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It's a mindless "YR TOP [WHATEVA]" survey to keep me amused for a few minutes!

1. How did you get into 30? (The Onion)
I find the weekly publication somewhat amusing, so I began listening to the podcast.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (John Vanderslice)
Time Travel Is Lonely

3. What's your favorite lyric by 7? (Ok City Ok)
Either "She gets mad and makes that Kabuki face," or "Navigating by parallel lines that intersect in incoherent lives." It depends on my mood.

4. What is your favorite album by 9? (Modest Mouse)
The Lonesome Crowded West.

5. How many albums do you own by number 13? (Spacehog)
The three officially released ones, plus one promo of their second album (it's different than the officially released one), and another promo EP, plus various singles.

6. What is your favorite song by 28? (Ghostland Observatory)
Silver City

7. Is there a song by 12 that makes you sad? (Toadies)
Not really. Maybe Away, kinda.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (Gorillaz)
El Mañana

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (Voxtrot)
Blood Red Blood

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (The Duckhills)
Yes! Plenty! But especially Dumber than a rock

11. What is your favorite album by 24? (Franz Ferdinand)
You Could Have It So Much Better

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (The Real Heroes)
Metal Only

3. What is a good memory you have involving 29? (R.E.M.)
One (?) week during the summer of 2004. Nightswimming.

14. What is your favorite song by 17? (Zero 7)
Warm Sound

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Outkast)
Hey Ya!. Not all of the lyrics are that happy, but it's just so damn danceable.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live? (Dewato)
None. They broke up before I knew they were the ones who did my mystery song.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (The Boy Least Likely To)
The first one they played when I saw them live... Was it Fur Soft As Fur?

18. What is your favorite album by 11? (Household Names)
Picture In My Head

19. What is your favorite song by 1? (Spoon)
Pft, it changes constantly. Right now, maybe The Beast and Dragon, Adored.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live? (Big Soy)
Yes!

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (The Black and White Years)
Moustaches!

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (The Beatles)
Hmmm... Tomorrow Never Knows?

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 4? (Talking Heads)
Wild Wild Life. I was one year old.

24. What is your favorite album by 21? (Led Zeppelin)
Either Houses of the Holy or In Through the Out Door.

25. What is your favorite song by 18? (The Handsome Charlies)
Do you really have to ask? Coffee!!!

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Blowing Trees)
Dark Stares

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (David Byrne)
The Catherine Wheel

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (Brian Eno)
Uhhh... Mother Whale Eyeless, maybe.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 20? (The Shins)
First one I recall hearing was Phantom Limb, though I'm sure I hard something by them before that.

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (Kissinger)
Shame

I would like an explanation as to why, as of Monday, I have become obsessed with the song What a Fool Believes by The Doobie Brothers. It was as if I awoke and that was now my favourite song, which makes no sense because I never really listened to it much before.

(This is what happened Monday morning:)
*BZZBZZ* (the sound of my alarm going off)
ME: Ugh, I still feel sick. Canoeing and getting drunk wasn't a good idea.
WAFB: Good morning, Heather! I'm "What a Fool Believes" by the Doobie Brothers and I'll be your favourite song for at least this week!
ME: Why? I've never given much mind to you before.
WAFB: Ah, that's true. But I've been watching you...
ME: That makes no sense... But okay!

Imagine my delight when I found that I own a compilation album (Bridging the Distance) that includes a pretty cool cover of that song by Lackthereof. I'm not sure if I like Lackthereof's other stuff too much, but his cover version of What A Fool Believes is pretty fucking sweet.

Also, is it actually "proper" to tag it as a Doobie Brothers song? Yes, it's on their album (and therefore I have it tagged "The Doobie Brothers" as the artist) but when they play it on the radio (and, yes, they play the version off of the Doobie Brothers' album) they always announce it as "'What a Fool Believes' by Michael McDonald"-- they never mention the Doobie Brothers. Pft, I'll keep mine tagged as The Doobie Brothers.

Have you ever had this experience?

A song was playing at a certain moment in your life, and seemed to tie everything that was happenening together and make it all make some kind of sense.

It's happened to me, twice in the same year:

On July 1, 2006 it was Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads.

The on August 12, 2006 it was Needles in the Camel's Eye by Brian Eno.

I'm going to see a lot of "B" bands this weekend!

...No, I do not mean "sub-par bands" (as in "b-movies"), I mean bands that start with the letter "B."

Friday, here in Austin, I'm going to see The Black and White Years and Belaire at Mohawk.

Saturday, I'm going to San Antonio to see Big Soy and Blowing Trees.

Yay, it's going to be fun!

On the end of all three of Spacehog's albums, there are hidden tracks. (Yes, even on The Chinese Album-- earlier promo copies have a hidden track after Beautiful Girl.)

Because I'm weird, I have split up the tracks so that the hidden tracks are all differnt files from the "proper" last songs on the album (and, thus, their own songs).

Do any of the hidden tracks have proper titles? Right now I just have them tagged as "[Resident Alien Bonus Track]," "[The Chinese Album Bonus Track]," and "[The Hogyssey Bonus Track]," but I don't like the way those look.

Is the Resident Alien one actually "Was It Likely?" and track 13 only called "To be a millionaire"?

Help me out!

Every once in awhile, I'll listen to a song by an artist I haven't listened to in a long time and then wonder, "Why the hell haven't I listened to them in so long?!"

This past week, that artist has been Miho Hatori. I can't believe I forgot how much I used to love her! So, naturally, I have been listening to a whole bunch Miho Hatori-related tracks. I'm suprised just how much Miho Hatori I own... Here's a list of artists/groups she has work with that I've been listening to:
Smokey & Miho
Cibo Matto
Rambient
Handsome Boy Modeling School
Forro In The Dark
Gorillaz
Baldwin Brothers
Butter 08

Does anyone have any b-sides/rarities from The Boy Least Likely To that they would be willing to share with me?

I'm having NO LUCK finding anything except their first album (which I own) and their cover of "Faith," even through the UK record store websites I usually buy stuff from. (I'm in the United States, and the only thing from The Boy Least Likely To we can get here is the first album... No singles, which means no b-sides.)

I'm willing to trade rarities/b-sides from my own music collection (I have a lot of Voxtrot, Modest Mouse, Spoon, Toadies, Spacehog and David Byrne... ). I'm not sure what stuff I have would be that great of an intrest to fans of The Boy Least Likely To, though. I'll try to post journals in which I list the rarities/b-sides I have, but it's such a daunting task and I don't have time to do so now.

I could have sworn that a song I slightly remember from three or four years ago (sometime in that crazy time that was 2004-2005*) was "Breathe Me" by Sia.

I just lisened to that song, and it's not the one I remember.

The odd thing is now I cannot remember what the music sounded like. I can't even remember any of the lyrics! Maybe I didn't even hear it. Maybe I'm making this up. But I could have sworn I heard a song (I have no idea where) and liked it and someone (I have no idea who) said, "Yeah, it's Sia... She sings in Zero 7."

But it couldn't have been "Breath Me" anyway... It says that song didn't come out until 2006, and the only thing I know for a fact is that I heard this song in either 2004 or 2005.

Did the other chicks from Zero 7 (Sophie Barker? Tina Dico?) have any solo stuff that was released during (or even before) 2004-2005? Could it have been a song by her? Can anyone send me any of their stuff that may have been popular during the time span in question?

*Them were some craaaaazy years for me in which weird shit happened (and I'm sure I wasn't in the best mental condition most of the time), so it's not totally unbelieveable that I am making this all up or that me hearing the song and being told (wrongly) that it was "Breathe Me" by Sia was some stupid dream.