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'First, make a list of your overall top-20 artists. Then, for each of these artists, add the 9 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, add up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 200 represents an extremely varied one.'

1. Arctic Monkeys
2. Cobra Starship
3. Bloc Party
4. Van She
5. The Dust Brothers
6. Tom Snow, Dean Pitchford, Catherine Cox & Jeremy Kushnier
7. Architecture in Helsinki
8. Beck
9. Lisa Mitchell
10. The Presets
11. Vampire Weekend
12. Katy Perry
13. Owl City
14. Lady GaGa
15. blink-182
16. Ben Lee
17. 3OH!3
18. MGMT
19. Wicked
20. Millionaires

21. The Last Shadow Puppets
22. The Rascals
23. The Strokes
24. The Kooks
25. Milburn
26. Franz Ferdinand
27. Kasabian
28. The Libertines
29. The Fratellis

30. The Academy Is...
31. All Time Low
32. The Cab
33. Panic at the Disco
34. Fall Out Boy
35. Midtown
36. Boys Like Girls
37. Forever the Sickest Kids
38. Hey Monday

39. Foals
40. Editors
41. Pin Me Down
42. The Maccabees
43. The Cribs
44. Maximo Park
45. We Are Scientists
46. The Rakes
47. Arctic Monkeys repeat

48. Pnau
49. Grafton Primary
50. Cut Copy
51. Midnight Juggernauts
52. The Presets repeat
53. Bag Raiders
54. Miami Horror
55. The Whip
56. The Black Ghosts

57. David Holmes
58. Clint Mansell
59. Rob Dougan
60. Don Davis
61. Eric Serra
62. UNKLE
63. Ramin Djawadi
64. Massive Attack
65. Tomandandy

66. Sutton Foster
67. Company
68. Original Cast
69. Original Cast Recording
70. Janine LaManna
71. Original Broadway Cast
72. Adam Pascal
73. Jason Robert Brown
74. New Broadway Cast

75. I'm From Barcelona
76. of Montreal
77. Los Campesinos!
78. Tilly and the Wall
79. The Boy Least Likely To
80. Stars
81. The Unicorns
82. Islands
83. Belle and Sebastian

84. The Flaming Lips
85. The White Stripes
86. Radiohead
87. Cake
88. Blur
89. Gorillaz
90. Pixies
91. Eels
92. Sonic Youth

93. Sarah Blasko
94. Paul Dempsey
95. Bertie Blackman
96. Kate Miller-Heidke
97. Josh Pyke
98. Yves Klein Blue
99. Art vs. Science
100. Angus & Julia Stone
101. Little Birdy

102. Pnau repeat
103. Midnight Juggernauts repeat
104. Grafton Primary repeat
105. Van She repeat
106. Cut Copy repeat
107. Muscles
108. Bag Raiders repeat
109. The Whip repeat
110. Riot in Belgium

111. Ra Ra Riot
112. Discovery
113. The Shins
114. Band of Horses
115. Passion Pit
116. Fleet Foxes
117. MGMT repeat
118. Black Kids
119. The Strokes repeat

120. Lady GaGa repeat
121. Kelly Clarkson
122. Ashlee Simpson
123. The Veronicas
124. Ashley Tisdale
125. Lindsay Lohan
126. Miley Cyrus
127. Britney Spears
128. Lily Allen

129. Swimming With Dolphins
130. Lights
131. A Rocket To The Moon
132. Breathe Carolina
133. nevershoutnever!
134. The Secret Handshake
135. Breathe Electric
136. PlayRadioPlay!
137. Hellogoodbye

138. Britney Spears repeat
139. The Pussycat Dolls
140. Space Cowboy
141. Ashley Tisdale repeat
142. Katy Perry repeat
143. Ke$ha
144. Little Boots
145. Madonna
146. Pixie Lott

147. Box Car Racer
148. +44
149. Angels & Airwaves
150. Sum 41
151. New Found Glory
152. Bowling for Soup
153. Zebrahead
154. MxPx
155. Yellowcard

156. The Bens
157. Ben Kweller
158. Alex Lloyd
159. Matt Nathanson
160. Bernard Fanning
161. Josh Pyke repeat
162. Bob Evans
163. The Whitlams
164. Ben Folds

