List your top 15 artists. Then list what song you first heard, what song made you fall in love with them, and what song is your current favorite.



1- Hunters & Collectors
1st: "Talking to a Stranger"
Love: see above
Current: it's a toss-up between either the above, "Skin of Our Teeth", or "Little Chalkie"

2- The Verve
1st: "Bittersweet Symphony" of course. It was all over MTV when I was ten.
Love: either "Weeping Willow" or "This Time"
Current: "Gravity Grave"

3- The Terminals
1st: "Vertigo"
Love: "Undertows"
Current: "In and Out of My Mind"

4- Moonshake
1st: "Capital Letters"
Love: see above
Current: either the above or "Seen and Not Heard"

5- King of the Slums
1st: "Fanciable Headcase"
Love: "Armed Robbery"
Current: a toss-up between "Mard Arse" or "It's Dead Smart"

6- Blam Blam Blam
1st: "There is No Depression in New Zealand"
Love: "Don't Fight It Marsha, It's Bigger Than Both of Us"
Current: "Learning to Like Ourselves Again"

7- R.E.M.
1st: I've known of them my whole life, so I don't know. Probably something pre-Document when I was a baby.
Love: Again, who knows, I've liked them since I was very little. Probably "Driver 8" or "Feeling Gravity's Pull" or "Fall on Me"
Current: "Feeling Gravity's Pull" is my perpetual favorite, but I've been listening to the acoustic versions of "Time After Time" and "The One I Love" (labeled as "This One Goes Out") at McCabe's Guitar Shop a lot, alongside the very slow variant on "Gardening at Night" that appears on the Best of 1982-1987 compilation that came out last year. I love the sort of Adventures of Pete & Pete feel that one has.

8- Thomas Dolby
1st: Probably "She Blinded Me With Science" when I was little.
Love: "Europa and the Pirate Twins"
Current: see above

9- New Order
1st: Yet again, another one I've been familiar with all my life, so I don't know.
Love: "Procession" was my favorite song of theirs when i was little.
Current: "Sub-Culture (John Robie Mix)" ... which most people like less than the album version, but I'm on a bit of a Robie kick lately, from C-Bank to Freeez and Cabaret Voltaire.

10- The Names
1st: "Nightshift" on Douglas Wolk's Rhubarb Cake program on WFMU.
Love: see above
Current: "I Wish I Could Speak Your Language (Pre-Mix)"

11- The KLF
1st: "3AM Eternal"
Love: see above
Current: "Kylie Said to Jason"

12- Nocturnal Projections
1st: "Marlene's Fish Shop"
Love: "You'll Never Know"
Current: "Restoration"

13- Jr. Walker & The All Stars
1st: "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)"
Love: see above
Current: the above again

14- ABC
1st: Another group I've known all my life. Who knows?
Love: "Many Happy Returns"
Current: "Show Me"

15- Eyeless in Gaza
1st: "John of Patmos" if I remember right.
Love: either "Out From the Day-to-Day" or "Dear Light"
Current: "Picture the Day"