MUSIC

I forgot to include my favorite bands and songs and albums in my big Top 10s post yesterday, so here's a post devoted to music. I was trying to include download links to every single song or album that I mentioned in the whole post, but it was taking too long, so all you get are the favorite songs (for now).

TOP 10 FAVORITE BANDS/MUSICIANS (not in order)
Roy Orbison
The Carpenters
Pulp
Petula Clark
Spice Girls
Britney Spears
POLYSICS
Shangri-Las
The Kids of Widney High
Abba

TOP 20 FAVORITE SONGS (top 10 and 11-20 separated, but otherwise not in order)
Roy Orbison - Crying/In Dreams/Belinda
Tony DeFranco - Heartbeat (It's a Love Beat)
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Riz Ortolani - Cannibal Holocaust (Main Theme)
Europe - The Final Countdown
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Charlene - Never Been to Me
Olivia Newton-John - Please Don't Keep Me Waiting
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
The Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
April March - Cet Air La
Bauhaus - Crowds
Britney Spears - Toxic
Buddy Holly - Everyday
Lou Christie - Lightnin' Strikes
Weird Sisters - Magic Works
Air Supply - All Out of Love
Abba - Thank You for the Music
Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing

TOP 20 FAVORITE ALBUMS (top 10 and 11-20 separated, but otherwise not in order)
Pulp - This Is Hardcore/Different Class
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please
Lil' Markie - Volume 1
POLYSICS - A.D.S.R.M!
Spice Girls - Spice World
Britney Spears - Britney
The Kids of Widney High - Special Music from Special Kids
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
White Zombie - Astro-Creep: 2000
Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust, Inc.
Abba - The Album
Bikini Kill - The Singles
Misfits - Collection 1
Nirvana - Nevermind
Wesley Willis - Greatest Hits Vol. 2
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
Crass - Penis Envy
The Shaggs - Philosophy of the World
Black Sheep - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Green Day - Dookie

TOP 10 FAVORITE SOUNDTRACKS/SCORES (roughly in order)
Blue Velvet (Angelo Badalamenti, mostly)
Magnolia (Aimee Mann, mostly)
A Clockwork Orange (various, mostly classical)
Walk Hard (Dewey Cox and the Hard Walkers)
Suspiria (Goblin)
The Beyond (Fabio Frizzi)
Phenomena (Goblin)
CB4 (various)
Forbidden Zone (Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo)
The Royal Tenenbaums (various)

Here's a questionnaire where you list the bands you've listened to the most through last.fm and then answer questions about them, but I don't have last.fm, so I just put it on shuffle.

1. Belle & Sebastian
2. Spice Girls
3. Eazy E
4. Pulp
5. David Bowie
6. Marilyn Manson
7. Brock Schism
8. The Locust
9. GWAR
10. Britney Spears
11. The Residents
12. Butthole Surfers
13. Elastica
14. Michael Jackson
15. Geri Halliwell
16. Cocteau Twins
17. Nine Inch Nails
18. Sleeping Disorder
19. POLYSICS
20. Frank Sinatra
21. April March
22. Nirvana

You're supposed to list 25, but there's only 22 questions, so I didn't see the point.

What was the first song you ever heard by 6? (Marilyn Manson)

Lunchbox. They performed it on Jon Stewart's mid-90s talk show, and I was really blown away. Then later on, I saw the Dope Hat video on The Box (which was a channel where you could call in and request music videos for like $4) all the time, and pretty soon after that, they got famous. Here's the performance I saw, it's from June '95. It was a lot more impressive when I was 12.



What is your favourite album by 2? (Spice Girls)
Spice World.


What is your favourite lyric that 1 has sung? (Belle & Sebastian)
From Judy and the Dream of Horses: "Then write another song about your dream of horses. Write a song about your dream of horses. Call it Judy and the Dream of Horses. Call it Judy and the Dream of Horses. Your dream of horses, ba-da-dum-bop, your dream of horses."
I like it because it's so dumb and cheesy, yet somehow I can't help loving it, and it always makes me feel kind of embarrassed.


How many times have you seen 11 live? (The Residents)
Twice. Both times were for Icky Flix. It was amazing the first time because I was sitting really close up front, and not as amazing the second time when it was the same thing I had already seen and I had shitty seats.