165. Breathe Carolina repeat
166. Family Force 5
167. LMFAO
168. Brokencyde
169. Metro Station
170. The Medic Droid
171. Hyper Crush
172. A Rocket To The Moon repeat
173. Cash Cash

174. The Management
175. Klaxons
176. Vampire Weekend repeat
177. Passion Pit repeat
178. Black Kids repeat
179. The Kooks repeat
180. Empire of the Sun
181. Late of the Pier
182. Friendly Fires

183. Jonathan Larson
184. Robert Lopex and Jeff Marx
185. Idina Menzel
186. Hairspray
187. spring awakening
188. Kerry Ellis
189. Les Miserables
190. Kristin Chenoweth
191. Aida

192. Jeffree Star
193. Blood On The Dance Floor
194. Ultraviolet Sound
195. The Medic Droid
196. Scotty Vanity
197. gEOFFREY pARIS
198. Electric Valentine
199. Hyper Crush
200. Porcelain and the Tramps

170/200 are varied.
85%.

I listen to a wide variety.

The Beatles - Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Cake - Comfort Eagle
David Bowie - Low
Deftones - White Pony
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family
Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Muse - Absolution
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
Nine Inch Nails - Broken
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Nirvana - Bleach (original version)
Nirvana - In Utero
Nirvana - Incesticide
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana - Nevermind
Rammstein - Mutter
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Sublime - Sublime
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan

For my own personal reference, this is what I have in my CD collection so far, not counting burnt CD's or things I only have in Itunes. Obviously, I have more collecting to do :]

This was in my profile, but it's too long.

the_red_shoes's top albums (overall)
1. Neko Case - Blacklisted (125) 2. Suzanne Vega - Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega (93) 3. Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back (79) 4. Azure Ray - Azure Ray (72) 5. Depeche Mode - The Sound Of The Universe (70) 6. Radiohead - In Rainbows (69) 7. David Bowie - Best Of Bowie (69) 8. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (68) 9. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (67) 10. Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP (65) 11. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer (65) 12. Sleater-Kinney - One Beat (63) 13. Joy Division - Permanent (62) 14. Doves - Kingdom Of Rust (62) 15. Joan Osborne - Relish (61) 16. Hole - Live Through This (60) 17. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love (57) 18. Buddy Holly - Down The Line: Rarities (56) 19. Janet Baker, Raimund Herincx, Etc.; Anthony Lewis: English Chamber Orchestra - Purcell: Dido & Aeneas (56) 20. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (56) 21. James Hunter - People Gonna Talk (55) 22. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (54) 23. Lou Reed - Ecstasy (53) 24. Morphine - 3-8-94 Peabody's Cleveland, Ohio (53) 25. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods (51) 26. David Bowie - Heathen (50) 27. Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill (49) 28. Metric - Fantasies (48) 29. Elysian Fields - Bleed Your Cedar (48) 30. Poe - Haunted (48) 31. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer [Alternate Tracks] (47) 32. Warren Zevon - Stand In the Fire: Live At The Roxy (w/Bonus Tracks) (43) 33. Sinéad O'Connor - Gospel Oak (43) 34. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (42) 35. Siouxsie - Mantaray (42) 36. Metric - Live It Out (42) 37. The Replacements - Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? (42) 38. Morrissey - Years of Refusal (42) 39. Jeff Buckley - Grace (Legacy Edition) (41) 40. A Fine Frenzy - One Cell In The Sea (41) 41. Buddy Holly - Greatest Hits (41) 42. Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk [Disc 1] (40) 43. Feist - The Reminder (40) 44. Cake - Prolonging the Magic (40) 45. Arcade Fire - Arcade Fire (40) 46. Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies (40) 47. Morphine - The Night (39) 48. Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine (39) 49. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (39) 50. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (Deluxe Edition) (38)

Trying to remember all the concerts I've been to that are worth noting, will update as my life goes on.

Barenaked Ladies x2
Sting
Paul Simon
O.A.R. (This was an accident - they are terrible)
Rock Kills Kid
Electric Six
Mew
Kasabian
The Mars Volta
The Darkness
Muse
Interpol x2
The Crystal Method
Cake
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra performs Led Zeppelin
Jet (surprisingly not all that good live)
Flogging Molly
Boys Noize
The Walkmen

1. How did you get into 29?
Laura Stevenson and The Cans
I saw them with Bomb the Music Industry!] and Andrew Jackson Jihad and liked what I heard.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Mischief Brew
I'll say Thanks, Bastards!.

