Top 50 Quiz

Take your top 50 list and use it to answer 40 questions.

1 Cecilee Landefeld    (890)
2 Jars of Clay (682)
3 Mike Oldfield (584)
4 BT (571)
5 Evanescence (464)
6 Hans Zimmer (415)
7 The Echoing Green    (385)
8 Newsboys (341)
9 Venus Hum (332)
10 Moby (322)
11 Linkin Park (291)
12 James Horner (247)
13 Imogen Heap (227)
14 Plumb (201)
15 The Postal Service (195)
16 Harry Gregson-Williams (187)
17 dc Talk (172)
18 Kevin Max (165)
19 Rin’ (157)
20 E Nomine (145)
21 Bond (133)
22 Joy Electric (121)
23 U2 (119)
24 Jack Wall (118)
25 Scooter (117)
26 Tan Dun (116)
27 tobyMac (108)
28 Massive Attack     (100)
29 Barenaked Ladies (94)
30 Juno Reactor (90)
31 Flyleaf (90)
32 Sia (90)
33 Michael W. Smith (84)
34 Rob Dougan (80)
35 Anjali (73)
36 Abney Park (72)
37 t.A.T.u. (71)
38 Mylène Farmer (71)
39 Blue Man Group (68)
40 Leiahdorus (67)
41 Yann Tiersen (66)
42 Propellerheads (66)
43 John Williams (63)
44 Andromeda (61)
45 World Wide Message Tribe (59)
46 Vangelis (55)
47 Apocalyptica (52)
48 Audio Adrenaline (51)
49 The Benjamin Gate (50)
50 Darude (50)

1. How did you get into #31 [Flyleaf]
I picked up their CD at the library because it looked interesting, in a vaguely gothic, post-apocalyptic sort of way. As it turns out, I only like a few of their songs… but they are not terrible.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by #22 [Joy Electric]
I believe it was the beautifully pure, haunting Moog synth of A Family of Archers.

3. What’s your favorite lyric by #41 [Yann Tiersen]
No real lyrics… this is the soundtrack from the movie Amelie.

4. What is your favorite album by #49 [The Benjamin Gate]
Probably their second album, Contact, although I do like [untitled]

5. How many albums by #13 do you own? [Imogen Heap]
Two full albums and a bunch of tracks off of soundtracks.

6. What is your favorite song by #50 [Darude]
Either Out of Control (Vocal Mix) or the good old Sandstorm.

7. Is there a song by #7 that makes you sad? [The Echoing Green]
Fall Awake and If I Could… are both a bit sad, but I love them.

8. What is your favorite song by #15 [The Postal Service]
Such Great Heights

9. What is your favorite song by #5 [Evanescence]
Tourniquet or Whisper

10. Is there a song by #6 that makes you happy? [Hans Zimmer]
Jack Sparrow

11. What is your favorite album by #40 [Leiahdorus]
The only one I have, Parallel Universe

12. What is your favorite song by #10 [Moby]
Play, although my favorite single song is from 18

13. What is a good memory you have involving #33 [Michael W. Smith]
Hmm… Perhaps just when I was a little kid making mix tapes of his CDs from my parents’ collection.

14. What is your favorite song by #37 [t.A.T.u.]
We Shout

15. Is there a song by #19 that makes you happy? [Rin' ]
Sachi Tamachii

16. How many times have you seen #24 live? [Jack Wall]
Never… he writes soundtracks for games.

17. What is the first song you heard by #23 [U2]
Are you seriously asking someone who grew up in the 1990s the first U2 song he ever heard? Thats a toughie. Ok… well, the first one I remember is Pride (In The Name of Love)

18. What is your favorite album by #11[Linkin Park]
Meteora

19. Who is your favorite member of #1 [Cecilee Landefeld]
As per a recent conversation: the girls
Oh, I have to pick one: then Cecilee.

20. How many times have you seen #14 live? [Plumb]
None… though I would like to see them.

21. What is a good memory you have involving #45 [World Wide Message Tribe]
Well, simply put: they got me into electronic music!

