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1. How did you get into 31?
Belle and Sebastian
It was one of those curious experiments.


2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Coldplay
Speed of Sound.


3. What's your favorite lyric by 29?
PJ Harvey
Lyrics to Rid of Me.


4. What is your favorite album by 49?
Rage Against the Machine
Battle of Los Angeles.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
M.I.A.
Arular and Kala.


6. What is your favorite song by 50?
Kaiser Chiefs
Everything Is Average Nowadays.


7. Is there a song by 4 that makes you sad?
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
No. I love all their songs and they make me happy.

8. What is your favorite song by 15?
Beck
The New Pollution.


9. What is your favorite song by 5?
Pixies
Where Is My Mind?


10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
My Bloody Valentine
Blown A Wish.

11. What is your favorite album by 40?
Monsters of Folk
Their only one.


12. What is your favorite song by 10?
Joy Division
Transmission.


13. What is a good memory you have involving 33?
The La's
Dancing to There She Goes.


14. What is your favorite song by 37?
Oasis
Hey Now!


15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
The Stone Roses
Yes; Elephant Stone.


16. How many times have you seen 24 live?
MGMT
Zero.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Rich.


18. What is your favorite album by 11?
Blur
Parklife.


19. Who is a favorite member of 1?
Radiohead
Thom Yorke.


20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Björk
No.

21. What is a good memory involving 45?
Pearl Jam
Last year, I used their song Jeremy as an example in a project I was doing in English.


22. What is your favorite song by 16?
The Vaselines
Molly's Lips.


23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
Buddy Holly
That'll Be The Day


24. What is your favorite album by 21?
Pavement
Slanted & Enchanted.


25. What is your favorite song by 18?
Elvis Costello
Blame It on Cain.


26. What is the first song you ever heard by 38?
Phoenix
1901.


27. What is your favorite lyric by 3?
Nirvana
I just like it when he sings "Nature is a whore" for some reason.


28. What is you favorite song by 2?
Elliott Smith
Say Yes.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32?
The Cure
Just Like Heaven.


31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
Muse
Zero.


32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
Elastica
Stutter.


33. What is your favorite album by 12?
Franz Ferdinand
You Could Have It So Much Better.


34. What is the worst song by 46?
The Lemonheads
I can't say because I don't know.


35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34?
The Smashing Pumpkins
1979.


36. What is your favorite album by 42?
Band Of Skulls
Their only one.


37. How many times have you seen 39 live?
R.E.M.
Zero.


38. What is your favorite album by 36?
Bob Dylan
Blonde on Blonde.


39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
Arctic Monkeys
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor.


40. What is your favorite album by 7?
Sonic Youth
Dirty.

continuing this series. the top 93 | part 1 | part 2

• Name your top 15 artists.
• Come up with a set list for them to make your perfect gig
• All artists get a 10 song set list with a 3 song encore.

TV On The Radio
Nine Inch Nails
The Decemberists
Weezer
The Flaming Lips
Bright Eyes
Stars
Pink Floyd
Elliott Smith
The Beatles
Allison Iraheta
Bad Religion
The Hold Steady
Pearl Jam
Bruce Springsteen

TV on the Radio

You Could Be Love
Young Liars
Golden Age
Blues From Down Here
Province
King Eternal
A Method
Satellite
King Eternal
Dry Drunk Emperor
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Walking The Cow (Johnston)
Dreams
The Wrong Way

Nine Inch Nails

All The Love In The World
With Teeth
Don't You Know What You Are
March Of The Pigs
Starfuckers Inc.
Wish
The Collector
The Good Soldier
The Frail
The Wretched
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Head Like A Hole
Something I Can Never Have
Hurt

The Decemberists

The Hazards Of Love 1
July, July!
The Hazards Of Love 2
Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
O Valencia!
Isn't It A Lovely Night?
The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid
16 Military Wives
The Crane Wife 3
The Hazards Of Love 4
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Sons And Daughters
Valarie Plame
California One/The Youth And Beauty Brigade