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33?
The Gaslight Anthem
"I still know the song and the words and the name and the reasons."

4. What is your favorite album by 49?
Sigur Rós
Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
The Homecoming Queens
A Sound You Once Knew, and a burned mixtape thing with songs from His Name Is Not Roberto and Songs For Names That Don't Make Sense.

6. What is your favorite song by 50?
Tomahawk Chop
Antoni

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?
Cobra Skulls
Nah.

8. What is your favorite album by 15?
Fake Problems
How Far Our Bodies Go

9. What is your favorite song by 5?
Shinobu
At this moment, I'll say Regular Love Triangle.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Bedouin Soundclash
Just about all of them, but in particular, Gyasi Went Home.

11. What is your favorite album by 40?
Andrew Bird
Noble Beast

12. What is your favorite song by 10?
Neutral Milk Hotel
The King of Carrot Flowers Pts. Two & Three

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
Catch 22
I remember listening to them on the bus in like fifth grade. They're the band that got me into ska.

14. What is your favorite song by 38?
Aeroplane, 1929
Scarlet Fever

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Cheap Girls
Stay High (Magic)

16. How many times have you seen 25 live?
spring awakening
Lol once.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
We Are the Union
MTV Is Over, If You Want It probably.

18. What is your favorite album by 11?
The Arrogant Sons of Bitches
Three Cheers For Disappointment

19. Who is a favorite member of 1?
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Aw don't even I love them both.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
mc chris
Yes.

21. What is a good memory involving 27?
The New Pornographers
I can vividly remember blasting Letter From an Occupant on the last day of seventh grade. That felt cool.

22. What is your favorite song by 16?
Rx Bandits
Overcome (the Recapitulation)

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
DANGERDOOM
Space Ho's

24. What is your favorite album by 18?
Westbound Train
Transitions

25. What is your favorite song by 21?
The Fratellis
A Heady Tale

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
The Aggrolites
Faster Bullet

27. What is your favorite album by 3?
Bomb the Music Industry!
They're all too damn good.

28. What is your favorite song by 2?
The World/Inferno Friendship Society
Go With It Girl, Zen and the Art of Breaking Everything in This Room, One for the Witches, All of California and Everyone Who Lives There Stinks, Ich Erinnere Mich An Die Weimarer Republik, and so many more. I couldn't pick just one. I love this band too much.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32?
The Dresden Dolls
Girl Anachronism

30. What is your favorite song by 8?
Royal City Riot
Paumanok

31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
None. One day...

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
Fear Nuttin Band
Fears

33. What is your favorite album by 12?
The Mountain Goats
Tallahassee

34. What is the worst song by 45?
Against Me!
Muhrr I don't know.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34?
Streetlight Manifesto
Everything Goes Numb?

36. What is your favorite album by 48?
The Streets
Everything Is Borrowed

37. How many times have you seen 42 live?
The Fad
Fuck everything.

38. What is your favorite song by 36?
Less Than Jake
Automatic

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
Big D and the Kids Table
Little Bitch

40. What is your favorite album by 7?
Defiance, Ohio
The Fear, the Fear, the Fear

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy?
Demi Lovato
<3333333333

42. What is your favorite album by 41?
Franz Nicolay
Major General

43. What is your favorite song by 24?
Cake
Dime

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46?
Sean P. Rogan
Always makes me happy.

45. What is your favorite song by 35?
Vampire Weekend
Oxford Comma

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Regina Spektor
The Calculation. Too much.

47. What is your favorite album by 4?
The Decemberists
At first I was like The Crane Wife, but then I was like The Hazards of Love, but then I was like Picaresque, and now I can't decide.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37?
[artist]Lady Gaga[.artist]
Lady Gaga and everything about her.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43?
Tally Hall
Good Day

50. How many albums do you own by 20?
WHY?
Don't physically own any, but I have eight in my library.

(stolen from drewnew)

Mainly curious + somewhat bored = this.
Select 20 songs at random; take line 1 from the first line of song 1, line 2 from the second line of song 2, etc. (If a song had too few lines, I started counting again from the beginning.)

