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Thu 3 Sep – CocoRosie, Katie Stelmanis

I was worried they couldn't pull of that kind of weird sound live, but that's her voice fer real. $15 well spent.

1. What are you listening to right now?
Wasted Life

2. What song makes you sad?
Lou Reed - The Bed

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?
Big Green Tractor... seriously the song is about romancing a girl by taking her for a ride on his tractor... and it plays at least twice a day at work unless I forcibly change the dial

4. Your all time favorite band?
yikes. The Screamers are always up there. Two Gallants and The Zounds are pretty high as well. velvet Undergound holds a special place in my heart. Billy Bragg and Leonard Cohen . Nick Cave in any iteration.

5. Your newly discovered band is?
lately I'm getting into Ramblin Jack Elliott

6. Best female voice?
hmm Ani DiFranco, Neko Case, Odetta, Anita Lane, Cat Power

7. Best male voice?
Leonard Cohen, Leadbelly, the guys from Two Gallants

8. Music type you find yourself listening to most?
70s punk; lately folk and blues

9. What do you listen to, to hype you up?
The Epoxies

10. What do you listen to when you want to calm down?
Belle and Sebastian

11. Last gig/concert you went to?
Jeffrey Lewis opened for that chick from The Moldy Peaches who did all the music for Juno. She was a bit much, but Jeffrey Lewis I would marry in a second. *hopes he's reading and waves*

12. Band you find yourself listening to the most right now?
lately I'm not hardcore into anything in specific

13. Most hated band?
whoever sings that fucking tractor song

14. Song that makes you think?
probably The Decemberists and B&S since they're a bunch of literary twats. Also, Crass makes me reconsider everything I believe.


15. Band that you think the world should love as much as you do?
Two Gallants and Kid Dakota; they're pretty much two of the only bands still touring I really love so it'd be awesome if they got famous enough to come visit dc on a regular basis.

16. Coolest music video?
Probably not what you mean, but Jeff Lewis and The Books both have visual accompaniments at their shows and both are very fucking cool. Jeff Lewis does his own comic book story things while The Books raid thrift stores, etc and splice together weird films. Both can be found on the you tube I'm sure.

17. Music video with the most babe watch?
I don't know I don't watch standard music videos.

18. What do you play/would you play in the bedroom to spice things up?
So into You as covered by Shudder to Think;

also if any attractive man wants to be the Janis Joplin to my Leonard Cohen(it's my fantasy, I get to receive), we can rent a room at the Chelsea Hotel and play the song and you know how it goes

19. Can you play a musical instrument?
nope

20. Ever been in a mosh pit?
um kind of. Been on the outskirts pushing people back in when they get to close to the edge, not much of a mosher though.

21. Are you in a band?
no, you need talent for that

22. Ever dated a musician?
no

23. Do you wish yourself that you were a musician?
yes!

24. Best chick band you know of?
Bikini Kill is my "chick" band of choice

25. Last song that you heard on the radio/cd...etc...?
idk I didn't work today

26. What do you think of Classical music?
usually don't go out of my way to listen, but I will sometimes put it on at work

27. What do you think of Country music?
I like the non-lame kind that doesn't involve taking my girlfriend for a ride on my tractor. Hoyt Axton, that kind of thing. i suppose I lean towards folk/bluegrass/cowpunk rather than country country.

28. What do you think of Death metal?
eh, I can take it or leave it.

29. Last BIG band that you saw live?
um I saw the Who with the 'rents. Probably the BIGGEST band I've ever seen.

30. Are you a groupie?
nope

31. Do you listen to music in foreign languages?
yes.

32. What famous musician would you like to fuck?
something about Nick Cave's receding hair line and matching handlebar mustache is bizarrely appealing in ways it wouldn't be on anyone else

33. Worst concert moment?
um well at the jeff lewis show these weird high schooler kids tried to befriend me.

34. Funny concert moment?
moldy peaches' girl actually puts on a good show if only I didn't not particularly care for her music. so anyway she's wickedly funny and at one point stopped singing and all the little high schoolers kept on singing and it was comical comical comical.

35. Sad concert moment?
eh well Jeff Lewis show again I guess. a bunch of love songs when you're recently broken up with a boyfriend is not good for the emotional well being. especially when you start texting him and he doesn't answer because he's fucking some other girl.