Weezer

My Name Is Jonas
Beverly Hills
Perfect Situation
In The Garage
Pork And Beans
The Greatest Man That Ever Lived
Hash Pipe
The Sweater Song
Buddy Holly
Knock-Down-Drag-Out
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If You're Wondering If I Want You To (I Want You To)
Say It Ain't So
Surf Wax America

The Flaming Lips

Race For The Prize
Silver Trembling Hands
Fight Test
One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots pt. 1
My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion
It Overtakes Me
Convinced Of The Hex
Jesus Shootin' Heroin
She Don't Use Jelly
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Do You Realize??
The W.A.N.D
Watching The Planets

Bright Eyes

At The Bottom Of Everything
The Calender Hung Itself
Method Acting
Four Winds
A Scale, A Mirror, and Those Indifferent Clocks
Lover I Don't Have To Love
Hot Knives
Soul Singer In A Session Band
Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh
Make War
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Road To Joy
Easy/Lucky/Free
Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And To Be Loved)

Stars

Set Yourself On Fire
Ageless Beauty
The Night Starts Here
Take Me To The Riot
A Thread Cut With A Carving Knife
Barricade
Sleep Tonight
The Woods
One More Night (Your Ex-Lover Remains Dead)
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
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Reunion
Celebration Guns
In Our Bedroom After The War

Pink Floyd

Interstellar Overdrive
In The Flesh
Happiest Days Of Our Lives/Another Brick In The Wall pt. 2
Free Four
Fearless
When You're In
Astronomy Domine
The Gunner's Dream
Vera/Bring The Boys Back Home
Comfortably Numb
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Wish You Were Here
When The Tigers Broke Free
Brain Damage/Eclipse

Elliott Smith

LA
Pretty Mary K
Waltz #2 (XO)
Antonio Carlos Jobim (Heatmiser)
In The Lost And Found (Honky Bach)
Plainclothes Man (Heatmiser)
Son Of Sam
Flowers For Charlie
Miss Misery
Between The Bars
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Speed Trials
Somebody That I Used To Know
Needle In The Hay

The Beatles

Come Together
Get Back
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Blue Jay Way
Helter Skelter
If I Needed Someone
I Am The Walrus
Dear Prudence
Strawberry Fields Forever
Hey Jude
---------------
Blackbird
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
A Day In The Life

Allison Iraheta
(Under Construction (Dec. 1st))

Bad Religion

Sinister Rouge
Los Angeles Is Burning
21st Century Digital Boy
We're Only Gonna Die
Let Them Eat War
Stranger Than Fiction
Kyoto Now
Atomic Garden
Struck A Nerve
American Jesus
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Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever
A Streetkid Named Desire
Fields Of Mars

The Hold Steady

Stuck Between Stations
Constructive Summer
The Swish
You Gotta Dance With Who You Came To The Dance With
Both Crosses
One For The Cutters
Stevie Nix
Banging Camp
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
First Night
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Party Pit
You Can Make Him Like You
How A Resurrection Really Feels

Pearl Jam

Present Tense
Wash
Jeremy
Red Mosquito
Insignificance
Deep
Off He Goes
Breath
Hitchhiker
Rearviewmirror
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Leash
Black
Indifference

Bruce Springsteen

Thundercrack
Born To Run
Iceman/Fade Away
Spirit In The Night
She's The One
The E Street Shuffle
It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
4th Of July, Asbury Park
Brilliant Disguise
New York City Serenade
Incident On 57th Street
Zero And Blind Terry
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Backstreets/Sad Eyes
Lost In The Flood/The Angel
Jungleland

Take the top 10 overall artists, and ask for each of them the following questions:

1: First song heard from them
2: Favorite song
3: Favorite album
4: Seen live?
5: Favorite cover art