01. Cake - Sheep Go to Heaven
02. Counting Crows - Mrs. Potter's Lullaby
03. The Vandals - San Berdu
04. David Bowie - Star
05. Belle & Sebastian - If You Find Yourself Caught In Love
06. Barenaked Ladies - Blame It On Me
07. Pantera - Cemetary Gates
08. Beastie Boys - Putting Shame In Your Game
09. Jim Croce - Operator
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Medellia of The Gray Skies
11. Stroke 9 - Letters
12. ACDC - War Machine
13. Jose Gonzalez - Crosses
14. Mike Doughty - I Just Want the Girl in the Blue Dress
15. Foo Fighters - Everlong
16. Incubus - Echo
17. Minus the Bear - The Fix
18. Ozzy Osbourne - Goodbye to Romance
19. The Beatles - Mean Mr. Mustard
20. Dropkick Murphys - The Fortunes of War

I'm not feeling alright today.
I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host.
Most girls make noises in their sleep,
Bevan tried to change the nation.
If you find yourself caught in love
but if you blame it on the rain, tell me
I'm a man cut in half in this world.

But I've got the styles that are always in the pocket
so I can call just to tell them I'm fine;
I'd give you what you wanted.
You're pulling away,
I'm like a bird of prey.
Ignore them tonight and you'll be alright.
Behind the mic I'm burning too.
The only thing I'll ever ask of you:
Strange how it turns out that way

As he slides in the rest of them continue their talking and drinking
and I feel the time is right although I know,
Keeps a ten-bob note up his nose;
when the justice eludes you, it's the fortunes of war.

Put your music player, whatever it is, on random or shuffled play.
Answer these questions with the song you get when you hit the skip button!
Note: some songs will make sense, others won't. Don't Cheat!

Which song describes the mood you are in right now?: Muse - Shrinking Universe
Which song describes the mood you are usually in?: The Sweet Inspirations - Emergency
Which song describes one of your favorites things to do?: A Perfect Circle - Magdalena
Which song describes something else you like to do?: Tegan and Sara - Monday Monday Monday
Which song explains the way you think about love?: Goo Goo Dolls - Only One
What would you sing to your soulmate right now?: Damien Rice - Sweet Avenue
Which song best represents you?: Nine Inch Nails - Sin
Which song describes your sexual preference?: Bright Eyes - Road to Joy
Which song describes what would occur between you and a prostitute?: Stan Getz - Soul Eyes
Your lover on the side?: The Killers - Read My Mind
The teenage queen and the loaded gun, the drop-dead dream, the chosen one. A southern drawl and a world unseen, a city wall and a trampoline. I don't mind if you don't mind, 'cause I don't shine if you don't shine. Before you jump, tell me what you find when you read my mind. Slipping in my faith until I fall, you never return that call. Woman, open the door. Don't let it sting. I wanna breathe that fire again.
How about your wife or husband?: Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Parallel or Together?
Which song would be played at your wedding?: Incubus - Pardon Me
Which song would be played at your wedding reception?: Stars - What I'm Trying to Say
Which song describes yourself in the future?: Tegan and Sara - Want to Be Bad
Which song describes yourself in the past?: Jack Off Jill - Clear Hearts Grey Flowers
Which song would be appropriate for a one night stand?: Wilco - Outta Mind (Outta Sight)
Which song would best describe your first time kissing?: Spoon - They Never Got You
Which song would best describe your first time having sex?: Tegan and Sara - First
Which song would best describe your fashion sense?: Goo Goo Dolls - Big Machine
Which song would describe your taste in the opposite or same sex?: An Horse - Little Lungs
Which song best describes your parents?: My Chemical Romance - Cemetery Drive
Which song best describes your family in general?: Cake - Love You Madly
I don't want to hold back. I don't want to slip down. I don't want to think back to the one thing that I know I should have done. I don't want to doubt you, know everything about you. I don't want to sit across the table from you wishing I could run.
Which song best describes your friends?: Andrew Bird - Imitosis
Which song best describes your school?: Rilo Kiley - Close Call
She was born on a brightened pew to a gypsy mother in a bucket of tears. Her good looks could have sailed a ship, but her will alone could have sunk it. Funny thing about money for sex: you might get rich, but you'll die by it. It's gonna be a close call.
Which song best describes your public personality?: Jack Off Jill - Nazi Halo
Bring your IQ and try to understand. Just 'cause I'm listening don't mean we're still friends. Can't fix my problem: you've crossed a thin line. You can't just work it out. Not with me, this time. You go solo: your faggot rainbow, your junkie ego, your tragic disco, your Nazi halo won't save you this time. You're so predictable. No shadow of doubt. When you are suffering, know who sold you out. Fuck your opinions. Fuck your lack of spine. When you are miserable, know that I'm just fine.
Which song best describes your private personality?: A Perfect Circle - Passive
Leaning over you here, cold and catatonic, I catch a brief reflection: what you could and might have been. It's your right and your ability to become my perfect enemy. Wake up and face me. Don't play dead, 'cause maybe, some day, I will walk away and say, "You disappoint me. Maybe you're better off this way." Why can't you turn and face me?


