A year or so ago.

35. Name 3 other songs by the artist who did #29:
Middleman, Easy/Lucky/Free, Drunk Kid Catholic

36. Do you know all the words to #6?
Not really haha.

37. Does #28 have better lyrics or music?
Music, definately.

38. What album is #10 from?
The Bake Sale

Hi Guys

Here is an official and really warm thanks to have uploaded so many jewels in the Lonely Faction catalogue. More than 30 tracks! Some thanks and an invitation for all all the persons who like artists like Elliott Smith, The Beach Boys, Nirvana and so on... ( hope to reach some people who don't know LF ).

And of course, special thanks to Popoyt...