1. Bruce Springsteen
Born To Run
Jungleland
Born To Run
Yes
Born To Run

2. Pearl Jam
Even Flow
Black
Vs.
Yes
No Code


3. The Hold Steady
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
First Night
Separation Sunday
Yes
Boys And Girls In America


4. Bad Religion
Los Angeles Is Burning
Let Them Eat War
Stranger Than Fiction
Yes
The Empire Strikes First


5. Allison Iraheta
Alone
Alone
Doesn't have one yet
Not yet
Doesn't have one yet


6. The Beatles
Eleanor Rigby
A Day In The Life
Abbey Road
No
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band


7. Elliott Smith
Needle In The Hay
Son of Sam
Figure 8
No
Figure 8


8. Pink Floyd
Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2
Astronomy Domine
The Wall
No
Dark Side Of The Moon


9. Stars
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Set Yourself On Fire
Not yet
Set Yourself On Fire


10. Bright Eyes
When The President Talks To God
Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And To Be Loved)
Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
Seen Conor, but not as Bright Eyes (MVB)
Digital Ash In A Digital Urn

Post your Last.fm overall top 20 artists, the first song you heard of theirs, the song that made you fall in love, and your current favorite.

Keep in mind, current favorite =/= all time favorite

1. Bruce Springsteen
Born To Run
Jungleland
Zero And Blind Terry

2. Pearl Jam
Even Flow
Black
Breakerfall


3. The Hold Steady
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
First Night
The Swish


4. Bad Religion
Los Angeles Is Burning
Struck A Nerve
American Jesus


5. Allison Iraheta
Alone
Alone
Someone To Watch Over Me


6. The Beatles
Eleanor Rigby
A Day In The Life
Blackbird


7. Elliott Smith
Needle In The Hay
Needle In The Hay
Waltz #2


8. Pink Floyd
Another Brick In The Wall pt. 2
Comfortably Numb
The Gold It's In The...


9. Stars
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
Set Yourself On Fire


10. Bright Eyes
When The President Talks To God
At The Bottom of Everything
Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And To Be Loved)


11. The Flaming Lips
The W.A.N.D
One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Watching The Planets


12. Weezer
Hash Pipe
Say it Ain't So
If You're Wondering If I Want You To (I Want You To)


13. The Decemberists
16 Military Wives
The Crane Wife 3
The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid


14. Nine Inch Nails
Head Like A Hole
Starfuckers, Inc.
Hurt


15. TV on the Radio
Dreams
The Wrong Way
The Wrong Way


16. Marilyn Manson
The Dope Show
Sweet Dreams
Heart Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand)


17. X
Los Angeles
Hungry Wolf
The Stage


18. Frank Zappa
Zomby Woof
Peaches en Regalia
Cosmik Debris

19. Green Day
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

20. Neil Young
Rockin' In The Free World
The Needle And The Damage Done
Down By The River

1. What's your favorite song by 15?
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

2. How did you get into 20?
Green Day - Heard them when I was much younger and liked them since.

3. Who is your favorite member in 1?
Bruce Springsteen - Kind of obvious lol

4. What’s your favorite lyric bit by 29?
Lifter Puller - "Love is like a battle of the bands, crank up your amps man." - Lifter Puller vs. The End Of The Evening

5. Have you ever seen 22 live?
Neutral Milk Hotel - No.

6. What's your favorite album from 10?
Bright Eyes - Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground

7. Do you own any merchandise from 3?
The Hold Steady - No, but I should.

8. What is a good memory you have of 7?
Elliott Smith - The first time I saw the scene in The Royal Tenenbaums that uses Needle In The Hay.

9. Is there a member of the same age as you in 2?
Pearl Jam - No.

10. When did you first get into 8?
Pink Floyd - 6th grade, heard The Wall and never looked back

11. Who likes 4 along with you?
Bad Religion - My brother

12. Which song did you first hear from 16?
TV on the Radio - Dreams

13. What song made you fall in love with 5?
Allison Iraheta - Her cover of Alone by Heart.

14. Which song do you not like by 18?
X - I was never that into Devil Doll.

15. Why do you like 14's songs?
The Decemberists - They're deliciously indie.

16. Where did you first hear 6?
The Beatles - Probably when I was very young.

17. How long was 19 a singer before you liked them?
Frank Zappa - I started liking him way after he had died, so I guess since the 60s.

