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List 10 musical artists that you like. (Do this before reading the other questions.)
Only ten? All right, let's arbitrarily narrow the field . . .
1. My Favorite
2. PJ Harvey
3. The Dresden Dolls
4. Tom Waits
5. Jill Tracy
6. Lal Waterson
7. Kaizers Orchestra
8. Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer
9. Phil Ochs
10. The Klezmatics
(And now, the questions.)
What was the first song you ever heard by 6? "The Scarecrow," although I heard it performed by June Tabor. The first song I heard actually sung by Lal Waterson was "Her White Gown." Thanks tonineweaving for both.
What is your favorite album of 8? Drum Hat Buddha, I think. It's the first album of theirs that I heard, and it may contain the highest percentage of songs I really love: "Ordinary Town," "Tillman County," "Disappearing Man," "236-6132," "I Go Like the Raven," "Merlin's Lament." If I was afraid to break or bleed / I would find someone much easier to need . . .
What is your favorite lyric that 5 has sung? From "Extraordinary" (found on both Quintessentially Unreal and Diabolical Streak): You're open to interpretation / Like the trapdoor underneath your tousled throne / And I'm engaged, and I'm enraged, and I'm enchanted / With this little bit of magic I've been shown . . .
How many times have you seen 4 live? Never. Does spotting a cameo in The Fisher King count for anything?
What's your favorite song of 7? Er . . . can I make this one multiple-choice? All from Ompa Til Du Dør: either "Kontroll På Kontinentet," "Død Manns Tango," "Dekk Bord," or "Mr. Kaizer, Hans Constanze Og Meg." Not that I dislike the rest of the album, or even what I've heard of Maestro and Evig Pint, but these are the four that most consistently get stuck in my head.
What is a good memory you have considering the music of 10? The first summer I discovered their music, between college and graduate school, whenstrange_selkie and I bounced Yiddish translations back and forth between us.
Is there a song of 3 that makes you sad? "Boston." I've heard it performed live twice and I own two or three different bootlegs, and it always makes me choke up at the last verse: There is nothing in this world that we can count on / Even that we will wake up is an assumption / But I know for a fact that I loved someone / And for about a year we lived in Boston . . .
What is your favorite lyric that 2 has sung? All the lyrics for "To Bring You My Love." This was the first PJ Harvey I ever heard, and it transfixed me. The guitar line as patient and repetitive and relentless as though it's been walking with her forever, out of some vast distance, across some infinite plain; her voice as tired, ground down to obsession and electric distortion by all the miles and millennia, become as inhuman and unarguable, a fury of love. And I've traveled over dry earth and floods / Hell and high water to bring you my love / Climbed over mountains, traveled the sea / Cast down off Heaven, cast down on my knees / I've lain with the Devil, cursed God above / Forsaken Heaven to bring you my love . . . I played it over and over for days.
What is your favorite song by 9? To be honest? Probably "Love Me, I'm A Liberal" (which I heard first on In Concert) or "I Ain't A-Marchin' Anymore" (which I heard first on There and Now: Live in Vancouver). I'm boring.
How did you get into 3? I heard them live at the 2002 Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony and went home with "Good Day" on repeat in my head. I took out the trash today, and I'm on fire . . .
What was the first song you heard by 1? "Burning Hearts" (The Happiest Days of Our Lives). Courtesy oflesser_celery, who pointed me in their direction in early 2004. We met first in cafés, and later in ruins . . .
What is your favorite song by 4? Well, that's an unanswerable question . . . Let's say either "Tango Till They're Sore" (Rain Dogs), "Innocent When You Dream" (Frank's Wild Years), or "Another Man's Vine" (Blood Money).
How many time have you seen 9 live? Given the year in which I was born, I don't think there's any way short of time travel I could ever have seen Phil Ochs live.
What is a good memory you have concerning 2? Sitting on the floor in Egbert's new house, with people talking Classics all around me, listening to "To Bring You My Love" for the first time.
Is there a song of 8 that makes you sad? Not exactly sad, but I find "Lancelot" (When I Go) cynical and bittersweet and fragile, and it comes to almost the same thing in the end. I ain't no untarnished Galahad / Down from Arcadia like a dream in your head / But, gentle lady, lend me the true heart I never had / And I'll bring you roses and bread / And we'll fashion gold out of lead / With all the illusions we shed . . .
What is your favorite song of 1? I suspect it's "Le Monster" (The Happiest Days of Our Lives), but there's decent competition from "17 Berlin" (Love at Absolute Zero) and "Cult Hero, Come Home" (Double Agent 2000). Who could dislike a song that contains a cameo appearance by the ghost of Sid Vicious?
xterminal:List 10 musical artists that you like. (Do this before reading the other questions.)