How am i feeling today?: Bright Eyes - Laura Laurent
Will I get far in life?: Client - Monkey on My Back
How do my friends see me?: Tegan and Sara - Are You Ten Years Ago
Where will I get married?: End Of Green - no coming home
What is the story of my life?: Bright Eyes - The Difference in the Shades
What is/was high school like?: Sahara Hotnights - Quite a Feeling
How can I get ahead in life?: The Mountain Goats - San Bernardino
We got in your car, and we hit the highway. Eastern sun was rising over the mountains, yellow and blood red beams, like a kaleidoscope. And flaming swords may guard the garden of Eden, but we consulted maps from earlier days, dead languages on our tongues, holding on to our last hope. And the day was bright and fine, and the highway sign said, "San Bernardino welcomes you."
What is the best thing about me?: Gregory and the Hawk - Isabelle
And the ground's already hard where it's been dug in. I've gone this way too many times, but the pick keeps going deeper and I'm not turning back, so Isabelle, try to understand. I know just what to say, but it's incorrect to say it. How do I break it to him, the death of one who's staying? And all I think of now is a way to get under and a way to get out. Isabelle, what can I do for the naive pain it's causing you?
How is today going to be?: Jimmy Eat World - Work
What is in store for this weekend?: An Horse - company
What song describes my parents?: Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Biomusicology
My grandparents?: Imogen Heap - Missing You
How is my life going?: KT Tunstall - Universe and U
What song will they play at my funeral?: Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers (Parts 2 and 3)
How does the world see me?: Jack Off Jill - Strawberry Gashes
I lay quiet waiting for her voice to say, "Some things you lose, and some things you just give away." Scold me: failed her. If only I'd held on tighter to her pale white skin that twisted and withered away from me. Watch me lose her. It's almost like losing myself. Give her my soul and let them take somebody else. Get away from me. Watch me fault her: you're living like a disaster. She said, "Kill me faster, with strawberry gashes all over, all over me."
Will I have a happy life?: Wilco - Side With the Seeds
What do my friends really think of me?: Placebo - Slackerbitch
Your memory will fade. I didn't mean it. You've always had it made. I didn't mean it. I know you feel betrayed. I just wanted to get laid. I didn't mean it. Slackerbitch, fag-hag whore, looks real cute for lips so sore. Always knocking on my door. You come across impure. I didn't mean it. Goddamn immature: I didn't mean it. You act so insecure. You hate me now, I'm sure. I didn't mean it.
Do people secretly lust after me?: Jimmy Eat World - Futures
How can I make myself happy?: Maria Mena - Just a Little Bit
What should I do with my life?: Peaches - Felix Partz
Will I ever have children?: Tilly and the Wall - Bessa
What is some good advice for me?: Tilly and the Wall - Love Song
What is my signature dancing song?: Museum - eden
What do I think my current theme song is?: Ani DiFranco - Both Hands
What does everyone else think my current theme song is?: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dragon Queen
What type of men/women do you like?: Ani DiFranco - Fuck You (Untouchable face)
How does my sex life look?: Cream - SWLABR
Would I make a good catch?: From Autumn to Ashes - Mercury Rising
Will I have a good life in general?: Neko Case - Lion's Jaws
Can (insert YOUR CRUSH's name here) ever really love me?: Rilo Kiley - It's a Hit
Can me and (insert YOUR CRUSH's name here) ever be more than friends?: Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
What's going to happen to me this week?: Stone Temple Pilots - Still Remains
Where will I be a year from now?: Tegan and Sara - Our Trees
What is my biggest wish?: Wilco - At Least That's What You Said
What is the love of my life doing at this very moment?: Goo Goo Dolls - Long Way Down
How will I die?: Neko Case - Star Witness
What will happen after I die?: Roxy Music - Do The Strand