36. Best local act you can think of?
merm... The Evens; are they together any more? and do they transcend local?

37. If you were a musical instrument what would you be?
banjo

38. Do you listen to the radio?
only at work

39. Do you watch music TV?
no

40. Do you follow the music charts, like the top 40?
does anyone actually follow the charts? I assumed they just all listened to the same radio stations which resulted in the charts.

41. Have you meet any famous musicians?
Once I rubbed against both Ian Mackaye and Henry Rollins. I also shook hands with the guy from CKY at a concert once and I thought he was just doing the hand touch thing, but apparently he wanted a shake and he told me I had a weak handshake and should work on it. r.i.p. the downtown

42. Are any of your friends/family/etc. musicians?
a decent amount play instruments just not particularly professionally or organized-ly; My cousin is a music teacher.

43. Song that best describes your feelings right now?
The Buzzcocks - Boredom

44. Song that describes your life?
eh I'm tiring of this

45. Do you know the names of all the band members that you listen to?
no

46. Does a musician’s physical attractiveness play a role in the music?
no, but it makes the shows more fun

47. What famous musician do you want to marry?
I'm not the marrying kind. oh except for you Jeff Lewis *waves again*

48. Favourite movie soundtrack?
I don't watch movies

49. Any musician pet hates?
no

50. What do your parents listen to?
my dad listens to show tunes from Broadway; my mom used to have this divas CD featuring mariah carey, shania twain, etc; they both enjoy the beatles and meatloaf; apparently they were both cool once as I've purloined enough records from them to suggest that. Daddy's Zappa, David Peel and The Lower East Side and Velvet Underground, Mom's Led Zeppelin

51. What are you listening to right NOW?
Lou Reed - Perfect Day

52. Do you wear band etc T-shirts?
sometimes

53. What do you think of people who do?
I once fell in love with Tom from physics due to his awesome t-shirt collection. I was too scared to talk to him so I'd try to coordinate wearing my Minor Threat shirt with his wearing of his Minor Threat shirt so I could be like "hey, you like Minor Threat too? I had no idea" and then we'd make out in the distance but it never worked out for me and anyway his myspace was full of love for his girlfriend. hah. This was a very long time ago.

54. What music sub-culture do you feel like you belong to?
thoughtwise I belong with the Punks, but actionwise who knows

55. What song is stuck in your head right now?
none

56. Do you sing in the shower?
usually no, unless I bring my computer with me

57. If so, what? If not, why not?
I'm usually focused on cleaning myself out

58. Would you rather marry a musician or be one yourself?
be one myself

59. How important is your partners taste in music to you?
it's nice to go to concerts together and have something to talk about. I don't think I could love someone whose taste was completely terrible.

60. Hanson moves in next door to you, do you go introduce yourself, or do you arrange to beat them up?
They never did anything to me, but I'm not the meet and greet kind of gal.

61. Sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, you dig?
yes, just shrooms, yes

62. Do you cook to music?
yes, I do most everything to music

63. Do you sing in the toilet?
nope

Take the first 64 songs that come up on shuffle:

