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It occurs to me that I've yet to fill out a "questions about ___" questionnaire. Times are changing.

1. What is your favorite song by 29? (DJ Shadow)
Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt
It was also the first I heard, and I loved it the first time I heard it.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Dead Can Dance)
How Fortunate the Man With None, I think.

3. What is your favorite album by 33? (Judas Priest)
Unleashed in the East
It has several of my favorites from the band, Exciter, Diamonds And Rust, and Victim of Changes, plus the energy and production were a lot better than the original studio tracks.

4. What is your favorite album by 49? (High on Fire)
Blessed Black Wings. for merely Devilution and The Face of Oblivion.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? Waylon Jennings)
Only this one: Nashville Rebel, but it's a four disc box set.

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Portugal. The Man)
Bellies Are Full

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Buena Vista Social Club)
Not really. They are pretty feel good music.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (Deep Purple)
When A Blind Man Cries

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (Leonard Cohen)
Avalanche

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Buzzov*en)
fucked up, drugged out, hateful, misanthropic sludge... all of their songs make me happy?

11. What is your favorite album by 40? (Burial)
Burial

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Evil Army)
Evil Army
Once the irritating intro march is out of the way, that track blazes through, one of the best thrash songs ever written.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Amorphis)
Listening to them.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (The Builders and the Butchers)
either Bottom of the Lake or Spanish Death Song
Hard to choose between them. Bottom Of The Lake is usually what I would choose to listen to first, but Spanish Death Song is so frantic and I love the lyrical theme.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you sad? (Begushkin)
not really. Some of his songs are pretty gloomy. Stroll With Mine sounds pretty down to me.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? (Eyehategod)
I haven't.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (Banco del Mutuo Soccorso)
750.000 Anni Fa... L'amore?

18. What is your favorite album by 11? (Saver Tiger)
None in particular. their only material was live recordings, and the three albums I have had in the past had pretty much the same material. The production was terrible on all of them, and the only reason they're so high in my library is because I was really into them for a while.

19. How did you get into 1? (X JAPAN)
Once upon a time, I started using blogspots to discover new music. I downloaded ART OF LIFE from a blogspot many years ago, after like a ten paragraph description which basically had me at "epic metal from Japan." It got lost in inexplicable circumstances, and a year or two later I ran across it again along with I'll Kill You from another blog, which fortunately re-introduced me to the band.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? (Dismember)
Unfortunately not.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Neil Young)
I got laid off work in 2006 for the first time and drove home at 3 am listening to Down by the River

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Burzum)
Key To The Gate
I could've went with some I highly enjoy from the self-titled album, but the last half of Key is one of the most perfect songs in the black metal genre.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Old Crow Medicine Show)
Wagon Wheel
Isn't that the first song everyone has heard from them? I mean the Bob Dylan connection...

24. What is your favorite album by 18? (Nitzer Ebb)
Body of Work

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Rage Against the Machine)
Too difficult to choose. Anything from Evil Empire or half the tracks on The Battle of Los Angeles

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Lightnin' Hopkins)
Big Black Cadillac Blues

27. What's your favorite lyric by 3? (Electric Wizard)
Damn, that's tough. Perhaps the second verse of Return Trip. The whole Cannibal Ferox thing, and the fact that it's so well stated,
"I hope this fuckin' world fuckin' burns away
And I'd kill you all if I had my way
But I'll live forever, questions curse me why
Oh Lord above, why won't you let me die"

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (Led Zeppelin)
Impossible.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Django Reinhardt)
Nuages

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (Taken By Cars)
Uh Oh
The mood, the bass, the drum beat, fucking fantastic.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Asin)
haha, I haven't.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Stereolab)
not really.

33. What is you favorite album by 12? (Church of Misery)
Early Works Compilation (disc 1) because it contains several of my favorites from the band.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (Elliott Smith)
I couldn't pick. As much as I enjoy many of his songs, he does tend to have just as many that annoy or frustrate me to hear.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Last Harbour)
Saint Luminous Bride

36. What is your favorite album by 48? (Motörhead)
the two disc, 39 songs Essential. As much as people tend to hate on compilations like that, I'll be honest and straight up say it's my favorite because it really did put most of their strongest songs altogether.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (Death in June)
None.

38. What is your favorite song by 36? (Between the Buried and Me)
either More of Myself to Kill or Use of a Weapon
It's a labor picking from them as well. The first album has magic that none of their other albums do. Then again, I was at the cd release show, and that material has sentimental value to me.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (UFO)
Doctor Doctor

40. What is your favorite album by 7? (Muse)
Black Holes and Revelations although Origin Of Symmetry is right behind it.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (Spiritual Front)
Not in comparison to any others.

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Johnny Cash)
The box sets that usually have a quarter of everything he ever did.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Portishead)
Glory Box
Epitome of chill.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (The Crown)
Angering christians by posting their lyrics on message boards.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (Grant Green)
Possibly No. 1 Green Street

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you sad? (Eluveitie)
Not really.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (His Hero Is Gone
Definitely Monuments to Thieves
Like Weeds is one of the most intense songs in hardcore.

48. Who is a favorite member of 37? (Sielwolf)
...the fuck kind of question. I wouldn't know any of them.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (Morphine)
Buena

50. How many albums do you own by 20? (Exhumed)
four. Gore Metal, Slaughtercult, Anatomy Is Destiny, and the Platters of Splatter two disc compilation.