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Normally I don't do these things, but I thought it'd be a fun memory exercise for myself (if not entertaining reading for anyone else).

Audioscrobbler Meme: Write down your first 25 bands mentioned in your overall list</a> and answer the following questions...


1.XTC (2,026 plays)
First Song: Generals & Majors
How'd You Hear It: On "Back to the Eighties Friday night" on 98.5 in Boston probably around '95
Favorite Song, Overall: Then She Appeared
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Then She Appeared is tied with Mermaid Smiled (41 plays)

2.Big Country (1,381 plays)
First Song: In a Big Country
How'd You Hear It: Also on "back to the eighties". I listened to that show every week in the late ninties.
Favorite Song, Overall: Wonderland
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Wonderland (57 plays)

3.Kate Bush (879 plays)
First Song: Running Up that Hill in '98
How'd You Hear It: an 80's compilation CD
Favorite Song: Sat In Your Lap
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Coffee Homeground (32 plays)

4.Blue Öyster Cult (545 plays)
First Song: Burnin' For You around '97
How'd You Hear It: on an 80's compilation cassette (noticing a pattern?)
Favorite Song: Redeemed or Dancin' in the Ruins
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Burnin' For You (15 plays)

5.小松彩夏 (479 plays)
First Song: C'est La Vie in 2005
How'd You Hear It: Watching Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. You honestly can't miss that song. Or stop it from invading your brain and taking over.
Favorite Song: Kiss!² Bang!²
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Kiss!² Bang!² (85 plays)

6.Marc Jordan (442 plays)
First Song: Big Love in 2000
How'd You Hear It: I found his C.O.W. album in a used record store for $2 thinking I'd be in for some cheesy fun. It's actually a pretty good album.
Favorite Song: Red Desert
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Mystery Man (42 plays)

7.Prince (442 plays)
First Song: Not sure. I probably heard all his hits in the 80's on the radio or MTV, but the first song I remember listening to was Cream in '91
How'd You Hear It: radio (Kiss 108 FM!)
Favorite Song: Little Red Corvette
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Out Tonight, Most Beautiful Girl In the World (20 plays)

8.Björk (436 plays)
First Song: Big Time Sensuality in.. 96?
How'd You Hear It: MTV. Didn't really get into her until 2000, though, after I heard Homogenic
Favorite Song: All Neon Like or Unison
Song with Highest Position on Chart: All Neon Like (31 plays)

9.Janet Jackson (409 plays)
First Song: Alright in '89
How'd You Hear It: Saw the video, then bought Rhythm Nation.
Favorite Song: Love Will Never Do (Without You)
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Love Will Never Do (Without You) (30 plays)

10.The Promise Ring (362 plays)
First Song: Size of Your Life in 2002
How'd You Hear It: I bought Wood/Water after reading a so-so review of it. I really liked the cover art and name. I don't like emo, and so I'm mystified why I like this band. (probably cause they have a bunch of songs that aren't whiny)
Favorite Song: The Deep South
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Skips a Beat (Over You) (23 Plays)

11.a-ha (335 plays)
First Song: Take On Me (no idea when... probably early nineties)
How'd You Hear It: on the radio
Favorite Song: Rolling Thunder
Song with Highest Position on Chart: White Canvas (29 plays)

12.King Crimson (316 plays)
First Song: I Talk to the Wind in '02
How'd You Hear It: listened to it because it was referenced in an issue of the comic Strangers In Paradise
Favorite Song: Waiting Man
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Waiting Man (25 plays)

13.Fleetwood Mac (308 plays)
First Song: No idea. I remember hearing Dreams in '96, and really liking it.
How'd You Hear It: On the radio. I bought the first Greatest Hits album right after, and ended up knowing about two thirds of the songs - I just didn't know they were Fleetwood Mac.
Favorite Song: Dreams
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Over & Over (15 plays)

14.Erasure (291 plays)
First Song: Always in 1994
How'd You Hear It: Casey Kasem's weekly top 40!
Favorite Song: Perfect Stranger
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Precious (16 plays)

15.Jason White (271 plays)
First Song: Lady Katherine this year (2006)
How'd You Hear It: I was browsing the iTunes store, and stumbled on that song. I liked it so much I eventually bought both his albums.
Favorite Song: Ghost of Thoreau
Song With Highest Position on Chart: Lady Katherine (27 plays)

16.Annie (239 plays)
First Song: Chewing Gum in 2005
How'd You Hear It: in a friend's car.
Favorite Song: Me Plus One
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Me Plus One (41 plays)

17.The Beatles (234 plays)
First Song: I can't even make a guess.
How'd You Hear It: My mom played them when I was little.
Favorite Song: She Came In the Bathroom Window (though honestly, anything off Abbey Road, Revolver, or Sgt. Pepper will do)
Song with Highest Position on Chart: no song in top 500

18.The Fixx (223 plays)
First Song: One Thing Leads to Another in '95
How'd You Hear It: on Back to the Eighties.
Favorite Song: Reach the Beach
Song with Highest Position on Chart: The Flow (38 plays)

19.Anne Murray (218 plays)
First Song: Nobody Loves Me Like You Do in '86 or '87
How'd You Hear It: Mom played it in the car
Favorite Song: Now and Forever (You & Me)
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Time Don't Run Out on Me (14 plays)

20.Madonna (197 plays)
First Song: That I remember, Vogue in 1990
How'd You Hear It: MTV (watching the weekly top 20 countdown with Adam Curry!)
Favorite Song: Like a Prayer (album version, not the immaculate collection version)
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Cherish (46 plays)

21.The Sugarcubes (196 plays)
First Song: Leash Called Love (Tony Humphries Mix) in 2000
How'd You Hear It: a friend played It's-It in my dorm room.
Favorite Song: Water or Coldsweat
Song with Highest Position on Chart: none in top 500

22.Michael Jackson (173 plays)
First Song: Thriller in '84
How'd You Hear It: my aunt was a huge fan - also, the video scared the crap out of me (hey, I was three)
Favorite Song: Rock With You
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Rock With You (42 plays)

(tie) 22.Teena Marie (173 plays)
First Song: Behind the Groove in 2003
How'd You Hear It: Playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Favorite Song: Square Biz
Song with Highest Position on Chart: It Must Be Magic (41 plays)

24.Peter Gabriel (170 plays)
First Song: Sledgehammer in '86 or '87
How'd You Hear It: saw the video on MTV
Favorite Song: That Voice Again
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Blood of Eden (25 plays)

25. 宇多田ヒカル (166 plays)
First Song: Traveling in '02
How'd You Hear It: I read about her in People or something, where they described her as the Britney Spears of Japan. Which made me very curious. That description is, by the way, wildly inaccurate.
Favorite Song: Distance or Time Will Tell
Song with Highest Position on Chart: Distance (37 plays)