--- --- --- --- ---

1. Gay Cowboys in bondage -big fat baloney sandwich
2. the Coup - Nowalaters
3. Dambuilders - Shrine
4. Minutemen - theatre is the life of you
5. sonic Youth - G-force
6. King Missile/John S Hall - Shit
7. Boyracer - Michael
8. Reptile House - keelhaul love
9. X - under the big black sun
10. Allan Sherman - Shticks of One Kind and a Half a Dozen of the Other
11. Propagandhi - Ska Sucks
12. Propagandhi - Apparently I'm a PC Fascist
13. x-japan - rusty nail
14. wilco - Kamera
15. the Buzzcocks - What Ever Happened to -
16 Bob Marley and the Wailers - Get up Stand up
17 Descendents - Kabuki Girl
18 Bikini Kill - Strawberry Julius
19 Youth of Today - Break Down the Walls
20 The Screamers - I want to hurt
21 Sonic Youth - I dreamed I dream
22 Led Zeppelin - the Crunge
23 Bouncing Souls - Punks in Vegas
24 Iced Earth - the Reckoning
25 Crass - Sucks
26 Elliott Smith - Happiness
27 Hoyt Axton - sweet misery
28 toy dolls - livin' la vida loca
29 the clash - midnight log
30 vaselines - teenage superstar
31 the gossip - cat fight
32 splodge - les splodge singers (the better)
33 the iguanas - outer limits
34 sonic youth - wish fulfillment
35 iggy pop and the stooges - candy
36 deefhoof - flower
37 maho neitsyt - likaa
38 descendents - hope
39 satanic malfunctions - the cliched song
40 pink floyd - wish you were here
41 Lip Cream - VX - Z
42 dropkick murphys - kiss me, I'm shitfaced
43 math and physics club - sixteen and pretty
44 cursive - a red so deep
45 Lou Reed - Baby Face
46 Jeffrey Lewis - If you shoot the head, you kill the ghoul
47 minutemen - search
48 zounds - knife
49 led zeppelin - heart breaker
50 Iced Earth - Angel's holocaust
51 decemebrists - the engine driver
52 PJ Harvey - goodnight
53 Ben harper - amen omen
54 plasma alliance - CIA
55 lead belly - let it shine on me
56 Naked Raygun - Rocks of Sweden
57 Gang Green - sold out
58 Germs - Forming
59 stretch marks - another tragedy
60 madness - our house
61 Regina Spektor - bobbing for apples
62 heatmiser - not half right
63 Lou Reed - street hassle
64 pavement - elevate me later
--- --- --- --- ---


A. Favourite song from 1-4:
Big fat baloney sandwich

B.Favourite song from 5-8:
g-force

C. Favourite song from 9-12:
under the big black sun

D. Favourite song from 13-16:
whatever happened to

E. Favourite song from 17-20:
I want to hurt

F. Favourite song from 21-24:
the reckoning

G. Favourite song from 25-28:
sucks

H. Favourite song from 29-32:
teenage superstar

I. Favourite song from 33-36:
candy

J. Favourite song from 37-40:
wish you were here

K. Favourite song from 41-44:
kiss me, I'm shitfaced

L. Favourite song from 45-48:
If you shoot the head, you kill the ghoul

M. Favourite song from 49-52:
engine driver

N. Favourite song from 53-56:
let it shine on me

O. Favourite song from 57-60:
sold out

P. Favourite song from 61-64:
bobbing for apples


--- --- --- --- ---


i. Favourite song from A-D:
Whatever happened to

ii. Favourite song from E-H:
teenage superstar

iii. Favourite song from I-L:
candy

iv. Favourite song from M-P:
let it shine on me

--- --- --- --- ---


Overall favourite song (from i-iv):
Whatever happened to

Included Artists:
Gay Cowboys in Bondage
The Coup
Dambuilders
Sonic Youth
Minutemen
King Missile
Boyracer
Reptile House
X
Allan Sherman
Propagandhi x2
X-Japan
Wilco
The Buzzcocks
Bob Marley And The Wailers
Descendentsx2
Bikini Kill
Youth of Today
The Screamers
Sonic Youth x2
Led Zeppelin
Bouncing Souls
Iced Earth x 2
Crass
Elliott Smith
Hoyt Axton
Toy Dolls

The Clash
Vaselines
Splodge
The Iguanas
Iggy Pop and the Stooges
Deerhoof
Maho Neitsyt

Satanic Malfunctions
Pink Floyd
Lip Cream
Dropkick Murphys
Math and Physics Club
Cursive
Lou Reed x2
Jeffrey Lewis
Minutement
Zounds
Led Zeppelin
Decemberists
PJ Harvey
Ben Harper
Plasma Alliance
Leadbelly
Naked Raygun
Gang Green
Germs
Stretch Marks
Madness
Regina Spektor
Heatmiser
Pavement

The genre question is always so hard to answer, but I often feel like these charts are lacking something by using artists rather than genres. I mean my two seemingly favorite bands are Sonic Youth and Belle and Sebastian and while I do indeed love these bands, I wouldn't say that they're favorites nor would I say that most of what I listen to falls in the hipsterdouchebag category. They just happen to be super prolific and so when listening to music on random they come up alot. I just happen to own the complete discography of Sonic Youth, meaning 219 songs (many of them repeats/different versions) are currently on my computer. Listening to them 915 times, the current count at this time, means I've listen to each song an average of 4.17 times. Compare this to my top played punk band, Subhumans 48 songs for 513 plays that's 10.68 plays per song. compare this to one of my favorite punk bands, The Screamers, 17 songs for a total of 454 plays or 26.7 plays per song.