What is your favorite song by 7? (Brock Schism)

Funtime, which I apparently don't have on my computer. He later re-did it with Beautiful Mutants, and it wasn't nearly as good. I also like All the TVs Are Growing Arms and another song that's Untitled. Oh wait, I do actually have the good version of Funtime, but it's labeled as Beautiful Mutants even though it's not the one they did together.


What is a good memory you have involving 20? (Frank Sinatra)

The only Sinatra-related memory I can even think of is about this ugly kid in high school who claimed to be dating a model who lived in Ipanema, which relates to Frank Sinatra only in that The Girl from Ipanema is probably my favorite of his songs. But that memory's not especially good. So, I guess I'll go with the last time I listened to him, and I was like, "Man, this music is great, and I'm really enjoying listening to it."


Is there a song by 3 that makes you sad? (Eazy E)

All of them? Because he's dead?

What is your favorite lyric that 14 has sung? (Michael Jackson)
I don't know. I don't actually pay attention to lyrics. But I guess I like the beginning of Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' because it reminds me of the time I scientifically proved that he's a better musician than James Brown (spoiler, sorry).


What is your favorite song by 19? (POLYSICS)
2 faces. I really like the part that sounds like it's sampled from Nintendo (and maybe is?).


How did you first get into 22? (Nirvana)
By being alive in the 90's.


What was the first song you heard by 21? (April March)
Cet Air La. It was on some girl group compilation.


What is your favorite song by 4? (Pulp)

This Is Hardcore. It's about porn.

What is a good memory you have involving 13? (Elastica)
Seeing their video for Connection, and thinking the song was amazing. Every time I listen to it, having to restart it and listen to it over and over again because it's too fucking short.


Is there a song by 8 that makes you sad? (The Locust)
I'm pretty sure I was listening to The Locust when I heard that Wesley Willis had died. So yes, all of them.


What is your favorite album of 15? (Geri Halliwell)
Schizophonic, be serious. I mean, I like all of them, but Schizophonic is fucking brilliant.


What is your favorite lyric that 9 has sung? (GWAR)
From Rock & Roll Never Felt So Good:
"I met her at a donkey show.
She was minutes past thirteen.
Sucking on a cherry yoo-hoo.
Reading 'Nugget' magazine.
Cum splattered tube-top.
Scrawny pre-pube tits.
That's when I saw she was quadraple-chick.
And I said "Baby you're looking good"
That's when I noticed her legs were wood
I grabbed a stump and dragged her out the door
I need a hole
I don't need no hips
I laid a line of coke on her tits
That's when I ripped off her dirty shit-filled drawers
[Chorus:]
Good, should, could, I think it feels pretty good [x2]
So good, so good, so good, so good, so good, so good [x a lot]
It wasn't nothing pretty, she took my genital germ
Her limbless body thrashed about filled with infected sperm
I criss-crossed with the cables,
I smashed her face through a door
They found her in a plastic bag down by highway 64
And I said "Baby you're looking good"
That's when I saw that her legs were wood
And all you people...
You just can't understand
I need a hole
I don't need no hips
I need the taste of dick on my lips
I fucked her asshole with a piece of frozen shit
[Chorus]"

This song completley blew my fucking mind when I was 14.


How many times have you seen 5 live? (David Bowie)

Zero times. But I saw part of the Ziggy Stardust movie, and I thought it was boring.


What is your favorite album by 12? (Butthole Surfers)
Independent Worm Saloon because I heard it first, and loved it when I younger. But Electriclarryland is kinda better. Edit: I listened to Independent Worm Saloon again, and it's totally a better album.


What is a good memory you have involving 10? (Britney Spears)

Hearing Baby One More Time for the first time, I guess. Also, purchasing the DVD with all of her videos on it, and then watching it.


What was the first song you heard by 18? (Sleeping Disorder)

Probably Konami Code (you should definitely download this if you ever played Contra).


What is your favorite song by 17? (Nine Inch Nails)
Can't decide. I like a lot of them.

What is your favorite album by 16? (Cocteau Twins)
Blue Bell Knoll, mostly for Itchy Glowbo Blow.

How many of your top random 22 have you seen live?
7. Belle & Sebastian, Spice Girls, The Locust, GWAR, The Residents, Butthole Surfers, and POLYSICS. Plus Jarvis Cocker without Pulp, Brock Schism with the Beautiful Mutants and Strip Mall Seizures, and Geri Halliwell with the Spice Girls.