List 10 musical artists/bands that you like. (Do this before reading past the cut tag below.)
1. Beatles
2. Bob Dylan
3. Rufus Wainwright
4. Radiohead
5. Tori Amos
6. The White Stripes
7. Sufjan Stevens
8. Paul Simon
9. Led Zeppelin
10.Fiona Apple
What was the first song you remember hearing by 6?
White Stripes: “Fell in Love with a Girl,” with the crazy lego video.
What is your favorite album of 9?
Zeppelin: II. (Don’t get all Stairway to Heaven on my ass, now.)
What is your favorite lyric that 5 has sung?
Tori Amos: By free association: “So you can make me cum/that doesn’t make you Jesus.”
How many times have you seen 4 live?
Radiohead: 0, sadly. Still trying to get someone to pay my way to Bonnaroo.
What’s your favorite song of 7?
Sufjan Stevens: “Decatur”, from the Illinois album.
What is a good memory you have considering the music of 10?
Fiona Apple: I remember listening to the “When the Pawn” album for the first time in thehipeinie’s then-girlfriend’s car. She hated me because Matt and were good buddies. But for some reason we were looking for things to wear for this Spring Fling dance at the high school. And we kind of bonded for an afternoon.
Is there a song of 3 that makes you sad?
“From where you are to where I am now is it’s own galaxy….
Be a star and fall down somewhere next to me…”
– Rufus Wainwright (Just because it’s so tragically romantic)
What is your favorite lyric that 2 has sung?
“But Mona Lisa musta had the highway bluuuues, you can tell by the way she smiles…”
– Bob Dylan, Visions of Johana
What is your favorite song by 9?
Zeppelin: “Whole Lotta Love”
How did you get into 3?
The “Moulin Rouge” soundtrack, which I bought as a graduation present for my then-boyfriend. He made me burn him a cd of Rufus stuff that I could download at school. One year later, I fell out of love with said-boyfriend and IN love with a gay man: Rufus Wainwright.
What was the first song you heard by 1?
Beatles: “Hey Jude,” although I probably heard more in the womb.
What is your favorite song by 4?
Radiohead: “Let Down,” from OK Computer. Mainly for the line, “Someday I’m gonna grow wings, a chemical reaction.” I’m not sure why.
How many times have you seen 9 live?
Zeppelin: 0. But my mom saw them once, and she doesn’t remember it. This isn’t suggesting that she was on drugs, she just didn’t care for Led Zeppelin, so she wasn’t really into it. I’ve already reprimanded her for this.
What is a good memory you have concerning 2?
Bob Dylan: One of the first times Damon and I hung out, we stayed up talking all night. We were driving to the other side of down when “Shelter from the Storm” came on his mix cd. That was it. I was smitten.
Is there a song of 8 that makes you sad?
Paul Simon: “Kathy I’m lost, I said, but I knew she was sleeping…I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why…” (America)
What is your favorite lyric that 3 has sung?
“Together we’ll wreak havok, you and me,”
– Rufus Wainwright, The Consort.
What is your favorite song of 1?
Beatles: “Which one of your children is your favorite?”
