The Wily Filipino

Jumping on the Music Geek Bandwagon.

I give up.

1. Your favourite song with the name of a city in the title or text.
"(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" by R.E.M.

2. A song you've listened to repeatedly when you were depressed at some point in your life.
"I Know It's Over" by the Smiths.

3. Ever bought an entire album just for one song and winded up disliking everything but that song? Gimme that song.
Surely this is what drove kids to Napster... let's see: "Take On Me" by A-Ha. I mean, good lord, how many people ever got past that first song off Hunting High and Low? (I know, there will be fans of "The Sun Always Shines On T.V." out there...)

4. A song whose lyrics you thought you knew in the past, but about which you later learned you were incorrect.
"Bad Sneakers" by Steely Dan. "One more chimp who isn't here?" ("Chick" would have been so much cooler.)

5. Your least favourite song on one of your favourite albums of all time.
"Love You To" by the Beatles, off Revolver.

6. A song you like by someone you find physically unattractive or otherwise repellent.
"Total War" by NON. Not physically unattractive, but repellent.

7. Your favorite song that has expletives in it that's not by Liz Phair.
"Straight Up Nigga" by Ice-T. ("I'm a nigga, not a Colored man / Or a Black, or a Negro / Or an Afro-American, I'm all that / Yes I was born in America true / Does South Central / Look like America to you?")

8. A song that sounds as if it's by someone British but isn't.
"Hardcore UFOs" by Guided By Voices.

9. A song you like (possibly from your past) that took you forever to finally locate a copy of.
"Umagang Kay Ganda" by Ray-An Fuentes and Tillie Moreno.

10. A song that reminds you of spring but doesn't mention spring at all.
"Is This Love" by Bob Marley and The Wailers.

11. A song that sounds to you like being happy feels.
"More Today than Yesterday" by Spiral Starecase.

12. Your favourite song from a non-soundtrack compilation album.
"Let Me Be The One" by Matthew Sweet (from If I Were A Carpenter).

13. A song from your past that would be considered politically incorrect now (and possibly was then).
"Wives and Lovers" by Burt Bacharach.

14. A song sung by an overweight person.
"Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" by P.M. Dawn.

15. A song you actually like by an artist you otherwise hate.
I'll be totally pilloried for this, but "Silhouette" by Kenny G brings back good memories of being utterly trashed on a beach in Boracay in 1990.

16. A song by a band that features three or more female members.
"Eternal Flame" by the Bangles.

17. One of the earliest songs that you can remember listening to.
"Sweet Caroline" by the Ray Conniff Singers.

18. A song you've been mocked by friends for liking.
"Mmmbop" by Hanson.

19. A really good cover version you think no one else has heard.
"The Nearness of You" by 10,000 Maniacs. (Okay, obviously I and a few hundred other people -- and thousands more on their last tour -- saw Natalie Merchant sing this a cappella, but the chances are you didn't hear it.)

20. A song that has helped cheer you up (or empowered you somehow) after a break-up or otherwise difficult situation.
"Free Again" by Alex Chilton.

Extra tracks, if you have more room:
21. A song you've listened to while fucking/masturbating. AND/OR
Too much information, sorry.

22. A song not in English—preferably a foreign-language version of an English-language hit.
Tons -- "Day Tripper" by the Pinoy Beatles kept buzzing around my head last year. I have around here somewhere a few discs' worth of cover versions of "Whole Lotta Love," "Red Red Wine," and "These Boots Are Made For Walking," and there's a Dutch version of "Red Red Wine" which totally cracks me up. (And a breathy French version of "Boots" that's even better than Nancy's.) Oh, and Faye Wong's cover of that Cranberries song.

All of the above sounds like an atrocious mix CD, though.

Posted by the wily filipino at March 4, 2004 07:22 AM