ateolf | music nerd survey

as seen in her and his journals...also, i'm being loose w/ my answers, writing albums or just bands in general instead of songs in many cases...but i'd never be able to settle on any decisions otherwise...it's hard enough as it is...

Favorite song: "'Cross the Breeze" (Sonic Youth)

Favorite music genre: indie art punk (!?)

Song from a movie: "Sunday" (Sonic Youth from Suburbia)

80's song: Daydream Nation

Rap song: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Public Enemy)

Rock song: Ramones' first album

Hardcore song: Meat Puppets' first album

Techno song: Third Eye Foundation

Oldies song: "Sister Ray" (The Velvet Underground)

Punk song: Chairs Missing (Wire)

R&B song: fuck r&b...i'll change the question to jazz since whoever wrote this was stupid enough not to include this far more important category: late period Coletrane

Blues song: does Two Dollar Guitar count?

Pop song: Buzzcocks

Country song: Johnny Cash

Teeny-bopper song: "Captive Honour" (Megadeth)

B-side: "Genetic" (Sonic Youth) i guess...hard to say...

To dance to: Branca's third symphony

To head-bang to: Long Division (Low)

To mosh to: moshing's for poseurs, man!

To bounce to: the music to Pac Man

To sing along to: Big Lizard in My Backyard (The Dead Milkmen), Violent Femmes' first album, Ramones, SY of course,

To hear when you're sad: Closer (Joy Division), SY, Transaction de Novo (Bedhead), And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Yo La Tengo), Burned and Buried (Two Dollar Guitar), Winning Losers (Sentridoh)

To hear when you're angry: Minor Threat, Violent Femmes' first album, SY, Crass

To hear when you're happy: Devo, SY, Boredoms, The Misfits

To hear when you're hyper: see "happy"

To hear when you're horny: Suicidal Tendencies

To hear when you're lonely: same as "sad"

To hear when you're stressed out: Daydream Nation...very blissful...

To hear when you're in love: "I'm not in Love" (Talking Heads)

To hear when you break up with someone: i've done that?

To hear on a road trip: stuff that i sing along to, stuff that's fast and rökken...

To hear when you're stoned: "Out of Step" (Minor Threat)

To hear when you go to sleep: Brian Eno, Silver Session (SY), "Elegy for All the Dead Rock Stars" (Thurston Moore), From Here -> Infinity (Lee Ranaldo)

To hear when you wake up: i never do...i like, go do morning stuff...

To listen to at work: it's all good...

To play: guitar: "See No Evil" (Television); bass: any Joy Division/New Order i've figured out; drums: "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (U2)

Song that describes you: "Boredom" (Buzzcocks)

Favorite song quote: "as we economise, efficiency is multiplied, to the extent i am determined that the result is the good thing." - "The Good Thing" (Talking Heads

Saddest song you've ever heard: Winning Losers (Sentridoh)

Weirdest song you've ever heard: i don't think about "weirdness"...usually "weird" makes me think "good" so i don't even think about that...

Worst song you've ever heard: Play (Moby)

Dumbest song you've ever heard: i guess that would be the same as "worst"

Silliest song you've ever heard: "Cyco Vision" (Suicidal Tendencies)

Funniest song you've ever heard: King Diamond

Song that was stuck in your head last: "Guilt" (Two Dollar Guitar)

Song that gets stuck in your head really easily: "Psychosomatica" (Bedhead)

Best song being played on the radio right now: i wouldn't know...

Worst song being played on the radio right now: ummm...the old "needle in a haystack" saying comes to mind...

Favorite band: Sonic Youth

2nd choice: Wire/The Velvet Underground

3rd choice: Unwound? there's so many i wanna list...very hard to choose...

Favorite female singer: Yoko Ono (when she screams anyway...)

Favorite male singer: Lee Ranaldo

Favorite solo artist: Tom Waits

Favorite indie/local band: The Family Ghost

Singer you'd most want to have sex with: Darby Crash

Favorite concert you've been to: Sonic Youth at The Last Place on Earth, Memphis, TN, end of last summer...

Concert you most wanna go to: Anal Cunt, if it's asking about ones that i actually could go to...i'm sure Wire or someone's doing a show in europe or something...Mogwai's tourning and coming nowhere near here...

Concert that really sucked: Eric Clapton

Band you'd want to go on tour with: Sonic Youth

Band you think is too caught up in fame: just about any famous band...(Radiohead excluded...)

Band you think is most down to earth: i think this is kind've relative to how successful they actually are...but i'll say Sonic Youth...

Band that should just give it up: Moby

Band that's underappreciated: The Electric Eels, Disco Inferno, Y Pants

Band that you'd most like to see get back together: DNA

Band you'd like to see break up: Moby (yes it's one person, but someone should like smash him apart! yeeeeeeeeeeowwwwwwwww!!!!!!!)

Band you're embarrassed to like: Nirvana...though i only like some of their stuff...

How many CDs do you own?: 609

Favorite CD: Daydream Nation

CD that was just a waste of money: ummm...i always sell those...

How many MP3s do you have?: 0

How many cassettes do you own?: not very many...but i don't pay attention to 'em anyway...

Do you own a musical instrument?: drums, Moog Liberation, glockenspiel, trombone, small Casio, even smaller generic Casio-ish keyboard, bass guitar, a smashed bass guitar, a little miscellaneous percussion, an acoustic guitar, 6 electric guitars (including one still in pawn shop)

Do you play it?: not as much as i should...hopefully that will soon change...

If there was a soundtrack to your life, what would be the first song on it?: "Teen Age Riot" (SY)

What would be the last song?: "Elegy for All the Dead Rock Stars"

How big a part does music play in your life?: too big...but i like i that way...

If you had to choose between music and sex, what would you choose?: music...this is too easy...

What about between food and music?: damn...if i don't eat, then i'll die and won't be able to listen to music! but if i can't listen to music anyway, i might as well die happy or something...

Are you listening to music now? yup...see below...