I mean should my music taste be categorized based on the fact that I enjoy a few select prolific bands from a lesser genre while I strongly prefer another genre whose bands often rose quick and died quickly so that I have to scrounge around to find 17 songs off a never released album? I think quantity wise if I added up all my punk rock plays and all my indie plays I'd find that punk rock was far greater than indie and yet my highest punk band is in the number 10 spot while indie steals slots one and two by a definite margin.

Part of me wants a top genres chart added although the rest of me knows that would be both impossible and inaccurate because really you could parse them infinitely until I find that my genres are so slight that 70s LA synth punk that never released an official record is really just code for the screamers and honestly that's completely different than 80s sXe hardcore from DC.

Random musings random musings.

After over two years of having my music listening charted, I've decided to see exactly what changes have taken place. I like to think my tastes gets better with time.

Overall Top Bands:
1) Sonic Youth
2) Belle and Sebastian
3) Two Gallants

US (37)
Sonic Youth
Pavement
Frank Zappa
Two Gallants
Ani DiFranco
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists
Phil Ochs
Bright Eyes
Ben Harper
The Screamers
Dead Kennedys
Cat Power
Jeffrey Lewis
moe.
Velvet Underground
Rancid
The Stooges
Ramones
X
Minor Threat
Nirvana
Against Me!
Grateful Dead
Led Zeppelin
Circle Jerks
Elliott Smith
Shudder to Think
Ween
Dinosaur Jr.
Scratch Acid
Rise Against
Mr. Lif
Fugazi
Strung Out
Wilco
R.E.M.
The Epoxies

UK (10)
Belle and Sebastian
Subhumans
Billy Bragg
Zounds
Stiff Little Fingers
The Clash
Placebo
David Bowie
The Beatles
Vice Squad

Australia (1)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Canada (1)
Leonard Cohen

Sweden (1)
Jens Lekman

How did you get into Phil Ochs?
mr madnick. haha. he played cannons of christianity and some other things in the snarkily named great decisions in american foreign policy.

What was the first song you ever heard by Clit 45?
probably bullshit fucking waste of time, because whenever I hear of a new band I download the song with the most curse words in the title as I have the maturity level of a 12 year old boy.

What is your favourite lyric by Stiff Little Fingers? suspect device!


What is your favourite album by Elliott Smith?
I don't own albums, per se.

How many albums by Dead Kennedys do you own?
2 on cd, one on vinyl

What is your favourite song by Grinderman?
no pussy blues or go tell the women, it's a pretty excellent record overall

Is there a song by Arcade Fire that makes you feel sad?
Nah, I don't listen to them too extensively.

What is your least favourite song by Frank Zappa?
Goblin Girls, maybe.

What is your favourite song by Buzzcocks?
friends of mine

Is there a song by Iron Maidenthat makes you happy?
not really that kind of band. bring your daughter to the slaughter always makes me laugh because of the title.

What is your favourite album by Steve Miller Band?
don't own any.

What are your favourite songs by Dilated Peoples?
worst comes to worst

Is there a good memory you have involving Built to Spill.?
they aren't associated with any particular memory.

What is your favourite song by Faithless?
mass destruction

Name a song by Shudder to Think that makes you happy.
Happy people music. psh. No rm 9. Kentucky which is actually a sad and depressing song, but I like it a lot so I guess it makes me happy.

Have you ever seen Reel Big Fish live?
nah

What was the first song you heard by Sublime?
probs date rape or caress me down or what I got or one of the other famous radio ones that I didn't realize were sublime songs until I started downloading sublime.

What is your favourite album by Liliput?
This is the only liliput song I have. it's called split. I like it. whatever album it's on. I should look into them more.

Who is your favourite member of T. Rex?
I don't know any of the members. my familiarity with the music on my playlist is extraordinary.