22. What is your favorite song by #12 [Harry Gregson-Williams]
Hmm… how about Only The Beginning Of The Adventure

23. What is the first song you heard by #47 [Apocalyptica]
Nothing Else Matters or Master of Puppets

24. What is your favorite album by #3 [Mike Oldfield]
The Songs of Distant Earth

25. What is your favorite song by #18 [Kevin Max]
wow… Very, Very hard question….
Lets say…. One (the hidden track at the end of Stereotype Be)

26. What is the first song you heard by #38 [Mylène Farmer]
Mefie-Toi

27. What is your favorite lyric by #21 [Bond]
Once again they ask for lyrics from an instrumental group

28. What is your favorite song by #2 [Jars of Clay]
Fade to Grey

29. What is the first song you heard by #32 [Sia]
Rewrite

30. What is your favorite song by #8 [Newsboys]
Lord (I Don’t Know) or Ellie G.

31. How many times have you seen #17 live? [dc Talk]
Twice I think.

32. Is there a song by #44 that makes you happy? [Andromeda]
Well, #44 is technically a TV show and I do not have a favorite episode

33. What is your favorite album by #12 [James Horner]
The Apollo 13 Soundtrack

34. What is the worst song by #29 [Barenaked Ladies]
Hmm. Not a huge fan to begin with so…
Out of the songs I have probably War on Drugs

35. What was the first song you heard by #34 [Rob Dougan]
Clubbed to Death (and it’s still my favorite by him)

36. What is your favorite album by #42 [Propellerheads]
Decksanddrumsandrockandroll

37. How many times have you seen #39 live? [Blue Man Group]
Never

38. What is your favorite album by #36 [Abney Park]
None really… I only like a couple of the samples they posted on their website, but really not enough to buy a CD.

39. What is the first song you heard by #28 [Massive Attack]
Teardrop

40. What is your favorite album by #7 [The Echoing Green]
The Winter of Our Discontent

Wow, that took a very long time.
It was fun though

Last.fm Neighbors Quiz

Take your weekly neighbors and look at their top three artists. List them below and note where they appear in your own top 50. If they are below 20, or just not there at all, note what you think of them. (yes, I’m complicating this a bit from when I got it).

Ap0ph15
1. Mike Oldfield – #3
2. Hans Zimmer – #6
3. Howard Shore – #50 (Stopped listening to my Lord of the Rings soundtracks for a few months. Depending on just how busy I am these next few months, I will probably listen to them more).

CPUFreak91
1. Evanescence – #5
2. Nightwish – (Not in top 50. I have only a few tracks by them, which I like very much. Might get a CD some day, but I have to be in the right mood for them and only like them for the voice and a few of the… more literary lyrics, such as Nemo).
3. Infected Mushroom – (Is this a band name?)

Vitos
1. Mike Oldfield – #3
2. Moby – #10
3. 梶浦由記 (Yuki Kajiura) – (Not on my charts. I’ve seen a couple episodes of Animes she has scored for, but not a fan of any of them).

Thetamind
1. The Echoing Green – #7
2. The Juliana Theory – (Never heard of them)
3. Jars of Clay – #2

Airmartin
1. BT – #4
2. Mike Oldfield – #3
3. Hybrid – (Never heard of them)

cmarshall08
1. Jars of Clay – #2
2. Newsboys – #8
3. The Beetles – (Not in my top 50. I like a lot of their big hits, but I’m not a big fan.)

Duality

Ahh, the madness that can emerge from conflicting band names.
While reading up on The Echoing Green, I came across a note that Joey B (the lead musician and driving force behind the band) is producing a new group called Pristina. This group will probably only release one or two CDs, as it exists solely as the fulfillment of a concept, that is, to showcase the mingling of female vocals and electronic music to fit the auditory tastes of Joey B.

Problem emergeth.

While the idea sounds nice, the name is already in use.
If you go to the last.FM page for Pristina (http://www.last.fm/music/Pristina) you will find that this experiment in feminine vocalization, produced by an introspective, devout (if not especially vocal recently) christian, shares its name (and last.FM page) with a grinding, blood-soaked death metal band.

*sigh*

While the contrast here is amusingly shocking, at least there are only two bands. This is as opposed to, say, the artist name “Andromeda”, which is shared by at least 6 bands and (the one with which I am concerned) a science-fiction TV show.