18. Does 13 have a song that gives you a bad memory?
Hair - No.

19. When did you get into 17?
Marilyn Manson - Sometime during middle school.

20. How long have you been into 9?
Stars - A little over a year.

21. If 11 had a concert 300 miles away, would you drive there to see them?
The Flaming Lips - Oh hell yeah.

22. How many CDs do you own of 12?
Weezer - Two or three I think.

23. Does 21 have a song that makes you cry?
Neil Young - The Needle And The Damage Done is pretty damn emotional.

24. Does 27 have a song that makes you happy?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Phenomena

25. Does 23 have a song that makes you smile?
R.E.M - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

26. What's the last song you've listened to from 28?
Stone Temple Pilots - I think it was their cover of David Bowie's "Andy Warhol."

27. Is there a song by 32 that you've listened to more than 30 times?
Switchfoot - No, but Awakening's got 23, which is close.

28. What is a song from 50 that you've only listened to once?
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Mark David Chapman

29. Is there a song you are sick of hearing by 24?
The Smiths - Nope, they have amazing replay value.

30. What song got you into 40?
Arcade Fire - Probably Antichrist Television Blues.

31. What is your favorite single by 25?
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

32. If 49 hated you, what would you do?
Karen O and the Kids - It's funny, because I actually know her, and she doesn't.

33. What would you say if 42 or one of the members from 42 asked you out?
System of a Down - That's an odd question.

34. Would you care if 41 had a boyfriend/girlfriend?
The Doors - Well one of them is dead, and I'm sure the rest are married.

35. Who has the best voice in 46?
The Who - Roger Daltrey

36. Do you think 26 is/are good looking?
The Gaslight Anthem - They're pretty cool looking.

37. How many times have you listened to your favorite song by 36?
Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart, 28 plays.

38. How many CDs do you own of 30?
The Velvet Underground - One.

39. Is there a song from 38 that makes you mad?
The Replacements - Nope.

40. Which member from 31 do you want to see go solo? If 31 is only one artist, what would you do if they joined a group?
The Pixies - Frank went solo, and Kim joined the Breeders so...yeah.

41. What does your favorite song from 48 remind you of?
Billy Joel - Miami 2017 (I've Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway), New York.

42. Did you hate 43 at first?
Simon and Garfunkel - Actually I did.

43. Does your best friend also listen to 33?
Heatmiser - lol I think I'm the only one who listens to 33.

44. Do you think your parents would like 37?
Regina Spektor - They do.

45. Does 47 have a song that makes you want to dance?
The National - Most of their songs are pretty dark and down, so not really.

46. Have you ever seen 34 in person?
The Killers - Yeah, Coachella 2009.

47. Do you like 44's name?
Material Issue - Yeah, it's a cool name.

48. Is there someone in 45 that you want to go out with?
Arctic Monkeys - lmfao, no.

49. Do you know anyone that hates 39?
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Nope.

50. Have you ever danced to a song from 35?
The Frogs - Nope.

• Name your top 15 artists.
• Come up with a set list for them to make your perfect gig
• The first 8 artists get a 5 song set list
• The next 4 artists get a 8 song set list
• The 3rd and 2nd artist get a 10 song set list
• The top artist gets a 12 song set list with a 3 song encore.