How many times have you seen Gang Green live?
0. pretty sure they've been defunct my whole punk rock listening to life.

Any good memories of N.W.A.?
fuck tha police. singing along to fuck tha police.

What is your favourite song by UK Subs?
stranglehold

What is the first song you heard by stellastarr*?
A million reasons

What is your favourite album by Pantera?
they're not a buy an album sort of band for me.

What is your favourite song by Deep Purple?
oh smoke on the water. but really knocking on your back door.

What is the first song you heard by The Salteens?
the best thought. which is, in fact, the only song I've heard by them.

What is your favourite Black Heart Processionlyric?
And maybe someday we will be
Away with the wind we'll go
By the sea we'll float
And away with the wind we'll go
A million miles away


What is your favourite song by of Montreal?
the party's crashing us

What is the first song you heard by Deltron 3030? sunshine in a bag

What is your favourite song by VAST??
pretty when you cry

How many times have you seen X??
once, then john doe once.

Rammstein happy song.
how should I know, it's all in German. it sounds pretty unhappy though. but that could just be the German language. maybe Amerika

Favourite tsol? album?
albums again, idk.

What is the worst song by Vibrators??
there's no worst! I can't recall what nazi baby or petrol sound like so either I don't like them enough to continue to listen to them or I've never heard them in the first placea and just circumvent the unknown.

What is the first song you heard by MDC??
Who're the terrorists now?

Favourite album by Pink Floyd??
dark side of the moon is excellent; the one with the cows and the burning man holds a special place in my heart.

Have you ever seen Karen Dalton??
why no, another who's been defunct in my lifetime to the best of my knowledge.

What is your favourite album by Dropkick Murphys??
don't own any

What is the first song you heard by 7Seconds??
99 red balloons cover

What is your favourite album by Sonic Youth??
Confusion is Sex cause i like noise not music. is there a bad sonic youth album though? I think not.

#
First: 3 Inches of Blood
Favorite: 7Seconds
Last: 1208

A
First: A Global Threat
Favorite: Ani DiFranco
Last: Avengers

B
First: Bad Brains
Favorite: Belle and Sebastian
Last: Buzzcocks

C
First: Cake
Favorite: Clash or Cat Power (they aren't comparable)
Last:Cypress Hill

D
First: Da Cream
Favorite: Dinosaur Jr.
Last: Dystopia

E
First: Eagle Eye Cherry
Favorite: Eskorbuto
Last: Eyes Adrift

F
First: Faithless
Favorite: Fiery Furnaces or Frank Zappa(some more incomparable cheating on my part)
Last: Futureheads

G
First: Gackt
Favorite: Germs
Last: Guttermouth

H
First: H2O
Favorite: Handsome Boy Modeling School
Last: Husker Du

I
First: Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Favorite: Iggy Pop and The Stooges
Last: Iron Maiden

J
First: J. Mascis And The Fog
Favorite: Jens Lekman
Last: Jurassic 5

K
First: Kaante
Favorite: Keller Williams
Last: Krylls

L
First: Ladybug Transistor
Favorite: Lou Reed
Last: Lydia Lunch

M
First: Madball
Favorite: Minor Threat
Last: Mute Math

N
First: Naked Raygun
Favorite: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Last: Nwa

O
First: Odetta
Favorite: of Montreal
Last: Ozzy Osbourne

P
First: panteon rococo
Favorite: Pavementor Phil Ochs
Last: Public Image Ltd.

Q
First: Q and Not U
Favorite: Queen I guess, Q sucks
Last: Quiet Riot

R
First: R.E.M.
Favorite: Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Last: RZA

S
First: salteens
Favorite: Screamers
Last: Switchblade Symphony

T
First: T. Rex
Favorite: Television
Last: Two Gallants

U
First: U.S. Roughnecks
Favorite: UK Subs
Last: Utada Hikaru

V
First: Vandals
Favorite: Velvet Underground
Last: Voo Doo Glow Skulls

W
First: Wasted Youth
Favorite: Weirdos
Last: Wumpscut

X
First: X
Favorite: X
Last: X-Japan

Y
First: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Favorite: Youth of Today
Last: Youth of Today

Z
First: Zero7
Favorite: Zounds
Last: ZZ Top