ahall32's Last.fm Journal

Survey (2)

Sat, 5 Mar 2011 04:12:36 +0000

It's been a while so here is another installment from the past year.

1. How did you get into 29?
The Welcome Wagon
I think I heard Sold! To the Nice Rich Man on an Asthmatic Kitty sampler and I had to hear more.

2. What was the first song ever you heard about 22?
David Bowie
I can't remember. Any of his hits?

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33?
Maxwell
It doesn't really matter what he's saying as long as he's singing it in that sexy falsetto.
"I should be crying but I just can't let it show" is a favorite though.

4. What is your favorite album by 49?
Feist
The Reminder

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Talib Kweli
6

6. What is your favorite song by 50?
Philip Glass
Anything off The Hours. Maybe The Kiss

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?
Kanye West
I Wonder and Streetlights

8. What is your favorite album by 15?
Ray LaMontagne
Gossip In The Grain. It doesn't necessarily have my favorite songs by him but I think it's his most complete album.

9. What is your favorite song by 5?
Radiohead
Tough choice. It's a tie between Black Star, (Nice Dream), Bangers + Mash, and Paranoid Android

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
The Mountain Goats
Golden Boy, Orange Ball of Peace, Heretic Pride, Jenny
It was fun thinking of this since I definitely would not have considered it happy music.

11. What is your favorite album by 40?
The Libertines
The Libertines
Great f**king album!

12. What is your favorite song by 10?
Tom Waits
Another very hard choice to make but i have to go with Burma Shave
Honorable mention goes to Alice, The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House), Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis Bad Liver and a Broken Heart, The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me), and Closing Time

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
Stevie Wonder
Every time the family gets together I can count on hearing some Stevie.

14. What is your favorite song by 38?
38 is a tie between
Ben Folds: Late or Sentimental Guy
and
Tarkio: Never Will Marry

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Common
Faithful or Forever Begins

16. How many times have you seen 25 live?
Simon & Garfunkel
Sadly, no. They were a little before my time.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
The Velvet Underground
I can't really remember. I think it was Candy Says

18. What is your favorite album by 11?
11 is tied between
Nickel Creek: Why Should the Fire Die
Amos Lee: Amos Lee

19. Who is a favorite member of 1?
Owen
It's a solo project of the incomparable Mike Kinsella.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Elliott Smith
Sadly, no. He was dead before I discovered his genius.

21. What is a good memory involving 27?
Benjamin Verdery
Performing Ellis Island at the 2007 GFA.

22. What is your favorite song by 16?
The Beatles
Extremely tough choice.Because, She's Leaving Home, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, Octopus' Garden, A Day in the Life

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
Incubus
Probably Drive

24. What is your favorite album by 18?
Chelsea Williams
Chelsea Williams

25. What is your favorite song by 21?
Amy Winehouse
Probably (there is no) greater love
Honorable mention goes to Best Friends and I Heard Love Is Blind

Survey

Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:10:46 +0000

1. What are you listening to right now?
Lover, You Should've Come Over

2. What song makes you sad?
Lover, You Should've Come Over

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?
Most popular songs are tied for that position.

4. Your all time favourite band?
According to my charts The Smashing Pumpkins

5. Your newly discovered band is?
Kevin Devine and Iron & Wine

6. Best female voice?
Joni Mitchell

7. Best male voice?
Simon & Garfunkel. Two-part harmony.

8. Music type you find yourself listening to most?
acoustic, indie, singer songwriter

9. What do you listen to hype you up?
Iggy Pop, The Stooges

10. What do you listen to when you want to calm down?
Owen, Damien Rice, Colin Hay

11. Last gig/concert you went to?
Jackie Greene and Chelsea Williams at Anthology in San Diego, CA

12. Band you find yourself listening to the most right now?
Owen, Jeff Buckley, Primus. I know they don't go together.

13. Most hated band?
I could go on forever.

14. Song that makes you think?
Accidental Babies, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

15. Band that you think the world should love as much as you do?
Owen, Sufjan Stevens, Evan Hirschelman

16. Coolest music video?
I'm not much of a music video person.

17. What do you play/would you play in the bedroom to spice things up?
Kiss Me Deadly, Lover's Rock, I Want You (She's So Heavy), In A Sentimental Mood, Feel Like Makin' Love

18. Can you play a musical instrument?
Proficient with guitar and bass. Terrible with piano, saxophone and trumpet.

19. Last song that you heard on the radio?
NPR? I'm not a big radio person.

20. Last BIG band that you saw live?
Aretha Franklin and others at the Newport Jazz Festival.

22. Do you listen to music in foreign languages?
Yes.

23. Do you listen to the radio?
NPR and sometimes indie rock and jazz.

24. Do you watch music TV?
No.

25. Have you meet any famous musicians?
Quite a few.

26. Song that best describes your feelings right now?
Summer in the City

27. Do you know the names of all the band members that you listen to?
No.

28. Does a musician’s physical attractiveness play a role in the music that you listen to?
No.

29. Favorite movie sound track?
Gladiator, There Will Be Blood, The assassination of Jessie James by The Coward Robert Ford, The Hours, The Lord Of The Rings. I love movie scores.

