Are You Ready For The Sex Girls?

A music meme courtesy of planetalyx:

1. Go to this site:
2. In the search box in the upper right hand corner, enter the year you graduated from high school.
3. The first item returned should be the top 100 songs from that year. Cut and paste them into your journal.
4. Bold the ones you like, underline your favorite, and strike through the songs you loathe.
(And, optionally, italicize the ones you haven't heard, if any.)

( Greatest hits of 1987! )

I was watching Veronica Mars last night, and they had an 80's theme dance at their high school. Of all the songs they played, only one was from as late as 1985, though there was a mention of "Everybody Have Fun Tonight". I may be a bit oversensitive to these things, but it always bothers me when 90% of the songs which are supposedly reminiscent of the entire decade come from the first four years of it. Though the above list is not particularly inspiring, there's plenty of good music from the last half of the 80's, and it's probably when most of my favourite songs come from. Maybe someday I'll get some stats to support that.

Elvis & The Ancient Greeks

Today I'm actually going to do thefridayfive(having passed up several other memes that didn't inspire me):

1. What if any instrument do you play? I can still pick out a tune or two on the piano.

2. If you could choose to play an instrument what would it be? Not sure. I like to keep rhythm, so drums might be the thing.

3. If you were in a band, what would your band’s name be? How could I pick just one? I used to have a web site with a list of thousands of band names, many of which I came up with because I thought they were clever, and many of which other people submitted, some of those being clever as well(though I didn't omit many of them). So I'll pick one at random, and apparently I'm drumming in "Kidney Thieves".

4. What type of music would your band play? Melodic, danceable, quirky pop.

5. Would you continue to be good for years to come, or would you and your band end up in Branson playing for bus loads of elderly? I'm sure we'd all get bored with it after a while.

I Like To Keep You Guessing

Okay, everyone is posting the "answers to random questions about people on their friends list" thing, so I might as well get in line. I prefer the "heptadecagram" one I first saw chez leora. Warning: I may find myself compelled to be tongue-in-cheek.

( The Random Question Meme! )

Make It Fun, Make It Fast

In case anyone has noticed that I've been listening to a lot of Garbage lately, it's because I may actually be going to see them next weekend. I don't get out to many concerts--about one every other year or so--but a friend of 1istener has an extra ticket, so I leapt at the chance. Haven't actually got it in my hands yet, but hopefully I'll get it. If not, then...well, I won't have to go out! So it's win-win. Either I get to go out and presumably have fun seeing a band I like perform live, or I get to stay home!

I haven't heard any of Garbage's most recent album, but I've got their first three. I'm not as conversant with them as I might like, so I made up a Winamp playlist of all three and shuffled it, so we'll see if I can bombard myself with Garbage over the next week or so until I can sing along with all their songs. Except the new album, of course. (I also don't seem to have "The World Is Not Enough" on MP3, though that's one of my favourite of their songs...)

Nicole's philosophy on concerts(she goes to even fewer than me)is interesting--she doesn't figure there's any point going unless she is likely to know all or most of the songs. So rather than going to the concert and listening to the new songs to see if it's worth getting the album, she'd rather get the album and listen to it before the concert, like studying up. I've been known to do that in the past, but I don't think I'll bother this time. I just want to get to the stage where I'll actually be able to tell which songs are new and which aren't...