Only ten? All right, let's arbitrarily narrow the field . . .
1. My Favorite
2. PJ Harvey
3. The Dresden Dolls
4. Tom Waits
5. Jill Tracy
6. Lal Waterson
7. Kaizers Orchestra
8. Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer
9. Phil Ochs
10. The Klezmatics
(And now, the questions.)
What was the first song you ever heard by 6? "The Scarecrow," although I heard it performed by June Tabor. The first song I heard actually sung by Lal Waterson was "Her White Gown." Thanks to
nineweaving for both. What is your favorite album of 8? Drum Hat Buddha, I think. It's the first album of theirs that I heard, and it may contain the highest percentage of songs I really love: "Ordinary Town," "Tillman County," "Disappearing Man," "236-6132," "I Go Like the Raven," "Merlin's Lament." If I was afraid to break or bleed / I would find someone much easier to need . . .
What is your favorite lyric that 5 has sung? From "Extraordinary" (found on both Quintessentially Unreal and Diabolical Streak): You're open to interpretation / Like the trapdoor underneath your tousled throne / And I'm engaged, and I'm enraged, and I'm enchanted / With this little bit of magic I've been shown . . .
How many times have you seen 4 live? Never. Does spotting a cameo in The Fisher King count for anything?
What's your favorite song of 7? Er . . . can I make this one multiple-choice? All from Ompa Til Du Dør: either "Kontroll På Kontinentet," "Død Manns Tango," "Dekk Bord," or "Mr. Kaizer, Hans Constanze Og Meg." Not that I dislike the rest of the album, or even what I've heard of Maestro and Evig Pint, but these are the four that most consistently get stuck in my head.
What is a good memory you have considering the music of 10? The first summer I discovered their music, between college and graduate school, when
strange_selkie and I bounced Yiddish translations back and forth between us. Is there a song of 3 that makes you sad? "Boston." I've heard it performed live twice and I own two or three different bootlegs, and it always makes me choke up at the last verse: There is nothing in this world that we can count on / Even that we will wake up is an assumption / But I know for a fact that I loved someone / And for about a year we lived in Boston . . .
What is your favorite lyric that 2 has sung? All the lyrics for "To Bring You My Love." This was the first PJ Harvey I ever heard, and it transfixed me. The guitar line as patient and repetitive and relentless as though it's been walking with her forever, out of some vast distance, across some infinite plain; her voice as tired, ground down to obsession and electric distortion by all the miles and millennia, become as inhuman and unarguable, a fury of love. And I've traveled over dry earth and floods / Hell and high water to bring you my love / Climbed over mountains, traveled the sea / Cast down off Heaven, cast down on my knees / I've lain with the Devil, cursed God above / Forsaken Heaven to bring you my love . . . I played it over and over for days.
What is your favorite song by 9? To be honest? Probably "Love Me, I'm A Liberal" (which I heard first on In Concert) or "I Ain't A-Marchin' Anymore" (which I heard first on There and Now: Live in Vancouver). I'm boring.
How did you get into 3? I heard them live at the 2002 Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony and went home with "Good Day" on repeat in my head. I took out the trash today, and I'm on fire . . .
What was the first song you heard by 1? "Burning Hearts" (The Happiest Days of Our Lives). Courtesy of
lesser_celery, who pointed me in their direction in early 2004. We met first in cafés, and later in ruins . . .What is your favorite song by 4? Well, that's an unanswerable question . . . Let's say either "Tango Till They're Sore" (Rain Dogs), "Innocent When You Dream" (Frank's Wild Years), or "Another Man's Vine" (Blood Money).
How many time have you seen 9 live? Given the year in which I was born, I don't think there's any way short of time travel I could ever have seen Phil Ochs live.
What is a good memory you have concerning 2? Sitting on the floor in Egbert's new house, with people talking Classics all around me, listening to "To Bring You My Love" for the first time.
Is there a song of 8 that makes you sad? Not exactly sad, but I find "Lancelot" (When I Go) cynical and bittersweet and fragile, and it comes to almost the same thing in the end. I ain't no untarnished Galahad / Down from Arcadia like a dream in your head / But, gentle lady, lend me the true heart I never had / And I'll bring you roses and bread / And we'll fashion gold out of lead / With all the illusions we shed . . .
What is your favorite song of 1? I suspect it's "Le Monster" (The Happiest Days of Our Lives), but there's decent competition from "17 Berlin" (Love at Absolute Zero) and "Cult Hero, Come Home" (Double Agent 2000). Who could dislike a song that contains a cameo appearance by the ghost of Sid Vicious?
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But cool.
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What, no "Eggs and Saudage (in a Cadillac with Susan Michaelson)"?
I still use that "the coffee wasn't strong enough to defend itself" punchline in conversation every chance I get. heh.
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