TV on the Radio

Young Liars
The Wrong Way
Dancing Choose
Wolf Like Me
Dry Drunk Emperor

Nine Inch Nails

The Perfect Drug
March of The Pigs
The Wretched
Hurt
Something I Can Never Have

The Decemberists

The Hazards of Love 1
O Valencia!
16 Military Wives
The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid
Valarie Plame

Weezer

My Name Is Jonas
Say It Ain't So
Pork And Beans
El Scorcho
The Greatest Man That Ever Lived

The Flaming Lips

Fight Test
One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots pt.1
Race For The Prize
Watching the Planets

Bright Eyes

The Calender Hung Itself
Method Acting
Four Winds
Soul Singer in a Session Bad
Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And To Be Loved)

Stars

Set Yourself On Fire
Take Me To The Riot
Sleep Tonight
A Thread Cut With A Carving Knife
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead

Pink Floyd

Dogs
Astronomy Domine
Us And Them
When The Tigers Broke Free
Brain Damage/Eclipse

Elliott Smith

LA
Flowers For Charlie
Between The Bars
Needle in The Hay
Antonio Carlos Jobim (Heatmiser)
In The Lost And Found (Honky Bach)
Son Of Sam
Waltz #2

The Beatles

Come Together
I Saw Her Standing There
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Strawberry Fields Forever
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Dear Prudence
Blackbird
A Day In The Life

Allison Iraheta

Friday I'll Be Over U
Don't Speak
Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Just Like You
Someone To Watch Over Me
Don't Waste The Pretty
Alone
I Can't Make You Love Me

Bad Religion

Sinister Rouge
We're Only Gonna Die
Atomic Garden
A Streetkid Named Desire
American Jesus
Let Them Eat War
Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever
Fields of Mars

The Hold Steady

Stuck Between Stations
One For The Cutters
Your Little Hoodrat Friend
Stevie Nix
You Gotta Dance With Who You Came To The Dance With
Cattle And The Creeping Things
Constructive Summer
Banging Camp
How A Resurrection Really Feels
First Night

Pearl Jam

Wash
Deep
Insignificance
Jeremy
Off He Goes
Breath
Present Tense
Rats
Leash
Indifference

Bruce Springsteen

Thundercrack
Born To Run
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
Spirit In The Night
She's The One
The E Street Shuffle
It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
4th Of July, Asbury Park
Brilliant Disguise
New York City Serenade
Incident On 57th Street
Zero And Blind Terry
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Backstreets/Sad Eyes
The Angel
Jungleland

Well, I saw this somewhere, and I'd like to do something similar, but with different questions, to a degree.

So, take the top 10 overall artists, and ask for each of them the following questions:

1: First song heard from them
2: Favourite song
3: Favourite album
4: Seen live?
5: Favourite cover art

Well, let's do it...


01. Faith No More
1: Easy or Epic
2: King for a Day
3: Introduce Yourself or Angel Dust or King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
4: Yes
5: King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime

02. Queens of the Stone Age
1: You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, but I Feel Like a Millionaire
2: You Can't Quit Me Baby
3: Songs For The Deaf
4: No
5: Era Vulgaris

03. Elliott Smith
1: Christian Brothers
2: Waltz #2 (XO)
3: Either/Or
4: No
5: Figure 8

04. Tom Waits
1: I Don't Wanna Grow Up
2: Jockey Full of Bourbon
3: Rain Dogs
4: No
5: Bone Machine

05. Mark Lanegan
1: Down in the Dark
2: Borracho
3: Whiskey For The Holy Ghost
4: Yes
5: Scraps At Midnight

06. Screaming Trees
1: Nearly Lost You
2: Nearly Lost You
3: Dust
4: No
5: Uncle Anesthesia

07. Alice in Chains
1: No Excuses
2: Bleed the Freak
3: Dirt
4: No
5: Jar of Flies

08. Black Sabbath
1: N.I.B.
2: It's Alright
3: Master Of Reality
4: Yes
5: Technical Ecstasy

09. Nick Drake
1: River Man
2: Things Behind The Sun
3: Pink Moon
4: No
5: Bryter Layter

10. Radiohead
1: Fake Plastic Trees
2: Paranoid Android
3: Kid A
4: Yes
5: Hail To The Thief