Movie Soundtrack
Opening Credits: Panic! At the Disco - But It's Better If You Do
Waking Up: Placebo - Because I Want You To
First Day of School: Neva Dinova - Brooklyn
Falling In Love: Neko Case - Duchess
Losing Virginity: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft Shock
Fight Song: Tegan and Sara - Call It Off
I won't be out long, but I still think it better end. You take your time coming over here. I think that's for the best. Call, break it off. Call, break my own heart. Maybe I would have been something you'd be good at. Maybe you would have been something I'd be good at. But now we'll never know. I won't be sad, but in case I'll go there every day to make myself feel bad. There's a chance I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do.
Breaking Up: Wilco - Monday
Prom: Bright Eyes - Neely O'Hara
Life: Metric - The People
Mental Breakdown: The Dresden Dolls - Backstabber
Driving: Panic! At the Disco - The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage
Flashback: Interpol - Public Pervert
Getting Back Together: Joan Armatrading - Love And Affection
Wedding: Otep - God Is A Gun
Birth of Child: Beck - Walls
Final Battle: Tilly and the Wall - Brave Day
Death Scene: Metric - The Police and the Private
Funeral Song: Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today
Ending Credits: Radiohead - 4 Minute Warning


Will it be okay?: The Emotions - When Tomorrow Comes
How are you feeling today?: An Horse - Scared As Fuck
How do your friends see you?: The Kills - Cheap and Cheerful
Will you get married?: Goo Goo Dolls - Here Is Gone
What is your best friend’s theme song?: Neko Case - A Widow's Toast
What is the story of your life?: Neko Case - Marais la Nuit
What was high school like?: The Weakerthans - I Hate Winnipeg
The driver checks the mirror seven minutes late. A crowded writer's restlessness annunciates.
How can you get ahead in life?: Gregory and the Hawk - Season Poem
What is the best thing about your friends?: Wilco - Candyfloss
What is tonight going to be like?: Andrew Bird - The Naming of Things
What is in store for the remainder of this weekend?: Maria Taylor - It's Time
What song describes you?: Azure Ray - Look to Me
To describe your grandparents?: Peaches - You Love It
How is your life going?: The Weakerthans - Watermark
What song will they play at your funeral?: Cake - The Distance
How does the world see you?: She & Him - Change Is Hard
Will you have a happy life?: Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat
What do your friends really think of you?: Imogen Heap - Can't Take It In
Do people secretly lust after you?: A Perfect Circle - Gravity
How can I make myself happy?: Nirvana - All Apologies
What should you do with your life?: The Mountain Goats - Magpie
Will you ever have children?: Wilco - Hell Is Chrome


