Domingo 25 May 2008, 13:11

1. How did you get into 29?
Gnarls Barkley
We played Crazy endlessly at work, and we sort of felt it was our theme song. The best moment came when Karen and I were outside on a break with our headsets, and Larry told us to turn them up, and then just held his mic up to a speaker so we could blast it outside and scare all the various passerby.

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Sons and Daughters
Ooh, that's a good one. I saw them open for The Decemberists, so whatever their first song was? Maybe Medicine?

3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33?
Nine Inch Nails
I think it is pretty hard to top all of Hurt, mostly because Johnny Cash really took it all to another level. But my favorite lyric from it is "You could have it all / My empire of dirt / I will let you down / I will make you hurt."

4. What is your favorite album by 49?
Matthew Good
Um, well I guess Hospital Music. I tend to like more of his individual songs than his albums, but The Boy Come Home is my favorite MG song.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Girl Talk
2: Unstoppable, Night Ripper, plus a bootleg.

6. What is your favorite song by 50?
Flight of the Conchords
Oooh, hard one. Probably Rhymnocerous vs. Hiphipopotamus.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?
Bruce Springsteen
Um, Secret Garden, sort of? Not exactly sad, but you know?

8. What is your favorite album by 15?
Brindley Brothers
Filled With Fire.

9. What is your favorite song by 5?
Spoon
The Way We Get By.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
The Long Winters
Teaspoon. Horns! Horns make me happy!

11. What is your favorite album by 40?
Editors
The Back Room

12. What is your favorite song by 10?
Modest Mouse
Oh dear. Probably Tiny Cities Made of Ashes.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
The Arcade Fire
Funeral lived in my car's cd player for an entire semester. Driving up Mass Ave to school with the leaves changing, the windows down, the crisp smell of fall in DC. Oh god, every drive was perfect.

14. What is your favorite song by 38?
Sufjan Stevens
Well, it's obvious, but Chicago.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Mike Doughty
The Gambler does.

16. How many times have you seen 25 live?
The Postal Service
0. :( I want the new album too.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Broken Social Scene
I would say almost definitely 7/4 (Shoreline).

18. What is your favorite album by 11?
Kanye West
Probably Late Registration, still.

19. Who is a favorite member of 1?
Juniper Lane
OK, that's rough, because I KNOW them. All of them. They are all AWESOME.

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Radiohead
No, which is probably a good thing, since DC and Radiohead are unmixy things.

21. What is a good memory involving 27?
LCD Soundsystem
As weird as this is, every time B. used to sneeze, it would trigger me to sing Daft Punk Is Playing at My House. It still amuses me. It was only with him though.

22. What is your favorite song by 16?
Rilo Kiley
A Man/Me/Then Jim

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
Athlete
Probably Wires?

24. What is your favorite album by 18?
Neutral Milk Hotel
Naturally it is In The Aeroplane Over the Sea.

25. What is your favorite song by 21?
Talking Heads
Found a Job

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
Common Rotation
I believe it was either Savior or Sit Down. Possibly Oklahoma. Back in the days! What was that, 2001? 2002? MAN.

27. What is your favorite album by 3?
The Decemberists
Castaways and Cutouts

28. What is your favorite song by 2?
U2
Usually Where the Streets Have No Name, but occasionally Red Light, Bad, In a Little While, Until the End of the World, any number of other songs.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32?
Islands
Rough Gem.

30. What is your favorite song by 8?
Jimmy Eat World
Currently it's Futures.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
0.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
Bloc Party
Banquet, I guess? It's a good song.

33. What is your favorite album by 12?
Counting Crows
August and Everything After

34. What is the worst song by 45?
Honor by August
Uhhhh. To be honest, I have liked every song I have on my laptop. I do not know if one exists?

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34?
OK Go
Um, maybe A Million Ways? I do not really know!

36. What is your favorite album by 48?
Weezer
Pinkerton.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live?
Gorillaz
Goddamn, why does this question always hit on artists I have never ever seen?

38. What is your favorite song by 36?
The Killers
Maybe All These Things I've Done or Read My Mind.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
Tapes 'n Tapes
Probably Cowbell.

40. What is your favorite album by 7?
Harry and the Potters
Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy?
Franz Ferdinand
Do You Want To.

42. What is your favorite album by 41?
Beck
Guero.

43. What is your favorite song by 24?
Stars
Your Ex-Lover is Dead.

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46?
I don't have a 46! I have two 45's.

45. What is your favorite song by 35?
The Gossip
Quite possibly their cover of Are You That Somebody?

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
Death Cab for Cutie
Marching Bands of Manhattan.

47. What is your favorite album by 4?
Snow Patrol
Final Straw

48. Who is a favorite member of 37?
I don't have a 37, but my two 36's are The Killers and The Shins and I don't really have a favorite member of either (although I do seem to recall enjoying the drummer of the Killers in a video because he was making me LOL.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43?
Feist
Mushaboom.

50. How many albums do you own by 20?
Q and Not U
3.