30. What are you listening to right NOW?
We Start the Cure in Paris

Top songs of 2008

Sun, 4 Jan 2009 01:21:27 +0000

1. Foo Fighters - Walking After You - 68
2. Joshua Radin - Girlfriend in a Coma - 66
3. Foo Fighters - February Stars - 62
4. Joshua Radin - Star Mile - 61
5. Mason Jennings - The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll - 60
6. Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us - 57
7. Seu Jorge - Life On Mars? - 56
8. David Bowie - Space Oddity - 55
9. Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York - 54
10. Ben Folds Five - Evaporated - 53
11. Sufjan Stevens - For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti - 51
11. Ben Folds Five - Brick - 51
11. Joshua Radin - Only You - 51
11. Jenny Owen Youngs - Fuck Was I - 51
15. The Velvet Underground - Candy Says - 50
16. Ray LaMontagne - Hold You In My Arms - 49
17. The Moldy Peaches - Nothing Came Out - 48
17. John Doe - Pressing On - 48
17. Sufjan Stevens - The Upper Peninsula - 48
17. Coldplay - Warning Sign - 48
17. Rainer Maria - Situation: Relation - 48
22. Damien Rice - Cannonball - 45
22. Owen - That Mouth - 45
22. Simon & Garfunkel - Old Friends/Bookends - 45
25. Leona Naess - Northern Star - 44
25. Ray LaMontagne - Hannah - 44
25. Pete Murray - Ten Ft. Tall - 44
28. Owen - Skin and Bones - 43
28. Ben Lee - Ache For You - 43
28. Joan of Arc - Let's Wrestle - 43
28. Amy Winehouse - Best Friends - 43
28. Owen - Accidentally - 43
28. Nickel Creek - Speak - 43
28. Amy Winehouse - You Sent Me Flying - 43
35. Elton John - My Father's Gun - 42

25 Questions

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:32:35 +0000

1. How did you get into 29?
Stevie Wonder
Members of my family were fans.

2. What was the first song ever you heard about 22?
Ben Folds Five
Hospital Song

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33?
Jenny Owen Youngs
"What the fuck was I thinking?"

4. What is your favorite album by 49?
Sara Bareilles
Little Voice

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Amos Lee
3: Amos Lee, Last Days At The Lodge, Supply And Demand

6. What is your favorite song by 50?
Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts
The Real Folk Blues

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?
The John Butler Trio
What You Want

8. What is your favorite album by 15?
Simon and Garfunkel
Sounds Of Silence

9. What is your favorite song by 5?
Bob Dylan
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Foo Fighters
Not really. All their songs are sort of somber.

11. What is your favorite album by 40?
Leona Naess
Leona Naess

12. What is your favorite song by 10?
The Velvet Underground
Sweet Jane

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
John Coltrane
I liked performing his music.

14. What is your favorite song by 38?
The Mountain Goats
Cotton

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Ray LaMontagne
No, his songs are all kind of sad too.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live?
Spoon
None.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Benjamin Verdery
Ellis Island

18. What is your favorite album by 11?
The Beatles
Abbey Road

19. Who is a favorite member of 1?
The Smashing Pumpkins
James Iha but since he is no longer in the band Billy Corgan

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Pete Murray
No.

21. What is a good memory involving 27?
Andy McKee
He reminds me of Evan Hirschelman

22. What is your favorite song by 16?
Ben Folds
All U Can Eat

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
John Mayer
I can't remember. One of the singles off Room For Squares

24. What is your favorite album by 18?
Joshua Radin
Between 3rd and 4th

25. What is your favorite song by 21?
Tarkio
Tristan and Iseult

Top 10

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:00:38 +0000

Name your top 10 most played bands on Last.fm:

1. The Smashing Pumpkins
2. Owen
3. Sufjan Stevens
4. Nickel Creek
5. Bob Dylan
6. Foo Fighters
7. Talib Kweli
8. David Bowie
9. The Velvet Underground
10. Amy Winehouse

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
Probably Hero.

What is your favorite album by 2?
At Home with Owen.

What is your favorite lyric that 5 has sung?
Anything off of Blood on the Tracks.

What is your favorite song by 7?
Get By.

What is your favorite lyric 2 has sung?
"Whatever it is you think you are, you aren't."

What is your favorite song by 9?
Sweet Jane.

How did you get into 3?
I heard his music on the show Weeds on Showtime.

What was the first song you heard by 1?
I can't remember. One of their many singles on the radio.

What is your favorite song by 4?
Either Green and Grey or Eveline.

How many times have you seen 9 live?
None. I came along way too late for that.

What is a good memory you have concerning 2?
I love to listen while I am in bed, right before I fall asleep.

Is there a song by 8 that makes you sad?
Space Oddity.

What is your favorite album by 5?
Blood on the Tracks.

What is your favorite lyrics that 3 has sung?
"Oh the glory when he took our place but he took my shoulders and he shook my face and he takes and he takes and he takes."

What is your favorite song of 1?
Impossible to answer.

What is your favorite song of 10?
There is No Greater Love

How many times have you seen 8 live?
None. I missed him in his prime.

What is your favorite album of 1?
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.