What Song Explains Your...
Life... The Fiery Furnaces - Single Again
Friends... Sandra Cross - Make Up To Break Up
Family... Goo Goo Dolls - Sympathy
Boyfriend/Girlfriend/Crush... Rilo Kiley - Give a Little Love
Favorite Teacher... Adolescence of Utena - Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku
Pet... An Horse - Shoes Watch
Enemy... Metric - Soft Rock Star
Religion... Adolescence of Utena - Bara no Rashin - Shura - Nikutai Seiza Alpha Psi Zeta Seiun
Doctor... The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 3
Favorite TV Character... Metric - Hardwire
Personality... Azure Ray - We Are Mice
Looks... Bright Eyes - Nothing Gets Crossed Out
The weather outside is... Radiohead - Climbing Up The Walls
I feel like... Fiona Apple - Pale September
I would really love to... Spoon - I Turn My Camera On
No one can stop me from... Peaches - Give'er
Today I will... Wilco - Blue Eyed Soul
You're gonna lose control without your blue-eyed soul.
Love is like... The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go
I would call myself... Rilo Kiley - Rest of My Life
I've never been to... Taking Back Sunday - You Know How I Do
If I were a... Metric - monster hospital (mstrkrft rmx)
Never forget to... Bright Eyes - When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass
No one believes me when... Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining
I would never... Peaches - Mommy Complex
I could see myself... Patrick Wolf - The Libertine
I'm as fun as... The Sessions - What Is This Feeling
I wish... Pedro the Lion - Bands With Managers
S/He will never understand why... The Cure - A Letter To Elise
I'm nearly... Randy Newman - Little Boxes
I want to see... The New Pornographers - Letter From an Occupant
At night time... Wilco - I'm Always in Love
My fashion sense is... Debby Holiday - Piece Of My Love
I cry when... Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken
The most annoying thing is... Wilco - Casino Queen
The moon is... Feist - So Sorry
I get tired when... Patrick Wolf - To the Lighthouse
I lack... Radiohead - 15 Step
I'm so absorbing in... Our Lady Peace - 4 AM
I should be... The Cure - The Baby Screams
I can't seem to forget... Maria Taylor - Green Butterfly
Where in the world is... Regina Spektor - Man of a Thousand Faces
I don't want to hear... Neko Case - Pretty Girls
Don't give up on... Sahara Hotnights - Teenage Kicks
I should give up on... Our Lady Peace - Is Anybody Home?
I want to be... Heart - Crazy On You
I like a lot of... Neko Case - The Needle Has Landed
I often think about... Goldfrapp - Strict Machine
I don't understand why... Azure Ray - Rise
Guys are... Metric - London Halflife
Girls go to... Sleater-Kinney - Youth Decay
I'm in trouble for... Muse - Assassin
Candy is for... Goo Goo Dolls - Eyes Wide Open
Take me to... Sleater-Kinney - Burn, Don't Freeze
All I've ever cared about was... Muse - Falling Away With You
Take me away from... Gregory and the Hawk - In Fact
If you've got time, anyway, why not watch me hurt? And nothing is sweeter than needed revenge. Oh, that's right. I did nothing, and you were the mean one.
The worst possible thing is... Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop


Soundtrack for your life - Shuffle MP3s, advance, list, give thoughts:
Opening Credits: Feist - 1234
Waking Up: Andrew Bird - Plasticities
Falling in Love: Regina Spektor - Fidelity
Fight Scene: Adrienne Pauly - Je Veux Un Mec
Breaking Up: Neko Case - High on Cruel
I shine like the sun. I'm on fire right now. Your tears have come too late. You break down the door. There's already nothing: I've only one heart to take. You're crawling on the floor like a fool, and I'm so high on cruel. You'll drown in the light, and I'll burn like a star. Your tears are gonna give me fuel.
Getting Back Together: Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
Secret Love: Wilco - What Light
Life's Okay: Panic! At the Disco - Camisado
Can't take the kid from the fight. Take the fight from the kid.
Mental Breakdown: Ani DiFranco - Gravel
Driving Flashback: Regina Spektor - One More Time With Feeling
Partying: Wilco - A Shot in the Arm
Happy Dance: Azure Ray - Sea of Doubts
Regretting: Rilo Kiley - Rock N Roll Suicide
Long Night Alone: She & Him - Untitled
Final Battle: Radiohead - In Limbo
Death Scene: Elliott Smith - Memory Lane
If it's your decision to be open about yourself, be careful or else. Be careful or else. Uncomfortable apart, it's all written on my chart. And I take what's given me most cooperatively. I do what people say and lie in bed all day, absolutely horrified. I hope you're satisfied. Isolation pushes past self-hatred, guilt, and shame, to a place where suffering is just a game, but everybody's scared of this place. They're staying away. Your little house on Memory Lane.
End Credits: My Chemical Romance - Helena
Deleted Scenes!: Sleater-Kinney - Wilderness

I started redoing this thing, which I did a while ago and found some minor insight into my music tastes and history. But then I started getting the same results again, because the questions repeat themselves for different numbers, and some bands get the same thing asked of them as last time. So for this one, I'm going to use my top 50 from the last 12 months.

1. How did you get into 31? Lucero
My brother started getting into this country-punk music, at the same time as I decided that I'd see what the deal was with Johnny Cash, so I was sort of co-opted into it. I listened to (and fucking loved) Ben Nichols' Last Pale Light In the West, so I decided to see what the deal was with his band.


2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? Muse
No clue. Probably Butterflies And Hurricanes.


3. What's your favourite lyric by 29? Gogol Bordello
Ultimate: There was never any good old days / They are today, they are tomorrow / It's a stupid thing we say / Cursing tomorrow with sorrow.


4. What is your favourite album by 49? Cake
Comfort Eagle, although they were never really an album band to me.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Evil Cowards
None. They only have one, and I downloaded it.


6. What is your favourite song by 50? Bloc Party
Flux (Extended Version). The German version's also pretty killer.


7. Is there a song by 4 that makes you sad? The Mountain Goats
Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace. Good God.

8. What is your favourite song by 15? Chuck Regan
I'll say The Light, even though it's by the Chuck Ragan & Austin Lucas duo.


9. What is your favourite song by 5? The Cat Empire
Miserere.


10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? Modest Mouse.
I got this last time. Dashboard. Even needs have needs, tiny giants made of tinier giants.

11. What is your favourite album by 40? The Offspring
Americana. 1997, baby.


12. What is your favourite song by 10? Franz Ferdinand
Another repeat. Although now it's the single version of Lucid Dreams.


13. What is a good memory you have involving 33? Beirut
Sitting in a park in Woollahra smoking and drinking goon and listening to Henry talk about how he cries when he listens to Elephant Gun.


14. What is your favourite song by 37? Ben Nichols
The Last Pale Light in the West. Either version is fine.


15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? Bedouin Soundclash
Until We Burn In The Sun (The Kids Just Want A Love Song), because it's a wonderful track with a wonderful sentiment and is excellent to hear live.


16. How many times have you seen 24 live? Belle & Sebastian
None.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? The Gaslight Anthem
Boomboxes and Dictionaries, in a 'sit down and appreciate them' sort of way, it's the first track on the first album. And it worked.


18. What is your favourite album by 11? Attack In Black
Marriage


19. Who is a favourite member of 1? NOFX
Still Fat Mike.


20. Have you ever seen 14 live? Eels
Nooooo. I missed them last time they were in Australia, the only time they'd been out since I've been into them.

21. What is a good memory involving 45? Plushgun
Listening to the album Pins & Panzers and thinking 'This is exactly what being an indie hipster is all about. Love and all that shit.'


22. What is your favourite song by 16? The National
Fake Empire. No question.


23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? Rancid
Brad Logan, off Chef Aid.


24. What is your favourite album by 21? The Dodos
Visiter


25. What is your favourite song by 18? Sigur Rós
Nowadays it's Untitled #3/Samskeyti, although once upon a time Viðrar vel til loftárása was very special to me.


26. What is the first song you ever heard by 38? Mute Math
Collapse, by virtue of being track 1 on Mute Math.


27. What is your favourite lyric by 3? The Decemberists
This Soldiering Life
But I, I never felt so much life
Than tonight, huddled in the trenches,
Gazing on the battle field,
Our rifles blaze away;
We blaze away.


28. What is you favourite song by 2? Okkervil River
Another repeat. Still The War Criminal Rises and Speaks.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? [Green Day
Green Day: Time of Your Life, probably.


31. How many times have you seen 17 live? Reel Big Fish
They've been to Australia a total of five times since I've known them. I have seen them zero times.


32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? Death Cab for Cutie
Someday You Will Be Loved.


33. What is you favourite album by 12? Jackson Jackson
Ooh. They have two albums. Both are amazing albums for being albums. I'll say the first, because not only does it narrate its theme (the Apocalypse) as well as Tools for Survival does (Love), it incorporates a motif of the Underground, and all that word entails. So The Fire Is On The Bird.


34. What is the worst song by 46? The Faint
Phone Call. Hmm.


35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? Clint Mansell
Summer Overture (Summer).


36. What is you favourite album by 42? AFI
Another repeat. Sing the Sorrow.


37. How many times have you seen 39 live? Philip Glass
None, and I can't imagine it'd be particularly enthralling to.


38. What is your favourite album by 36? Tom Gabel
Strictly solo work (Against Me! is 9), it's Heart Burns by default.


39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? Old Kent Road
M'unno. Probably Johnny Cerebellum.


40. What is you favourite album by 7? Electric Six
Still Señor Smoke, although if Covered In Gas were an E6 album it'd take the prize.